Compare 6 Days Tanzania Explorer (Serena Lodges) by Expect In Africa Safari vs Tanzania Cultural and Wildlife Experience by Lights on Africa Safaris
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| Duration | 6 days | 11 days |
| Price From | $ 4,650 | $ 4,396 |
| Price Per Day | $ 775 | $ 400 |
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| Trip Style | Group tour | Small group tour |
| Lodging Level | Premium | Camping |
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| Flights & Transport | Ground transport included | Internal airfare and ground transport included |
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4 Breakfasts, 4 Lunches and 4 Dinners |
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner |
| Description |
Northern Tanzania top safari destination of northern Tanzania to witness the high concentration of wildlife including lions, cheetahs, and at certain times of the year, the world-renowned “Great Wildebeest Migration”. Included in the tour are Serengeti, Lake Manyara, and Ngorongoro Crater. Lake Manyara National Park is a Tanzanian national park located both in Arusha Region and Manyara Region, Tanzania. The two administrative regions have no jurisdiction over the parks. The park is governed by the Tanzania National Parks Authority. The majority of the land area of the park is a narrow strip running between the Gregory Rift wall to the west and Lake Manyara, an alkaline or soda-lake, to the east. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is a protected area and a World Heritage Site located 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. The area is named after Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera within the area. |
With plentiful ways to experience the culture, we give you a chance to interact with locals and enjoy the glorious scenery in many places, In many areas, rural life is an attraction on its own. This cultural safaris, let you walk and live with the Maasai, visit their traditional bomas (settlements), traditional medicine walks, hunting with the Hadzabe bushmen, gather roots and seeds with the Datoga women. It’s the grass roots of any East African adventures…This trip will also give you a chance to explore the famous National Parks, Serengeti National park(Home of migration trails), Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park. Accommodation is on midrange lodges- Overnight in beautiful lodges. Upgrade to luxury Lodges available on Request Note: This Itinerary can be customized according to your Interests, budget, the Season, group Size and time as well. |
Day 1: Arrive Tanzania
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Arusha Serena Hotel Resort & Spa
You will be met at the International Airport of Kilimanjaro by our representative. We will take you to the hotel. Our safari manager will come to meet you and to provide you with a safari briefing
Day 2: Lake Manyara Ngorongoro conservation area
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge
Leave Arusha at 0800 hrs and proceed to Lake Manyara national park for full day game drives with packed lunches- proceed for dinner and overnight stay at Lake Manyara Serena lodge. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Lake Manyara’s famous tree climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world- a fact that makes for interesting game viewing of large families of the primates.
Day 3: Ngorongoro Crater
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.
Early breakfast then descend into to Ngorongoro Crater for a full day crater tour with packed lunches ascend for dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.
The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the crater is a main draw card for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world class attraction. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is home of Ngorongoro Crater.
Day 4 & 5: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Lodge.
The next 2 days will be spent exploring the grassy plains and woodlands in the area, tracking the massed herds of wildebeest and zebra, witnessing the birth of new calves and trailing predators such as lion, cheetah and hyena on the hunt. The area also teems with other wildlife, including elephants, eland, various gazelle species, Kirk’s dik dik, giraffe and the elusive leopard.
Day 6: Depart
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Breakfast then fly back to Arusha for day room before transfer to Kilimanjaro airport depart home
Day 1: Arrive to Tanzania (Kilimanjaro International Airport
Arrive in Arusha. Meet and greet then Transfer from arrival point to your Hotel for overnight.
Accommodation: Kibo Palace Hotel/Similar- https://kibopalacehotel.com/
Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire
Overnight at your lodge (BLD)
Accommodation: Sangaiwe Tented Lodge/Similar- https://sangaiwe.com/
You depart Arusha with lunch box on the tarmac road across Monduli plains toward Tarangire for lunch at at the camp.
After a leisurely lunch, you depart the camp at 03:30 P for a walk accompanied by Maasai men and your guide to explain the native birds, animal tracks, and plant-life of the area that you will encounter during your walk.
Day 3: Tarangire National Park
Overnight at Tarangire N. Park
Accommodation: Sangaiwe Tented Lodge/Similar- https://sangaiwe.com/
After an early breakfast, you depart the camp with picnic lunch and proceed to the park for a full day game drive.
Tarangire N. Park covers 2,600 sq. kms in area. The park is famous for its majestic Baobab trees and Acacia Tortillas trees dotting a wide expanse of the rolling hills of the park.
To many people the park represents the features of Africa in scenery and landscape. There is the Tarangire River, which dissects the park from the south to the Northwest where during the dry season, a large congregation of animals can be found giving it a resemblance of the famous Serengeti migration.
Among the animals found there are great herds of elephants of which 200 can be seen at a time. Zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, giraffe, lions, leopard, cheetahs and hyena, The park is reputed to have more birds than the whole United States of America.
Day 4: Datoga tribe cultural Tour
Overnight at the lodge (BLD)
Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge/ Similar- https://lakeeyasi.com/
After breakfast, you proceed to south of lake Manyara to visit the Datoga tribe who are related to the Maasai. They are nomadic cattle herders who move from one place to another in search of green pastures for their cattle.
A great variety of bird species can be found in this area. Rare species like the Black Egret have on many occasions been spotted. They can be differentiated from the other birds by their peculiar fishing behavior pattern to feed whereby they shade themselves with their wings to attract more fish.
Day 5: Hadzabe Cultural Tour (Bushmen)
Overnight at your Lodge (BLD)
Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge/ Similar- https://lakeeyasi.com/
Wake up early for a pre-sunrise breakfast. Drive from the camp for approx. 20 minutes to locate the nomadic Bushmen (Hadzabe). In the company of the bushmen, you will hunt on foot using traditional weapons i.e. bows and arrows.
The Bushmen are related to the Kalahari Bushmen of South Africa. They speak the same click language but do not understand each other, as they have been apart for very long. The Bushmen live a medieval kind of life style. They do not build permanent homes but follow the animals in the area as they trap and kill them for food. They are hunters and gatherers. After a brief hunting stint with the Bushmen, we go back to our vehicles and drive to the camp for lunch.
After a short afternoon siesta, we depart the camp at 04:30P and drive to lake Eyasi to view flamingoes enjoy the sunset over the Rift Valley Escarpment.
Day 6: Elephant caves+ Coffee (Walking tour)
Overnight at your Lodge (BLD)
Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge/ Similar- https://farmofdreamslodge.com/
After breakfast, depart your Lodge with your lunch box, and drive across the Rift Valley escarpment to Lake Eyasi via Gibb’s Farm. Gibb’s Farm was a once colonial farmhouse that has been converted into a lodge. It boasts one of the biggest coffee plantations in the area as well as a purely organic farm, which supplies the lodge with fresh vegetables throughout the year. Once there, we have a 45-minute walk to visit the elephant cave and the organic farm. We will also have a brief lecture about a coffee plantation.
Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater
Dinner and Overnight in Ngorongoro (BLD)
Accommodation: Rhino Lodge/ Similar – https://rhino.co.tz/
After breakfast and drive to Ngorongoro Crater with a picnic lunch. You descend to the crater floor for a full day game-drive.
Day 8: Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park
Dinner and Overnight Serengeti N. Park –. (BLD)
Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camps- https://www.tanzaniabushcamps.com/
We break camp with picnic lunches after breakfast to drive to Serengeti National Park via the famous Ol-duvai Gorge where the Leakey family discovered the remain of the early man “ Zinjanthropus Bosei” Game viewing enroute to the Serengeti National Park.
Day 9-10- Full day game drive in Serengeti National Park
Overnight in Tented Camp at Serengeti N. Park (BLD)
Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camps- https://www.tanzaniabushcamps.com/
Full day game-drive in the Serengeti National Park with game viewing in areas where the animals are most concentrated. The Serengeti national park covers about 15,000 sq. kms. It derives its name from the Maasai language “Siringet” which means, the endless Plains.
It boasts the largest number of species of flora and fauna both in quantity and variety coupled with its world famous wildebeest migration. The worlds single remaining wildlife migration.
Day 11: Serengeti to Arusha- Kilimanjaro Airport back home
After breakfast, you depart Serengeti for Arusha with game-viewing enroute. An option instead of driving can be a scheduled flight that departs at 11:15am.
Lunch in Arusha upon arrival
Afternoon transfer to Kilimanjaro Int’l. Airport for the flight out.
