Our 8-day Tanzania wildlife safaris and Culture tour will include the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world famous Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. This specific Tanzania safari will take you to Lake Manyara National Park-Lake Eyas -Serengeti National Park and Finlay to Ngorongoro Crater.
Lake Manyara National Park-Lion
8 Day Tour Overview:
Our 8-day Tanzania wildlife safaris and Culture tour will include the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world famous Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. This specific Tanzania safari will take you to Lake Manyara National Park-Lake Eyas -Serengeti National Park and Finlay to Ngorongoro Crater before ending of your Tanzania safari.You will spent time with Datoga and Hadzabe tribes where you will lean their culture and their activities.
Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha
Distance: 43 km
On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport our teams will great and pick you and transfer to Arusha city to White House Campsite. You will get chance for briefing and introduction about your safari.
* Hours:43 Minutes
* Meals: Dinner and Overnight.
* Accommodation: White House Campsite-Budget Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 2: Arusha to Lake Manyara
Distance: 130 km
Non game-viewing travel time: 2½ hours
After breakfast to your hotel the tour will depart to Lake Manyara. This national park 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 (rare), as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Dinner and overnight at Fanaca Campsite.
* Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
* Accommodation: Fanaca Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 3: Lake Manyara to Lake Eyasi.
Distance: 110 km
Non – game viewing time: 2 -3 hrs
Walking Tour
After breakfast you will heard to Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This less visited lake lies at the base of the Eyasi escarpment on the western rift valley wall. This afternoon you will be introduced to the extraordinary people who belong to an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer Bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more. Some wildlife and a wide range of bird species can be viewed during walks around the lake, which can be arranged. Dinner and Overnight at Fanaca Campsite.
Activities during Lake Eyasi
Hadzabe & Datoga Tribes Culture Learning
Hunting with Hadzabe (optional) and prepared their foods
How they produce fire by local methods.
Walking around the Lake shore (Birds Tour)
* Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
* Accommodation: Fanaca Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 4: Lake Eyasi to Serengeti National Park.
Distance: 145 km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, the tour will depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, you 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. Then heard 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. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park. Dinner and overnight at Allocated accommodation as requested
* Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
* Accommodation:Serengeti Seronera Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 5: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park.
Full game drive at Northern Serengeti to Mara River in northern Serengeti affords the most dramatic river crossings. Fierce and deep, cliff-sided and rain-swollen, the river takes an enormous toll of the exhausted and terrified wild cattle that surge through its torrential flow, some drowning helplessly, foundering in narrow defiles, floundering in mud, falling victim to crocodile, staggering, exhausted to dry land and often, in confusion, returning to the same scene of their ordeal allowing the cycle to repeat itself. Dinner and Overnight at allocated accommodation as requested
* Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
* Accommodation: Serengeti Seronera Campsite - Budge Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 6: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park.
Full day game drive in Serengeti 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, Thomson gazelle, topic, ostrich and cheetah sightings. The visitor’s center not far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed center, 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. You will enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch at the center in the shade of the giant acacia trees. Dinner and Overnight at Serengeti Seronera Campsite.
* Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
* Accommodation: Serengeti Seronera Campsite - Budge Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 7: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.
Distance: 145 km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
Early in the morning game drive and after depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. You 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 ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution . Dinner and Overnight at allocated accommodation as requested
* Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
* Accommodation: Ngorongoro Simba Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
* Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
* Kids allowed:0+
* Difficulties: Low
Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.
Distance: 210 km
Non – game viewing time: 3-4 hrs
After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area 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 it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Later drive back to Arusha for Dinner and Overnight or Airport drop off.
Price including VAT
Items included:
* Accommodation Before & After Safari
* Transportation in 4×4 safari vehicle
* Professional, English speaking guide
* Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
* Mineral water
* Overnight Accommodation as requested.
* Airport Transfer
* All national park fees
Items not included:
* Alcoholic and soft drinks
* Visa fees
* Tips $20 per/day/group
* Personal spending monies for souvenirs
* Travel insurance
