Tanzania - a vast and mystical land with breathtaking scenery ranging from the snow-capped peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro to the plains of Serengeti National Park and one of the world's seven wonders - Ngorongoro Crater. Just off her coast, lies the magical clove Island of Zanzibar with its intriguing blends of historical ruins, white beaches and winding streets of old Stone Town.
With a climate as varied as her landscape, Tanzania offers visitors a wealth of experience. This, combined with the warm and friendly welcome of her cosmopolitan people, makes Tanzania an irresistible destination.
As custodians of Africa's most spectacular wilderness, the Tanzanians are fiercely protective of their natural heritage and an incredible 25% of her land area is conserved under National Park status. These parks, famous worldwide for their beauty, profusion of wildlife are home to 20% of Africa's large mammal population and are safe havens for rare and threatened species such as Black Rhino, Cheetah and Painted Wolves.
In the morning you depart from Arusha with picnic lunch boxes and proceed to Tarangire National Park. This park has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord of predators and the one place in Tanzania where dry country antelope such as the stately fringed eared Oryx and peculiar long necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
Drive in the park to explore some of the 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and land crowd the shrinking lagoons. Afternoon break for picnic lunch. Then continue with game drive.
Leave Tarangire National Park at 16:00hrs and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for dinner and overnight stay at one of the Lodges or Campsites near the Park.
After breakfast leave the lodge and drive into Lake Manyara National Park. The park supports a variety of habitats and a diversity of wildlife.
Visit the natural hot springs and try to observe the tree-climbing lions of Lake Manyara National Park. In the afternoon return to your Lodge for hot lunch.
Leave Manyara and proceed to Ngorongoro for dinner and overnight stay at one of the Lodges or Campsites.
In the morning descend 610/2000ft down to the crater floor, with picnic lunch and spend the day game viewing.
This collapsed volcano is home to a large concentration of wildlife including lion, rhino, hippo, hyena and elephant.
In the afternoon take a short break to enjoy your picnic lunch at the picnic site.
In the late-afternoon ascend the walls of the Crater climbing up to the rim, from where you will start to drive back to Arusha
In the morning you will be picked up from your Hotel/Lodge in Arusha and driven 130kms with lunch boxes and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for afternoon game drive.
Start game viewing through underground water forest, proceed to acacia woodland savannah open land, pass by hot water spring and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park which is the home for many flamingoes and other water birds.
The Park also hosts tree-climbing lions, hippos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, baboons, blue and velvet monkey, warthog and more. About 350 species of birds have been recorded.
In the afternoon there will be a break to have your picnic lunch, then leave the Park and drive to Ngorongoro to arrive on time for dinner and overnight stay in one of the lodges or campsite - superbly perched on the rim of the Crater.
Early morning breakfast in your lodge at Ngorongoro and then drive immediately to the Great Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch.
Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant's gazelle.
Therefore as you leave the Ngorongoro you will continue with game drives en-route. Before reaching Seronera (an area located in the heart of Serengeti), you will continue to explore the vast rich-game animal plains of Serengeti National Park.
During the afternoon stop over for picnic lunch shortly before you continue with game drive. In the evening leave the Park and proceed to Seronera for dinner and overnight stay in one of the lodges or campsite.
Wake up for early morning breakfast and collect your picnic lunch. Drive across the Serengeti plains then to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Upon arrival, you immediately descend into the Crater base for a full day tour.
All the big five - rhino, lion, elephant, leopard and buffalo live in this wonderful caldera. Others are zebra, hippo, wildebeest, hyena, and more can be seen. The birdlife is so abundant and it includes many flamingoes round the Soda Lake, geese, storks and vultures.
Your lunch will be served at the picnic site in the Crater at Ngoitoktok Swamp which is a Hippo pool. After lunch drive back to Arusha arriving after sunset.
In the morning depart from your Hotel/Lodge in Arusha with packed lunch and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive. The most famous spectacle in the park is the tree-climbing lions, which are occasionally seen relaxing on the branches of acacia trees.
Other animals found in this area include elephants, leopards, impalas, hippos, and millions of birds especially pelicans and flamingos. The scenery of this park with its Alkaline Lake including its five vegetation zones is compared to a scenic gem with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as 'the loveliest I had seen in Africa'.
The park also has the Tanzania's highest population of elephants per square kilometer. In the afternoon enjoy your first-bush picnic lunch. Continue with game viewing. In the evening leave the park and drive to your lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight in Manyara.
There you start game viewing all the way en-route before Seronera area.
Early morning breakfast then collect your lunch boxes and start a 205 kms drive, to the Great Serengeti National Park. Drive through the Ngorongoro rainy forest then continue up to the Ngorongoro/Serengeti plains.
Depending on the Serengeti's animals migration season here you will begin to witness the migration. In the afternoon stop-over for picnic lunch. The park contains an estimated three million large animals, most of which take part in the seasonal migration that is one of wonders of nature.
Drive to Seronera arriving to your Lodge or Campsite located in the heart of Serengeti for dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast leave the lodge at 8:00hrs with picnic lunch. On this day, as you continue to Olduvai Gorge, start to explore the Serengeti vast animal-rich plains where you can see all the big five which are the elephants, lions, leopards, giraffe, buffalo including cheetah and more.
Serengeti National Park has about 35 species of plains animals from the hare to the elephant and a wonderful selection of bird life. Drive to Olduvai Gorge to get a briefing about the discovering of the Nut-Cracker-Man "Zinanthropus". The human fossil has been estimated to be 1.75m years old.
Here you can have your picnic lunch at the picnic site. Thereafter leave Olduvai Gorge and proceed to Ngorongoro - arriving on time for dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.
After breakfast descent 610m/2000ft down into the Crater. Full morning Crater tour where you will see the plain animals including the Africa's black-manned lions, elephants, buffaloes wildebeest and hartebeest.
In the afternoon enjoy your picnic lunch at the site. Drive around the Soda Lake to watch the flamingos and other fish birds. At 16:00hrs ascend the crater walls and return to Arusha.
Depart from Arusha with picnic lunch boxes and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzania safari experience.
Contrasting with the intimacy of the forest is the grassy floodplain and its expansive views eastward, across the Alkaline Lake, to the jagged blue volcanic peaks that rise from the endless Maasai Steppes. Large buffalo, wildebeest and zebra herds congregate on these grassy plains, as do giraffes - some so dark in colour that they appear to be black from a distance.
As you witness and enjoy all this natural beauties, drive across the acacia trees strip in search of tree climbing lions of Lake Manyara National Park. In the afternoon break for picnic lunch and then continue with game drive. In the evening leave the park and proceed to your lodge or campsite booked in advance for dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara.
Early morning drive into Lake Manyara Park. Continue further on to visit the hot springs. Return to the lodge for late breakfast.
Shortly after breakfast, collect your picnic lunch and proceed to Serengeti via the slope of Ngorongoro's rainy forest and later to the vast animal-rich plains then enter into the Serengeti National Park.
Game drive en-route the Serengeti plains - in search of the leopards and cheetahs. In the evening proceed to Seronera for dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.
Full morning-drive to explore the vast rich game animals of Serengeti plains. In the afternoon return to your lodge for hot lunch.
At about 16:00hrs leave your lodge and drive to watch some of the 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
In the evening leave the park and drive back to your lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight stay at Seronera.
After breakfast, collect your picnic lunch and proceed to Ngorongoro. Game drive en-route the Serengeti/Ngorongoro plains. Visit Olduvai Gorge to get a briefing about the discovery of the fossil Homo habilis dated 1.75 million years.
This were uncovered Leakey 1959. Picnic lunch at the site and thereafter, continue to Ngorongoro arriving in time for dinner and overnight at the lodge or campsite on the rim of the Crater.
In the morning collect your packed luncha and drive over the rim of the Crater descending 610m/2000ft. The Ngorongoro Crater is 2286m above sea-level. It is the largest unbroken caldera in the world.
Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610m from the crater floor, this natural amphitheatre covers an area of about, 100 square miles, in diameter and is home to up to 25,000 large mammals, almost half of them zebras and wildebeests. There are also gazelles, buffaloes, elands, hartebeests, warthogs, and others.
Such concentrated numbers attract predators, mainly lions and hyenas but also cheetahs and leopards. More than 100 species of birds not found in the Serengeti have been spotted here. Countless flamingoes form a pink blanket over the Soda Lakes.
Therefore during the full morning crater tour you will be able to enjoy nature's beauties in this naturally unfenced zoo. In the afternoon stop at one of the sites to enjoy your picnic lunch. At 16:00hrs leave the crater as you ascend the wall of the Crater and drive back to Arusha.
Morning departure from Arusha with picnic lunch boxes and proceed to Tarangire National Park. This park has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord of predators and the one place in Tanzania where dry country antelope such as the stately fringed eared Oryx and peculiar long necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
Drive in the park to explore some of the 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest land crowd the shrinking lagoons.
Afternoon drive to the picnic sites for lunch, then continue with game drive in the evening proceed to one of the Lodges or Campsites in Tarangire for dinner and overnight.
Early morning game-drive in Tarangire National Park, searching for leopards. Return to your lodge for late breakfast before 11:00hrs. Leave Tarangire lodge and drive to Ngorongoro. Stop at Mto wa Mbu to visit the local market.
Later on proceed to Highview Hotel for lunch and leisure. In the evening continue to Ngorongoro for dinner and overnight in one of the lodges or campsites located on the rim of the Crater.
After breakfast collect your picnic lunch. Descend 610m/2000ft down into the Ngorongoro Crater base. In the crater the Lerai Forest on the crater floor gets its name from the Maasai word for the elegant yellow-barked acacia tree.
Elephants often graze in the forest shade during midday, emerging into the open plains during the early hours of morning and in the evening, as the midday heat abates. The small forest patches on the crater floor are home to leopard, monkey, baboon and antelope such as waterbuck and bushbuck.
Afternoon picnic lunch, then leave the Crater and proceed to Seronera for a game drive en-route the Serengeti. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.
After breakfast, drive into Serengeti National Park. The Seronera Area, located in the heart of Serengeti is the place where you will be able to witness the Serengeti's animals great migration depending on migratory seasons. Return to your lodge for afternoon lunch.
At 16:00hrs drive in the Park to watch the lovely birds of Serengeti - estimated to be 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
Then return to the lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast leave the lodge or campsite at 8:00hrs with picnic lunch. On this day, as you continue to Olduvai Gorge, start to explore the Serengeti vast where you can see all the big five which are the elephants, lions, leopards, giraffe, buffalo including cheetah and more.
Serengeti National Park has about 35 species of animals from the hare to the elephant and a wonderful selection of bird life. Drive to Olduvai Gorge - to get a briefing about the discovering of the Nut-Cracker-Man "ZINJANTHROPUS".
The human-fossil homo Habilis was uncovered by Dr. Leaky and dated 1.7 million years. Here you walk to the picnic site to have lunch. Thereafter leave Olduvai Gorge and proceed to Lake Manyara, arriving on time for dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.
After breakfast drive into Lake Manyara for game-drive. The most famous spectacle in the park is the tree-climbing lions, which are occasionally seen relaxing on the branches of acacia trees.
Other animals found in this area include elephants, leopards, impalas, hippos, and millions of birds especially pelicans and flamingos. The scenery of this park with its Alkaline Lake including its five vegetation zones is compared to a scenic gemstone glittering in the bush.
The park also has the Tanzania's highest population of elephants per square kilometer. Late afternoon return to the lodge for hot lunch. Shortly after lunch depart from the lodge and drive back to Arusha
Arrival at Dar es Salaam airport and transfer to Peacock Hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, depart for Mikumi National Park. Lunch at Genesis Lodge. Afternoon game drive in Mikumi Park. Dinner and overnight at Genesis Lodge. (Located outside park)
After breakfast, collect packed lunches and depart for Ruaha National Park. Picnic lunches served at Isimila Stone Age Site in Iringa. Afternoon Proceed to Ruaha National Park. Dinner and overnight at Tungamalenga Bungalows. (Located outside park).
After an nearly breakfast, collect packed lunches and have a full day game viewing around Ruaha Hills, valleys and the Great Ruaha River. Picnic to be served in the bush. Late evening drive back to Tungamalenga Bungalows for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, check out and depart for Udzungwa Mountains. Stop for lunch at Kitonga Inn Hotel located at the foot of the famous Kitonga Mountain. After lunch continue to Udzungwa Mountains National Park. Dinner and overnight at Udzungwa Mountains View Hotel.
After breakfast, collect packed lunches with porters and guides and start the gentle trek of the Mountains leading to the Sanje waterfalls. This exercise needs people who are relatively fit. Several view points are found on the climb where people can relax before continuing the trek. (750m above sea level). Picnic lunches to be served on top of the falls. Early afternoon descend to the Hotel for shower, relaxation at the bar. Dinner and overnight at Udzungwa Mountains View Hotel.
After an early breakfast, collect packed lunches and drive to Selous Game Reserve via Morogoro Town. Late afternoon game drive on the way to Ndovu camp or Hidden Paradise camp for dinner and overnight.
Full day of Game viewing, boat safari on the Rufiji River. Picnic lunches in the bush. Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Early morning walking safari before breakfast. After breakfast, check out, collect packed lunches and drive back to Dar es Salaam. Late afternoon arrival at peaock Hotel for a day room, shower and get ready for the flight. Early dinner at the Hotel before transfer to Dar es Salaam airport for the flight back home.
Arrival at Dar es Salaam airport and transfer to Peacock Hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, drive to Saadani National Park via Chalinze and Mandera on the Dar/Arusha highway. Lunch at Saadani Safari Lodge. Afternoon boat safari on the Indian Ocean or Wami River. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Full day in Saadani with combination of game viewing and walking safari. Picnic in the bush. Late afternoon drive back to the Lodge for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, proceed to Mikumi National Park via Morogoro town.Lunch at Vuma Hill Camp. Afternoon game drive in Mikumi Park. Dinner and overnight at Vuma Hill Camp.
After breakfast, have another half day tour of the Mikumi Park. Lunch at the Camp. Afternoon drive to Udzungwa Mountains National Park. Visit of some Income generating projects in Msolwa Village funded by WWF and Tanzania National Park Authority.
Dinner and overnight at UdzungwaMountains View Hotel.
After breakfast, collect packed lunches with porters and guides and start the gentle trek of the Mountains leading to the Sanje waterfalls. This exercise needs people who are relatively fit. Several view points are found on the climb where people can relax before continuing the trek. (750 m above sea level). Picnic lunches to be served on top of the falls. Early afternoon descend to the Hotel for shower, relaxation at the bar.Dinner and overnight at Udzungwa Mountains View Hotel.
After breakfast, drive across the Udzungwa chain of Mountains to Ruaha National Park via Iringa town for lunch. After lunch proceed to the RuahaPark with an evening game viewing in the Park. Dinner and overnight at Jongomero Camp or Mwagusi Camp.
Another full day of game viewing still in Ruaha Park, famous for its herds of Elephants and Sable Antelopes. Meals and overnight at the camp.
Still in Ruaha with combination of game viewing and walking safari if the grass is not too high. Picnic at a campsite near the Great Ruaha River. Late evening drive back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, check out and depart for Morogoro. Short visit of the Isimila Stone Age site. Lunch at Kitonga Inn Hotel located at the foot of the famous Kitonga Mountain. After lunch continue to Morogoro town located on the foot of Uluguru Mountains. Dinner and overnight at Oasis Hotel or New Acropol Hotel.
After breakfast, continue to Selous Game Reserve. Lunch at Impala Camp or Selous Safari Camp. Afternoon boat safari on the Rufiji River. Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Full day of game viewing and walking safari if the grass is not too high. Visit the famous Hot Springs and the Selous Grave. Picnic in the bush. Late evening drive back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Another full day exploring the immense Selous Game Reserve. Meals and overnight at the camp.
After breakfast, collect packed lunches and visit the primary school at Mloka village outside the Reserve. Afternoon enjoy a local dance performed by Zaramo tribe people leaving at Mloka Village. Dinner and overnight at the camp.
DAY 15 After breakfast, check out, collect packed lunches and drive back to Dar es Salaam. Upon arrival check in at Peacock hotel for a day room. Lunch, dinner at Slipway before transfer to Dar es Salaam airport for the flight back home.