8 DAYS NOMAD AFRICA SAFARI

Pickup from Arusha or Kilimanjaro airport and transferred to hotel in Arusha, a unique and beautiful lodge or Hotel with yet a 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 – Bed and Breakfast

After breakfast in your Arusha Hotel you will depart for Tarangire National Park with packed lunch boxes for full day game drives. 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 drive to Lodge or Tented Camp 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

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. You will spend two nights in Lodge or Tented Camp in Central Serengeti.

Overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast you will go for morning game drives exploring more of Central Serengeti Central Region with a visit to moru Kopje to watch the big cats with fresh lunch in your lodge or Tented Camp with afternoon game drives with overnight Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning game drive before breakfast, to spot the animals when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sun rise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return to the campsite for late breakfast. You will then drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and then to Ngorongoro crater rim the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah’s Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you’ll ever see in your life.
On the way from the Serengeti, you have option to stop at the famous Olduvai Gorge at an extra cost of 20 USD per client and pay directly, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made their discovery of the first man that walked the earth. After attending a short lecture describing the archeological digs and geology of the gorge, you’ll have time to visit the small museum. Another option is a Masai village Cultural visit at 50 USD for the group and pay directly still inside Ngorongoro Conservation area and then drive to Ngorongoro Crater Rim for overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After early breakfast you 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, you will drive up the steep road out of the crater and drive to Lake Eyasi for overnight on at Lodge or Tented Camp.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After your breakfast you will drive to Lake Eyasi and join the Hadzabe tribe, one of the last true nomadic tribes of Africa, in a fascinating hunting or fruit gathering session. This is something absolutely unique and out of the beaten track which is a great cultural experience and authentic while providing incredible opportunities for world class photography. After staying a while with the tribe, visit the beautiful Lake Eyasi, a seasonal shallow salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau. You can go for some hunting expedition with this tribesman, share a lunch with them and learn how they make their herbal medicine and then drive in the midafternoon back to Arusha.

Meal Plan – Breakfast and Lunch

End of Safari

• Use of a 4x 4 safari Land cruiser vehicle with open pop up roof for game viewing
• Service of a French/ English / German speaking guide
• Accommodation as indicated
• Meals as indicated in the safari itinerary
• Lunch on the first day of the Safari
• All park fees
• Crater fee
• Transit fee
• Camping fee
• Lake Eyasi activities fees.
• Concession fees
• All conservation fees
• Unlimited game drives
• 1.5 litres 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