Compare 11-Day Photographer’s Dream Wildlife Safari with Great Migration by Infinite Safari Adventures vs Tanzania Cultural and Wildlife Experience by Lights on Africa Safaris
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| Duration | 11 days | 11 days |
| Price From | Check price | $ 4,396 |
| Price Per Day | Check price | $ 400 |
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| Trip Style | Private guided tour | Small group tour |
| Lodging Level | Basic | Camping |
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| Flights & Transport | Ground transport included | Internal airfare and ground transport included |
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10 Breakfasts |
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner |
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This custom one-of-a-kind safari has been created to offer the best of everything that can be experienced in a Tanzanian safari of this type. It has been designed to give you a maximum amount of game drives, a chance to see different parts of Tanzania and a variety of National Parks. It allows for plenty of wildlife viewing in the various eco-systems of several of Tanzania’s National Parks utilizing well-situated accommodations in each park. |
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
On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, Infinite Safari Adventures representatives will meet you and take you to Rivertrees Lodg - a luxurious converted old coffee farm a half an hour from the airport. This beautiful resort was the former home of the lodge owner. There is a pool as well as pleasant grounds to walk around, monkeys in the trees and massage and Wi-Fi facilities.
Day 2
Meals: Breakfast
This morning after breakfast you will make your way to Tarangire Safari Lodge. Located amongst the rugged baobab trees (sometimes known as the "upside down tree") you can view animals on their way to the river while sipping drinks from the veranda. One of the smaller parks in Tanzania the elephant population density is the second highest in Africa. At the end of the day watch a beautiful African sunset before heading off to dinner. You might even fall asleep to the sounds of lions off in the distance (or close up!).
Day 3
Meals: Breakfast
Today you will spend another day in Tarangire National Park and all the wildlife there is to see – your experienced guide will take you to the best places to see elephant, buffalo, lion, giraffe, zebra and wildebeest; and perhaps an elusive leopard or cheetah. You will spend another night at Tarangire Safari Lodge.
Day 4
Meals: Breakfast
Today you will head over to the shores of Lake Eyasi. Lake Eyasi is a seasonal soda lake below the Ngorongoro Conservation area. Here is the place to experience the daily life of the Hadza and waDatoga people. We will arrange several activities for you over the next two days as you stay at the intimate Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp. This camp has only 7 tents, which overlook the lake.
Day 5
Meals: Breakfast
Another day at Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp awaits you. You will visit with these groups and learn how they hunt, gather medicines and live. In addition to cultural visits you can explore the trails around the lake, or just sit and enjoy the beautiful lake views (especially at sunset on top of the rock).
Day 6
Meals: Breakfast
This morning you will leave Lake Eyasi and drive up the Great Rift Valley to the rim of Ngorongoro Crater. Today, time permitting, we will arrange a crater rim nature walk. Tonight you will stay at Rhino Lodge, a simple but reliable lodge set on the crater rim that is well situated for an early start tomorrow to Ngorongoro Crater.
Day 7
Meals: Breakfast
Today you will descend into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a game drive in one of the mostly densely packed wildlife areas in the world. Ngorongoro Crater is a collapsed volcano (a caldera) that formed about 2-3 million years ago. Measuring just 100 square miles on the floor it also boasts one of the densest population of lions in the area. At the end of the day, ascend the rim and stay another night at Rhino Lodge.
Day 8
Meals: Breakfast
This morning you will be driven by your guide to a nearby airstrip. After saying goodbye to your guide who will now seem like a member of your family you will literally fly off the Great Rift Valley and travel 1 hour to the northern Serengeti. There you will be met by your drivers from Olakira Camp. Meaning "star" in Swahili, Olakira is an intimate semi-permanent mobile camp with 8 beautifully appointed tents in the middle of the bush. This an intimate and true bush experience. Using Olakira’s guides and vehicles you will do a game drive. In September/October this is a good place to be for the chance to witness the great wildebeest migration as they move from Tanzania into Kenya and back, crossing the famous Mara River as they go. It is a wildlife highlight as tens of thousands of wildebeest and Zebra accumulate to cross the river - attracting lions, hyenas, leopards, cheetahs, jackals and crocodiles.
Day 9
Meals: Breakfast
Spend a full day exploring the vast and spectacular Serengeti and the Great Migration. Learn about the "circle of life" as you see nature as it was intended to be seen. Return and spend another night at Olakira Camp).
Day 10
Meals: Breakfast
Spend a final day in the Serengeti. You could spend weeks here and not see everything. Your guide will continue to educate you and show your group how all of the animals and nature live together. Fall asleep tonight dreaming of all that you have seen and done as you spend a final night at Olakira Camp.
Day 11
Today you will be flown back to Kilimanjaro Airport for your international flight 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.
