All our 9 Days Tanzania Camping Safari is a little is similar to the 7 days camping safari in Tanzania but has an extended day in the Tarangire national park taking you to all the popular national parks in Northern Tanzania as Lake Manyara-Serengeti-Lake Eyasi and Ngorongoro Crater.
Ngorongoro Crater Camping Safari
8 DAY TOUR OVERVIEW.
All our 8 Days Tanzania Camping Safari is a little is similar to the 7 days camping safari in Tanzania but has an extended day in the Tarangire national park taking you to all the popular national parks in Northern Tanzania. Accommodation for this safari also features public camps. In one week and one extra day on it, you will get the chance to visit Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti and Tarangire National park. Early morning game drives and nature walks in the Lake Eyasi will also feature in this safari of eight days in Tanzania.
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 your allocated accommodation as requested for dinner and overnight. 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 Tarangire National Park
Distance: 130 km
Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast from your requested accommodation, you will start your safari to southwest through Maasai steppe land to Tarangire National Park with picnic Lunch boxes.You will spend hours for the day game viewing in Tarangire, viewing some of Tanzania’s largest populations of elephant and enjoying the diverse scenery, including the dramatic baobab trees that are so typical of the park. This park boasts a high concentration of animals, including elephant, zebra, eland, and wildebeest and plenty of predators.
Picnic Lunch will be served at the picnic site where you will have a nice view of Tarangire River overlooking down the valley where most of the animals will be gathering drinking from the river. After Lunch you will proceed with game drives until evening when you will start drive to Karatu for Dinner and Overnight at Kudu Campsite.
Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
Accommodation: Kudu Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
Difficulties: Low
Day 3: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park
Distance: 190 km
Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast from Kudu Campsite you head to Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara National Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this the small Park is able to support a large number of animal species and incredible bird life. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world and the lions here are also renowned for their tree climbing. Dinner and Overnight at Kudu Campsite
Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
Accommodation: Kudu Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
Difficulties: Low
Day 4 : 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-speakingDatoga 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 Allocated accommodation as requested
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: Kudu Campsite-Budge Camping Accommodation
Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
Difficulties: Low
Day 5: Lake Eyasi to Serengeti National Park
Distance: 205 km
Non game-viewing travel time: 6 hours
After breakfast you 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. You 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 at Seronera Public 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 6: Full Day Serengeti Plains Game Drive.
Be one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small villages.
After breakfast You will have full day game drive with lunch at the lodge. You 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 at Seronera Public 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:3+
Difficulties: Low
Day 7: Full Day Serengeti Plains Game Drive.
After breakfast you enjoy a full day game drive with lunch at the lodge, along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, and which is good for possible lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, 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 Seronera Public Campsite.
Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
Accommodation: Serengeti Seronera Public Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
Kids allowed:0+
Difficulties: Low
Day 8: Serengeti Plains to Ngorongoro Crater
Distance: 145 km
Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
After breakfast at the lodge the tour will 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 the’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 9: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha
Distance: 210 km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After an early breakfast to your lodge you will head to Ngorongoro crater. 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 avast 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. Late afternoon transfer to Arusha For dinner and Overnight or airport drop off.
Price including VAT
Items included:
Accommodation Before & During Safari.
Transportation in 4×4 safari vehicle
Professional, English speaking guide
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Mineral water
Overnight Accommodation -Camping.
Airport Transfer
All national park fees
Items not included:
Alcoholic and soft drinks
Visa fees
Tips to Driver/Guide ($20/group/Day)
Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.
Travel insurance
