Tour Code: OAT015 – TANZANIA AFFORDABLE

Key Information:
Tour Duration: 12 day(s)
Destination(s): Tanzania
Season: All year Round
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Arusha City

Arusha is a city of northern Tanzania surrounded by some of Africa's most famous landscapes and national parks. Beautifully situated below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, it has a pleasant climate and is close to Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, and Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as having its own Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. The region is a popular tourist destination and is the centre of the Northern Tanzania Safari Circuit. The Rift Valley cuts through the middle of the region north-to-south; Oldonyo Lengai (Mountain of God in Maasai language) is an active volcano to the north of Ngorongoro. Altitudes throughout the region vary widely, but much of it ranges from 900 to 1600 metres (3,000 to 5,500 feet in elevation. Mt. Meru, the second highest mountain in Tanzania after Kilimanjaro, peaks at 4,655 metres (14,980 feet). The city of Arusha is at the southern foot of Mt. Meru. Areas to the south and southeast of the mountain tend to be sufficiently watered and are the most densely populated areas of the region. Most people here speak Swahili and their tribal language. Many also speak English.  The Maasai are the most influential tribe in the region. The Arusha and Meru people live near Mt. Meru. Rwa, Mbulu, Iraqw, Temi, and Mbugwe are also present in smaller areas. The city of Arusha is currently undergoing urbanization, which is drawing people of many tribes from throughout the country to live there.

Day 2: Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park
Today after breakfast we leave Arusha with and drive to Lake Manyara National Park. Enjoy a sightseeing as you drive to Lake Manyara and then onward to the park for AM game drive then your lunch will be served at Migunga Forest Camp , after game drives we return to the camp for dinner and overnight stay at Wild Africa Manyara Camp on Full board basis.

Day 3: Full day in Manyara
After breakfast we head out to the bush for morning game drive then you will return to the camp for lunch time break then after lunch we proceed to again to the bush for PM game drive then later in the evening return to overnight stay atWild Africa Manyara Camp on Full Board

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Wild Africa Manyara

Situated 126kms from Arusha town on the slopes of the Great Rift Valley and next to Lake Manyara National Park which is famously known for the tree climbing lions, Wild Africa Manyara lodge is built on the exact spot featured in the John Wayne famous Hatari movie. Beautiful and intimate the lodge setting has been designed to match the traditional surroundings without compromising quality. The lodge is outside the mto wa mbu escarpment with the best sunset view over the great rift valley and directly facing the soda lake Manyara. This lodge is centrally located to all the famous and well-known northern national parks. The area is famous for all types of birds and animals like giraffes, buffaloes, gazelles and much more which are often spotted in the grounds of the lodge.  Rooms are designed in roundavels and set in traditional style that is uniquely African the rooms are significantly larger than the normal standard rooms found in similar tourist hotels and lodges, with medium beds and a balcony which provide picturesque views to the well kept grounds and the views of Lake Manyara. There are 10 rooms in total of which some may be converted to cater for four VIP suites or family accommodation, these rooms are tastefully decorated with traditional design themes each with native art and furniture. All rooms have private balconies with vistas of quiet, meticulously maintained gardens.

Lake Manyara National Park

Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Located on the way to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park is well worth a stop in its own right. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobob strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds. The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands, colourful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Even reluctant bird-watchers will find something to watch and marvel at within the national park. Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world; a fact that makes for interesting game viewing of large families of the primates.

Day 4: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park
Today we leave Manyara with picnics and drive to Serengeti National Park,  game viewing enroute, sight seeing then proceed for full day game drive inside Serengeti National park after game drives onward to overnight stay at Ndutu Safari Lodge on Full board basis

Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 5: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast head out to the bush for migrations viewing at Ndutu area, game drives with picnics then later in the evening return to the camp for dinner and overnight stay at Ndutu Safari Lodge on Full board basis.

Day 6: Serengeti National Park Ndutu Area to Serengeti Central
Morning after breakfast leave Ndutu with picnics and drive to Serengeti Central area, game viewing enroute, then full day game activities at Serengeti, your picnics will be served while on game drives, then onward to overnight stay at Seronera Wildlife Lodge on Full board Basis.

Day 7: Serengeti National Park
Another day to enjoy a full day exploration of wildebeest at the Serengeti, Morning after breakfast enjoy another full day game activities at Ndutu with picnics, game drives and then onward to overnight stay at Seronera Wildlife Lodge on Full Board Basis.

Seronera Wildlife Lodge

Seronera Wildlife Lodge has 75 spacious guestrooms, all of them affording stunning views over the Serengeti plains. Elegantly decorated in authentic traditional African style, the rooms are fully equipped with ensuite bathrooms, shower attachments, bathtub and central heating system. Guests comfort is guaranteed from the facilities available such as Pango Indoor Bar, which is a friendly meeting point where guests relax with a cocktail in hand and exchange stories of their day’s adventures, or play different sorts of board games. The Ikoma Sundowner Outdoor Bar affords from its wide terrace breathtaking views over the endless Serengeti plains. It is the ideal place to enjoy the sunset over the Serengeti.  There are other facilities available such as a boutique, a lounge, a library among others. Activities include game drives, balloon safari, day wildlife watching among others.

Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti region encompasses the Serengeti National Park itself, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year. Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been established within the 30,000 km² region. It's unique ecosystem has inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmmakers like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers and scientists. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves. It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back. The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.

Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge

Dramatically perched on the rim of this Africa’s Eden, affording unbelievable views plunging down over the crater floor, 7,500 feet above the sea level. The Lodge is elegantly built mainly from natural stone and local wood and timber, harmoniously merging with its natural surroundings, and it is provided with panoramic windows that encompass views of the crater’s great bowl.  Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge invites you to an unforgettable Safari Experience from its privileged location, unrivalled by any other both for game viewing and scenery. Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge has 75 spacious guestrooms, all of them affording fabulous views over the crater. Exquisitely decorated, offering a serene atmosphere of elegancy, the rooms are fully equipped with ensuite bathrooms, shower attachments, bathtub and central heating system.  All the beds are provided with mosquito nets over the air vents. A third bed is available on request, as well as limited baby cots. Among the 75 rooms, 61 are twin rooms, 11 are double (with one double bed) and 2 are suites.10 rooms are intercommunicating, specially designed for families. Moreover, there is a presidential suite, where important world well known personalities have enjoyed the magical experience of wildlife from the top location that Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge enjoys, being the first Lodge built in the Ngorongoro Crater

Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater Tour
After breakfast leave the lodge  and descend to the floor of the Crater for 6hours game drive then picnics will be served while on game drive then later drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Farm House on FB

Ngorongoro Farm House

A lovely small and exclusive lodge facing the Oldeani Volcano, only 5 kms. from the Ngorongoro Lolduare gate was built, meant to offer our clients an original experience reminiscent of the atmosphere of the old days. Ngorongoro Farm House was inaugurated on February the 20th 2003, and is offering 40 huge cottages with ample space inside, built on the style of an old colonial farm and rustically decorated with local materials and full of details of good taste, with the purpose of offering our clients an imaginary journey to the life of the days gone.

Ngorongoro Farm House is a lovely perfect stopover within any safari in the Northern Circuit of Tanzania and a privileged place to visit the Crater or enjoy a bunch of activities: Like a walking safari to the adjacent forest leading to the Oldeani Volcano or an excursion to the nearby Lake Eyasi in the Rift Valley, still inhabited by a tribe of hunter-gatherers, the Hadzabe, a relic of ancient times who still follow a style of life similar to the humans who inhabited the Earth before the discovery of agriculture.  Another interesting tribe are the Datoga or Barabaig, also called Mangati (fierce enemy) by the Maasai who expelled them from the Ngorongoro Highlands during their unstoppable advance to the south some time in the XIX century.  A visit to the village of Karatu or the Njia Panda school, rehabilitated with the contributions of our clients, can also make the day of anyone interested in cultural interaction or in helping to the development of the rural communities of Africa.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro crater is one of the world wonders. At the bottom of the crater lives of thousands of wild animals from a wide variety, Elephants, buffaloes huge, rare rhinos, who is still best be protected because the surrounding crater wall which allows a permanent monitoring, lions, wildebeests, gazelles, in short: a photographic feast for the eye. The soda lake also houses a small colony of flamingoes. The crater is not a national park but large part of the Ngorongoro conservation area land belonging to the Masai communities, and the other covers to the Serengeti. The purpose of this arrangement is a balance between the needs of the natural inhabitants of this area and for game. Of course, there are conflicts between the Masai cattle herds that the hats and the predators in this area. The Masai formerly lived at the bottom of the crater but were forced to leave this area to make room for the game. Even the highlands surrounding the crater are certainly worth a visit. A journey leads to End with fantastic views and strange-shaped rock walls and slopes overlooking Lake Eyasi. Lake Eyasi is the area of the Hadzabe and Datoga, Tanzania’s latest strain of bushes men

Day 10: Ngorongoro to Tarangire National Park via Lake Manyara
After breakfast leave Ngorongoro with picnics and drive to Tarangire National Park, enjoy game drives in Tarangire National Park then onward to overnight stay at Tarangire River Camp on Full board basis

Tarangire River Camp

Tarangire River Camp set within 25,000 hectares of concession area, the camp is just 3.5 km from the main entrance to Tarangire National Park, accommodating guests in 20 luxury safari tents, which are en-suite with hot and cold running water. The tents are tastefully furnished with all the comforts you will need whilst on safari and open out onto stunning views of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro. Meals are a delicious affair, dinners are served by candlelight in the thatch and timber elevated dining area, with dramatic views across the Maasai plains, where a friendly and attentive staff are always

Day 11: Full day in Tarangire National Park
The day start with breakfast then enjoy guided walking safari at the Tarangire National Park then lunch will be served at the lodge, PM game drives and later in the evening return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Tarangire Safari Camp or Tarangire River Camp on Full board basis.

Tarangire National Park

Day after day of cloudless skies. The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire River has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it is choked with wildlife. Thirsty nomads have wandered hundreds of parched kilometres knowing that here, always, there is water. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It's the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed. During the rainy season, the seasonal visitors scatter over a 20,000 sq km (12,500 sq miles) range until they exhaust the green plains and the river calls once more. But Tarangire's mobs of elephant are easily encountered, wet or dry. The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world. On drier ground you find the Kori bustard, the heaviest flying bird; the stocking-thighed ostrich, the world's largest bird; and small parties of ground hornbills blustering like turkeys. More ardent bird-lovers might keep an eye open for screeching flocks of the dazzlingly colourful yellow-collared lovebird, and the somewhat drabber rufous-tailed weaver and ashy starling – all endemic to the dry savannah of north-central Tanzania. Disused termite mounds are often frequented by colonies of the endearing dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet, which draw attention to themselves by their loud, clockwork-like duetting. Tarangire's pythons climb trees, as do its lions and leopards, lounging in the branches where the fruit of the sausage tree disguises the twitch of a tail.

Day 12: Tarangire to Arusha
After a good start with breakfast we leave Tarangire and drive to Arusha, we visit cultural heritage and then your picnics lunch will be served on your way to Arusha, a Day room at Kia Lodge and dinner then later transfer to Kilimanjaro international Airport for your international departure back home.

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