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A weeklong itinerary covering the most popular wildlife areas in Tanzania, including Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire.
This safari combines four of Tanzania’s national parks and game reserves and includes: Lake Manyara - a birding paradise (with more than 380 species), especially for waterfowl and migrants, and the forests are one of the best places to see leopards. Lions hunt on the grassy shores of the lake, and are known for their habit of climbing trees. We visit Serengeti National Park - famous for its vast migratory herds of plains animals, particularly wildebeest, zebra, eland and kudu and Ngorongoro Crater Conservancy - providing protection and a natural enclosure for animals in an environment of great natural beauty. Then there is also Tarangire National Park - far from being the biggest of the Tanzanian parks, but unrivalled in its landscape of open plains, dotted with thousands of baobabs.
Duration: 7 day/s
Type: Safari - Standard
Country: Tanzania
Activities include: Bird Watching, Wildlife Viewing
Simba Safari
Itinerary
DAY 1: Lake Manyara
Leave in the afternoon for Lake Manyara. You will spend the night at Lake Manyara Hotel on a full board basis. This is one of the most diverse of Tanzania’s national parks, a tiny (325km˛) combination of Rift Valley lake, dense woodlands and steep mountainside. Made famous by elephant researcher, Dr Ian Douglas Hamilton in his book, "Among the Elephants", Manyara was established specifically to protect the elephant herds that have made the area world-renowned. Manyara is also 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, although this behaviour seems to have been dropped in recent years. The Kirurumu Tented Lodge at Lake Manyara has been nominated for an award for its efforts as a conservation project involving the local community.
Location: Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
DAY 2 - 3: Serengeti National Park
Enjoy a morning game drive at Lake Manyara National Park before transferring to the Serengeti for two days of game drives on a full board basis, staying at the Sopa Lodge. This is the park of legends and dreams. Officially, the park is 14 763km˛, but there are no fences and the actual range stretches way past the borders, into Kenya’s Masai Mara, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Game Reserve in the south-west, the Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas in the west and the Western Corridor, stretching almost to the shores of Lake Victoria. Simply put, at the right time of year, the Serengeti is Africa’s most spectacular wildlife experience. Anyone who has ever been there at the height of the migration will never forget it: day and night, it is an endless cacophony of grunting wildebeest, barking zebra, and the squeals of baby wildebeest being born and being hunted down by the ever-present predators.
Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
DAY 4 - 5: Ngorongoro Crater
Drive via Olduvai Gorge to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservancy, where you spend two nights at the Sopa Lodge on a full board basis, including a full day tour of the crater. This is quite possibly the most famous of all Africa’s conservation areas, and is worth visiting at least once in a lifetime. It is the largest intact volcanic caldera in the world, and some scientists maintain that before it erupted, it stood higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa. Covering a mere 260km˛, the 600m deep crater is home to a 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. Unique to the crater is that the local Maasai graze their cattle on the floor, and it is not unusual to see Maasai cattle and buffalo grazing together, with a lion kill just a few hundred metres away.
Location: Ngorongoro Crater Conservancy, Tanzania
DAY 6: Tarangire National Park
Drive to Tarangire, arriving in time for an afternoon game drive. You will spend the night at the Sopa Lodge on a full board basis. At 2 600km˛, Tarangire is far from being the biggest of the Tanzanian parks, but its unrivalled landscape of open plains, dotted with thousands of baobabs, is unforgettable. Tarangire rivals the Serengeti for the size of the game herds that congregate here at peak season (June to November). This is when many of the animals crowd around the only source of permanent water in the park, the Tarangire river. This is also the best place in Tanzania to see really big herds of elephant - up to 300 at a time. The park is also home to a rich diversity of birdlife.
Location: Tarangire National Park, Tanzania
DAY 7: Day of Departure
Drive back to Arusha, arriving in the late morning.
Location: Arusha, Tanzania |
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