A high-value road safari featuring both luxury tented camps and traditional safari lodges, this memorable Tanzanian safari offers two nights in the undiscovered wilderness of Tarangire National Park, a sensational three-night stay in the world-famous Serengeti National Park, and a visit to the ‘eighth wonder of the world’, the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater.
Wildlife Highlights: lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard, cheetah, hippos, crocodiles, wildebeest, zebra, antelope, gazelle, impala, waterbuck, topi, eland, plains game, giraffe and rhino.
TANZANIA HIGHLIGHTS SAFARI SCHEDULE
Day 1: Arrival in Arusha
Arrive at Arusha’s Kilimanjaro International Airport and meet your driver/guide, who will escort you to the KIA Lodge (a 3-minute drive). Set amidst stunning scenery with long views of both Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, KIA lodge is set amidst lush tropical gardens, alive with over 100 species of birds. Dinner at the lodge.
Day 2: To Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, drive to the Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch on the way. Take a game-drive through the park, which is second only to the Ngorongoro Crater as a dry-season sanctuary for vast herds of migratory creatures. In the late afternoon, arrive at the Maramboi Tented Camp which is situated on a 25,000 hectare Maasai communal ranch. During the wet season the ‘pans’ (shallow depressions) of this area fill with water, which attracts huge flocks of flamingoes and other water birds. The camp is also ideally placed for watching the migration of the wildebeest, which on the tree-less plains can be more easily and more graphically observed than elsewhere. The camp offers just 20 spacious tents, all surrounded by timber decks. Activities possible at an extra cost while at the camp include guided walks, ornithology and cultural interaction with the Datoga and Maasai people, whose communities lie adjacent to the camp. The camp also has its own swimming pool. Dinner at the camp.
Distance/drive time: 175 km / 3 hours
Day 3: On safari in Tarangire
Spend a full day on safari in Tarangire National Park with morning and afternoon game drives. Breakfast, lunch and dinner at the camp.
Day 4: To the Serengeti
After breakfast, drive to 01 Duvai Gorge, one of the World’s most important Paleolithic sites, where a picnic lunch will be taken. Arrive in the Serengeti National Park and check in to the Seronera Wildlife Lodge in time for an afternoon game drive in the park. Sensitively constructed around a rocky outcrop, known as a kopje, the lodge blends perfectly into the savannah. Surrounded by waterholes that attract wildlife both day and night, it is ideally located for game drives, balloon safaris and guided walks.
Covering 14,763 sq km of endlessly rolling savannah plains, the Serengeti is Tanzania’s first-established, largest and most famous park wherein tens of thousands of hoofed animals roam in a constant and unremitting search for the fresh grasslands upon which their survival depends. The million-plus wildebeest are the predominant herbivore and also the main prey of a huge cast of large carnivores, principally lion and hyena. Whilst the annual migration is the Serengeti’s most famous attraction, the Park is also renowned for its lion, many of which have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars so that their movements may be tracked, and additionally for its wealth of cheetah, zebra, giraffe, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, eland, impala, klipspringer, hippo and warthog. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Distance/drive time: 310km / 5 % hours
Day 5 & 6: On safari in the Serengeti
Two full days on safari in one of the world’s most famous reserves. The Serengeti, whose Maasai name ‘Siringet’ translates as ‘the endless plains’, offers unparalleled ornithological opportunities and an unrivalled natural arena wherein the glory and harmony of nature can be appreciated as nowhere else on earth. All meals and overnight at the lodge.
Day 7: To the Ngorongoro Crater
Leave the Serengeti and drive to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area via Olduvai Gorge the ‘cradle of mankind’, and site of one of the most important and controversial Palaeolithic finds in recent history. After lunch at the site, continue into the crater for an afternoon tour. Often referred to as ‘the eighth wonder of the world’ the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife arenas.
A World Heritage Site, it is also one of the largest volcanic craters in the world (almost 20 kilometres wide, 610-760 metres deep and covering a total area of 264 square kilometres). An utterly unique biosphere, the Crater harbours grasslands, swamps, forests, saltpans, a fresh water lake and a glorious variety of birdlife, all enclosed within its towering walls. In the late afternoon, ascend to the rim of the crater and check-in to the Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge, which offers one of the finest locations of all the crater-rim lodges, lying on its southern rim directly above the yellow fever trees of the Lerai Forest. All meals and overnight at the lodge.
Distance/drive time: 145 km / 3 hours
Day 8: Depart via Arusha
After breakfast, drive to Arusha in time for lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon, transfer to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flights.
Distance/drive time: 190 km / 3 hours
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