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Day 1: Transfer to Arusha City

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be picked up by a representative of Love & Dove Africa and transferred to Arusha city. Afternoon you will visit Lake Duluti for couple canoeing, later evening drive to the lodge. [Arusha city] is lovely small town situated at the foot Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro. It is the perfect spot to spend a day or so prior to advancing any safari expeditions including mounting the Kilimanjaro. It has a range of quality restaurants, bars and local markets that you may visit to have an authentic view of the city. Day trips can be organized to Arusha National Park, National Museum and coffee plantations in and around Arusha, at the clients' request.

You will spend your first night at Mount Meru Game Lodge a cozy lodge, at Arusha City. 

Day 2: Tarangire National Park 

After breakfast, you will be met by your driver/guide and briefed prior to commencing your Safari. Depart at approximately 8 O’clock and embark on an easy smooth drive to Tarangire National Park. The park is approximately 2850 square km (1096 square miles), and a distance of 118km (75miles) southeast of Arusha Town.

Tarangire National Park offers incredible open savannah grassland, immersed with acacia woodland, baobab trees, sausage trees and dense concentration of wildlife. Sighting large herd of elephants is quite common in this park. Wildebeest, zebras, buffalos, gazelles, elands, impala, antelopes, cheetah, leopards, mongoose, tree climbing pythons, lions, and oryx can also be seen here. For bird lovers, an estimated 550 colorful bird species may be found here including yellow-collared lovebirds, hornbills, weaver, long-tailed paradise whydah and ostrich among others. Because of visitors less frequent this Park, it is not crowded and is thus ideal for those who want to enjoy a serene Safari experience while seizing the authentic sights and sounds in the jungle.

You will arrive at the Tented Lodge for your hot lunch, and drive to the National Park for afternoon game drive in the Park, bush dinner will be served specially for the couples arranged by the camp, you will spend your overnight stay at Nimali Tarangire Luxury Tented camp and Lodge.

Day 3: Karatu

Bush champagne breakfast will be served by the camp, depart Tarangire National Park at approximately 8 O’clock and drive to Mto wa Mbu town for mountain biking at the Lake shore, you will view the Lake of Manyara and the villages around, the driver will wait for your return, (the excursion will be escorted with professional guide), upon your return you will be driven to karatu town at your lodge for your hot lunch, afternoon you shall visit Elephant caves and coffee tour visit along karatu area, later evening drive back to the lodge for your massage which will be done in the lodge. Dinner and overnight at Kitela Lodge.

Day 4: Karatu - Ngorongoro - Serengeti         

After breakfast, depart Ngorongoro conservation Area, with your lunch boxes served from the lodge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which is located within the Serengeti, is home to approximately 30,000 protected animals. The infinite beauty and grace of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are unique, submerged in deep crater valley and highlands, a soda lake in which thousands wildlife quench their thirst daily. It is at the Ngorongoro that you will relish the wonderful privileged of viewing the Big Five in one location. The Big Five are characteristically imposing, enormous and deadly animals, these include the rare black rhino, big-tusked elephants, black-mane lions, leopards and Lions, which tend to reside at the Ngorongoro. You will also sight buffalos, zebras, hyenas, wildebeest, flamingos, bat eared foxes, jackals, gazelles, cheetah and a high density of birdlife species. The beauty of this place is the lions are not afraid to walk up to your safari vehicles, giving you an authentic Safari experience.

Later afternoon you will drive to Serengeti National Park, The Serengeti National Park in Maasai language means “endless plains” and is clothed with vast breath-taking landscapes, driving through the Serengeti is an authentic blend of the magical experience of Tanzanian wilderness and wildlife. It is the second largest national park in Tanzania and covers about 6,000 square miles of savannah, grasslands, hills, woodland, hills and riverine forests. The Serengeti National Park is also famous for the annual migration when millions of wildebeest migrate to Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. The beauty of the Serengeti lies in its unimaginably vast plains filled with a variety of wildlife, and allows the visitors to roam the plains and embrace the magic of the wilderness. You will enjoy an exceptional evening game drive sighting several lions, elephant, elands, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals, hippos, crocodiles, zebras, leopards, buffalos, gazelle, giraffes, topi, ostrich and hartebeest among many others. The Park is filled with a vast variety of Tanzania’s best wildlife and habitats that make for an incredible game viewing experience.  

And you drive to Kubu Kubu Tented Camp where you will spend the night.

Day 5: Serengeti

On your second day, you will embark on an early morning game drive in the Serengeti National Park and then drive back to the Lodge for breakfast. With your lunch boxes, you will depart the Lodge and continue your game drive in the Serengeti National Park. Driving through the Serengeti is an authentic blend of the magical experience of the Tanzanian wilderness and wildlife. The Park is also famous for the annual migration when millions of wildebeest migrate to Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. Viewing the migration is an epic safari experience. It provides visitors a phenomenal pictorial and magnificently moving scene to the naked eyes. For those who enjoy photography, Serengeti’s vast open savannah provides an incredible backdrop to even the amateur photographers. The beauty of the Serengeti lies in its unimaginably vast plains filled with all wildlife, and allows the visitors to roam the plains and embrace the magic of the wilderness. You will view antelopes, lions, leopards, wildebeest, zebras and much wildlife here. You will continue your afternoon drive in the Serengeti. As the sun sets, the horizon of the Serengeti is movingly serene, ironically giving you an unexpected calmness in the African jungle. After your spectacular day of game viewing, you will retire for the night at Kubu Kubu Tented Camp. 

Day 6: Zanzibar

After breakfast, depart from the tented camp with your lunch boxes and transfer to local airstrip for your scheduled flight from Serengeti seronera area to Zanzibar, you will arrive at Zanzibar and meet with our representative at the airport and transfer to beach hotel for your dinner and overnight at Kisiwa on the Beach Lodge stay in Bahari villa beach front.

Day 7: Zanzibar 

After breakfast, our driver representative will pick you up at the lodge around 10 O’clock, and drive to stone town, for stone town tour, Lunch under own arrangement at the Local restaurant in Stone town, later afternoon drive back at the lodge for leisure, dinner and overnight at Kisiwa on the Beach Lodge stay in Bahari villa beach front-Visit the Anglican Church

-Visit the Anglican Church of Christ built by Bishop Steers in 1874 and get a chance to walk through the streets of Stone Town and get to buy tropical fruits and spices, while hearing different dialects being spoken by the people of the town at the market.

-Visit the Sultan Palace Museum & the Central Market

Part of a palace complex was the main official residence within the Zanzibar Stone Town. Sultan Said and some of his descendants lie buried in this palace graveyard.

-Visit the Peace Memorial Museum

Designed by the same architect who designed the High Court (also located in town), J. H. Sinclair, the National Museum is home to many of memorabilia including, most notably, Livingstone's medical chest.

Day 8: Zanzibar

After breakfast, our driver representative will pick you up at the lodge around 10 O’clock, and drive for spice tour excursion, Lunch under own arrangement at the Local restaurant in Stone town, later afternoon drive back at the lodge for leisure, dinner and overnight at Kisiwa on the Beach Lodge stay in Bahari villa beach front

-Zanzibar Spices like cardamoms, cinnamons, cloves, vanilla, nutmeg, pepper, ginger are available where you will get detailed on their growth systems, benefits and advantages to the people.
At the end of this it is when you will sample the fruits and edible spices e.g. Zanzibar Coconut juice, Jack fruits, Bribe fruits, mangoes, bananas, pineapple, mandarin, tangerine, Zanzibar spiced tea, Ginger tea, pepper tea, lemon grass tea all this meant for you to real understand the importance and origins of the Species you always see them packed.

This is also your rare chance to buy the very fresh spices from the farm ready packed to take as your Zanzibar memories back home.

Day 9: Zanzibar

Breakfast at the lodge, full day you will spend at leisure in the lodge, lunch under own arrangement, dinner and overnight at Kisiwa on the Beach Lodge stay in Bahari villa beach front

Day 10: Zanzibar

After Breakfast at the lodge, our representative driver will transfer you to Zanzibar International Airport for your flight back home.

Day 1:

Your ‘Selous and Zanzibar Holiday’ starts as soon as you board your international flight to Dar es Salaam Airport. If you’re flying from the UK we recommend that you fly with British Airways or Kenya Airways via Nairobi, total flight duration approximately 11 hours 50 minutes.

Overnight: International flight

Day 2:

Meals: Lunch and Dinner

Overnight: Selous Reserve

Upon arrival at Dar es Salaam Airport you will be met by a representative and transferred to the domestic terminal. You will then board your scheduled light aircraft flight to the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania. A representative will meet you at the airstrip and drive you to your camp or lodge where you’ll stay for the next four nights.

Days 3-5:

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Overnight: Selous Reserve

Selous is Africa's largest game reserve covering over 50,000 square kms, yet it remains one of Tanzania’s least known reserves and the numbers of visitors to Selous are much lower than the northern parks.

The rivers and lakes of Selous host some phenomenal game, including the largest hippo and crocodile and hippo populations in Africa. Along the banks of the Rufiji River you’ll find large herds of elephants, especially in the dry season (June to November) and you can also expect to see good numbers of buffalo, giraffe, zebra, impala, eland, wildebeest, baboon, hyena, lion and leopard, and endangered African wild dog.       

As the Selous is a game reserve your guide can go off road in your safari vehicle and you can get much closer wildlife encounters than in National Parks where you are restricted to the roads. As well as morning and afternoon game drives you can also enjoy bush walks and boat safaris.

Day 6:

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Overnight: Zanzibar

This morning you can enjoy one final game drive in the Selous before being transferred back to the airstrip for your scheduled light aircraft flight to Zanzibar.

You will be met on arrival in Zanzibar and driven to your accommodation where you will stay for the next four nights. We offer a range of accommodation options on the island and we will ensure that we match you to the most suitable accommodation for your requirements and sense of style – whether that is a rustic beach lodge or a luxurious 5 star resort.

Days 7-10:

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Overnight: Zanzibar

With its beautiful sandy beaches, clear turquoise waters and colourful coral reefs, Zanzibar is the perfect destination for post-safari relaxation. 

Should you wish to be active there are plenty of excursions that you can join, including visits to historic Stone Town, Jozani Forest, Prison Island, the spice plantations and cultural tours to local villages. There’s also a wide choice of adventure activities that you can participate in, including mountain biking, hiking, bird watching, wind surfing, kite surfing, sea kayaking and sailing. Additionally, the island has fantastic coral reefs which are perfect for diving and snorkelling – and you may even be lucky enough to see dolphins, green turtles and, at certain times of the year, whale sharks.

Day 11:

Meals: Breakfast

Unfortunately your ‘Selous and Zanzibar Holiday’ has come to an end. After breakfast you’ll check out of your accommodation and you’ll be driven back to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ) for your flight home.

Overnight: International flight