8-Days Luxury Dramatic scenes of the great migration
TRIP DETAILS
- Type - Luxury
- Duration - 8 Days / 7 Nights
- Start - Arusha
- Finish - Arusha
Trip overview
The northern tourism circuit is by far the most popular safari circuit in Tanzania, comprising most of the must-see destinations in the country. If you’re a first-time visitor to Tanzania, this is where you want to be. This 8 days Tanzania experience will give you the test of Tanzania cultural diversity and wildlife experienceat once, will take you the home of Elephant, Tarangire National park and then you’ll visit the Serengeti, the Big 5 game haven and also the host of over 3 million large mammals. Then, you’ll go to Ngorongoro Crater which supports a year-round resident population of mammals and finally, you’ll head to Lake Manyara National Park, an ornithologists’ paradise known for its elusive tree-climbing lions as well as the endless plains of the Serengeti. You’ll stay luxury lodges & tented camps.
Day by Day Itinerary
Upon your pleasant arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will meet and greet with our representative. Later, he will collect you and transfer you to Arusha for your accommodation. It is an hour’s drive from the airport to your lodge. Enjoy some rest in your accommodation while waiting for your safari the following day.
Meal Plan: Bed and breakfast
Accommodation: Gran Melia Arusha
After breakfast at the Lodge in Arusha, depart for Tarangire, Tanzania’s third-largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting park feature, 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 lions, leopards, cheetahs, and up to six thousand elephants. after an extensive game drive at Tarangire National Park, we will be driving to Karatu for your dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Kilimamoja
Breakfast at your accommodation in Karatu and drive to Serengeti National Park transiting the Ngorongoro conservation, Serengeti National Park “the endless plain of savannah and forest landscapes” is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unique for its natural beauty and scientific value. It has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. Serengeti National Park is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth – the great migration of wildebeest and zebra, you will have a full-day game drive in the Serengeti before driving to your accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Melia Serengeti Lodge
Enjoy breakfast at Manyara Kilimamoja before driving towards the northern Serengeti, Game viewing is superb year-round in the Serengeti: the park is home to the Big Five (although rhinos are rarely seen) and is particularly renowned for its predators – leopard, cheetah, lion, and hyena – which are regularly spotted. The Serengeti also plays host to the phenomenal Great Migration, which sees millions of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle traversing the open plains of the park in search of fresh grass from seasonal rains, moving northwards of the Serengeti known as “Kogatende” into the neighboring Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, and then returning south to the Serengeti again. The dramatic scenes of huge herds on the move, crossing rivers and vast plains, and pursued by predators looking for their next kill, are the stuff nature documentaries are made of. Experiencing the Great Migration is a once-in-a-lifetime event that most safari travelers have at the top of their bucket lists, you will spend two nights in the northern Serengeti.
Accommodation: Mara Mara Luxury Tented Lodge
Breakfast at your accommodation and drive to the central Serengeti while gaming on the route, The Central Serengeti, lying at the heart of this spectacular national park, is the most popular region in the reserve for its abundant wildlife, large numbers of big cats and quintessential Serengeti landscapes of acacia-studded savanna. Resident wildlife makes this part of the Serengeti a fantastic year-round destination, the Seronera is rich in pride of lion, leopard, and cheetah – and people often spot all three in one day of game drives. Look for leopards around the Seronera River, which is home to one of Africa’s densest populations of big cats, while lions can often be seen on the kopjes (rocky outcrops).
After an enjoyable afternoon game drive, you will drive to your camp for your dinner and overnight in the central Serengeti at the mentioned accommodation below and proceed with your adventure the following day.
Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Melia Serengeti Lodge
Enjoy your beautiful breakfast at your accommodation in the Serengeti, with your packed picnic boxes, you will be driving straight to Ngorongoro Crater for the full-day game drive inside the Ngorongoro Crater, The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the largest unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera in the world. It is a scenic showstopper that extends across an astonishing 260 square kilometers. The crater is hemmed in on all sides by sheer craggy walls that rise to 600m above the floor. The view from the lushly forested rim is utterly stupendous and would justify a visit to Ngorongoro in its own right. But this spectacular crater also stands as one of Africa’s most alluring safari destinations, supporting solid populations of all of the Big Five (elephant, lion, leopard, black rhino, and buffalo), plus a host of other iconic large mammals, in a lush and scenic landscape that frequently draws comparisons to the metaphorical “Garden of Eden”. After the crater tour, ascend the crater and drive back to Karatu for your dinner and overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Melia Ngorongoro
After breakfast at your accommodation, depart with your picnic lunch boxes to Lake Manyara National Park well known for the tree-climbing lions for the full-day game drive and photography, several fascinating tourist attractions can be explored within the under-grounding water forest of Lake Manyara National Park, The Park is well known for the tree climbing lions, and the soda lake attracts thousands of pink flamingos, after an extensive game viewing, you will be driving back to Arusha for your onwards flight to your next destination as per your schedule.
Meal plan: Breakfast & Lunch
Accommodation: N/L
- INCLUSIONS
- Park Fees
- Conservation Fees
- All activities (unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation as statedation, meals and drinks incusive
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
- All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
- Roundtrip airport transfers
- NOT INCLUDED
- International flights (from/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (tipping guideline US $10 - $20 pp per day)
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Services not mentioned in the program
- Travel insurance and medical repatriation
