7 Days Fantastic Wildlife Safari to Northern Tanzania
Amazing Safari Tanzania
This safari with Fig Tree Tours & Travel will take you to the best locations in Tanzania that you have never experienced before. Spend your time in Lake Manyara, Tarangire, and Ngorongoro Crater, where you may witness the Big Five and many other animals such as zebras, impalas, giraffes, etc. After the safari, you will enjoy a five to six-hour day crater tour. So, what are you waiting for? Pack your bag and go to Tanzania!
Key information
- Group safari
- Minimum one, maximum group size: 6 persons.
- Children policy: Minimum 5 years old. Children from the age of 12 years are allowed to participate under the supervision of a parent or guardian.
- Starting point and ending point: Arusha
- Languages: French, English speaking guides
- All park fees included.
Highlights
- 4 full days game drives
- 5-6 hours of Ngorongoro Crater tour
- 4x4 Land Cruisers with viewing roofs for 4 to 6 persons
- Chance to see the Big Five, zebras, impalas, giraffes, and elephants
- Visit Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti Southern area, and Ngorongoro
- Full board: breakfast, hot lunch or picnic lunch, and dinner while on safari
- 4 nights camping accommodation and 2 nights at a hotel in Arusha
- All transfers, transport, and park fees
Styles
Accommodation
During this safari holiday in Tanzania, you will be staying one night at Tarangire Safari Lodge, one night at Fanaka Lodge, one night at Twiga Lodge and Campsite, and another night at Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge. You will stay in Venice Hotel in Arusha for the other two nights on the arrival and departure days.
Program
Day 1 Arusha
A representative will be at the pickup place (airport or bus station) of your arrival, feeling excited while waiting for your arrival with your name printed on an A4 paper. You will have a look at Mount Meru as you approach Arusha town and enjoy driving across the coffee and mixed banana plantations. Relax in your already-booked hotel in Arusha after a long flight while you are dreaming of your safari tomorrow morning.
Day 2 Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, you will depart for Lake Manyara National Park, have a morning game drive followed by lunch and an afternoon game drive, and stay overnight in your already-prepared Twiga Campsite before sunset. Lake Manyara National Park is famous for its fabulous pink flamingos and lion climbing trees adventures.
The second interesting aspect is the nature and landscape in Lake Manyara National Park which is located behind the escarpment rising westward. Enjoy your time with lions, hippos, antelopes, impalas, and zebras just beside your safari vehicle. When in flamingo’s season, Lake Manyara is covered by flamingos feeding algae in the lakeshore. Later in the evening, you will be driven to Sunbright campsite and lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 3. Lake Manyara to Tarangire National Park
Wake up in the morning and have breakfast before your morning game drive followed by lunch and an afternoon game drive to Arusha. You will arrive at your campsite after a two-hour drive from Arusha. Go on your morning game watch before you take a break for a pleasant lunch. Your afternoon game drive will reveal all the wonders of Tarangire, a national park often renamed as the 'elephant playground'. Herds of up to 300 of these mighty mammals are sometimes seen in the park.
Tarangire is noted for its splendid baobab trees, rolling savannah, and acacia woodland. At the end of an inspiring afternoon amongst the wildlife, you will retire to the comfort of the campsite for an evening meal. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Sunbright Campsite and Lodge.
Day 4. Tarangire National Park - Serengeti National Park
In the early morning, you will be led to Serengeti National Park with an afternoon game watching and photographing in Serengeti National Park. Today, you will have a long interesting journey with a game drive en route to Nabi Hill Gate where you are going to have lunch around 14:30 while your driver confirms the entrance fees. Grab all the best viewpoints of superb landscapes on your way to Serengeti and have a view of the Ngorongoro Crater, but not to do a game drive.
Late in the afternoon, you will have a game-watching in Serengeti until the sunset. After seeing the sunset in Serengeti National Park, prepare for a shower, dinner, and overnight stay at Seronera Campsite in the heart of Serengeti National Park. Wildlife statistical currently measures that Serengeti has large herbivore species of over 1,300,000 wildebeests, 250,000 Thomson’s gazelles, 200,000 zebras, 70,000 impalas, 50,000 topis, 30,000 grants gazelles, 10,000 lands, and many antelopes. With dinner and overnight at Seronera Campsite.
Day 5. Central Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Wake early in the morning to take a cup of coffee followed by an early game drive in Serengeti National Park, go back to the campsite, pack everything, take brunch, and depart with a game drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You are in Serengeti plains, the world's natural wonder, and the first natural African icon. Explore wild predators such as lions, cheetahs, leopards kidding in the branches of trees, flamingos, and water birds on the Lake Magadi, as well as lovebirds and kingfishers across the Seronera River Valley.
Only in Serengeti, you will see millions of big wild mammals and maybe wildebeest migration. Then, you will depart with en-route game watching across the Koppies of Serengeti to explore the cheetahs, lions, and leopards. Hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, elephants, and small antelopes are plenty, finding their survival in this plain. With Hot dinner and overnight at Simba Campsite.
Day 6. Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, you will descend to the crater floor for about a six-hour game drive. In the afternoon, you will depart with en-route game watching and, later on, go to the Maasai market to take some souvenirs and drive back to Arusha reaching your hotel in the evening. The 45-minute descending to the crater is a beautiful moment to experience especially in the morning hours.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the world’s garden and the place in which you can find some species of wildflowers. Here, you will also have an amazing experience to see the natural crater with wonderful volcanic caldera and Lake Magadi with flamingos. When in the season, the Ngorongoro Crater floor is flowered pink, red, and yellow especially in late May and early June. Also, Ngorongoro is where to find the black rhinos regularly inside the small forest. In the afternoon, you will ascend the crater to Tarangire National Park. Overnight stay will be at the Venice Hotel BB.
Day 7. Arusha
After breakfast, you will be taken to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). There are focal points for you to have Mount Kilimanjaro view when the cloud is clear on your way to the airport. Fig Tree Tours & Travel wishes you all the best on your way back home. Don’t hesitate to let them know you have got your home. Fig Tree Tours & Travels is looking for you to be back again soon with family and friends.
Location
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park is the national park in which herds of up to 300 elephants scrape the waterless river bed for alternative streams, while nomadic wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest, and eland mass the decrease lagoons. It is the most attentive of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly practical. It is the only national park that holds the migrant during the dry season and welcoming home of different species of animals.
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park, in northern Tanzania, is known for its massive annual migration of wildebeest and zebra. Seeking new pasture, the herds move north from their breeding grounds in the grassy southern plains. Many cross the marshy western corridor’s crocodile-infested Grumeti River. Others veer northeast to the Lobo Hills, home to black eagles. Black rhinos inhabit the granite outcrops of the Moru Kopjes.
Ngorongoro Crater
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is a protected area and a World Heritage Site located 180 kilometers (110 miles) west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. The area is named after Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera within the area. The conservation area is administered by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, an arm of the Tanzanian government, and its boundaries follow the boundary of the Ngorongoro Division of the Arusha Region.
Food
During your stay, you will be provided with daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Vegetarian and other special diets can be accommodated. Please let Fig Tree Tours and Travel know ahead of time. Protein options may be minimal on a vegetarian diet, so you may want to bring protein supplements.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Other dietary requirements on request
What's included
- 4 nights camping accommodation and 2 nights hotel accommodation
- Full board meals: breakfast, hot lunch or picnic lunch, and dinner while on safari
- All transfers and transport, park fees, and camping accommodation
- Game viewing activities as stated in the above tour / safari description
- Services of a safari driver / guide and safari cook
What's not included
- Items of a personal nature
- Tips and gratitudes to safari staff
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Kilimanjaro International Airport
44 km
Transfer included
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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