9 Days: Walk-along the Big-game and night Game Safari
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- 9 Days: Walk-along the Big-game and night Game Safari
Tanzania, Northern Circuit.
- Arusha town,
- Tarangire NP,
- Ngorongoro Crater, and
- Serengeti NP.
Duration
09 Days
Tour Type
Big 5 Safari.
Group Size
6 People
Languages
English.
- Overview
On these 9 Days, you will get a chance to experience the amazing three pristine Wildlife Areas in the Northern Circuit. Where you will have a big chance of ticking the big five, and also explore Manyara in 3 different ways (a day game drive, night game drive, and walking). You will also have an opportunity to visit Lake Eyasi and get the inner side of one of the best cultural experiences in Africa.
- Tour Highlights.
- Discover Lake Manyara on a night game drive.
- Look for the big cats in Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
- See the true tribal picture in Eyasi.
- Admire the dotted-baobab landscape of Tarangire with herds of elephants.
- Included & Excluded
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- Mineral water
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Itinerary
09Days /08 Night
Day 1: Arrive Kilimanjaro Airport.
Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport, meet our representative, and drive to Arusha villa for an overnight stay. For those who will arrive early, the accommodation is situated on a coffee farm and a walk around would be recommended, it’s a good birding area and a place to look for Mount Kilimanjaro.
- Location: Arusha Town.
- Accomodation: Arusha Villa | Karama Lodge.
- Meal: Lunch and Dinner.
Day 2: Arusha - Lake Manyara NP.
Following breakfast transfer to Lake Manyara National Park, after paperwork enters to the gate and your armed guide will be waiting for you ready for walking in this beautiful park, walking is w way of tasting our senses, and looking for small things which we miss during our game drives in the vehicle, like animal droppings, animal tracks, insects, plants and a way of doing exercise. Walking will take 1-2 hrs. then you will proceed with the game drive. There is a profusion of wildlife in this small national park, and the amazing bird-watching experience will certainly be rewarding to both a devote and first-time bird watcher. It is as well among the few places on the African continent to see the tree-climbing lions that will be your main quest for the day. Manyara in addition prides in a large flock of beautiful pink flamingos found near the lake. You will have lunch at the picnic site. Dinner at the Lodge, then return for night game drive into the park again.
- Location: Lake Manyara National Park.
- Accomodation: Lake Manyara Tortolis | Burudika Lodge
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 3: Manyara - Serengeti NP.
Today you will set off to the Serengeti National Park. After passing the crater highlands, you will soon see the plains of the southern Serengeti and start to understand the meaning of the word “Serengeti” which stands for endless plain. We will visit a Site of many archaeological discoveries, including the estimated 1.7-million- year –old Zinjanthropus boisei fossil. A small museum overlooks the gorge itself, and a guide there will tell you the story of Leakey’s research and findings. After proceeding to Serengeti where we can see animals such as Elephants, Buffaloes, lions, Cheetahs, Hyenas, Giraffes, Zebras, Wildebeests, topi, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelle and many more can be seen. The Serengeti is also home to the largest animal migration on the planet. Depending on the time of the year and the location of the big herds. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Wild Camp.
- Location: Serengeti NP.
- Accomodation: Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp | Serengeti Tortilis Camp.
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 4-5: Central Serengeti NP.
These 2 days, will be the “Serengeti game viewing days”. After breakfast this morning, enjoy an amazing game drive. The great diversity of Serengeti wildlife is evident here—look for buffalo, hippopotamus, elephant, giraffe, antelope, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle, and lions. If you are there during the spectacular wildebeest migration, you will be more than astonished. In the late afternoon, we venture out in another game drive.
Everywhere there are animals, monkeys, and, yes, birds…but look closely and you will be thrilled to see the huge jungle cats—lion, leopard, and cheetah—watching the world go by. And go by it does. Hyena, gazelle, antelope, and massive elephants by the hundreds. Animals in the trees, flying, camouflaged in the bush, in rivers, and in streams. This is the adventure of a lifetime! Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Camp.
- Location: Serengeti NP.
- Accomodation: Serengeti Tingitana Tented Camp / Serengeti Tortilis Camp
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 6: Serengeti NP -- Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
After breakfast, a game drive in Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch, until noon, where you will have again game drive to see the beauty of this great Park, after lunch game en route to Ngorongoro Crater for dinner and overnight at Rhino lodge/similar?
- Location: Ngorongoro conservation area.
- Accomodation: Rhino lodge / Angata Tented Camp.
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater -- Lake Eyasi.
Today you will descent down to the Ngorongoro Crater for a full-day game drive. Grass steppes and acacia forests are home to almost all the species of animals found in the East African savannah. In only a few hours, you have the chance of spotting the four of the big five – lion, Elephant, Buffalo, and Rhino. After extensive game viewing and a picnic in the crater, you will leave the Ngorongoro Crater in the afternoon and drive to Lake Eyasi home to the Bushmen and Datoga
- Location: Tropical Island of Zanzibar.
- Accomodation: Lake Eyasi safari lodge | Kisima Ngeda.
- Meal: Breakfast and Dinner.
Day 8: Lake Eyasi - Tarangire NP.
After breakfast, a true African experience awaits. You will visit the Hadzabe, an ethnic minority and one of Tanzania’s last hunter-gatherer tribes. They have managed to maintain their traditional lifestyle until this day in this dry and mostly barren area. Thereafter you will pay a visit to the pastoral nomads and herdsmen, known as the Datoga tribe. The experience is completed with a stop at the blacksmiths where you will witness craftsmen in rather rudimentary working conditions. After this interactive cultural experience, you will continue to Tarangire national park, where you will arrive in the afternoon. Enjoy a short game drive on your way to the lodge
- Location: Tarangire national park.
- Accomodation: Tarangire safari lodge | Tarangire Tortilis Tented Camp.
- Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Day 9: Tarangire -- Kilimanjaro Airport.
Today will be our last game drive in the African bush. After breakfast this morning, enjoy an amazing game drive. With the great diversity of Tarangire landscape dotted with baobab trees and hilly terrain, wildlife is evident here—look for buffalo, elephants, giraffes, antelope, and lions. After lunch leaves the park and drives to Kilimanjaro through Arusha for your flight back home.
- Location: Tarangire Nationa Park
- Accomodation: No Accomodation.
- Meal: Breakfast andLunch.
- Accomodation.
Day1: Arusha Villa.
Day 1: Karama Lodge.
Day 2: Lake Manyara Tortilis.
Day 2: Burudika Lodge.
Day 3-5: Serengeti heritage camp.
Day 3-5: Tortilis tented camp.
Day 6: Rhino lodge
Day 6: Angata Tented Camp
Day 7: Lake Eyasi safari lodge
Day 7: Kisima Ngeda
Day 8:Tarangire safari lodge.
Day 8: Tarangire Tortilis Tented Camp
End of Service.
Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
From
$ 2,549
