Tanzania Explorer
Explore Tanzania’s prolific parks in comfort and style on this eleven day safari. The vast plains of the Serengeti and the world-renowned Ngorongoro Crater are just two of the areas you will encounter Africa’s wildlife, while on expertly guided safari drives.
Explore UNESCO's Serengeti Plains, renowned for the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth - the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive.Discover the Ngorongoro Crater, hailed as one of the Natural Wonders of the World, and home to both predator and prey.Experience game drives among the ancient baobabs in Tarangire National Park, known for its large concentration of elephants.Enjoy unusual wildlife viewing. Lake Manyara has more than 400 bird species, including thousands of seasonal pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration.
1. FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON ARUSHA, THE ARUSHA HOTEL, Arusha, Tanzania
2. TARANGIRE SOPA LODGE, Tanzania, Tarangire National Park
3. KEMARISHE SERENGETI LODGE, Serengeti, Tanzania
4. TNS NGORONGORO RIM LODGE, Ngorongoro, Tanzania
10 nights from $6,895 per person
Itinerary
Day 1 Arrive Arusha, Tanzania
On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, transfer to your hotel. Relax and enjoy the remainder of your day.
Accommodations: Gran Meliá Arusha
Meals:
Day 2 Arusha / Tarangire National Park
After breakfast drive to Tarangire. Lunch at Tarangire Sopa Lodge. This afternoon join your expert safari ranger for your first game viewing activity. The grassy acacia woodlands and gigantic baobabs make for spectacular vistas.
Accommodations: Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 3 Tarangire National Park
Enjoy your morning at leisure with an optional balloon safari. After lunch depart on a game drive in the Tarangire National Park. Your guide is an experienced wildlife expert whose knowledge and ability to spot the animals and birds will astound you. Not knowing what you’ll see next is all part of the fun of a safari!
Accommodations: Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 4 Tarangire National Park / Lake Manyara
After breakfast drive to Escarpment Luxury Lodge, arrive in time for lunch. Enjoy a game drive in this scenic gem, with a setting praised by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. Return to lodge in time to freshen up before dinner.
Accommodations: Escarpment Luxury Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 5 Lake Manyara
This morning, take part in a tree-planting experience that helps create lasting shade for the local community—a meaningful way to leave a positive footprint in Africa. Then visit a nearby village with expert local guides who grew up in the area, exploring family-run farms, vibrant food markets, a traditional banana beer bar, and everyday community activities for an authentic, immersive cultural experience. Return to the lodge for lunch and a relaxed afternoon at leisure.
Accommodations: Escarpment Luxury Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 6 Lake Manyara / Serengeti National Park
The adventure continues as you set off after breakfast to the vast plains of the Serengeti arriving at the lodge in time for lunch. Enjoy an afternoon game drive in the greatest game sanctuary in the world, fantastic in its natural beauty. Watch territorial hippos lounging in the water, giraffes foraging in the tree tops and lions relaxing in the shade before the evening hunt begins.
Accommodations: Kimarishe Serengeti Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 7 Serengeti National Park
Depart during the early morning splendor of an African sunrise for your first game drive of the day. Your expert ranger will maneuver you to the perfect spots to collect a gallery of thrilling images as the morning unfolds. Watch alert elephant carefully guarding their young as they traverse the bush; a startled warthog running with its tail erect; ungainly herds of wildebeest grazing alongside zebra. This afternoon, relax at the lodge until the day cools down and the animals become more active for your afternoon drive. Before retiring, stretch out and listen to the sounds of the wilderness and watch the illumination of the infinite African sky.
Accommodations: Kimarishe Serengeti Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 8 Serengeti National Park
Perhaps start with a dawn adventure in a hot air balloon safari over the Serengeti, offering breathtaking wildlife views (available at an extra cost). During morning and afternoon game viewing activities, your ranger continues to lead you to spectacular locations of outstanding natural beauty where you can observe the wildlife in their natural habitat.
Accommodations: Kimarishe Serengeti Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 9 Serengeti National Park / Ngorongoro Crater
Continue your journey to the Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of Africa’s best-known wildlife areas.
Accommodations: Ngorongoro Rim Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 10 Ngorongoro Crater
Descend 2,000 feet through the early morning mists, to explore the crater floor of this extinct volcano. You’ll be in awe of the profusion of wildlife concentrated here. Enjoy a picnic lunch before returning to your lodge. Share the day’s magical moments with your safari companions as the sun sinks below the horizon.
Accommodations: Ngorongoro Rim Lodge
Meals: (BLD)
Day 11 Ngorongoro Crater / Arusha Day Room/ Depart
After breakfast, drive to Arusha. Enjoy lunch and unwind with access to a day room, available as needed for your comfort. Later this afternoon, transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport for your international departure. Bid farewell to Africa—until next time.
Meals: (BL)
Featured Destinations
Ngorongoro
An ancient hole in northern Tanzania, Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa's best wildlife-viewing spots since it acts like a natural cage; the crater's depth makes for a difficult escape for some animals, but most have no need to leave, finding plenty of resources inside. For the traveler, it means not only awesome wildlife viewing, but incredible views from accommodations on the crater's rim. Descend to the crater floor in a four-wheel drive; and once there just cruise around slowly and take in the scene — on any given day see lion, rhino, elephant, buffalo, wildebeest, Thomson's gazelle, zebra, and reedbuck. The small soda lake inside the crater is also the seasonal home of thousands of flamingos.
Serengeti
Today, the Serengeti National Park helps protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth, and one of the last great migratory systems still intact. The Serengeti is the jewel in the crown of Tanzania's protected areas and has come to symbolize paradise. The region encompasses Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been established within the region. It's unique ecosystem has inspired writers and filmakers as well as numerous photographers and scientists. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.
Lake Manyara National Park
Approaching Lake Manyara National Park the view is spectacular. From the east the Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming an impressive backdrop to the lake. From the west, the Park lies in a green strip below and the lake glistens in the sunlight. The Park's different habitats are clear. In the tall trees of the ground water forest monkeys leap from branch to branch, on the slope of the escarpment elephants stand in the shade of a baobab. In the acacia woodland lions lie draped along the branches of umbrella trees, in the pools along the lake shore the hippos wallow, and in the lake itself wade colorful flamingos. The large variety of mammals, reptiles and birds in the Park and the different types of vegetation, all within a small area make Lake Manyara a diverse and particularly memorable place to visit.
Tarangire
As you enter Tarangire National Park a vast number of baobabs catch your eye. The gently rolling countryside is dotted with these majestic trees, which seem to dwarf the animals that feed beneath them. The park is spectacular in the dry season when many migratory wildlife species come back to the waters of the Tarangire River. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, eland and oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rains when they migrate again to good grazing areas. Tarangire National Park is second only to Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area in concentrations of wildlife and lies to the south of the large, open grass plains of southern Maasailand.
Arusha
Arusha is the safari capital of East Africa, a bustling, vibrant town with the streets filled with 4X4 game viewing vehicles criss-crossing the potholed roads. Maasai warriors in full regalia stroll the streets, mingling with tourists in crisp khaki, fresh off the plane from Europe or the United States.
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