Compare 11-Day Photographer’s Dream Wildlife Safari with Great Migration by Infinite Safari Adventures vs Bush & People 6 Days by Zama Tours & Safaris
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| Duration | 11 days | 6 days |
| Price From | Check price | $ 2,640 |
| Price Per Day | Check price | $ 440 |
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| Trip Style | Private guided tour | Private guided tour |
| Lodging Level | Basic | Premium |
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| Flights & Transport | Ground transport included | Ground transport included |
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| Description |
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. |
A 6-day varied journey alternating wildlife viewing with cultural visits, witnessing the harmonious though sometimes challenging cohabitation between humans and animals. Accommodation will be mostly in luxury tents with en-suite facilities in natural surroundings, such as the Tarangire area, Serengeti National Park and Lake Eyasi. The night close to Ngorongoro will be in a lodge room of outstanding quality. Your private guide takes you in a 4x4 vehicle with pop-up roof along the rough roads of the parks and into the remote villages to get an insight in local tradition and culture. Talk with the elders, see daily life tasks of the women and hunt with the men. |
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: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Nimali Tarangire Lodge
Activity: Game drive in Tarangire
On arrival at the airport, you will be met by your guide and transferred to the Tarangire National Park, Tanzania’s third largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah and up to six thousand elephant. Late in the afternoon you will drive to your tentd lodge camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Tarangire National Park – Esilalei – Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Nyumbani Serengeti Camp
Activity: Cultural visit to the Maasai of Esilalei
After breakfast the tour takes you to the Maasai village of Esilalei, where a local guide will introduce you to his village and people. Get a better understanding of the natural medicines still used on a daily basis with a Maasai medicine walk of the surrounding area. Then continue down to a Boma (mud dwelling) for an introduction into the Maasai way of life, beliefs and rituals. The road then leads you through the Crater Forest and over the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. Short stop at the viewpoint with breath-taking views over the crater, before descending towards the Serengeti National Park. The vast extensions of the Serengeti plains before you will impress you and wanting you to explore this area in deep. Continue into the park to the tented camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Nyumbani Serengeti Camp
Activity: Game drives in Serengeti
The whole of the day is dedicated to wildlife watching in the Serengeti. In the Seronera Valley you will find wildebeest and zebras and often lions and other big cats such as leopards and cheetahs. Other areas that you will visit will depend upon where the migrating herds are to be found. Usually the wildebeest and the zebras during the short rainy season in October and November are to be found moving from the hills in the north, to the plains in the south. During the longer rainy season of April, May and June they return north. With fluctuations of annual rainfall, the exact location of the animals varies from year to year. Your guide however will know the location of the herds and also where to get the best views. You will spend another night in the same accommodation.
Day 4: Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Oldeani Mountain Lodge
Activity: Game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast you will start a new game drive in the Serengeti National Park before heading into the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater. As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater the caldera opens up before you and is a sight to behold. You’ll descend onto the crater floor to emerge into this fishbowl of wildlife. On the grass steppe and in the acacia tree woods, you will find almost all species that are found in the East African savannah with the exception of topis, Masai giraffes and impalas. Quite often you can observe the “Big Five” (lions, elephants, buffalos, rhinoceros and leopards) within a couple of hours. After an extensive wildlife tour you leave the Conservation Area for dinner and overnight in the lodge in the Crater Highlands.
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater Highlands – Lake Eyasi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Activity: Cultural visit to the Hadzabe tribe
Accommodation: Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp
We enter the true tribal areas of Tanzania after leaving the tourist trail and heading towards Lake Eyasi, home to the hunter-gathers, an ethnic group of the Hadzabe Bushmen bearing similar characteristics to those of the Bushmen in Southern Africa. The small people of this indigenous tribe are probably the last living in true harmony with nature and have a wealth of fauna and flora knowledge to share with us. The time you’ll spend with them is filled with tours and game walks guided by bushmen taking you on their traditional hunting tracks. Dinner and overnight in a tented camp.
Day 6: Lake Eyasi – Arusha
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Activity: Hunting with the Hadzabe
A last early morning hunt with the Hadza, offering a perfect end to your iconic bush & people experience. Then it is back to Arusha for your flight home or further destination.
