12 DAYS NORTHERN TANZANIA EXPLORER SAFARI

Pickup from Arusha or Kilimanjaro airport and transfer to Hotel in Arusha, a unique and beautiful lodge with a rustic, yet comfortable, ambiance providing a personalized service in a relaxing atmosphere. It is a peaceful secluded respite where you can enjoy the beauty around you to the sounds of the surrounding for overnight on Bed and breakfast.

Meal Plan – Breakfast

After breakfast in your hotel, depart to Arusha National park. One of the most interesting things about this park are the gorgeous landscapes. Though small, one can see three distinct landscapes at one given time. In the west, the second highest peak of Tanzania, Mount Meru, to the south-east, the grassland of Ngurdoto Crater, and to the north-east, the shallow Momella alkaline Lakes.
Arusha National Park provides unique safari experiences, allowing you to enjoy a rare and excitement walking safari as well as a fantastic canoe safari, which will bring you memories you will never forget. Overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp in Arusha on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After your breakfast your guide will pick you up and drive with packed lunch boxes to the beautiful Tarangire National Park for full day game drives with overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp inside the park on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast depart for full day game drive in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes to a variety of colorful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance of quietly observing many families of elephants interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to view animals drinking water in the river (and many times lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest), continue game viewing and finally return to campsite for dinner.
Overnight at the beautiful Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Depart after breakfast to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive with packed lunch boxes for your picnic lunch. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to a large numbers of buffalos, giraffes, elephants, impalas and a Hippo lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 different species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places where you’ll be able to see the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle. This park has become famous for the climbing lions and the flamingos in the lake shore. The landscapes of these park are absolutely stunning, very different from the Serengeti for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground with the lake, flamingos and flat plains in the horizon. Great photo opportunities! In the late afternoon you drive to lodge or Tented Camp for overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Depart after breakfast for a visit to Lake Eyasi where you will visit the Datonga tribes and the Hadzabe tribe and you will do lake Eyasi activities and in the late afternoon you will drive to Karatu town for overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After early breakfast in the morning, you will drive to Ngorongoro Conservation area and on arrival descend down to the crater floor with picnic lunch for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, drive up the steep road out of the crater for overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch.

After breakfast you depart to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti mean “endless plains” in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson’s gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds.

Overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

After breakfast you will go for morning game drives with fresh lunch in your camp with afternoon game drives with overnight at Lodge or Tented Campsite on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast you will do game drives as you drive northwards towards lobo area and in the afternoon you will do game drive around Lobo area of Northern Serengeti with overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast you will do game drives as you drive towards loliondo area of Serengeti and depart Serengeti National Park and drive to Lake Natron for Late afternoon game drives around lake Natron as you watch the flamingoes and, in the evening,, you drive to Lodge or Tented Camp with overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After early breakfast you will do game drives around Lake Natron and later drive back to Arusha. On arrival in Arusha you will be dropped at either your hotel for overnight at own expenses or be transferred to Kilimanjaro International airport for your flight to your next destination.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch

End of Safari

• Use of a 4x 4 safari stretched Land cruiser vehicle with open pop up roof for game viewing
• Service of French/ English/ German speaking guide
• Accommodation as indicated
• Transfers in Arusha
• Meals as indicated in the safari itinerary
• Lunch on the first day of the Safari
• All park fees
• Crater fee
• Transit fee
• Lake Eyasi activity fees
• Lake Natron Activity fees.
• Concession fees
• All conservation fees
• Unlimited game drives
• Two bottle of water during game drives

Rate exclusive of:
• International Flights
• Drinks
• Balloon safari in Serengeti
• Tips
• Masai Village visit
• Any other excursion not included in the itinerary
• Personal Insurance