9 Days Authentic Tanzania Safaris

In the morning after breakfast, the driver will pick you up from the Hotel and drive you south to Tarangire National Park.

Tarangire National Park is famous for its dense wildlife population, which is most spectacular in both wet and dry seasons. During the dry period thousands of animals- wildebeest, buffalo, and Oryx migrate from the dry Maasai steeple to the Tarangire River looking for water. Lion, leopard and other predators follow the herds. Tarangire is home to over 500 varieties of birds. Have a picnic lunch and take a late afternoon game viewing. Later drive for dinner and overnight.

Adventure Camping: Fig Tree campsite

Lodge: Maramboi Tented camp OR Tarangire Sopa Lodge.

Wake up for an early breakfast then proceed to Lake Manayara National Park. At Manyara you will do a game drive where you will get to see the famous tree climbing lions and visit the lake Manyara that is frequently flowered by the presence of the pink flamingoes. You will leave the park at the evening for dinner and an overnight at Karatu township.

ACCOMODATION

Lodge: Ngorongoro farm house OR Ngorongoro oldeani safari house OR Ngorongoro Serena

Adventure camping: karatu

Have an early breakfast at Karatu then drive down to the Ngorongoro crater. Considered a natural spectacle, Ngorongoro crater is one of the World’s largest Calderas, 20 km wide, Ngorongoro Crater is also one of the best Wildlife viewing areas and one of the very few places that Black Rhinos can be spotted in Tanzania. The crater at 2,286 m above sea level is the largest unbroken Calderas in the world. Surrounded by very steep walls, rising 610 m from the crate floor, it covers 260 km2 and is home to over 30.000 animals, almost half of them being zebra and wildebeest. Ngorongoro is listed as a World Heritage site. In the evening you will ascend the crater and have dinner and overnight.

ACCOMODATION

CAMPING: SIMBA CAMPSITE A

LODGE: NGORONGORO SERENA LODGE

After breakfast you will head to Serengeti National park. It is Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for a search fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle. “Serengeti is a Masai word meaning –Endless plains”. Dinner and overnight included.

ACCOMODATION

ADVENTURE CAMPING: Seronera campsite

AUNTHENTIC CAMPS: Serengeti heritage camps

LODGE: Serengeti Tortilis or Serengeti Katikati tented camp or Serengeti Halisi

Spend the entirety of your day enjoying all that Serengeti has to offer in terms of both wildlife and landscape. The game drive will be after your early breakfast and lunch boxes will be provided as you go on with the safari. Dinner and overnight included.

ACCOMODATION

Adventure camping: lobo public campsite

LODGE: Lobo wildlife lodge OR Bologonya under canvas.

Take off early in the morning with lunch boxes in hand and head for Natron. On the way you will still get to see amazing game. Lake Natron is the only regular breeding area in East Africa for the 2.5 million lesser flamingoes, whose status of “near threatened” results from their dependence on this one location. When salinity increases, so do cyanobacteria, and the lake can also support more nests. These flamingoes, the single large flock in East Africa, gather along nearby saline lakes to feed on Spirulina (a blue-green alga with red pigments). Lake Natron is a safe breeding location because its caustic environment is a barrier against predators trying to reach their nests on seasonally forming evaporate islands. Greater flamingoes also breed on the mud flats. To the south of the lake the famous Ol Doinyo Lengai comes to sight. It is the only active volcano in Tanzania and this is evident by the fumes emitted from the mountain top that can be seen regularly alongside the volcanic ash painted on the slopes of the mountain. Dinner and overnight.

ACCOMODATION

Lodge: lake Natron halisi camp or lengai safari lodge.

Adventure camping: lake natron

After breakfast drive south to Arusha. Have an opportunity to do a city tour of Arusha or opt for a day of relaxation at your hotel.

ACCOMODATION

Hotel: Dinner and overnight at Venice hotel

Lodge: planet lodge / moivaro coffee plantation lodge.

After breakfast you will depart for the airport to catch your flight back home.