16 days / 15 nights Tanzania tour package starts and ends in Arusha, and takes the
tourists through many tourist attractions such as the Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti Game National Park, Lake Victoria, Mwanza Kigoma, Gombe Stream National Park and Mahale Mountains National Park.
The traveler will spend memorable nights at their preferred safari accommodations while on this Tanzania safari trip or the traveler can opt to stay at the safari lodges / safari camps option listed in this packaged such as Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, the Serengeti Lodge, the Hotel near Lake Victoria, luxury Grey-Stock-Mahale lodge, the Hotel near Gombe Stream National Park, and spending some nights at the Hotel in Kigoma.
Day 1: Pickup in Arusha – transfer to Ngorongoro
Our professional safari guide / safari driver will meet you in Arusha where the safari driver guide will take you through a short trip-briefing before you can depart Arusha to start transferring to the Ngorongoro crater. While on your journey to the Ngorongoro crater, expect to make several drive-stops along the way at various places of tourists’ interest including a stop at the edge of the escarpment overlooking Lake Manyara. Upon arrival in Ngorongoro, you will descend into the crater for a game drive. As very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2,000 feet high walls, you can expect to view game such as jackals, lions, hippos, elephants, antelopes, rhinos, zebras, many birds e.g. flamingos, to name but a few. The safari driver / safari guide will often be in contact with other safari driver guides and will amaze you with his skills at locating and pin-pointing the hidden game. This evening, you will be transferred back to Ngorongoro Serena Hotel or your preferred safari lodge where you will have dinner and over night.
Today, awake to have breakfast at your safari lodge / safari camp then prepare to head to Ngorongoro for a full day Ngorongoro crater tour. Remember that you will be spending the whole safari day at the crater so you are advised to carry picnic lunch with you. The Ngorongoro crater is 670 meters deep and is surrounded with several game including wildebeests, elephants, lions, Thompson’s gazelle, cheetahs, the spotted hyenas, zebras, grant’s, Thompson’s gazelle, and birds like flamingoes. You will enjoy a lunch-break at Noitoktok springs picnic site where you will be having your late lunch while also enjoying birds watching as you await to be transferred back to Ngorongoro Serena Safari lodge or your preferred safari lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Ngorongoro Crater – transfer to Serengeti National Park
Have your morning breakfast and, with packed lunch which you will have en-route, check out of your safari lodge in Ngorongoro Crater area and your safari guide will transfer you to
Serengeti National Park but you will first visit the Olduvai Gorge site of archeological findings, where you will find traces of pre-historic man that dates back to 3.5 million years ago. As you make the transfer, enjoy game watching as animals roam around while other game rests in the shades of trees. While in Serengeti Game Park, common game sighting of zebras and wildebeests is most common; a traveler can’t spend a minute without spotting at least one. Most members of the cat family can be sighted in the Serengeti plains while as elephant seeing is a bit uncommon practice. Other game such as the endangered black rhinos is restricted at the Moru Koppies area. Look forward to watching all these wild animals during the game drives you will be undertaking the next day. Upon arrival in Serengenti Park, check into your safari lodge then prepare to go for a short game drive after which you will return to your safari lodge to have the rest of the evening at leisure. Have your dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge or your preferred safari lodge/safari camp.
Day 4: Full day in Serengeti National Park
This safari day is very interesting because you learn a lot. So after your breakfast, you will do the game driving activity in the Serengeti for the whole morning and this will indeed be memorable. Still in the afternoon, you will go back for game drive and you will as well enjoy game viewing for the second time. Because of too much fun, you will again excite yourself with lunch, refreshments and a relaxation at the lodge or camp site. At Serengeti National Park, you will be in position to view all the big five game and other wild animals like the gazelle, wildebeest, zebras, antelopes and other game. You will later get to know that some animals like zebras and wildebeests do migrate in June and July of each year. The Serengeti National park also has a few carnivores such as leopards, lions, hyenas and cheetahs. After an exciting day, you will return to your safari lodge/safari camp to have the rest of the evening at leisure as you await to have your dinner and overnight.
Day 5 & Day 6: Serengeti Wildlife Park – Transfer to Lake Victoria
After your breakfast, you will transfer to Mwanza (for the Lake Victoria safari) while viewing game through your safari car’s windows. Because your eyes will be busy enjoying game outside, you will get to the western corridor of Serengeti without knowing and so you will enter the paved road to Mwanza which takes about 6 hours to reach. You will reach in time for your lunch which you will then have at leisure and enjoy the rest of the day relaxing and getting ready for the next day’s program as per the safari itinerary. Have your dinner and over night from the nearby Hotel.
Day 7: Transfer from Mwanza (Lake Victoria) to Kigoma
After your morning breakfast, start the drive to Kigoma getting a chance to see the different African lifestyles from the local people along the way as you will feel the real African presence you could probably have been dreaming of! Arrive Kigoma in time for a hot lunch and there after relax at your hotel where you will also have dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Transfer to Gombe Stream National Park
Have your morning breakfast and then proceed to Gombe National Park. There are so many things to see in this enriched National Park and apart from the wonderful yet intelligent chimps, you are also see other animals like bush pigs, hippos, the red-tailed monkeys and the vervet monkeys, beach comber olive baboons, leopards, birds etc. Return to your safari lodge in the evening to have the rest of the day at leisure. Have dinner and overnight at Gombe Forest Lodge or your preferred safari accommodation.
After your
morning breakfast, you will set out for the highlight of the trip – a journey to Gombe Stream National Park for chimpanzee tracking where you will be accompanied by members of the existing research team, many of whom have been studying the chimpanzees for years and know the individual members of the chimpanzee families. By spending time with the research team, you will be offered a fascinating glimpse into the team’s vital work which this trip helps support. In the evening, return to your safari lodge / safari camp to have dinner and overnight.
Day 11: Gombe Chimps Park – Transfer to Kigoma
After having your breakfast in the morning, drive off from Gombe Park and transfer to Kigoma while you enjoy great en-route sightseeing and cultural watching. You will arrive at your hotel on time for a hot lunch and there after relax for the rest of the day. Have dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Day 12: Mahale Mountains National Park
On this day, you will have your morning breakfast and then take the boat transfer to Mahale Mountains national park. You will cross Lake Tanganyika and arrive your safari lodge/safari camp in time for lunch. You will have your lunch then after relax and make friends if you want as you await your dinner in the evening. Have dinner and overnight at Luxury Grey-Stock-Mahale or Mahale Grey stoke Tented Camp or your preferred safari accommodation.
During each of these two safari days, you will visit Mahale Mountains after your morning breakfast. Mahale Mountain is a mountain much larger and more remote than the Gombe and has a more complex landscape. Once at Mahale Mountains, expect to see many animals including Impalas, the bush pigs, Baboons, the Zebras, vervet monkeys, and other animals. Your safari guide / safari driver will explain and answer as many questions as you wish to ask him on whatever you wish to know. Mahale Mountain is both home to different kinds of animal life and a barrier against wildlife poachers and human encroaches to the park. Later, after your tracking exercise, you will transfer back to your safari lodge/safari camp for dinner and over night.
Day 15: Mahale Park – transfer to Kigoma
After having your breakfast this morning, depart Mahale Chimps park and drive to Kigoma while you again enjoy the sightseeing if the different African cultures. You will reach Kigoma in time for a hot lunch and there after relax at your hotel as you wait to have your dinner. Have your overnight at the hotel.
This morning, awake at leisure and enjoy your breakfast. After breakfast at your hotel, your safari guide/driver will transfer you to the airport so you can catch your flight back home, or you can advice the safari guide/driver to drop you off at your preferred drop-off point. End of Tanzania Wildlife safari.