Overview

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This 7-day safari includes the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world-famous Serengeti National Park. This famous Africa safari itinerary has been designed for those people 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 Tanzanian northern circuit safari experience, while keeping your non game-viewing travel time to a minimum.

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This 7-day unforgettable safari will take you to the Tarangire National Park, which features some of the huge concentration of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and unspoiled – possessing a wild and unkempt beauty. The 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. Finally, your African safari will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, 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.

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Itinerary

 

Day 1 

 

• Arusha - Tarangire 

 

After breakfast, the tour departs. The first stop is down Town for any last-minute purchases before we head off on safari. Afterwards, we head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with a picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the centre of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras. Dinner and overnight at the public campsite or in the tented lodge depending on your budget.

 

Day 2 

 

• Tarangire - Lake Manyara

 

After breakfast, we head to Lake Manyara National Park. This Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this, the Park can support a large number of animal species and incredible birdlife. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world and it is also renowned for its tree-climbing lion. Dinner and overnight at the public campsite/tented lodge depending on your budget.

 

Day 3

 

• Lake Manyara - Serengeti

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After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful highland lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we head towards the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, gently rising and falling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Then drive to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park featuring the Seronera River, which offers a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park. Dinner and overnight at Seronera public Campsites/tented lodge depending on your budget.

 

Day 4 

 

• 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. Dinner and overnight at Seronera public Campsites/tented lodge depend on your budget.

 

Day 5 

 

• Full day in the Serengeti 

 

Full day in Serengeti National Park game drive including following the wildebeest migration. Dinner and overnight at Seronera public Campsites/tented lodge depending on your budget.

 

Day 6 

 

• Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Crater

 

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

 

• Ngorongoro Crater – 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.

 

 

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$3,925 per person for 2 clients on a Luxury Safari, US$3,165 per person for 2 clients on a Premium Safari and US$2,410 per person for 2 clients on a Camping Safari