This 7-day mid-range lodge safari allows you to experience the highlights of a Tanzanian safari. You will experience wonderful wildlife in the heart of some of the most diverse landscapes, monkeys in the forest, lions in trees, elephants amongst acacias, and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. You will also visit the world-famous Serengeti National Park.
You will be picked up from the airport at either Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport. Our driver will transfer you to your accommodation in Arusha, a drive of about 1 hour. You will arrive at Karibu Heritage House Lodge for your overnight stay.
Accommodation: Karibu Heritage HouseAfter breakfast, your safari guide will pick you up from your accommodation and drive you to Tarangire National Park (approximately 2 hours). Tarangire is best known for its elephant families, savannah, iconic baobab trees, seasonal swamps, and the life-giving Tarangire River. Animals gather at the river and giraffe, bushbuck and hartebeest are often seen. The park is also home to buffalo, zebra and wildebeest. These animals are closely followed by a range of predators such as lions, leopards and rarely cheetahs. Enjoy the view from the open roof of the safari vehicle.
You will enjoy a picnic in the park which includes a delicious lunch and soft drinks. After a full day in the park, you will drive to your accommodation where you will be able to relax and enjoy dinner and your overnight stay. Accommodation: Country Lodge KaratuAfter breakfast, you will take a lunch box from your accommodation and continue to Lake Manyara National Park, an epic safari destination. This is a relatively small but diverse park and is located 120km west of Arusha. The park’s namesake is a shallow salt lake. It covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons. It is home to thousands of flamingos and over 500 bird species. On your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffalos, elephants, and with some luck, lions lounging in the trees.
The park is known for its diverse landscapes; not only open grassy plains but also primate-filled woodlands and baobab-dotted cliffs. After the game drive, you will drive to your accommodation in Karatu for dinner and your overnight stay. Accommodation: Country Lodge KaratuAfter breakfast, you will continue toward the fertile highlands where wheat, coffee and corn are grown by the Iraqi people. Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will see the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater before travelling onward to the Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch on the way. You will reach Serengeti by the afternoon.
The Serengeti National Park is the largest park in Tanzania with diverse landscapes and habitats such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannah and mountains. After an extensive game drive, you will drive to your accommodation where you will enjoy dinner and your overnight stay at Serengeti Bush Tented Camp. Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camps Central SerengetiYou will spend a full day in these incredible endless plains exploring the park, its animals and the incredible landscapes. The Serengeti is the habitat for an abundance of wildlife, such as impalas, buffaloes, crocodiles and hippos, but is more well-known for its great migrating herds of zebra and wildebeest (depending on their location and the time of your trip). The animals’ trek is determined by the rainfall and varies from year to year. Apart from the migrating herds, you may see predators such as leopards, cheetahs and lions.
Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the Serengeti Bush Tented Camp.After an early breakfast, you will have a game drive in Serengeti. You might be able to spot some animals before going on your tour in the Ngorongoro Crater. You will arrive at the crater rim before lunch. After descending the crater, you will see wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, elephant, and some of more than 500 bird species in the area within a few minutes. With a little bit of luck, you might catch a glimpse of the endangered black rhino through the grass.
After having a picnic lunch, you will head to your accommodation in Karatu for dinner and your overnight stay outside the crater. Accommodation: Country Lodge KaratuAfter breakfast, you will drive back to Arusha for your onward destination at Zanzibar or back home. We will make the arrangements according to your preferences. Should you fly back home on a KLM flight, we will drop you off at the airport. You will also have enough time to shop for gratuities.
End of safari.You can spend the last hours of your journey relaxing. Afterward, you will transfer to Zanzibar Airport for your international flight.
