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Tanzania Family Safari
8 days from $1415 pp
Day 1-Arrive in Tanzania
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport you will be met by a Nordic Travel Professional Driver Guide holding a sign board with your booking name clearly written. After checking that you have all your luggage and belongings he will take you to one of our safari 4 WD Land Cruisers and transfer you to your lodge. This Driver Guide will now be with you for your Safari.
Overnight at Mount Meru Game Lodge (BB) www.intimate-places.com
The park is also noted for its prolific bird life and the occasional sighting of cheetah and the rare African Hunting Dog.
Day 2 – Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
In the dry-season of June - October, Tarangire National Park can surpass the Serengeti in terms of animal concentration as big herds begin to congregate around the permanent water of Tarangire River. It is not uncommon to see herds of 50 + elephant as well as every other mammal species including the rare Kudu and Oryx. The park is also noted for its prolific bird life and the occasional sighting of cheetah and the rare African Hunting Dog. After breakfast we will drive to the camp which is situated just outside the park for an early lunch and go for an afternoon Game Drive returning to the Camp before dusk for dinner.
Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Safari Lodge (FB) www.tarangiresafarilodge.com
Day 3 – Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast we depart for Lake Manyara. En route you have the option to stop in the market town of Mto Wa Mbu and visit a local school for Maasai children, You will have an early lunch at Migunga Forest Camp and spend the afternoon in Lake Manyara National Park. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobob strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds.
Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands, colourful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore.
The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands, colourful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world..
Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge, (FB) www.serenahotels.com
Day 4 – Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast we drive to the Serengeti with picnic lunches via the Ngorongoro Highlands. The Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers. Large prides of lions laze easily in the long grasses, plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trump to each other across the plains, and giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, and the whole range of African wildlife is in awe-inspiring numbers. Hopefully you will see the annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti. More than a million animals make the seasonal journey to fresh pasture to the north, then the south, after the biannual rains. The sound of their thundering hooves, raising massive clouds of thick red dust, has become one of the legends of the Serengeti plains.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge, (FB) www.serenahotels.com
Day 5 – Serengeti National Park
After breakfast we have a full day to explore. Your driver-guide will choose your route based on his extensive knowledge of the park and local conditions but the Serengeti rarely disappoints. We carry our picnic lunches with us so as to make the most of the day, but our trip might include a trail along the banks of the Grumeti River in search of basking lions, tracking cheetah through the Gol Kopjes or hunting leopard along the Seronera River.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge, (FB) www.serenahotels.com
Day 6 – Ngorongoro / Karatu
After breakfast depart to Karatu via Ngorongoro, with a final Serengeti game drive en-route, to Karatu. We stop at Olduvai Gorge to visit the site where Mary and Louis Leakey first discovered the remains of Zinjanthropus Bosei, a distant ancestor of man believed to be 1.8 million years old, Australopithecus Bosei, the ‘Nutcracker Man’, a species that became extinct about 1 million years ago and fossilised footprints that date back 3,6 million years. Pack lunch en route. You will visit Masai Village in Ngorongoro and will arrive at your lodge in late afternoon. A walk can be arranged.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House, (FB) situated in Karatu outside the Crater Area. www.tanganyikawildernesscamps.com
Day 7 – Ngorongoro Crater
A full day in the Ngorongoro Crater, with a picnic lunch, gives us time to explore in detail this fascinating wildlife amphitheatre. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. This unique caldera, formed by a sinking volcano, hosts a unique cross-section of eco-systems, from Soda Lake to savannah and is home to almost every major species of African mammal. Our presence does not threaten the wildlife making for an exhilarating proximity to the game that we rarely encounter elsewhere. We descend down the 2000-ft walls of the Crater, a World Heritage Site and home to nearly 25,000 animals, for a game drive. Here you have a very real chance of spotting the big five: lion, elephant, endangered black rhino, buffalo and leopard plus countless other African mammal species. We return to the lodge just before dusk. .
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House, (FB) situated in Karatu outside the Crater Area. www.tanganyikawildernesscamps.com
Day 8 – Arusha/Departure
An early morning game drive before returning to Arusha for lunch before transfer to Kilimanjaro airport or a beach extension to Zanzibar.
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