Wildlife Wonders Group Safari 2020

Experience Northern Tanzania's wildlife and culture on a 7 day National Park safari. Some of the safari accommodations are in modern, deluxe lodges – maintained in harmony with the environment and constructed using local materials. In the Serengeti, you’ll stay at a mobile tented camp, immersing yourself with the sights and sounds of Africa, as you track the action on the go. Food at all locations is well prepared, with local flair. You'll enjoy early morning and late afternoon game drives, for the best wildlife photography and light. Your excellent driver-guides are sensitive to the needs of photography/migration groups, making sure you get the most out of your long days on the field. You will not be restricted to a rigid schedule of times, but rather allow the wildlife and environment to dictate your routine (within the regulations of the national parks and issued permits).

Daily Itinerary

Day 1: Kilimanjaro Arrival - Arusha

Kilimanjaro Arrival - Arusha
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Pre-Safari Briefing
  • Accommodation: Ilboru Safari Lodge
  • Meals: D

Pre-Safari Briefing

Welcome to Tanzania! On arrival at the Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will proceed through customs and immigration (Visa on Arrival Fee: $100 USD per person - payable in US dollars - Cash). After clearing customs, you will be met in the arrivals hall by a local representative, who will be holding a sign with your name on it. You will then be transferred to your accommodations in Arusha, a journey of approximately 1 hour.

This evening, you will meet with your expert guide for an exciting pre-safari briefing!

Arusha

Arusha is the gateway to Tanzania's northern circuit, serving as a base for Kilimanjaro treks and wildlife safaris into Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater. Transport hub aside, Arusha even offers its own opportunities for exploration, including day trips to Arusha National Park, canoeing tours on Momella Lake and Meru coffee plantation visits. For those looking to just rest and recover from jet lag, Arusha also features the perfect stop to relax and recharge, before continuing your African adventure!

Day 2: Arusha - Lake Manyara - Crater Highlands

Arusha - Lake Manyara - Crater Highlands
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Lake Manyara Game Drive & Esilalei Maasai Village Visit
  • Accommodation: Mandhari Lodge
  • Meals: B, L, D

Lake Manyara Game Drive & Esilalei Maasai Village Visit

After checking out of your hotel in Arusha, you will embark on the journey into Lake Manyara. Enjoy a thrilling morning game drive and a classic safari picnic lunch, as you experience your first glimpse of Northern Tanzania's wild wonders! Lake Manyara offers an insight into the Great Rift Valley system and the adaptation of many herd animals and magnificent bird life.

This afternoon, you will continue to the Esilalei Maasai Village, where you will explore the community, meet the villagers and learn about our local school project. After this extraordinary cultural experience, you will zig zag your way up the Rift Valley Escarpment towards the Crater Highlands, where you will be staying this evening. Your lodge is located on the farmland bordering the Ngorongoro Conservation Area boasting incredible views over the Great Rift Valley.

Crater Highlands

The Crater Highlands features an idyllic stopping point, on the journey from Tarangire and Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro and the Serengeti. This rural region is known for its lovely farmhouse lodges, vast landscapes, flourishing coffee plantations, working farms and local ethnic communities. Through a variety of cultural activities on offer in the area, you are invited to immerse yourself in the rhythms and beauty of rural farm life and the pristine surrounding nature.

Day 3: Crater Highlands - Ngorongoro

Crater Highlands - Ngorongoro
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive
  • Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
  • Meals: B, L, D

Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive

Early this morning, you will embark on an epic descent into the Ngorongoro Crater. Featuring dramatic open landscapes and impressive game viewing, it is no surprise that this attraction is often described as the eighth wonder of the world. Ngorongoro is a collapsed volcano - a fascinating natural amphitheater that stretches 25 kilometers across. This destination is teeming with Africa's most alluring big game. Later this evening, you will continue to your next lodge, literally located on the crater rim. Get ready for a true unique lodging experience! It is quite common for zebra, buffalo and even elephant to be grazing right outside the lodge.

Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater is one of Tanzania's most amazing sights: a collapsed volcano which forms an incredible natural amphitheater, 25 km (16 mi) across and teeming with all of the African big game. Many of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino can be seen grazing on the open grassland of the crater floor surrounded by some of the 20,000 large animals that occupy the crater, including lion, cheetah, eland, zebra and gazelle. Flamingo, among other bird species can often be seen feeding at Makat soda lake. This is an area of spectacular beauty and superb game viewing, a truly unique safari destination.

Day 4: Ngorongoro - Serengeti

Ngorongoro - Serengeti
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Serengeti Game Drive
  • Accommodation: Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp
  • Meals: B, L, D

Serengeti Game Drive

After breakfast at the lodge this morning, your adventure continues to the limitless plains of the Serengeti! Upon entering the Serengeti National Park, you can enjoy an exclusive game drive en route to your next camp. As the name suggests, your camp is mobile, promising the ultimate wildlife experience. A mobile camp means that you follow the exact migration patterns, making the most of your safari adventure. Depending on where the migration is at the time, the mobile camp can be located anywhere from the northern Serengeti, to the far southern plains of Ndutu.

Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park is the best place on the planet to admire large game. An experience in the Serengeti promises an adventure you will never forget. From one exhilarating game drive to the next, your guide will help you to track down majestic prides of lions, cheetah, leopard and much more! Each evening can be spent at your enchanting tented camp, sharing stories by the fire and enjoying dinner beneath a blanket of African stars.

Day 5: Serengeti

Serengeti
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Serengeti Game Drive
  • Accommodation: Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp
  • Meals: B, L, D

Serengeti Game Drive

Spend this entire day exploring the enchanting Serengeti scenery. Admire the vast plains as far as the eye can see and observe the wildlife roam around in their natural habitat. Your guide will teach you about their fascinating routines and habits, as you track down the wildlife action. You never know what is waiting around the next bend in the road! At some point this afternoon, you will stop for a traditional picnic lunch, before heading back to camp. Fall asleep this evening, listening to the calls of the wild!

Day 6: Serengeti - Tarangire

Serengeti - Tarangire
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Serengeti Game Drive & Olduvai Gorge
  • Accommodation: Tarangire Ndovu Tented Lodge
  • Meals: B, L, D

Serengeti Game Drive & Olduvai Gorge

Today, you will say goodbye to the enticing wonders of the Serengeti. En route to your next destination, you will pass through Olduvai Gorge, where you will stop for lunch. Following lunch, you can explore the area's incredible archaeological sites, where early human tools and fossils have been discovered, including "Lucy". Visit the informative museum, before continuing your transfer to Tarangire National Park. You should arrive at your next camp just in time for sunset. This evening's camp offers a classic bush experience that ensures intimacy, luxury and authenticity.

Tarangire National Park

Tarangire is one of the most diverse National Parks in Tanzania. Covering a promising area of 1,360 sq km, Tarangire is situated in the northwestern corner of Tanzania’s Masai Steppe, east of The Great Rift Valley. This region boasts large herds of elephant and buffalo, in addition to an impressive concentration of big cats. Featuring over 500 different species, Tarangire also offers the best bird diversity in East Africa. The rugged landscape offers a unique safari backdrop, that blends seamlessly between rolling grasslands, messy swamps and forests of baobab trees.

Day 7: Tarangire - Arusha Departure

Tarangire - Arusha Departure
Daily Summary
  • Tour: Tarangire Game Drive
  • Meals: B, L

Tarangire Game Drive

Bright and early this morning, you will embark on your final game drive through the treasures of Tarangire National Park! This legendary park is known for its massive elephant herds, true sense of wilderness and majestic backdrop of baobabs. Its setting encompasses authentic Africa, offering the perfect end to your iconic safari experience. After your morning game drive, you will be returned to Arusha.

Accommodation

Ilboru Safari Lodge

Ilboru Safari Lodge

Nestled on the lower slopes of majestic Mt Meru, the legendary Ilboru Safari Lodge has been welcoming mountain climbers and safari travelers to northern Tanzania for decades. Ideally located between the northern safari circuit and Mt Kilimanjaro, this beautiful swahili sanctuary is set on a five acre plot , tucked away beneath ancient trees on the outskirts of Arusha town.

Mandhari Lodge

Mandhari Lodge

Aligned with soaring flamingos, Mandhari Lodge is situated high on the Manyara Escarpment which forms part of the Great Rift Valley. ‘Mandhari’ means ‘view, scenery, landscape’ in Swahili, and with a bird’s eye view of the great expanse from Lake Natron to Mondulli Mountains and across Lake Manyara, this lodge offers breathtaking views from sunrise to sunset. Swaddled in the colours of the earth, the lodge offers a unique medley of accommodation options. All suites and villa have an unobstructed view across the dreamy landscape below. With 100% locally sourced materials, the lodge has been built with a passion for it’s environment and a respect for its beloved history. The large, core gathering area of reception, dining, lounge, bar and swimming pool is largely an open, eucalypt platform filled with hand-crafted furnishings and woven delights. Use the lodge to delve into the hearts of Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park and Ngorongoro Crater – or simply remain in the grasp of its surroundings with an extensive range of cultural delights to absorb; traditional spa treatments, highlands hiking, Tinga Tinga painting lessons, Swahili cooking lessons, African drumming, customary dancing, the ancient art of yoga and more. Welcome to soulful Tanzania.

Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge

Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge

Perched on the rim of the collapsed volcano, the Ngorongoro Crater, a world heritage site, often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world. It has the most magnificent views over the crater floor, which is home to vast herds of buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, the rare and endangered black rhino, elephant, cheetah, leopard, lion and herds of gazelle and wildebeest. Its position on the Eastern rim allows the most spectacular and uninterrupted views of the sunset. All of the 91 double bedrooms are very spacious and each has two queen sized beds and a separate dressing area. Each room has a glass fronted veranda, where you may enjoy a private view of the Crater. The lodge also has 6 single rooms, all of which have a queen sized bed and glass fronted sliding doors.

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp brings you close to the action and its unique location is determined each season, according to the dynamic movements of the wildebeest mega herds. From December to March, Nasikia is situated at the Small Marsh campsite in Ndutu, where you will find yourself in the midst of the short-grass grazing season with calving during late January. From July to October, the camp is located near Kitchwa Tembo at Kogatende in the northern Serengeti - an ideal position from which to see the herd brave the crocodile-infested waters of the Mara River. The mobile camp is comprised of 8-12 solar powered tents made from heavy duty safari rip-stop canvas. Each tent has a spacious bedroom and patio area for relaxing. The bathroom includes a ceramic wash basin with running water, a supply of natural based bathroom products, and a flushing toilet. Shower under the African skies with a 20 liter shower bucket put up on a pulley system as you require. The camp provides guests with a Lounge Tent complete with library to relax in and a large Dining Tent to enjoy sumptuous bush cuisine, cooked up by the camp chefs from fresh produce taken from all corners of Tanzania.

Tarangire Ndovu Tented Lodge

Tarangire Ndovu Tented Lodge

Perched on a shallow ascending ridge on the southern side of the infamous Tarangire river within the central part of Tarangire National Park, this is where Tarangire Ndovu Camp is situated. A permanent camp elevated off the ground with expansive and breath-taking views to the west. Inspired to use local material and craftsmanship, this camp offers one of the most incredible locations within the borders of the National Park. Elegantly designed and stylishly furnished, en-suite tents that cater for a range of travelers including families. Two family suites with an interleading walkway cater for these specific needs. An infinity swimming pool overlooking the plains with distant Baobab trees keeping guard. The camp is revealed by lovers of the great outdoors and designed to be affordable while still being able to offer great comfort after a long day of safari under the African sun.

Pricing and Details

Starting from $ 3,650 per person

*Pricing is based on two persons traveling together, based on availability, subject to change.

Price Includes

  • Full support before, during & after your trip
  • Meals as mentioned
  • Accommodation as mentioned
  • Tours/activities as mentioned
  • Transport as mentioned

Price Excludes

  • International & domestic flights
  • Travel insurance (highly recommended)
  • Entrance visas when applicable
  • Other services not mentioned
  • Tips and gratuities to guides, drivers
  • Taxes and fees

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