Tanzania Highlights Safari
6 days—Tanzania highlights Safari-voted the best safari destination in 2016
$2000-3100 USD
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Safari summary
Tanzania, a country voted the best safari destination in 2016, the main highlights includes the Ngorongoro conservation area, home to the world largest crater, The Serengeti National Park, home of the Migration and wilbeest calving, Tarangire National Park Home to the largest herds of Elephant and baobab trees.
Safari in Briefs
A Safari to Tanzania
Places to Visit: Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park & Kilimanjaro Airport
The Safari starts and ends in Arusha
The tour can be customized on request
Can be booked by solo or many travelers
Age Limit for This Safari: 3 Years
Transfer from the airport (or hotel) is included
Activities: Game Drives, walking safaris (with an armed guide) & nature hikes/walks, Use of pop-up roof 4 x 4 vehicle
A transfer back to the airport (or hotel) is included
Type: Private and Mid Range Tour
Accommodation / Hotel / Meals: Ngorongoro Farm House (Mid-range lodge just outside Ngorongoro) - All Meals Included, Serengeti Heritage Camps (Mid-range tented camp inside Serengeti NP) - All Meals Included, Maramboi Tented Camp (Mid-range tented camp bordering Tarangire NP without fences)
About this tour
Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
Main focus | Game drives | |
Activity level | Easy activity | |
Best months | All months | |
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Parks |
Fine details
Safari highlights
- Night game drives
Itinerary
Day 1
Arusha | Kilimanjaro | Ngorongoro Crater
Day 1: Arusha - Ngorongoro Conservation Area Upon arrival at the Kilimanjaro International Airport, Solari Safaris representatives will meet you with our traditional, unique & special welcome (bubbly, wet towels and presentation of authentic safari hat and a beautiful authentic canvas pouch filled with safari essentials). Our guide driver will drive you to Ngorongoro arriving for check-in & lunch. Afternoon rest. Overnight at your lodge. Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House Mid-range lodge located just outside Ngorongoro Meals & Drinks: All meals included and Drinking water (Other drinks not included).
Day 2
Ngorongoro Crater
Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater After breakfast we descend some 610 metres into the crater, for a full day of game-viewing drive with picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world teams with an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, impala, Thompson gazelles, rhino, giraffes, golden & black-backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains. Unmatched for its natural variety & breath-taking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area, also a home to hundreds of bird species, refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor. Return late afternoon to your lodge. Enjoy dinner and overnight. Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House Mid-range lodge located just outside Ngorongoro Meals & Drinks: All meals included and Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 3
Serengeti
Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Serengeti National Park Enjoy breakfast then we depart for Ngorongoro with a brief stop at the Olduvai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn on human evolution. We will enjoy an on-site talk on the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide before continuing onto Serengeti, one the BEST game parks in Tanzania. Enjoy enroute game viewing drive to the lodge. Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometres, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. Enjoy dinner & overnight. Main Destination: Serengeti National Park Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Camps Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP Meals & Drinks: All meals included and Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 4
Amboseli | Serengeti
Day 4: Serengeti National Park This morning after breakfast, we depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains. In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The Rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted & stripped hyena, the rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, the Maasai giraffe among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve with game-viewing drives. Enjoy dinner and overnight at our lodge. Main Destination: Amboseli National Park Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Camps Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP Meals & Drinks: All meals included and Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 5
Serengeti | Tarangire
Day 5: Serengeti National Park - Tarangire National Park Enjoy breakfast then depart with picnic lunch via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Tarangire arriving for an afternoon game viewing drive in this area dotted with majestic baobab trees, stately eland antelopes among other game. The park is home to the migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It's the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge. Main Destination: Tarangire National Park Accommodation: Maramboi Tented Camp Mid-range tented camp bordering Tarangire NP without fences Meals & Drinks: All meals included and Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 6
Arusha | Kilimanjaro | Tarangire
Day 6: Tarangire National Park - Arusha We enjoy breakfast at the lodge & check-out. Unbelievable but true, our good bush moments have come to an end. We bid farewell to our wonderful lodge manager and his team then drive to Arusha. Not empty handed though. With us are photographs – a capture of the special moments we have had on this tour to immortalize the experience. Our guide in Arusha office manager will meet you, share debrief you on the safari experience, some farewell lunch then off to airport for your onward flight. Main Destination: Kilimanjaro Airport Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour) Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included) and Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
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