Overview
Our 6-day Northern Tanzania safaris, specifically include the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world-famous Serengeti National Park. This itinerary has been designed for visitors with more time on hand for a longer safari. It specifically includes the Tarangire National Park and has been designed to offer you a total northern circuit safari experience, while keeping your non game-viewing travel time to a minimum.
This 6-day unforgettable safari's itinerary will take you to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania's most impressively located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment. The size of the park makes it perfect for a one-day game drive and is notably famous for its tree-climbing lions. These safaris will also take you to the Serengeti National Park, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and fascinating adventure. Your African safari will also take you to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, featuring one of the huge concentrations of game and arguably the densest population of predators and carnivores in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. Finally, your African safari tour will also take you to the Tarangire National Park, which features some of the greatest concentration of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and unspoiled – possessing a wild and unkempt beauty.
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Itinerary
Day 1
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Arrival & Airport Pickup
Pick up from either Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport and transfer to your hotel in Arusha. We offer our clients a free night before and after the safari in Arusha Bed and breakfast and
airport pickup.
Day 2
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Arusha - Tarangire
Pick up at 8:00 am from your Hotel in Arusha and depart for Tarangire National Park, picnic lunch and game drive in Tarangire. Dinner and overnight stay at the Public campsite/tented lodge depending on your budget.
Day 3
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Tarangire - Lake Manyara
After breakfast depart for Lake Manyara National Park for game drive, Picnic lunch and evening game drive till before sunset. Dinner and overnight stay at the public campsite/tented lodge depending on your budget.
Day 4
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Lake Manyara - Serengeti
After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park, en-route game drive, picnic lunch and afternoon a short game drive in Serengeti Park, dinner and overnight at the public campsite/tented lodge depend on your budget.
Day 5
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Full day in the Serengeti
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Relax with a full day in the Serengeti with game drives – home to the Great Wildebeest Migration with its endless plains. Herds of animals such as wildebeests, zebras, and antelopes dominate the park while predators such as lions and cheetahs are to be found amongst the many kopjes (small hills) scattered across the plain. Serengeti's landscape varies from open grass plains in the south, savanna with scattered acacia trees in the centre, hilly, wooded grassland in the north, to extensive woodland and black clay plains to the west. All meals and overnight at the public campsite/tented lodge depending on your budget.
Day 6
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Serengeti - Ngorongoro
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Early morning game drive in Serengeti, brunch and departure for Ngorongoro Crater. We will stop over at Olduvai Gorge, boasting a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. In the late afternoon drive to the public Campsite/tented lodge depending on your budget.
Day 7
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Ngorongoro - Arusha
After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here. Late afternoon transfer to Arusha and drop off at your own hotel arrangement or drop off at the airport for your ongoing flight depend on your plan. (accommodation and airport transfer can be arranged upon request at an extra cost.
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INCLUSIONS
- Park fees
- All activities (unless labelled as optional)
- All accommodation as stated in the itinerary
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (unless labelled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Round-trip airport transfer
- All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water on all days
- Camping Equipment
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EXCLUSIONS
- International flights (from/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (tipping guideline US$20.00 pp per day)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Alcoholic drinks
- Services not mentioned in the program
- Travel insurance, visa fees and medical repatriation
- Items of a personal nature
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Please contact us to develop detailed pricing for your bespoke itinerary. Once your itinerary options are priced locally we can offer you the best value for each element and this will assist you to decide on your final itinerary. We are able to offer the most competitive and transparent pricing in this way.
All quotes and communications are without any obligations.
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For guidance only, example cost for this experience is US$3,475 per person for 2 clients on a Luxury Safari, US$3,250 per person for 2 clients on a Premium Safari and US$2,095 per person for 2 clients on a Camping Safari