Eight-Day Tanzania Safari

After breakfast, the tour departs. The first stop is Arusha Town for any last-minute purchases before we head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with a picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the center of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest, and 30,000 zebras.

Accommodation: Campsite

Distance: 130km

Non-game-viewing time : 3 to 4 hours

Distance: 190km

Non – game-viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs

After breakfast, the driver will pick you up and depart to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

In the late afternoon, transfer to the campsite.

Today it’s time to interact with the bushmen, the Hadzabe Tribe, who live in groups hunting with bow and arrows and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits. We will get an in-depth look at how they continue to survive and how they adapt to their harsh environment and the challenges they face to continue this nomadic existence. The Datoga tribe are blacksmiths, a trade developed over centuries and still practiced in very much the same way today. They produce the arrowheads for the Hadzabe and brass trinkets, some of which will be for sale by the maker himself.

Late afternoon transfer to Kudu campsite.

Distance: 190km

Non–game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs

After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is a dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot.

We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Simba campsite.

Distance: 145km

Non – game-viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs

Early morning breakfast and after depart to Serengeti National Park. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Do game drive in Serengeti and overnight at the heart of Serengeti Seronera Kati Kati tented Camp

Full day Serengeti National Park game drive including following the wildebeest migration. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp.

Distance: 300km

Non–game viewing time: 4 – 5 hrs

After an early breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive and then head en route towards north Serengeti. Check out of the park at Klein’s gate then transfer to Lake Natron for an early dinner and overnight. Go for an evening lake Natron walk for sunset if time permits. Dinner and overnight at Lake Natron Giraffe Lodge.

Distance: 250km

Non–game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs

Night ascent & dawn summit bid, Oldoinyo Lengai (seismic conditions permitting). Optional waterfall hike and swim, depending on what time your flight is leaving.

Transfer to Arusha for airport drop-off or overnight. (Accommodation can be included upon request at extra cost )