8 Days Tanzania Wildlife Safari

Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, you will meet with our Driver guide who will take you to a hotel in Arusha for dinner and overnight stay. Equipped with a wealth of knowledge, our experts will be able to answer any questions you have and provide you with all the information necessary for an unforgettable safari experience.

After breakfast, you will proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. The park has a lovely environment; entering its main gate you pass through a lush evergreen forest and acacia woodland offering an opportunity to watch impressive tusked elephants and big families of baboons. Around the lake there is a grassy floodplain dotted with large herds of buffalo, zebras, wildebeest and giraffes.

Lake Manyara is also one of the finest parks for bird-lovers - more than 380 species have been recorded - including pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks. Abundant hippos bathe in the waters. The forest is a good home for leopard, whilst Manyara's lions are famous for their tree-climbing behavior (though not easy to be seen).

Break for lunch in a picnic site. In the afternoon we will drive out of the park to meet with our local guide for either of the below activities at an attracts extra cost;
• Cycling to Manyara lakeshore.
• Canoeing to Manyara lakeshore.
• Mto wa Mbu Village Nature Walk.

By late afternoon you will drive towards your accommodations in Karatu town for dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.

After breakfast, we continue to our exciting destination The Great Serengeti. In the Maasai language, "serenget" means "endless plain".

We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, which attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive exploring the wildlife of Serengeti. You will see Large prides of lions laze in the long grasses; plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trumpet to each other across the plains, while giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland and the whole range of African wildlife present themselves in awe-inspiring numbers.

At sunset we will proceed to our tented camp in the heart of this famous Seronera Valley. Arrival for dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.

Early Breakfast then you will meet with your driver and board on a specialized vehicle with permit to drive at night. The Balloon Safari adventure starts early morning at about 5h00 am when you depart your lodge. It is still dark and you may be fortunate to see nocturnal animals on the way to the Launching site. When you arrive, you will meet your pilot and witness your balloon being inflated and prepared for launch. After a thorough safety briefing and demonstration of boarding and landing position you board your balloon and lift off! Rising as the sun rises your balloon floats in whatever direction the winds of the day are heading over this wonderful area. Your pilot will use varying altitudes and layers of air to navigate the balloon over this amazing area spotting the wild animals and enjoying the view around. We aim to fly for about an hour, depending on conditions. After landing, you celebrate in the traditional way with a champagne toast before heading off to a special breakfast in the bush under an acacia tree.

After your bush breakfast, your safari driver guide will pick you from your breakfast site to proceed with game drive in various areas of the park. The Serengeti eco-system is home to the "big five" (lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, rhinoceros). The other main species include giraffe, zebra, antelope, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle, hippopotamus, crocodiles and in season the spectacular migration of the wildebeest. Everywhere there are animals, vervet monkeys, olive baboons and a great variety of birds—with a total of 505 species being documented so far. But look closely and you will thrill to the huge jungle cats—lion, leopard and cheetah—just watching the world go by. And go by it does. Animals in the trees, on the wing, camouflaged in the bush, in rivers and in stream. The adventure of a lifetime!

You will have a break for picnic lunch. Before sunset, you will return back to your camp for dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.

Morning breakfast then, you will have a half day game drive before leave Serengeti enroute to Ngorongoro Conservations Area while spotting the wildlife along the way.

By late afternoon, you will arrive at your camp inside the Ngorongoro conservation area for dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.

Between 0630hrs to 0730hrs you will be descending down the crater floor for game drive. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is home to the “big 5” game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino).

The crater and surrounding highlands are one of Africa's most beautiful regions, with volcanic craters forming stunning backdrops to some of the richest grazing grounds in Africa. You will be searching for an extraordinary variety of wildlife: elephant, lion, leopard, hyena, zebra, wildebeest, Thomson's gazelle, reedbuck, and buffalo. The lovely crested crane (similar to a peacock) can be found in great profusion here and maybe you'll spot a bat-eared fox. The balance of predator and prey in this extraordinary ecosystem is so precise that animals seldom leave.

Lunch will be served at a picnic site inside the crater. In the afternoon we drive to Manyara for dinner and overnight stay.

At sunrise we drive to Lake Eyasi visiting local tribes. We will meet with our local guide to search for the bushmen. Our guide is very experienced and will interpret what we will get to see.

First, we will visit the Hadzabe tribe. The Hadzabe subsist entirely off the bush and by bow hunting. Everything they use is made from local materials, including their bows which are strung with giraffe tendon and their arrows which are coated in lethal poison. Their language resembles that of Kalahari Bushmen tribe (who were featured in the 1980 film ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’) with clicking noises used. We will witness how the Hadzabe get ready for hunting for their daily meal and watch them preparing arrows using poison. Then we will take off all together for a hunt. They will also show us around where they live - they use caves as a home. We will see how they make fire, where they collect honey and teach us how they cure diseases preparing medicines of nature's gifts.

We will have a break for early lunch and rest out on the bush under the shade of a tree.

Then we will visit the Datoga tribe. The Datoga are mostly pastoralists and are used to biological food. They move from place to place to find good pastures for their animals. We will also visit the Datoga Blacksmith. He makes jewelry as well as weapons using a local method to melt iron. We will watch him making weapons - the Datoga use arrows, spears and knives.

After a great day with the tribes, we drive back to Manyara for leisure, dinner and overnight stay.

After early breakfast, you will depart to Tarangire National Park for game drive. Often overshadowed by the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire can be visited all year around though has an immense concentration of game in the peak months of July through to October. With a game viewing area that is roughly ten times the size of nearby Manyara, the park is most famous for its elephant migration, birding and quiet authentic safari atmosphere in a unique surrounding of baobab trees.

We will enjoy a game drive exploring the park. Lunch will be taken in a picnic site before leaving the pack and drive to Arusha / Kilimanjaro Airport for catching your flight back home.