Tanzania Safari One Week

7 days

Duration

Tanzania Safari One Week – is an incredible week of Big Game wildlife safari in Tanzania that includes the best national parks and game areas in Northern Tanzania Safari Circuit. The wildlife safari not only includes a visit to the vast Serengeti National Park where you will spend 3 nights, but you also get to visit Tarangire National Park the land of the elephants and baobabs as well as the awe inspiring Ngorongoro Crater.

This package starts with arrival into Kilimanjaro International Airport with both your arrival and departure airport transfers to Arusha town included. The accommodation on the arrival day before the safari is included in a nice lodge around Arusha town, booked on Half board which means your dinner is included. If you have plans to arrive late in the night and do not need the dinner or if planning to eat out , you can let us know and we shall exclude dinner in your price. This can mean a decrease of USD 10 to 20 on your package price depending on the lodge you are staying in.

7 days Tanzania lodge safari, where to visit?

This 7 days Tanzania lodge safari is very flexible and can be customized in anyway in order to suit your needs and ideas. We can include standard luxury lodges or tented camps for the same package.

Depending on your travel period (season), and preference we can customize the same tour to include other parks like Arusha National Park or Lake Manyara National Park in order to come up with a suitable Tanzania Safari One week Package.

Additional information

Destination	Tanzania
Location	Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park
Dates	Year-round

07 days Tanzania Safari Itinerary

Day 1

Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park

Pick up from your hotel in Arusha around 08.00 Hrs and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park approximately 2 hours’ drive from Arusha town. Lake Manyara National park is located at the floor of the Great Rift Valley and the park is measures 330 Km Sq of which 220 Km Sq is the water body and 110 Km Sq is the land.

Lake Manyara National Park is usually famous for its legendary tree climbing lions, but it is a park that is rich with wildlife and birdlife alike. You expect to spot a lot of elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes, warthogs, antelope species, and at the lake you expect to see the hippos, and many aquatic birds including gees and the colorful flamingos. You will be visiting with packed lunch which will be served at one of the picnic sites inside Lake Manyara National Park. Later in the afternoon you will be transferred to your lodge at Karatu for dinner and overnight. Accommodation is at Marera Valley Lodge or Country Lodge or similar. Lunch and dinner included.

Day 2

Lake Manyara/Karatu to Serengeti National Park

After an early morning breakfast you are off to Serengeti National Park. Driving through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will enter the Serengeti via the Naabi Hill gate and go ahead with game viewing en route to the lodge or tented camp. If you are interested; you will have a brief stop at The Olduvai Gorge to witness the excavations of the Leakey’s family who discovered some human fossils of the Australopithecus Boisei, a discovery that led to the belief that indeed first man dwelt in Africa. Your overnight will be at Tukaone Serengeti Camp or similar camp in Central Serengeti. All meals included.

Camps at Northern Serengeti (near Mara River) can be included for wildebeests migration safari but at a different cost.

Day 3&4

Two more days at Serengeti National Park

These days are spent at the Serengeti plains doing game drives. Here you have the choice to do the early morning game drives if you so wish. This will give you the chance to see nocturnal species retire from a night out as well as the diurnal majority waking up for a new day. The Serengeti National Park is famous for the wildebeests herds and the guide will advise on which areas to explore depending on the time that you will be visiting and the location of the herds. Apart from the wildebeests Serengeti is home for many wild animals and birds. You expect to see many topis, gazelles, zebras, hartebeests, buffaloes, elephants, leopards and cheetahs. Serengeti is also home to recorded 500 birds species so a birders haven as well. 02 FB overnight at at Tukaone Serengeti Camp. All meals included.

Day 5

Serengeti – Ngorongoro

After breakfast we drive back via the Naabi Hill gate to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. On arrival we will descend 600 mts down the Crater wall to the floor of the World’s greatest unbroken Caldera for a wonderful day of game drives. The Ngorongoro Crater is world renowned for the highest concentration of animals and it is here where you get the greatest chance of spotting the Big five in one day. A world biosphere reserve the Crater was declared a world heritage site by the United Nations body UNESCO. Among other animals you will see lions, cheetahs, zebras, warthogs, silver back jackals etc. Later in the afternoon before dark we drive to the Crater rim to check in at Rhino Lodge inside the NCAA or Country Lodge or Marera Valley Lodge at Karatu nearby. All meals included.

Day 6

Ngorongoro - Tarangire National Park

The proceeds starts with a drive to the fifth largest national park in Tanzania which is Tarangire National Park. With a lunch box carried from Arusha you will have that chance to do game drives the whole day. This day will be spent on the savannah plains in search of wild animals including zebras, elands, impalas, gazelles, and the rare species of Kudus. Large herds of elephants are also one of Tarangire highlights as well as the large baobab trees. Later in the afternoon, you will drive to Karatu where you will check in at a lodge for dinner and overnight. Overnight will be at the Lake Burunge Tented Lodge or similar. All meals included.

Day 7

Tarangire - Back to Arusha

Breakfast at your camp / lodge in Tarangire then you will head out to the plains in the Tarangire National Park for one last game drive ( if you wish – time allowing). You will then be transferred to Arusha town where the safari ends. You will be dropped at your hotel or you can be dropped at the Arusha Domestic Airport in case you are doing a combined Tanzania Safari with Zanzibar beach extension.

Depending on your schedule we can also arrange your departure transfer to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for for your international flight back home.