7 Days Tanzania Safari - Midrange with Olduvai Gorge and Culture Tour
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Arrival in Tanzania
You will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Arusha town; you will meet your guide who will brief you on your upcoming safari. All the basic information about your safari will be given to you by safari guide.
Hotel check in starts at 12:00pm.
Overnight at SG Premium Resort
Note: No meals included
Arusha – Lake Manyara
Pick up from Moshi and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. We arrive in time for lunch time after lunch we head into the Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. 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, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.
Non game-viewing travel time: 3½ hours
Dinner and overnight Marera Valley Lodge
Distance: 220 km
Lake Manyara – Serengeti Plains
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 mid day and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park.
Non game-viewing travel time: 6 hours
Overnight at Embalakai Authentic Camps
Distance: 205 km
Serengeti Plains
The entire day is dedicated to game viewing in the Serengeti National Park. The areas that you visit will depend upon where the migrating herds are. Predators usually follow closely behind the trekking animals and include lions, leopards (in the acacia trees) and cheetahs. During the short rainy season in November and December the herds move from the hills in the north to the plains in the south. During the longer rainy season from April to June they return up north. As the migration is completely dependent on the yearly rainfalls, the location of the herds may vary from one year to another although, your guide will know where to locate the animals and where to see them best.
Breakfast, Lunch Included
Overnight at Embalakai Tented Camp
Central Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation
After breakfast at the lodge do 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 will have lunch at olduvai George and after we will head to the lodge
Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
Overnight at Marera valley lodge
Distance: 145 km
Ngorongoro crater
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 National Park 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.
Dinner and overnight at Bouganvillea Lodge
Tarangire National Park
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.
Non game-viewing travel time: 3½ hours
Overnight at Bouganvillea lodge
Distance: 155 km
Cultural tour at Mto wa Mbu – Arusha/Moshi
After breakfast you will experience cultures from around Tanzania, the little town of Mto Wa Mbu lies at the entrance to Lake Manyara National Park. A local agricultural community, the town is famous for its crops of rice and the distinctive red bananas that Tanzania is known for. A half-day tour of the town in the company of a local guide gives travellers the opportunity to interact with artisans, craftsmen , painters as well as local famers .A sampling of the local banana beer adds a unique taste of local flavour.
This cross-cultural melting pot is home to approximately 120 tribes. A bustling, thriving village, it is fascinating to hear the colourful blend of languages and witness first-hand the unique customs. Cultural diversity is seen in the various entrepreneurial ways including a farmer from Kigoma producing palm oil from palm trees that is purchased from the shores of Lake Tanganyika, and the Rangi creating colourful, beautiful mats and baskets using papyrus from the lakes and rivers after lunch we will head to Moshi to your hotel which will end our African safari.
Non game-viewing travel time: 2 hours
Overnight at Panama Garden Resort
Distance: 120 km
Departure Tanzania
Rest in the hotel and transfer to the airport.
Hotels check out is 11:00am. In case you need a late check-out because of an evening flight, you have the option to extend your hotel stay till 6:00 PM for an extra fee
| 7 DAYS MID RANGE LODGE & TENTED SAFARI PRICES: | |
|---|---|
| Group Size | Price per person |
| 1 person | 4,150.USD |
| 2 people | 3,300.USD |
| 3 people | 2,800.USD |
| 4 people | 2,400.USD |
| 5 people | 2,300.USD |
| 6 people | 2,235.USD |
*Prices quoted above are based on maximum 6 people on vehicle.
INCLUDED
- Transfers to & from Airport
- 2 night Hotel accommodation in Arusha/Moshi
- Extended 4 x 4 luxury safari jeep with pop up roof for game viewing with full air condition.
- Professional and best experienced guides who have different language speaking abilities such as English, French and Spanish
- Entrance fees to all national parks.
- Accommodation at standard booked during the safari at full board
- Camping fees at all national park.
- Ngorongoro Crater fees
- 18% VAT to our entrance fees.
- Government taxes, VAT and service charges relating to accommodation and included meals.
NOT INCLUDED
- Tanzania Visa fees.
- Personal Expenses (e.g. laundry, telephone, beverages, etc.)
- Optional Tours (balloon rides USD. 590 per person), should be booked in advance in Serengeti.
- Tips and gratuities to your safari guide.
- Driver guide: $20-$40/vehicle (recommended)
