Encounter the iconic wildlife, including the Big Five and landscapes of Tanzania. Explore Lake Manyara or the Ngorongoro Crater then the vast savannah landscape of the Serengeti where you can witness the migration. The wildlife, guiding, and accommodation are outstanding.
End with two nights on beautiful Zanzibar Island, exploring the warm Indian Ocean waters that surround it and kicking back on the sand.
- Large concentration of predators at Serengeti
- Large elephant populations of Tarangire
Day 1: Start of Safari (Arusha National Park)
Your safari begins when you are picked up from your Hotel in Arusha & depart for Arusha National Park, you will have a picnic lunch and a game drive in the Park. The park is at the base of Mount Meru, which is good for climbing. It has a range of habitats including forest – home to the black-and-white colobus monkey – and is excellent for birding. Several lakes often host flocks of flamingos. The park's appeal is mainly its scenery. The habitat diversity spans from montane (mountain) rainforest to moist savannah to alpine moorland.
Day 2: Search for the tree-climbing lions in Lake Manyara
After an early morning breakfast, get your packed picnic lunch and embark on a safari to Lake Manyara National park. Lush forests of Acacia and Mahogany trees begin to set the mood for what is waiting ahead. During the game drive, watch out for buffaloes, giraffes, impalas, baboons and blue monkeys. The main spectacle of Lake Manyara National park is the tree-climbing lions. In the right season, you can see the shoreline turning pink with millions of flamingos flocking there.
Day 3: Safari on the Serengeti
After breakfast, head to the iconic Tanzania Wilderness, 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 time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.
Day 4: Transfer to Ngorongoro
After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive in Serengeti National Park. Later depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area with a picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world and has fourteen kilometres of isolated natural beauty. Ngorongoro Crater is surrounded by a ring of extinct volcanoes and the floor, dotted with watering holes, shelters some 30,000 animals.
Day 5: Tarangire
After an early breakfast, descend to the crater floor for a game drive(5 hours). You can expect to see lions, elephants, Zebras, Hippos, Flamingos, Jackals, Rhinos Antelopes and many birds. The birds seen here include eagles, vultures, and flamingos in the Crater Lake, storks, bats, giant vultures, sacred ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long-necked heron and the cattle eagle. Post the picnic lunch at the beautiful Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascend to the top exit of the crater. With a 2hr drive left to your accommodation in Karatu, the day will come to a close. Freshly made delicious dinner is kept ready for you at your chosen accommodation. All these days of the safari will have you quite tired and a good rest is essential. The next day you will begin the last leg of your safari.
Day 6: Transfer to Zanzibar by flight
After an early breakfast, you will head out for the morning game drives and later on, you will be dropped off at the airstrip for a flight to Zanzibar.
Day 7: Zanzibar
Set on the island's idyllic eastern coast, Zuri Zanzibar Hotel & Resort blends privacy, relaxation and adventure in equal portions, allowing its guests to do as much or as little as they like. The resort offers scuba diving and snorkelling trips as well as pampering massages, beauty treatments, yoga sessions and a gym. Sunset dhow (traditional sailboat) cruises and fishing trips are available to book at the resort, while the hotel’s Spice Garden is the ideal spot for a stroll. Tours of Stone Town make for an excellent cultural and historical experience, while the short spice tour imparts insight into why Zanzibar is known as Spice Island.
Day 8: End of Safari
After breakfast, you shall check out of the hotel, where you may opt to do shopping at a mall on your way as you are transferred to Zanzibar International Airport to catch your international flight.
What is included in the tour
- Welcome cocktail on arrival at a hotel/lodge
- Exclusive land transport on a customized tourist land cruiser/van
- On board WIFI, fridge, charging point and entertainment stereo where permitted
- Guided game drives in parks
- Park, conservancy and sanctuary entry fees
- One bottle of mineral water per person per day
- Briefings and advisory notes
- Back up tour van/ land cruiser on standby in case of breakdown
- AMREF Evacuation
What is NOT included in the tour
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Balloon safaris; these can be organized as per clients requests
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Tips or Gratitudes; while most bills will include a service charge, clients are free to tip as per their own will
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Laundry, personal toiletries and items of personal nature; for reasons of preference, we shall not provide these, however, all COVID-19 regulations and requirements shall be catered for
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Visas, health certificates; Kwezi Safaris can assist to facilitate this at an extra fee
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Travel/ flying doctors rescue services; we encourage clients to arrange for personal insurance covers. We are more than happy to facilitate these, alongside flight bookings at an extra cost
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Optional activities, sundowners, cultural dances and art crafts, guided nature walks in camps/lodges; we are more than happy to put together value packages for clients wishing to experience cultural products or mingle with local community.
