TOUR HIGHLIGHT
- Bird watching
- Black Rhino
- Boating
- Buffalo
- Dr Leakey
- Wildebeest
- Eland
- Gazelle
- Waterbuck
- Hippo
- Buffalo
ITINERARY
DAY 1: Arusha – Lake Manyara National Park
(130km - 3 - 4 hours)
- To get your safari started, we will collect you from your hotel, residence, or the airport in Arusha early in the morning.
- We head to the west to begin your safari at Lake Manyara. This is one of the many lakes of the Great African Rift Valley, covering 325 square kilometers during the rainy season.
- On the way, you have chance to see some of the Tanzanian landscape as towns and villages pass you by.
- When you make it to the lake, you’ll be given a picnic lunch and then taken on your first game drive.
- On the lake itself you will have plenty of birdwatching opportunities, with over four hundred species know to nest and feed in the area.
- Away from the shores you’re likely to be able to spot: Wildebeest, Waterbucks, Zebras, Impalas, Giraffes and many more animals.
- When at Lake Manyara you have the chance to take a canoe out onto the waters, giving you a novel way to watch the animals and get some stunning photographs. This is optional at an extra cost of $60 per person.
- Once you’ve sated your wildlife dreams for the day you will head to your camp or lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation Options at Lake Manyara
Standard options:
- Manyara Wildlife Safari Camp.
Luxury options:
- Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
Lake Manyara National Park – Ngorongoro Conservation Area
(64km – 1 to 2 hours)
- Your second day will start with breakfast and in short order you’ll be taken out to the shores of Lake Manyara for another game drive.
- Morning is the ideal time to watch the myriad animals that populate these lands, the air is cool and each animal is full of energy and desire for food and play.
- Take this chance to get photos of the lake and its inhabitants in the morning light whilst they are most active.
- For lunch, you will return to your accommodation, at which point your luggage will be loaded into your tour vehicle and you will make your way to the Ngorongoro crater.
- The two areas are nearby and you will spend much of the journey still inside the parks and conservations areas that are here to protect the wildlife.
- The crater’s edge looms over the landscape, telling silent tales of destruction long-forgotten by an old volcano.
- You’ll have dinner and spend the night in a camp or lodge on the rim of the crater, giving you stunning vistas over the basin below that plays host to a mass of biodiversity.
Accommodation Options at Ngorongoro Crater:
Standard options:
- Ngorongoro Farm House.
- The Castle of Ngorongoro.
Luxury options:
- Acacia Farm Lodge.
- Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.
DAY 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Arusha
(191km – 3 to 4 hours)
- Rise early for breakfast followed by an extended game drive on the crater floor.
- This amphitheatre of nature will present you with viewing opportunities for some of the most wondorous creatures on the continent, including: Hippos, Buffalo, Elephants, Rhinos, Wildebeest and many more animals.
- Your game drive inside the crater will last six hours and your expert guide will be able to help you understand the animals you’re looking at as well as the landscape that they live in.
- Whilst still inside the crater you will be given a picnic lunch, a magical way to round off your experience of going on safari in Tanzania.
- Once you leave the crater in the early afternoon, it’s time to return to Arusha.
- Once you arrive at Arusha, your driver will take you to your hotel, residence, or to the local airport, depending on what your onward travel plans are.
What's Included
- All transfers
- All accommodations during the tour
- All meals and drinking water during the tour
- Flying Doctors medical, emergency, and rescue cover
- All game drives as noted in the itinerary
- Transport in a private 4 x 4 Safari Land Cruiser
- English speaking tour guides/driver
- All applicable government taxes, levies and entry fees
- Personalized private service
What's Not Included
- International flights and taxes
- Passports and visa applications and processing
- Travel insurance
- Tips and gratuities for drivers/guides
- Personal laundry
- Alcoholic drinks
- Entrance fee for activities noted as optional