8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience
This 8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience is carefully tailored for nature and wildlife adventure lovers, being truly in the wild enjoying unlimited game drives, and experiencing the classic taste of rich African culture.
This 8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience will take you to all the game-rich wildlife reserves in Tanzania to view all the “Big 5” and to as far as Lake Eyasi to make encounters with Tanzania’s indigenous tribesmen well-known world over for their original and amazing traditional culture, friendship and warm hospitality.
8 Days / 7 Nights
Tours Start: – Arusha – Tanzania-Kilimanjaro Int. Airport (Google Maps), Minimum Persons 2 max 6
For Single traveler: – 1 pax – please contact us
Pick up and drop off/departure location: – Arusha – Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Int. Airport
Departure/drop off time: – 3 hours before flight time
Definitions:-
(B/B) Stands for Bed & Breakfast
(H/B) Stands for Half Board
(F/B) Stands for Full Board
(L) Stands for Lunch
(D) Stands for Dinner
8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: Inclusions &Exclusions
Price includes:
All services in national parks i.e. park entrance fees, guided nature walks, hikes & game drives
All accommodation and meals as specified in the itinerary (Unless listed as upgrade)
Full time exclusive use of a 4 x 4 Safari Jeep/Toyota Land cruiser
Full time services of experienced English speaking drive/guide
Bottled drinking mineral water, coffees, teas or soft drinks while on Safaris, game drives, walks, hikes or transfers
All Nature/Safari & Community walks as indicated in the itinerary-safari program
All airport pickups and drop off from Arusha Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Int. airport & back to Arusha Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Int. airport
All activities indicated & mentioned in the itinerary
Note: Mid-range Tanzania Adventure Safari – Uses a mix of lodges and tented camps for accommodation, rates reflected herein can be amended to fit your luxury requirements on request/the company may change the booked hotel/lodge/tented camp at the time of booking incase the reflected accommodation is full.
Mid-range Tanzania Adventure Safari – This mid-range Adventure tour uses tented camps for accommodation, rates can be amended to fit your luxury requirements on request
Price exclude:
International flights and air fares (From/to home)
Round trip airport transfer in land charter flights
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Personal item (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, bar bills, phone calls etc.)
Any Government imposed or increase of taxes and/or park fees
Some meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Laundry service in different hotels we stay
Personal insurance and medical bills
Air fares
All other services of a personal nature
All services marked as Optional in the itinerary
Driver/guides/hotel staff or any other person’s gratuity (Tips and tipping guidelines US$10 pp per day)
8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: highlights
Day 1: Arrive in Arusha – Meet greet & briefing – Transfer to Tarangire National Park evening game drive & O/nt.
Day 2: Early start – game, breakfast – transfer to Manyara National Park – evening game & O/nt tented camp
Day 3: Early start – game, breakfast – transfer to – Eyasi Lake –evening game & O/nt camp
Day 4: Early start – game, breakfast – transfer to Serengeti National Park – evening game & O/nt tented camp
Day 5: Early morning start/game – full day activities in Serengeti National Park – O/nt at the Camp
Day 6: Early morning start/game – transfer to – Ngorongoro crater – evening game O/nt at the camp
Day 7: Early morning start/game – full day activities in Ngorongoro crater National Park – O/nt at the Camp
Day 8: Breakfast, game en-route to Arusha, we will visit lake Manyara, later transfer to Arusha a city highlights – Drop off to the Airport for departure on time.
8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: details
Day 1: Arrive in Arusha – Meet greet & briefing – Transfer to Tarangire National Park evening game drive & O/nt.
Early arrival/meet greet/briefing and thereafter depart Arusha for Tarangire National Park arriving for lunch at Lake Burunge Tented Camp.
Lake Burunge Tented Camp consists of luxury tents set in a shady bush land grove with spectacular views onto Lake Burunge in the migratory corridor of Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks. The afternoon will be dedicated to game drives and wildlife exploration, later we will return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
- (Meal plan L/D)
- Accommodation options: Lake Burunge tented Camp. (Mid – Upper range)
Day 2: Early start – game, breakfast – transfer to Manyara National Park – evening game & O/nt tented camp
An early start as we set out to enjoy the extensive game drives in Tarangire that will offer you the best opportunities to view breathtaking scenery and plenty of wildlife species found in this magnificent park.
In the dry season, the Tarangire River is a magnet for migratory animals like wildebeest, zebra, common eland, hartebeest, gazelles, buffalo and elephants all of which are plenty in numbers than you can imagine. Wild sporting is quite easy as well. Dinner and overnight at Lake the camp.
- (Meal plan F/B)
- Accommodation options: Lake Burunge tented Camp. (Mid – Upper range)
Day 3 of the 8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: Early start – game, breakfast – transfer to – Eyasi Lake –evening game & O/nt camp
After breakfast we will drive to the shores of Lake Eyasi arriving on time for lunch at Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge.
Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
This is a less visited part of Tanzania lies at the base of the Eyasi escarpment on the western wall of the Great Rift Valley.
In the afternoon you will be introduced to the extraordinary people who belong to an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer Bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe.
Visit these tribes and enjoy a tour of their homestead, learn about their traditional way of life, animal tracking, their eating habits, medicinal plants and much more. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
- (Meal plan F/B)
- Accommodation options: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge. (Mid – Upper range)
Day 4: Early start – game, breakfast – transfer to Serengeti National Park – evening game & O/nt tented camp
This morning depart for Serengeti National Park, we will arrive for lunch at Bush Camp. Serengeti National Park is one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries remaining on the planet earth.
Serengeti is undoubtedly best known for its abundance of wildlife, unequalled natural beauty and scenic value.
Visitors to this part of Serengeti witness the spectacle of the wildebeest migration. Enjoy afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at the camp.
- (Meal plan F/B)
- Accommodation options: Serengeti Tanzania Bush Camp. (Mid – Upper range)
Day 5 of the 8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: Early morning start/game – full day activities in Serengeti National Park – O/nt at the Camp
An early start off with game drives with breakfast and our picnic lunch we will head out for game in the Serengeti an undoubtedly Africa’s finest game reserve.
Serengeti National Park is the most photographed and filmed game reserve with an incredibly dense population of wildlife and never-ending rolling plains.
Serengeti offers an authentic and idyllic wilderness safari and is home to the largest animal migration on the planet.
Big herds of animals to be seen here include elephants, buffaloes, lions, cheetahs, hyenas, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, topi, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles and many more. Dinner and overnight at the camp.
- (Meal plan F/B)
- Accommodation options: Serengeti Tanzania Bush Camp. (Mid – Upper range)
Day 6: Early morning start/game – transfer to – Ngorongoro crater – evening game O/nt at the camp
We will have an early wake up, breakfast and there after we proceed for morning game drive in the Serengeti. After lunch, we will depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
On the way, you will make a brief stop at Olduvai Gorge where DR Leakey discovered the earliest ancestors of mankind.
Then proceed on with your journey to Ngorongoro Crater arriving Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge late afternoon for dinner and overnight at the lodge.
- (Meal plan F/B)
- Accommodation options: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge. (Mid – Upper range)
Day 7 of the 8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: Early morning start/game – full day activities in Ngorongoro crater National Park – O/nt at the Camp
After breakfast descend over 600 meters into the floor of the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply Ngorongoro Crater supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.
Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard.
Visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the south western corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds will be here. Later drive to Karatu for overnight at Bougainvillea Lodge.
- (Meal plan F/B)
- Accommodation options: Bougainvillea Safari Lodge (Mid – Upper range)
Day 8: Breakfast, game en-route to Arusha, we will visit lake Manyara, later transfer to Arusha a city highlights – Drop off to the Airport for departure on time.
Sun rise wake up, breakfast and drive to Lake Manyara National Park for whole morning game drive.
Lake Manyara is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitats attract a wide variety of animals including huge herds of elephant.
Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions as well as large flocks of flamingo attracted by the algae in the lake are major attractions to this great reserve. After lunch, drive back to Arusha. You will be dropped at your hotel in Arusha or at Arusha airstrip.
- (Meal plan B/L)
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8 Days Wildlife Safari Tanzania Cultural Tour Experience: Quotation
- Based on 2 parsons sharing services – per person standard rate
- Standard Net rate – based on Mid – Upper range Accommodation per person: USD $3,650.00
- For any extra 3rd person or more please contact office for rates
Note: This program requires arriving at Arusha Tanzania-Kilimanjaro Int. airport before mid-morning approx. 06h00, to allow for a transfer/drive to Tarangire National Park
Overnight stay options:
If staying in Arusha, please request assistance at the time of booking this safari to allow us ample time to make arrangements. If departing Arusha the same night, please note’ both by use of charter flight or by road’ returns to Arusha are always late morning (approximately 11h.00/12h00-by charter flight) or (approximately 16h00-road), please DO NOT book flights departing prior to 16h00 or 22h00 respectively in order to allow time for security, check in and if any delays due to weather.