8 Days Lodge Safari

ARUSHA - LAKE MANYARA - SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK -
NGORONGORO CRATER - TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
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Highlights

This unforgettable 8-Days Tanzania Lodge Safari will take you to the Lake Manyara Nationalpark, one among Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, located at the foot of the good Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The dimensions of the park makes it perfect for a one-day game drive and is notably famous for it’s tree-climbing lions. This safari also will take you to the Serengeti Nationalpark, a huge wilderness of 14.500 sq km, where a day brings a replacement landscape and a replacement adventure. It’ll also take you to the world famous Ngorongoro Crater and therefore the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania, featuring one among the very best concentrations of game and arguably the densest population of predators and carnivores in Africa. Here you’ll witness a tremendous spectacle of seven Day Tanzania Safari – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. Finally, your safari also will take you to the Tarangire Nationalpark, which once more features a number of the best concentration of game in Tanzania but less crowded and unspoiled possessing a wild and unkempt beauty.

ITINERARY

Karibu sana Tanzania! Welcome in Tanzania!
You will be picked up from Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to Arusha for your dinner and overnight stay. If time allows, you’ll have time for a walking tour in a coffee plantation or choice to visit Arusha Nationalpark before your 8-Days Tanzania Lodge Safari big adventure starts.
Dinner and overnight at a Hotel in Moshi or Arusha
Pick up from your Hotel and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park for the beginning of your Tanzania Lodge Safari.  We arrive in time and we head into the Lake Manyara National Park for your first game drive. This Nationalpark is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.
Dinner and overnight in Karatu
After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.
Dinner and overnight in a Tented Camp
Be one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at supplementary cost by per-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa.
 
We do an after breakfast game viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, and which is good for possible lion, Thompson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. The visitor’s centre not far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed centre, offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The center also has a shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased, as well as a picnic area and information trail up and around a nearby kopje. We will enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch at the center in the shade of the giant acacia trees.
 
In the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes, which usually attract a number of lion and some formidably large cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops, scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry seasons – including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink! 
Dinner and overnight in a Tented Camp
After breakfast at the lodge we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the’Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution.
We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and spend the afternoon at leisure.
Dinner and overnight in a Lodge at the Crater Rim
After breakfast we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30.000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Nationalpark 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 huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard. We will enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor. In the later afternoon we leave the Crater and head to Karatu for dinner and overnight in a Lodge.
 

After breakfast we depart for the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African National Park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings. After a picnic lunch we do an afternoon game drive.
Dinner and overnight in a Tented Camp inside the park.

We enjoy an early morning game drive in the Tarangire Nationalpark, followed by breakfast at the lodge. We will then transfer back to Arusha. Upon arrival in Arusha will we have lunch and then we will end our African safari adventure. You will be taken to your hotel, which ends our safari services.

PRICE INCLUSION

  • Safari to Tanzania’s northern circuit as per program
  • Hotel/Lodge accommodation for the duration of the Safari
  • 4×4 Safari Jeep Landcruiser with a roof hatch, refrigerator and USB charging port
  • Professional english speaking safari guide (German speaking guide available for extra cost on request) 
  • All Lake Manyara/Serengeti/Ngorongoro Crater/Tarangire National Park fees
  • All meals on the safari
  • All game viewing activities specified
  • Mineral water on board
  • Pick up from airport at arrival date/drop off after safari

PRICE EXCLUSION

  • Laundry
  • Items of personal nature
  • International and domestic flights
  • Airport taxes
  • Entry visas
  • Travel insurance
  • Tips and gratuities

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