15 days Safari Northern Tanzania Safari

Day 1 ARRIVAL
On your arrival you will at the Kilimanjaro International Airport you will be met by our representative and after helping you with the immigration formalities he will transfer you to your hotel around Arusha where you will spend your first night in Tanzania. On arrival you will be helped in the check in procedures and left to relax with you safari starting tomorrow. Overnight at Out post lodge or Mount Meru Game Lodge.

Day 02 Tarangire
At around 8.00 AM After breakfast we depart for Tarangire which is third largest national park in Tanzania and a sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population especially during the month of October when they migrate to this park. There are also extra large baobab trees which are an interesting feature of this national park, dwarfing the animals that feed below them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which is the only permanent water supply in the area ensuring a constant presence of wild animals. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetahs and many more large mammals and small alike.
Overnight at Tarangire safari lodge or Tarangire Sopa Lodge.

Day 03 Arusha – Lake Manyara
Early in the morning at around 8.00 AM you will be picked up from your Hotel and drive across the Masaai Steppe and into the floor of the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara National Park is a beautiful park with lush vegetation and evergreen tropical forests of giant fig trees, Sausage trees and mahogany trees, and it takes its name from the Maasai name for "euphorbia tirucalli", a bush which is used to make a thorny hedge to protect their cattle. Among the animals that are sighted in this park include the baboons. Bushbucks, sitatungas, elephants, giraffe, buffalo, zebra and many other antelopes as well as monkeys. This national park is also a birders have with an abundance of among other species; the flamingos, pelicans, hornbills, weavers many more. If you are lucky enough you will get the rare chance of sighting the legendary tree climbing Lions on the branches of the Acacia trees. Overnight at Popo Safari Lodge, Lake Manyara Hote or Kirurumu Tented Camp.

Day 04 Ngorongoro
After an early breakfast you will drive to the Ngorongoro Crater where you will have a brief stop for registration formalities. There after you will drive on to the rim and descend into the crater for a memorable game drive inside the Ngorongoro Crater often described as ‘The Eighth wonder of the world’ Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact unbroken volcanic caldera and it serves as a natural sanctuary for the densest population of animals in Africa. This is one of the few places where the rare black rhino can be observed in their natural setting. Very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 ft. high walls. Among the mostly spotted animals include prides of lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, many birds and other species. If you are lucky the ‘Big 5’; can be spotted in a single day.
Overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge/ Rhino or wildlife Lodge

Day 05 Serengeti
This day will be on your way to the most famous game park in Tanzania; Serengeti National Park. On your way you will pass via the Olduvai Gorge often reffered to us ‘The Craddle of man kind’ where Dr Louis Leakey and his wife Mary made the world famous archaeological excavations of hominid fossils dating about a million and a half years ago suggesting that ideed the first man lived in Africa. You will be making a brief stop also for your picnic lunch on a kopje in the plains of Serengeti you will continue further into the park and go on a game drive. Apart from the migration of the herds you can expect to see resident herds of wildebeestes, lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, baboons, hippos, rhinos, antelopes and many birds and her species.
Overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge./Seronera wildlife lodge or Ikoma

Day 06 & 07 Serengeti
A typical Serengeti full safari day entails an early morning game drive at dawn where you can get a chance to see also nocturnal predators returning from hunting and animals waking up in early morning light then go back to the lodge for breakfast. After breakfast you will go back for full day of game drives in the plains of Serengeti. On a lucky day you can spot the Big 5. Depending on your preferences you can have picnic lunch on the rock outcroppings commonly referred to as the Kopjes or if it’s your choice: you can go back to the lodge for lunch before going back for further game drives. 2 x Overnights at Serengeti Sopa Lodge, Seronera wildlife lodge or Ikoma

day you go for the last early morning game drive and breakfast you will be transferred to Seronera airstrip in the Serengeti, for your flight to Zanzibar. Transfer to Ocean Paradise Resort, Kendwa Rocks and Kipepeo beach Lodge

Day 09 - 12 Beach Extension
Spend these days relaxing at Zanzibar with plenty of beach activities and water sports.

Day 13 Spice Tour
After breakfast you will check out of your beach hotel and drive to the Spice plantations for a tour of this legendary plantations. Your guide will amaze you with the unmatched wealth of knowledge about the history of the plantations and the plant species that are grown in these plantations.
Overnight at Kipepeo beach lodge/Kendwa rocks . Breakfast and lunch

Day 14 Zanzibar Town
In the morning you will be guided through the ancient streets and alleys of this old town which is now recognized as a world heritage site by the UNESCO. You will be shown the mosques old fort the palace museums and the churches that tell a history that will live on for all the years to come.
Overnight at Kipepeo beach Lodge /Kendwa rocks . Breakfast and lunch

Day 15 Departure Transfer to Kisauni Airport Zanzibar for your departure.