Day 1: Arrive in Dar es Salaam / Kilimanjaro airport
Upon arrival at Nyerere International Airport or Kilimanjaro Airport, you will be met and greeted by our guide at the arrival point, soon after you will be given a road transfer to the city centre for overnight stay.
We will gather in the evening at the hotel for a pre-safari briefing and an equipment check.
Dinner and overnight at Harbour View Suites: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Dar es Salaam or Arusha
Accommodation: Harbour View Suites located in Dar es Salaam/ Zawadi House Arusha.
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 2: In the morning at 6:30 am your driver will pick you up from your hotel and drive to Lushoto West Usambara.
Upon arrival at Lushoto your driver will take you to the picnic lunch where you will stop for an early afternoon lunch.
After lunch we drive to Irente viewpoint and Irente Farm, the farmers produce many types of fruits and vegetables.
Dinner and overnight at Irente View Cliff Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Lushoto western Usambara
Accommodation: Irente view Cliff Lodge western USambara
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 3: Lushoto western Usambara/ Hikking and walking Safari
The usambara Mountains situated in the north-east part of Tanzania, are known for their pleasant climate, beautiful viewpoints and fertile slopes. Favoured by the Germans and English during colonial times, the area is rich in historical buildings from the period.
After 4-6 hours of walking and climbing Usambara Mountain we will return to our lodge for overnight stay.
Dinner and overnight at Irente View Cliff Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Lushoto western Usambara
Accommodation: Irente view Cliff Lodge western USambara
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 4: Kilimanjaro Marangu Culture Tour
After an early morning breakfast we will drive straight to Kilimanjaro at Marangu.
We will proceed with the full day Marangu Village Tour-Today we have an opportunity to visit one of the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, our activities includes waterfalls, Kilimanjaro view point, and Coffee plantations, Changa Museum, Underground Tunnel, Changa Traditional, Chaga Local Food, and Banana Beer Experience with the unique view of Mount Kilimanjaro.
After the walking tour we will return to the hotel for overnight stay.
Dinner and overnight at Arusha Zawadi House Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch
Main destination: Arusha town
Accommodation: Zawadi House Lodge Arusha
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park for morning and afternoon game drive.
We depart from your hotel and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the ground water forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake. We enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise that has more than 350 species of bird. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.
In the late afternoon we travel just outside of Lake Manyara National Park to Ngorongoro Farm House Valley for overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Ngorongoro Farm House Valley: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Lake Manyara National Park
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House Valley
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater morning and afternoon game drive
We start early morning game drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place in that it is a Conservation Area, not a National Park; this means that the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife. During the drive in Ngorongoro we have a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life. After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, we will drive around the rim of the Crater itself, and from here we can look down and see the herd of wildebeest or buffalos. Finally we descend into the crater. The crater walls provide a natural sanctuary for the animals, which means there is plenty to see: lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino and leopard (if you are lucky). The only animal you won’t see in here is a giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steeps sides of the crater. In the afternoon we travel just outside of Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Serengeti National Park.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 7: Full day game drive in Sarengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park today enjoys early morning and afternoon game drives in Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti is one of the oldest and most beautiful ecosystems in Africa and is one of the best wildlife sanctuaries in the world. The park boasts more than two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson’s gazelle, and a quarter of a million zebra. Animals that you can also watch out for are – lions, leopards, elephants, rhino, hippo, giraffes, baboons and wild dogs.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 8: Another full day Game drive in Serengeti National Park.
We have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and it you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting bird life, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. We return to our special tented camp for the night.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and
Lunch.
Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 9: Serengeti National Park to Mwanza town.
After an early breakfast check out and collect lunch boxes and leave for Mwanza there is an opportunity for en-route game viewing.
Dinner and overnight at Malaika Beach resort: Bed, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch.
Main destination: Mwanza Town Tanzania
Accommodation: Malaika Beach resort
Meals & drinks: All meals, including non-alcoholic drinks
Day 10: Morning breakfast at the hotel then say bye to our driver guide then you need a private departure transfer which is included from the hotel to the Airport for your flight to Zanzibar.
THE END OF OUR SAFARI SERVICE
