10 Days/9 Nights Extensive Safari
Safari Overview
- Arusha - 1 Night: Impala Hotel
- Tarangire - 1 Night: Maramboi Tented Camp
- Lake Manyara - 2 Nights: Burunge Tented Camp
- Serengeti - 3 Nights: Ikoma Safari Camp
- Ngorongoro - 2 Nights: Ngorongoro Farm House
Day 1: Arusha - Transfer to Arusha National Park
You will be picked from Nairobi hotel or airport and immediately depart for Arusha National park. There is a change of drivers at the border. You will arrive in Arusha at lunch time. Check in at the hotel and later enjoy a game drive in the park. The hotel has good views of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Overnight: Impala Hotel
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
About Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park is located at Manyara the Northern Region of Tanzania and about 2850 square miles. Its landscape mainly consists of Acacia woodland,ridges and the Tarangire river valley. There are several main tourist attractions and activities as explained below.
Tarangire National Park has a wide variety of wildlife, including, thousands of elephants, zebras and wild beasts.The concentration of animals peaks during the dry season (July to October) as animals migrate in seek of water from the Tarangire river and pastures. Lions,leopards,wild dogs and cheetahs lurk in the Savannah woodlands in hunt for prey. This gives a spectacular view of nature ecosystem balance. The park is a home to several species of birds and termite mounds that gives live to the landscape.
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The Great Rift valley, Savannah woodlands,swamps and seasonal grasslands are the grazing grounds of the Masai community.This gives a fantastic view of nature and activities around it. Most activities at the safaris within the park include camping, hiking and walks which are available also at night time. Ancient Baobab trees surrounding the camps and safaris provides an epic environment for leisure.A walk thorough the Masai village reals ancient rock paintings and the culture bound with it.
Tarangire National park have vast attractions through the year. During the dry season( July to October) there is are herds of animals crossing the park. This is the best time to watch elephants, wild beasts and zebras to those who love wildlife. The rest of the year one can take walks around the safaris watching the birds and bush animals. Walks around the park gives you a spectral view of the natural phenomena surrounding the park. This include the the Rift valley floor,river Tarangire steeps, grasslands and woodlands. The Masai use these areas as grasslands where ancients rock carvings are found displaying the cultural aspect of the Park.
Day 2: Arusha - Transfer to Tarangire
0830hours: Drive to Tarangire to arrive mid-morning. Have a game drive till lunch time when you check in at the lodge/camp for. Have lunch then relax before another game drive at 3p.m till 6p.m.
Overnight: Maramboi Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
About Lake Manyara
The area of the park covers approximately 50km and sits at the base of the 600m high Rift Valley escarpment and the Manyara Lake. It is famous for its vast herds of elephants, flocking flamingos which inhabit the land and its highly unusual tree-climbing lions. The National Park is also home to baboons, giraffes, hippos, wildebeest, and zebras, providing you with an exceptional big four safari. A highlight of any visit to Manyara is without question its diverse population of birds.
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The park is widely considered to be one of the best places for bird watching in the world and has an impressive 400 different bird species to be discovered. Bird watchers can spot birds such a flamingo's, herons, water fowls, crowned cranes, crowned eagles, and snipes. Lake Manyara offers visitors unique wildlife species, pristine wilderness and idyllic landscapes which have given it a strong reputation. Two-thirds of this National Park is covered by the lake. For such a relatively small reserve it has remarkably diverse habitats, from open savannah grassland, marshes, acacia woodland and of course the Manyara River.
Because the park is located closely to the Tarangire National Park and the Ngorongoro conservation area, a stay at Lake Manyara is often combined with a visit to both nearby parks, for either day trips or longer stays at the parks along the Northern Circuit.
Day 3: Tarangire - Transfer to Lake Manyara
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park arriving at mid-morning. Have a game drive as you head to the lodge or camp for lunch. Afternoon game drive is at 4o-clock.
Overnight: Burunge Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Lake Manyara - Full day Game drives
Have breakfast then depart with picnic lunch for a full-day game viewing.
Overnight: Burunge Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
About Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti National Park is a Tanzanian National Park in the Serengeti ecosystem which is listed as the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering a whooping area of 12950 sq kilometers. The crocodiles in the Nile River are a major attraction in the Serengeti Safari tours besides the Great Migration, when millions of herbivores migrate to and from the Maasai Mara year after year in pursuit of environmentally friendly water and pastures.
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The Great Migration not only brings massive numbers of zebras, wildebeests, and gazelles out for watching but also tempts in a lot of predators for hunting down the new-borns of the animals. One can also get to see enormous quantity of African Elephants in the Serengeti national park.
The park catches the eye of a wide range of wildlife because of its number of multiple warm swamps and ecosystems, where hippos slumber, with many shelters from the Acacia trees together with palm trees, which make the best daytime home for leopards, and even substantial bumpy outcrops, that may be noticed covered with elephants, or maybe making the appropriate slumbering position for a self-importance of cubs, cheetah plus lions. With the exception of these peculiar points of interest, the Serengeti is generally mile after mile of outstanding, grasslands, flatlands - one of the several causes that this park is so desirable as an illustration, mainly because of the visibility of the park, you can easily witness how a small group of lionesses will keep track of, quest, in addition, to get rid of their quarry much simpler compared with you can understand in a park that had more beautiful milestone disruptions versus the Serengeti.
Day 5: Lake Manyara - Transfer to Serengeti
Depart for Serengeti after breakfast to arrive before lunch. Have game viewing en-route the Camp/Lodge for lunch. Afternoon game drive is at 3p.m till 6p.m.
Overnight: Ikoma Safari Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6 & 7: Serengeti - Full day of game viewing
0600hours: Have an early pre-breakfast game drive followed by late breakfast at 9 o-clock at the lodge/camp. Thereafter, depart with picnic lunch for another game drive till 4o-clock.
Overnight: Ikoma Safari Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
About Ngorongoro National Park
The Ngorongoro National Park is a world heritage site located in Crater Highlands of Tanzania. It is famous for the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive and unfilled volcanic caldera. Ngorongoro National Park is one of Africa's premier attractions and a world-renowned natural wonder.
Ngorongoro Crater
The main attraction of Ngorongoro National Park is the 2 million years old crater. It is about 610 metres in depth and its floor covers about 260 square kilometres of area. The estimated height of the original volcano ranges between 4,500 to 5,800 metres. Ngorongoro has two more volcanic craters: Olmoti crater, known for its stunning waterfalls and the Empakai crater, which holds a deep lake and lush, green walls.
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Oldupai Gorge?
The Oldupai Gorge archaeological site is said to be the seat of humanity after the discovery of the earliest known specimen of the human genus, Homo-habilis, and early hominids, Paranthropus boisei. It is considered to be one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world and research there has helped in the study and understanding of the early human evolution.?
Wildlife
About 25,000 large animals, including black rhinoceros and hippopotamus, live in the crater. African buffalo or the Cape buffalo, the blue wildebeest, and Grant's Zebra are also seen in the area. Flamingos are very common at lakes in Ngorongoro. Walking safari and bird watching is encouraged in the park.?
People & Culture
About 200 years ago, the Massai people arrived and have colonised the area since then. Today, about 42,000 Massai people live in Ngorongoro along with their goats, sheep, cattle and donkeys. Visitors can visit two Masai cultural bomas. Visit the Maasai Cultural bomas and learn more about their unique culture. There is an entrance fee to be paid but it is absolutely worth it.?
Apart from all this, one can see various other lakes, the shifting sands composed of volcanic ash from Oldonyo Lengai, and much more in Ngorongoro National Park.
Day 8: Serengeti - Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro with picnic lunches. Descend the Crater for a crater tour. After the hike there will be another game drive.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Farm House
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater - Trekking and game drives
This day, after breakfast, descend the crater with picnic lunches for a tour of the crater.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Farm House
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 10: Ngorongoro - Transfer to Arusha - Nairobi
Have breakfast and return to Nairobi with a stop in Arusha for lunch. You will arrive in Nairobi early evening and you will be dropped at the airport for your flight to Entebbe.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
ENQUIRE
Inclusive of;
- All government taxes/VAT
- Park fees in all the parks
- Accommodation in a Double Room on full board basis
- Drinking water
- Transportation in a customized a Land cruiser with a pop-up roof to facilitate game viewing and photography
- All game drives as mentioned in the tour description
- Services of professional tour driver/guide
- Lunch on the last day
Exclusive of;
- International flights from home and back
- Tips & porterage
- Visa fees (if applicable)
- Travel insurance
- Other personal items
- Cultural visit to a Maasai Village: $30 per person
- Hot Air Balloon ride $450 per person
