17 Days Tanzania Safari and Zanzibar Beach

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$5,000.0

This Safari covers the highlights of Tanzania: the migration in the Serengeti, the stunning Ngorongoro Crater and the wild and adventurous Selous Park. At the end of this trip you will stay in a beach hotel on Zanzibar.

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All about the 17 Days Tanzania Safari and Zanzibar Beach.

This Safari covers the highlights of Tanzania: the migration in the Serengeti, the stunning Ngorongoro Crater and the wild and adventurous Selous Park. At the end of this trip you will stay in a beach hotel on Zanzibar.

  1. Day 1: ARRIVAL

    You will be met at the International Airport of Kilimanjaro by your Driver/Guide and our representative. We will take you to your hotel in Arusha. Our safari manager will come to welcome you and for a safari briefing. Dinner.

  2. Day 2: Lake Manyara

    After breakfast we depart for to Lake Manyara. Nestling at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, the park is recognized for its incredible beauty. You can see many game animals such as Buffalo, Elephant, Giraffe, Impala, hippo and others.

  3. Day 3: Lake Manyara -Olduvai Gorge-Serengeti

    After breakfast you start on your way to Serengeti National Park. A picnic lunch will be provided. On the way you will stop at the Olduvai Gorge where anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey made many significant discoveries, contributing to the theory that human life originated in Africa. After stopping for your picnic lunch on a kopje (rock outcropping) in Serengeti you will continue further into the park and go on a game drive.

  4. Day 4: Serengeti

    A full day of game drives around Serengeti. Depending on the time of year and the migration of the herds you can expect to see wildebeest, lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, baboons, hippos, rhinos, antelopes and many birds and other species. As in Ngorongoro your Driver/Guide will be in contact with other safari drivers and will amaze you with his skill at locating the hidden animals.

  5. Day 5: Ngorongoro

    In the morning drive to Ngorongoro Crater. After arrival in Ngorongoro you will descend into the crater for a wonderful game drive (with a picnic lunch) inside the Ngorongoro Crater. As very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 ft. high walls, you can expect to see lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, many birds and other species. Your Driver/Guide will amaze you with his skill at locating the hidden animals.

  6. Day 6: Tarangire -Arusha

    After breakfast you visit a Masai Village or go on a Nature Walk at the Northern Crater Rim of Ngorongoro Crater inhabited by buffaloes, elephants, baboons, monkeys and different species of birds. Escorted by a ranger or Maasai Guide you follow animal paths through dense bush.

    Afterwards, you return to Arusha for some shopping/sightseeing in Arusha Town.

  7. Day 7: Arusha-Dar Es Salaam-Selous

    After breakfast, transfer to Arusha airport and flight via Dar Es Salaam to Selous Game Reserve. Transfer from the airstrip to your lodge for a meeting with the lodge manager to discuss your program for the following two days. Rest of the afternoon at leisure. Enjoy some time at the poolside or a great sundown from the lodge’s unique lounge area. Your lodge consists of stone cottages and luxury tented bandas suituated over Beho Beho Hillside of Sable Mountain.

  8. Day 8-9: Selous Game Reserve

    2 full of game drives at Selous Game Reserve named after the explorer Frederick Selous. The Selous Game Reserve is the largest protected wildlife reserve, a UN World Heritage site and a pristine uninhabited area larger than Switzerland. The topography of the park varies from rolling savannah woodland, grassland plain and rocky outcrops cut by the Rufiji River and its tributaries. Activities are game drives, a walking safari and a boat trip at Lake Tagalala where crocodiles, hippos and grazing game can be seen.

  9. Day 10: Selous-Zanzibar

    After breakfast, transfer to Selous Airstrip for your connecting flight to Zanzibar around 10:30. Transfer to The Zanzibar at Nungwi Beach.

  10. Day 11-15: Beach Extension

    Relax and enjoy the beaches of Zanzibar. Breakfast and dinner.

  11. Day 16: Spice Tour & Stonetown

    After breakfast transfer to Stonetown. On the way we will do the famous Spice Tour. We have developed a special Spice Tour with in depth information not only about spices, but also organically grown herbs and a detailed description about their traditional uses in medicine cosmetics and cooking. After the tour we invite for an opulent lunch at our guides’ home, where you can taste the spices and fruits.

    In the afternoon we show you Stone Town on our Historical Stone Town Tour. This tour takes you through fabled Stone Town, where history appears to stand still. With visits to the House of Wonders, the Palace Museum (People’s Palace) and the Arab Fort amongst others, it is a fascinating look at the essence of Zanzibar. You will see Zanzibar’s bustling market, winding alleyways, ornately carved and studded doors, two cathedrals and countless mosques!

  12. Day 17: Departure

    Departure transfer to Zanzibar Airport for departure.

Mount Meru Game Lodge in Arusha

Serena Lodge

Sopa Lodge at Central Serengeti or Mapito Tented Camp at Ikoma, Northern Serengeti

Sopa Lodge at Ngorongoro

Mount Meru Game Lodge

Sable Mountain Lodge

Zanzibar Coffeehouse or Dhow Palace

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