10 DAY TANZANIA TENTED CAMPS SAFARI AND ZANZIBAR BEACH VACATION

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive in Arusha, Tanzania

Pass By: Arusha Village Experience, Arusha Tanzania
Met on arrival by a Tanzania on foot guide and transfer to Arusha Safari Lodge.

Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Arusha Safari Lodge: Half board.

Day 2: GAME DRIVE TO TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK:

Stop At: Babati, tanzania, Tarangire National Park 3134 Tanzania
Today we drive to Tarangire National Park, for excellent game viewing. Tarangire is a small park which offers some excellent sights. Generally, in the dry seasons, Tarangire comes alive as wildlife and birdlife congregate on the Tarangire River, which is a permanent source of water. We spend the night in our lodge beautifully set outside the park with stunning views and a unique atmosphere.
Duration: 3 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Karatu Eileen’s Tree Lodge: Full board.

Day 3: GAME DRIVE TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK:

Stop At: Serengeti National Park Tanzania
We head towards the Serengeti National Park. En route, there is an opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge. It is within this steep-sided ravine that Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world’s most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s. Here is a small museum we are able to see evidence of our ancestors that have been dated back 2.5 million years. After lunch, we drive into the Serengeti itself and the rest of the afternoon is spent game viewing in the vast plains that are broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje. In December, January and February we will normally meet the migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals, such as giraffe, buffalo, and elephant, and many large predators such as lion, cheetah, and leopard. We return to our special tented camp for the night.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Acacia Tented Lodge: Full board.

Day 4: ANOTHER DAY GAME DRIVE TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK:

Stop At: Serengeti National Park Tanzania
We have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top, we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. We return to our special tented camp for the night.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Acacia Tented Lodge: Full board.

Day 5: SERENGETI TO NGORONGORO CRATER:

Stop At: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
We start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place in that it is a Conservation Area, not a National Park; this means that the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife. During the drive in Ngorongoro, we have a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life. After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, we will drive around the rim of the Crater itself, and from here we can look down and see the herd of wildebeest or buffaloes.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Kirurumu Tented Lodge: Full board.

Day 6: A FULL DAY GAME DRIVE IN NGORONGORO CRATER:

Stop At: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
Today we will descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater for your crater tour. Here we will explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where we may see flamingos. We will also visit the open Savannah where the lions hunt. Picnic lunch will be served in the crater. In the late afternoon, we make a short journey to Eileen’s Lodge.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Karatu Eileen’s Tree Lodge: Full board.

Day 7: GAME DRIVE IN LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK:

Stop At: Lake Manyara National Park Tanzania
We depart from your lodge in Karatu and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the groundwater forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake. We enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise that has more than 350 species of bird. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions. After lunch, we drive straight to Kilimanjaro Airport for the evening flight to Zanzibar.
Arrive at Zanzibar Airport anytime you will meet us at the airport and pick up with private transfer to Stone town for dinner and overnight stay.
Duration: 5 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Zanzibar Emerson Spice hotel: Half board.

Day 8: FULL DAY TOUR IN ZANZIBAR:

Stop At: Aromas of Zanzibar, Gizenga street House No 360, Zanzibar City Tanzania
In the morning you drive along the coast. Passing the fishing villages of Bwejuu and Paje you reach Jambiani, a fishermen village on the East coast of Zanzibar. We offer a cultural village tour to visit villagers working in different professions. Our guide tells about the history of the village, you will visit a traditional herbalist, who will show you the local medicines, herbs, and their uses, a visit to a local organically plantation on coral stone, where farmers cultivate under difficult circumstances, and seaweed farms run by a woman. A good chance to learn about the unique culture and the diverse environment of Zanzibar’s villages and to meet the friendly Swahili people. We will show you real life, not images designed for tourists.
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Zanzibar Kichanga Beach Lodge: Half board

Day 9: ZANZIBAR DOLPHIN TRIP:

Stop At: Aromas of Zanzibar, Gizenga street House No 360, Zanzibar City Tanzania
One day you go to an excursion to Kizimkazi. Situated on the southern point of the island, Kizimkazi fishing village is home to several schools of bottle-nosed dolphins and Humpback dolphins, which can often be sighted following a short boat trip from the village. If you are lucky, you may be able to swim quite close to the dolphins, which can be a very rewarding experience. We are doing this trip in the afternoon to avoid the crowds of tourists in the morning, which in big numbers disturbing the dolphins.
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at Zanzibar Kichanga Beach Lodge: Half board

Day 10: Zanzibar Airport

Stop At: Aromas of Zanzibar, Gizenga street House No 360, Zanzibar City Tanzania
Depending on your flight schedule and departure point you will be transferred to the Zanzibar Airport to take a flight back home. If you are flying out of Dar es Salaam or Nairobi, we will arrange a connection flight for you to catch your flight back home.
Duration: 2 minutes

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.