Safari Highlights:
- Serengeti - 3 Nights: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
- Ngorongoro 2 Nights: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
- Zanzibar 4 Nights: Neptune Pwani Beach Resort & Spa
Activities: Game viewing, photography, nature walks sightseeing, birding, cultural visits and beach activities.
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 1: Arusha - Transfer to Serengeti (By Flight)
You will be picked by our driver at 7 o-clock from your Arusha hotel and be transferred to the airport for your flight to Serengeti that leaves at 8.15a.m. to arrive at 10.30a.m. Upon arrival you will be met by the camp-s driver/guide who will introduce you to the wild and drive you to the camp with an introductory game drive en route.
Afternoon game drive is at 4p.m.
Overnight: Serengeti Serena
Meals: Lunch & Dinner.
Day 2 & 3: Serengeti - Full day game drive
Have breakfast then depart for a full-day game drive carrying parked lunch with you. Enjoy searching for wildlife in this vast savannah land. Picnic lunch will be served at lunch time.
Overnight: Serengeti Serena
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 4: Serengeti - Transfer to Ngorongoro
Depart for Ngorongoro after breakfast arriving before lunch time. Have a game drive en route to your lodge for lunch. After lunch relax before an afternoon game drive at the crater area.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Sopa
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater - Full day
After breakfast, check out of the lodge with packed picnic lunch and depart for a tour of the crater floor, which is home to numerous plains game and the big five. Spend the day within the crater and have lunch at one of the famous picnic spots in the park. In the evening you will return to the lodge which is strategically perched on the rim of the collapsed volcano, with the most magnificent views of the crater floor.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Sopa
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6: Ngorongoro - Transfer to Arusha - Zanzibar (By flight)
Have breakfast then depart for Arusha to arrive before lunch. Have lunch in Arusha before being dropped at the airport for a flight to Zanzibar. Upon arrival in Zanzibar, you will be transferred to the hotel.
Overnight: Neptune Pwani
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
About Zanzibar
Zanzibar is a destination by itself, located just 15 miles off the coast of Tanzania. It has a unique mix of breathtaking sea views and cultural insights along the edges of the whole island. Even the tiny villages are so delightfully simple and rustic. Flanked by barriers, the eastern shores will stun you with its breathtaking beaches surrounded by white, fine sands.
Zanzibar Channel
This is where the main town is and where the world renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stone Town on the western edge is located, with the Arab fortresses, the Palace Museum, the House of Wonders and Dr. Livingstone's House, among others. Here is where the core of Zanzibar's culture come to life.
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Spice Plantations
History of Zanzibar lies among the spices that brought the Sultan of Oman in the island and started the slave trade. Nutmegs, cloves, pepper, cinnamons, and many other spices can be seen in the plantations. You will be fascinated by the sight and smell of spices of different varieties and their uses to cooking, health and cosmetics.
Jozani Natural Forest Reserve
Home to the endemic Red Colobus Monkey, Syke�s money and bush pigs located in the central east region of Zanzibar.
Other attractions include the fishing village at RasNungwi. This area in Zanzibar island has some amazing beaches and reefs ideal for snorkeling and diving. In the southern point is Kizimkazi fishing village, with the bottle-nosed dolphins. Then there's the Prison Island, used to be site for misbehaving slaves. It is surrounded by coral reefs and white beach, where Zanzibar is known for.
Day 7, 8 & 9: Zanzibar