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A Tanzania safari circuit to Ngorongoro Crater, The Serengeti, Lake
Manyara, Tarangire National Park ,Olduvai Gorge, Arusha and Mt Kilimanjaro
National park in Nortrhern Tanzania
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3
DAYS-LAKE MANYARA-NGORONGORO-TARANGIRE TANZANIA SAFARI
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 DAY 1: Board
shuttle bus at 08:00 hrs to the border town of Namanga where you
will clear customs and immigration formalities. Proceed into Tanzania
to Arusha town. On arrival you will be dropped at your hotel for
overnight.
DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA.
Depart
from Arusha at 09:30hrs for Lake Manyara arriving in good time for
lunch. After Lunch explore Lake Manyara National Park which covers
an area of only 318 sq km its terrain is so diverse that its mammal
and bird lists are most impressive. The park includes much of Lake
Manyara, some 60 km (38 miles) long as well as the Rift Valley escarpment.
The park is well known for its tree climbing lions which can be
found lazing on branches of the acacia trees. In addition there
are good numbers of elephants, big herd of buffalo and plenty of
leopard. The lake is a favorite place for pink flamingos and wading
birds in general. This area is home to the Masai people whom you
will see as you pass through the villages. Dinner and overnight
at the lodge.
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3: NGORONGORO
After
early breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro crater with game drive enroute;
where you descend 2000ft for a fascinating game drive on the crater
floor. In a landscape reminiscent of the volcanic upheavals of the
Rift Valley, the world's largest unbroken, un flooded volcanic caldera
(collapsed cone of a volcano) covers 300 sq km In this restricted
space, exceptional climatic conditions have favoured an explosion
of animal life. Some 20,000 great mammals are permanently in residence,
as there are permanent water springs here there is no need to migrate.
Picnic lunch will be served. Enjoy game viewing at the crater until
late in the afternoon when you ascend back to the camp/lodge for
dinner and overnight.
DAY
4: TARANGIRE
After
breakfast depart Ngorongoro for a half-day game drive in the Tarangire
National Park. Many of the animals congregate around the only source of permanent water in
the park, the Tarangire River. This is the best place in Tanzania
to see really big herds of elephants of up to 300 at a time on safari.
After
lunch drive back to Arusha. On your arrival you will be dropped
at your hotel for overnight.
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TANZANIA SAFARI FI5 DAYS
LAKE MANYARA / SERENGETI / NGORONGORO CRATER
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DAY
1: Board shuttle bus at
0800 hrs to the border town of Namanga where you will clear customs
and immigration formalities. Proceed in Tanzania to Arusha. On arrival
you will be dropped at your hotel for overnight.
DAY
2: LAKE MANYARA
 After
breakfast depart for Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game
drive with picnic lunch. Manyara is a birding paradise (more than
380 species), especially for waterfowl and migrants, and the forests
are one of the best places around to see leopards. Lions hunt on
the grassy shores of the lake, and were once known for their habit
of climbing trees. Overnight at the Camp site or Lodge
DAY
3: MANYARA/ SERENGETI
After breakfast,
leave Lake Manyara National Park and proceed to Serengeti National
Park via Olduvai Gorge. Olduvai Gorge, revered by anthropologists
worldwide since 1959, when Mary Leakey discovered an early human
skull reputed to be 1.7 million years old. Continue to Tanzania’s
most famous game park, Serengeti National Park. On the seemingly
endless and almost treeless plains are literally millions of hoofed
animals, constantly on the move in search of grassland. Picnic
lunch is served. Take a game drive in the evening towards the Camp
site or Lodge for dinner and overnight.
DAY
4:SERENGETI
After
breakfast, Morning games drive. Enjoy the endless plains of Serengeti
with game viewing, encountering one of the most incredible sights
you will ever see. An unending stream of wildebeest pour across
the plains, while a parade of hungry Predators lion, leopard and
cheetah anxiously try to prey upon the youngest or weakest members
of the herd. Picnic Lunch is served, afternoon game drive. Dinner
and overnight at the Campsite / Lodge.
DAY
5: SERENGETI / NGORONGORO
After
breakfast, game drive enroute towards Ngorongoro Crater with parked
lunch. Continue on to Ngorongoro Crater, one of Africa’s
best-known wildlife-viewing areas, and one of the largest crater
basins in the world. Descend by to the crater’s grassland floor,
2,000 feet below the forested rim. Here, experience spectacular
game runs and view animals such as lion, elephant, wildebeest, Thomson’s
gazelle, rhino and thousands of flamingoes wading in Lake Magadi.
the soda lake at the crater’s base. Game viewing until
late in the afternoon when you ascend back to the camp/lodge at
the Crater Rim for dinner and overnight.
DAY
6: NGORONGORO
After
breakfast, descend once again to the Crater floor for morning game
drive to the crater floor with picnic lunches. This most spectacular of the African
game reserve contains one of the largest concentrations of wildlife
in Tanzania with over 35,000 animals living within the crater, including
wildebeest, elephants, lion,
dik dik and war-hog; whilst on the lake side there are pelicans,
ibis and flamingoes. Spend the afternoon at the Crater, in the evening
drive back to Arusha.
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6
DAYS LAKE MANYARA / NGORONGORO / SERENGETI
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DAY 1: Board shuttle
bus at 0800 hrs to the border town of Namanga where you will clear
customs and immigration formalities. Proceed in Tanzania to Arusha.
On arrival you will be dropped at your hotel for overnight.
DAY
2: LAKE MANYARA
After
breakfast, leave for Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game
drive with picnic lunch. Lake Manyara a birdwatcher’s paradise.
Marvel at the variety of species, spoonbill, teal, pelican, kingfisher,
hornbill and cormorant. In the tall trees, forest monkeys leap from
branch to branch on the slope of the Great Rift escarpment, elephants
stand in the shade of the baobab; and in the acacia woodland, lions
lie draped along the branches of the umbrella trees Dinner and overnight
at Camp Site / Lodge.
DAY 3:LAKE MANYARA /SERENGETI
After
breakfast leave Lake Manyara National Park and proceed to Serengeti
National Park via Olduvai George with picnic lunch, arriving in
the afternoon. Take a game drive to this park with immense herds
of herbivore, wildebeests, gazelles and Zebras followed by predators
on their annual migration to permanent water holes, offering a timeless
spectacle unequalled in the world. Dinner and overnight campsite
/ Lodge.
 DAY 4: FULL DAY SERENGETI
Morning
games drive after breakfast. Enjoy the endless plains of Serengeti
with game viewing, A magnificent experience awaits as you travel
to the most famous wildlife park in Africa the legendary Serengeti.
Here you might have the chance to see “the migration,”
where thousands of zebra and wildebeest make the trip from the Masai
Mara every year. Packed lunch is served and proceed for an afternoon
game drive. Dinner and overnight at the Camp Site / Lodge.
DAY 5: SERENGETI / NGORONGORO
After
breakfast, game drive enroute towards Ngorongoro Crater with packed
lunch. On arrival, descend down to the crater one of the largest
intact volcanic Caldera in the world, the crater floor offers game
viewing to homely permanent population of more than 30 000 animals,
and is one of the only places in Africa where you stand a very good
chance of seeing the “big five” (lion, leopard, buffalo,
rhino and elephant) in the course of a morning or evening’s
game drive. Dinner and Overnight at the crater ream Camp Site /
Lodge.
DAY 6: FULL DAY NGORONGORO
Descend
once again down to the Ngorongoro Crater, one of the wonders of
the natural world. An extinct volcano that collapsed around 25
million years ago thus forming a vast super bowl where the largest
permanent concentration of African game is on display. The views
from the top of the crater wall are absolutely breathtaking which
are forested but four wheel drive vehicles will take you down into
this primeval paradise of woodland, lake, river, swamp and plain
that shelters around 20,000 animals. Large grazing animals such
as wildebeest, buffalo, gazelle and zebra that depends on the open
grasslands in the crater. Attracting predators, the black-maned
lion, the leopard and hyena. The elephant found are the lone males.
The Fever Tree forests shelter monkeys, bushbuck and waterbuck and
the few black rhino that have taken refuge here. A soda lake attracts
water birds, including flamingoes and is a favourite place for predators
to make their kill. Wildly beautiful as it is, it is not surprising
that Ngorongoro Crater has been called a Garden of Eden.
The game drives are done with packed lunch.. Dinner and overnight
at the Camp Site / Lodge.
DAY 7: NGORONGORO/TARANGIRE
After
breakfast, game drive enroute for Tarangire National Park.
In the afternoon you'll be taken on a game drive through the park.
Many of the animals congregate around the only source of permanent
water in the park, the Tarangire River. This is the best place in
Tanzania to see really big herds of elephants of up to 300 at a
time on safari. After the safari drive back to Arusha where you
will be dropped at your hotel for overnight.
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