Wildlife Camping Safari
12 Days; 11 Nights

Day 1: Arrival into Kilimanjaro International Airport.

The day you take your flight from your country to destination country of your safari, your arrival might be at night or day depending on the airline you bought your flight ticket coming to Tanzania but we will be there waiting to pick you up at Kilimanjaro International Airport, the nearby landing of northern safari circuit. Arrive at Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Airport and transfer to peaceful hotels or lodges, the oasis within Arusha set up for beautiful landscaped coffee and tea plantations. Arusha is a pure tranquility with spectacular views of Mount Meru. Your guide is waiting for you outside the open door at the airport with a sign of your name or group name arriving or with a company sign. The driver will take you to Arusha or a place reserved for you, dinner and overnight Arusha town or place of your reservation.

 

Day 2: Tarangire National Park.

After breakfast our driver will pick you up at the hotel to drive you to Tarangire and you will enjoy a game drive in the Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park has the largest elephant population in Tanzania and the second largest elephant population in Africa. It is a real game in Tanzania’s northern safari circuit. Here you may see herds of up to 300 elephants roaming between huge Baobab trees, acacia and good news from Tarangire; they have one of the highest elephant population growth rates and the lowest poaching rates in Africa. You may also see wildebeest, zebra, giraffe, buffalo, Thompson's gazelle, kudu, eland, leopard and cheetah. After the game you enjoy a picnic lunch in the park. In the late afternoon, you then head towards Karatu town, via the beautiful high lying acacia and baobab trees on the way. Dinner and overnight at the lodge in Karatu. 

 

Day 3 & 4: Karatu to Central Serengeti National park Plains.

After breakfast in the early morning we depart from the Hotel to the Serengeti National park. On the way you will visit Oldupai Gorge thus we make our way to the Central Serengeti Plains with a stop for a culturally-enriching tour of the museum at Olduvai Gorge. The gorge is the site of years of tireless research into the anthropology of early man by the famous Leakey family and prominent universities. The museum is situated on the site of archaeological digs taking place throughout this, and the last, century. The site was made famous by the Leakey’s and some of the amazing hominid finds such as Australopithecus bosei or “Nutcracker Man” (because of his very large teeth and jaws) and Homo habilis (a hominid named for his handy abilities with tools found around the site). We then trek onwards to the Serengeti National Park, game driving and stopping for a picnic along the way. We arrive at our camp in the Seronera area in time for a shower before dinner.

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This legendary savanna derives its name from a Maasai word meaning “endless plains.” You will drive to Serengeti National Park, where a vista of golden grasslands stretching to the horizon under a blue bowl of sky provides an iconic image of East Africa. Our destination is a remote sector of the Serengeti previously off-limits to visitors for two decades during a period of habitat rehabilitation to increase the cheetah population. Surveying open range and kopjes large granite outcrops that dot the plains the camps does offer the fabulous wildlife viewing in diverse habitats, particularly of the abundant feline predators that live and hunt in this area. 

 

Day 5 to 8: Southern Serengeti – Lake Ndutu & Lake Masek.

Depart early morning after breakfast to southern Serengeti with a game drive en route to Ndutu Lake and Masek then witness the early morning mist rise on the banks of Lake Masek. Besides, this area is the principal setting of the Great Migration which takes place from December to March and the Big Five visit the area. The camp is set-up every year in a different part of the area, to make sure that you will always have the best place to see this impressive spectacle from your own tent. During the short rains each year, some 2 million wildebeest trek from Kenya’s Maasai Mara to the southern Serengeti, then back again, in search of new grass. The wildebeest migrate with hundreds of thousands of zebra, whose superior vision and hearing serve as an early-warning system for predators. Gazelle and other antelope accompany the great herds as well. At this time we are in the region during the time when zebra and wildebeest are giving birth and the herds are mostly stationary. The majority of baby wildebeest are born during a single three-week window, after most zebra young have emerged. We'll hope to see infants (though timing on the calf drop is weather-dependent), as well as prey interactions. Predators seek out the most vulnerable members of the herds and you may see a lion seize a sick wildebeest or a cheetah overtaking a newborn that has become separated from its mother. Leopard, hyena and jackal also prey on the migrating herds while vultures hang in the air, waiting to feast on carrion. While the spectacle is at times grim, its primal drama is a wonder to behold. 

 

Day 9: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Conservation area.

After breakfast, we’ll load the vehicle, carry picnic lunch boxes then drive to Ngorongoro conservation area while having the last time to experience the magic of Serengeti endless plains. This wondrous land will leave a lasting memory of your lifetime. Arrive at Ngorongoro conservation area and overnight at the rim of the crater. 

 

Day 10: Ngorongoro crater game drive.

After breakfast, we drive and descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a full day of game viewing. A picnic lunch will be taken on the crater floor, the crater supports up to 25,000 large mammals. Grazers dominate: zebra, wildebeest – accounting for almost half the animals – gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and warthog are also plentiful. Giraffes, for example, stay away because there is insufficient food at tree level; topi (an antelope subspecies) because they compete directly with wildebeest. An odd feature of the crater elephants is that they are almost exclusively bulls. Breeding herds comprising large numbers of females and young with a few attendant older males are probably unable to find enough quality food in the crater. Ngorongoro has carnivores in quantity, drawn by the large herds of prey animals. It has the densest population of large predators, mainly lions, about 60 and more than 400 spotted hyenas, living in eight clans of up to eighty individuals. Both lions and hyenas will scavenge from each other, depending on weight of numbers and of course, hunger. Another big draw to this picturesque conservation area is the dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. Sign out of the conservation area then overnight at Karatu. 

 

Day 11: Lake Manyara National Park.

Early in the morning after breakfast we drive to Lake Manyara National Park. We may do some shopping or stop for lunch before continuing to Lake Manyara. Arrival to the escarpment of the Rift Valley, you will stop at the view point of lake Manyara then drive down to the park. Much of the northern part of the park is fed by underground water from the Ngorongoro Highlands and as a result is covered in dense forest vegetation, giving the appearance of a tropical jungle. This forest is ideal habitat for elephant, bushbuck, blue monkey and huge troops of olive baboon. Some parts are dry bush land attracting zebra, impala and giraffe, while the lakeshore provides another habitat, perfect for flamingos and other shore birds, late afternoon we drive back to Arusha for dinner and overnight. (B, L, D)

 

Day 12: Arusha - Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Sadly the departure day out of Maasai land has arrived. After breakfast at the hotel your guide will take you to discover the beauty of Arusha city from Clock tower (the half way between Cairo Egypt to Johannesburg South Africa) and take walking to Maasai Market, proceed to Arusha Declaration monument and museum, central market to learn different African spices, vegetable and fruits, visit Arusha City bus terminal, then later drive to Cultural Heritage Centre for shopping, then return to your hotel for lunch. A dayroom is held to allow you to relax and check out later in the day. A vehicle is on hand to transfer you to Kilimanjaro International airport to connect with your flight back home.

 

Price includes:

Full board accommodation while on safari

Transportation in a 4×4 customized Land Cruiser complete with a pop-up roof safari vehicle

Domestic flight from Arusha airport to central Serengeti National park  

Professional, English-speaking driver guide

3 Meals a day according to the itinerary

Unlimited drinking water while on Game Drive

Hotel accommodation in Arusha before 

Dayroom on day 10 after safari 

Government taxes and levies

All mentioned activities

All national park fees

 

Price excludes:

Drinks from bar at the lodges/camps

Cost of entry visa and passport

All expenses of a personal nature such as, telephone calls, tips & gratuities, etc.

International and local airport departure taxes

International flight from/to Tanzania

Dinner in Arusha on Arrival before safari 

Travel insurance

Laundry services

Tips for the guides

All optional activities which have not been shown above