8Days/7Night Adventure Safari & Bird Watching

Safari itinerary

Day1: Arusha-Tarangire National Park

Pick up from Arusha city/Kilimanjaro and drive to Tarangire National Park, the third largest national park in Tanzania. This delightful park, covering an area of 2,600 sq. km was established in 1970, and it is the numerous baobab trees that will initially catch your eye. The Tarangire National Park derives its name from the Tarangire River that rises in the highlands of central Tanzania and winds its way through the game sanctuary. The river lures the herds of plains migrants from the parched surrounding area to its shrunken – but permanent – brackish waters during the dry season. Dinner and overnight at Panorama Safari Campsite. Meals Plan: Lunch & Dinner

Day 2: Full day game drive Tarangire National Park
Breakfast and then go for a game drive where you will spot animals like the wildebeest, elephants, zebras, and hartebeest, giraffes, Impala, Eland, lesser kudu, waterbuck, gazelle rhinos, leopards, giant pythons, Thompson’s gazelle, greater and lesser kudu, cheetah, oryx and generuk, tree climbing lions, birds like Kori bustard, stocking-thighed ostrich, ground hornbills, colourful yellow-collared lovebird, drabber rufous-tailed weaver ,ashy starling ,dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet may be spotted too.  Dinner and overnight at Panorama Safari Campsite. Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 3: Tarangire -Lake Manyara National Park Non game-viewing travel
More than 380 species of birds have been recorded in Manyara and include the hadada ibis, saddle-bill stork, Hottentot teal, plover and African pied wagtail. As you game view through the ground water forest, look for the playful vervet monkeys searching for food at the top of the trees. Dinner and overnight at Panorama Safari Camp. Meals Plan; Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Day 4: Full day game viewing Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast you will go for an early morning game drive where you will spot animals like Leopards, Lions, hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, warthogs, giraffes, baboons, zebras, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelle and hippos and birds like pelicans, cormorants, storks, Flamingos, and cormorants. In the afternoon after lunch you may go cultural tour or you can go canoeing or take a community walk. Dinner and overnight at Panorama Safari Camp. Meals Plan; Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Day 5: Lake Manyara-Serengeti National Park
with a picnic lunch, depart for Serengeti via stopping en route at Olduvai Gorge, the site of Dr.  & Mrs. LSB Leakey’s discovery of Zinjanthropus boisei. Here you will enjoy a short talk from one of the Deputies of Antiquities, who will explain to you what has been done and what continues to happen. The Gorge was discovered accidentally by a German butterfly collector, Professor Kattwinkle, in 1911, but it was not until 1959 that Dr. Mary Leakey unearthed the Zinj skull believed to be 1.8 million years old. After the gorge you will proceed to your private mobile tented camp. Settle into your camp before heading out for an afternoon of game viewing. The short grass plains of the Serengeti combined with an abundant source of food in large herds of zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo, make the Serengeti an ideal place to spot cheetah on the hunt. Dinner and overnight at Seronera Public Camp; Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 6: Full day game viewing Serengeti
Early morning game drive to see also nocturnal animals returning from hunting and lions awaking in the dawn During the game drive you might spot buffalos, elephant, giraffe, eland, topi, kongoni, impala, Zebras, lion, Solitary leopards near Seronera River, cheetahs, hyena, aardwolf, serval cat, Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes, Black Rhinoceros, waterbuck, baboon, African wild dog and kongonis. Apart from the animals you might spot various birds which include the ostrich, bizarre secretary, black eagles, and acacia woodland secretary bird, Kori bustard, crowned crane, marabou stork, martial eagle, and lovebirds. Dinner and overnight at Seronera Public Camp; Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Serengeti-Ngorongoro
Your drive this morning takes you to Olduvai Gorge for a brief visit to one of archaeology’s most historic discoveries. After excavating the site for more than 28 years, Mary and Louis Leakey unearthed one of the world’s most dramatic discoveries: the partial skull of “Nutcracker Man”, dating back 1.75 million years. Their later discovery of Homo habilis (Handy Man) added to the debate of the origins of the first human. Continue to Ngorongoro Crater for the night. Professor B. Grzimek once wrote about Ngorongoro Crater: “It is impossible to give a fair description of the size and beauty of the Crater, for there is nothing with which it can compare.” As you descend to the floor of the crater, you will quickly agree with the Professor .The crater comprises 100 square miles of the Conservation Area and supports more than 25,000 mammals. Grazers like zebras and wildebeest dominate the landscape but giraffes are notably absent as there is insufficient food to support them. Enjoy a full morning game viewing on the crater’s floor. Dinner and overnight at the Simba Public Camp.Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day8: Ngoro Ngoro Crater Tour – Arusha
After breakfast, descend to the Crater floor for game drive. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world and fourteen kilometers of isolated natural beauty. Ngorongoro Crater is surrounded by a ring of extinct volcanoes and the floor, dotted with watering holes, shelters some 30,000 animals. You can expect to see lions, elephants, Zebras, Hippos, Flamingos, Jackals, Rhinos Antelopes and many birds. The birds seen here include eagle, vulture, and flamingos in the Crater Lake, stork, bats, giant vulture, sacred ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long necked heron and the cattle eagle. Picnic lunch will take place at hippo pool. Ascend to the rim and departure for Arusha/Kilimanjaro. Meals Plan; Breakfast, Lunch.

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What included: -

• Pick /drop hotel before and after the trip 
• Park entrance fees into the game reserve,
• Bird Watching
• The services of our knowledgeable English speaking driver/guide,
• Accommodation as per itinerary,
• Activities as per itinerary,
• Drinking water, Safari transport by 4 x 4 (6 seat) with a roof hatch that pop up to enable easy game viewing and photography,
• Group size is 2 participants on private.

Not included in the cost:-

• Soft drinks, alcoholic and other beverages,
• Optional activities not outlined on the itinerary.
• Items of a personal nature e.g. laundry, tips and etc.,
• Airport departure tax, Local/International flights, Visas, Travel/flying doctors rescue services,
• Personal and baggage insurance.