Tours & Safaris Tanzania
8-Day Classic Guided Tour to Serengeti
Overview
This journey will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, which features one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. The tour will further take you to the Serengeti National Park, into the heart of wild Africa, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. You will visit Lake Eyasi, one of Tanzania’s most dramatic areas.
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Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro (JRO), you will meet your driver guide for your transfer to the hotel which will take less than one hour. Stay at leisure at Tulia lodge and Hotel in Arusha, then rest up for the next day’s adventure. After your arrival at the hotel, our representative person will assist you – you will have a short briefing about your safari for the next day and will get to know your safari guide.
Pick up at 7:30 am then drive to Tarangire National Park, with picnic lunch provided. Hhave a game drive the rest of the day. The is the sixth largest national park in Tanzania. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season. The Tarangire Ecosystem is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest and zebras. During the dry season, thousands of animals concentrate in the park from the surrounding wet-season dispersal and calving areas. The park is famous for its high density of elephants and baobab trees. Visitors to the park from June to November (dry season) can expect to see large herds of thousands of zebra, wildebeest, and cape buffalo. Other common resident animals include waterbuck, giraffe, dik-dik, impala, eland, Grant’s gazelle, vervet monkey, banded mongoose, and olive baboon.
After a leisurely breakfast at camp, you sit back on a transfer to the local airstrip – with game viewing on the way – and catch a scheduled flight back to Arusha. The flight time is around four hours so the lodge will provide you with a packed lunch for the journey. The tour ends with your arrival at Arusha.
You have a full day of excursions in the Serengeti today enjoying morning and afternoon game drives from the camp. The northern of the Serengeti, called Seronera, is a network of rivers that ensure dependable water supplies attracting wildlife throughout the year. It is here that you’ll have your best opportunity to spot the “Big Five”: lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino, and the leopard.
There will be no shortage of animal sightings as the presence of permanent mud pools and shade attract giraffes, impalas, warthogs, and hippos. You might also catch a glimpse of cheetahs, hyenas, and jackals.
You have a full day of excursions in the Serengeti today enjoying morning and afternoon game drives from the camp. The north of the Serengeti Mara River today we will have a day game drive along this river of dearth for the migrant animals that come and tray or cross these rivers that ensure dependable water supplies attracting wildlife throughout the year. It is here that you’ll have your best opportunity to spot the “Big Five”: lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino, and the leopard.
There will be no shortage of animal sightings as the presence of permanent mud pools and shade attract giraffes, impalas, warthogs, and hippos. You might also catch a glimpse of cheetahs, hyenas, and jackals.
The Serengeti is famous for its annual migration when some six million hooves pound the open plains. More than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Even when the migration is quiet, Serengeti National park offers arguably the most scintillating game viewing in Africa. The park lies in northwestern Tanzania, bordered to the north by the Kenyan border, where it is continuous with the Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, to the southwest lies Maswa Game Reserve, to the west are the Ikorongo and Grumeti Game Reserves, and to the northeast and east lies the Loliondo Game Control Area. Together, these areas form the larger Serengeti ecosystem.
Today you’ll get up close and personal with one of Unesco’s World Heritage Sites – the Ngorongoro conservation area. This unique multi-use site is one of the only in the world where man, livestock, and wildlife live together in harmony.
Your journey will continue with a visit to the Olduvai Gorge, known as the cradle of mankind. Considered to be one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world, the gorge is where Dr. Leakey discovered the world’s first humans in 1950.
The Crater is famous for Africa’s best game viewing as there is an ever-present abundance of wildlife due to the permanent water supply on the crater floor. You will descend 610 meters into the Crater where your safari truly begins. Spot the endangered black rhino, wildebeest, buffalo, zebra, eland, Grant’s & Thomson’s gazelle & giant tusked elephants plus.
Today you will be transferred to the airport for your flight back home. After breakfast and lunch, you may have time to do some shopping for a souvenir before you take your outbound flight.
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