AFRICAN SAFARI in TANZANIA

Jambo na Karibu! Hello and welcome to Tanzania. On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, clear Tanzania immigration formalities, and exit into the arrivals hall. You will be met by an African Travel Inc. representative holding a sign with your name on it, and transferred to your hotel. You have the rest of the day at leisure.

After breakfast this morning, depart with picnic lunches, and travel overland to Tarangire National Park for a game drive ending with a sundowner. Continue to the lodge for check-in.

Tarangire National Park is best known for its large elephant population and the majestic baobab trees that dwarf the animals that feed beneath them. The park is dissected by the Tarangire River which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. During the dry season, animals migrate to Tarangire from Manyara National Park giving it the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem. Other wildlife of interest includes the stately fringe-eared oryx and the long-necked gerenuk.

After breakfast, enjoy a full day of activities, morning and afternoon safari drives through the Tarangire National Park and a night game drive. Lunch and dinner will be served at the lodge. The rugged landscape of Tarangire offers a unique safari backdrop that transforms from rolling grasslands and vibrant swamps to forests of enigmatic baobab trees, which according to legend, were planted ‘upside down’ for growing too tall and proud.

After breakfast, depart with a picnic lunch to the beautiful Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive. This small but uniquely diverse national park is a wonderful introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife and is also home to the world famous, but rarely seen, tree climbing lions. Continue your journey to the Ngorongoro Highlands.

After an early breakfast, we’ll depart to the Ngorongoro Crater with a picnic lunch. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the stunning landscape of Ngorongoro Crater combined with its spectacular wildlife is one of the greatest natural wonders of the planet. Enclosed within its towering walls are grasslands, swamps, forests, saltpans, a fresh water lake and a glorious variety of birdlife. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor before heading back up to the lodge for an afternoon at leisure.

After breakfast you are driven to the Manyara airstrip, for your light aircraft flight bound for the Serengeti National Park. You will be met by a camp ranger and transferred to your camp for the next three nights.

Serengeti – the very name fires the imagination and is derived from the Maasai language meaning “endless plains”. The Serengeti offers the greatest concentration of plains animals in Africa. More than two million wildebeest, half a million Thompson’s gazelles and a quarter million zebra gather for annual migrations, attracting a great deal of predator attention from lion, leopard, cheetah and hyena.

Your days are filled with shared game viewing activities, morning and afternoon, when the animals are most active.

Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the spectacular Serengeti. Negotiating roads and tracks, your guide slowly transports you to a world of unrivaled scenic splendor, revealing sights and sounds of astonishing realism.

A lion relaxing temporarily satiated after its morning hunt, contented elephant carefully guarding their young as they traverse the bush, a startled warthog running with tail erect, the ungainly and seemingly endless herds of wildebeest quietly munching grass in company with the zebra – these are some the images you will collect and preserve.

Return to the camp for breakfast and some time to rest before the afternoon game drive, which ends just before dusk. At the end of the day return to the familiar surroundings of the camp, pleasantly tired but brimming with enthusiasm about your experiences during the day, indulge in the luxury of a hot shower before dinner. Relax with after-dinner drinks while the night and its inhabitants settle around you and you ponder the power and the wonder that is Africa.

Celebrate the glorious sunrise and the sounds of the bush awakening as you savor your last morning in Tanzania. After breakfast, you are transferred to the airstrip for your light aircraft flight to Arusha. You will enjoy lunch and a place to relax at a day room reserved for your use. Later this evening, you are transferred to Kilimanjaro airport, where you are met and assisted with your international departure flight.