12 Days Best of Tanzania and Zanzibar

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Day 1: Lake Manyara National Park

Following breakfast at your hotel, you proceed to Manyara National Park. After lunch, you will set off on a safari with your first game drive to the park.

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Day 2 & 3: Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Crater. Arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. PM enjoy the view from the lodge at the crater rim. The next day spends a full day exploring the woodlands, lakes, and wide-open plains of the Crater floor.

Ngorongoro offers unsurpassed viewing of rare black rhinoceros, which are undisturbed by vehicles and allow viewing at close range. Some of its other 25,000 residents include lions, elephants, hyenas, wildebeests, buffalo, hippo, ostrich, and an abundance of pink flamingos on Lake Magadi. Return to your lodge late afternoon.

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Day 4 & 5: Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you drive to Serengeti National Park, a vast rolling plain whose sparse vegetation allows for some of the best wildlife viewings in the world. The annual migration of wildebeest and zebra is one of the park’s great attractions, but throughout the year the Serengeti is excellent for seeing predators such as lion, leopard, and cheetah, along with elephant, giraffe, hyena, hippo, rhino, and many varieties of antelopes and birds. PM game drive of the park. (Visit Olduvai Gorge-Optional at an additional supplement cost)

The next day a thrilling day of game viewing will take you to prime areas of central Serengeti for seeing the fullest possible variety of animals. Visit hippo pools in the Seronera Valley, forests where leopard and colobus monkeys live in the treetops, kopjes where lions laze in the shade, and riversides where large animals congregate to drink.

Return to your lodge for excellent meals and time to relax on your private balcony, swim in the infinity pool, and perhaps take in a Maasai cultural program or guided nature walk.

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Day 6 & 7: Serengeti – Western Corridor/Arusha/Seous

After breakfast, you will have a game viewing of the Serengeti and will arrive at one of the most luxurious camps in the western corridor of the Serengeti Plain. Enjoy your stay at Serengeti Kirawira Camp.

The next day after the early morning game drive, drive to the camp for breakfast – Proceed to Grumeti Airstrip for your flight to Arusha and connect flight to Dar es salaam / Selous. (On Arrival in Dar es salaam you connect the flight Selous Game Reserve – On Arrival in Selous, you will be met by Camp Vehicle and transfer to your Camp

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Day 8 & 9: Selous Game Reserve

You will have 2 full days in the Selous Game Reserve staying at the Tented Lodge overlooking the gorge of Rufiji River Camp. Exploration of the Reserve by 4-wheel drive vehicle, boat, and on foot. The Selous, famous for its elephants, was originally set aside as a hunting area where animals are abundant but shyer than the Northern Parks.

Our foot safari will give us a particularly intimate feel for the African wilds, while your excursions by Landrover will permit us to have good photographic opportunities and the chance to explore different sections of the vast park. We will discover the Rufiji River by boat, encounter hippos and crocodiles in good numbers.

Some 350 bird species have been recorded in the Selous Game Reserve. These are typical of miombo woodland, and the birdlife supported by Rufiji swamplands is of particular interest.

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Day 10 & 11 Zanzibar Island

You will have your last game drive of the Selous Park and then proceed to Airstrip for your flight Zanzibar. On arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel – Afternoon at leisure and enjoy the afternoon at the poolside and have a good breeze of the Indian Ocean.

The next day, enjoy the tour of stone Town – You will be walking through the narrow street and experience the Arab Culture of Zanzibar – You will walk through the buildings where it all happened, such as the former Slave Market and Anglican Cathedral, the House of Wonders and the Sultans Palace Museum, the Old Arab Fort and Dispensary.

Explore the Markets, seafood and fish piled in the fish market, fresh loaves of bread in wicker baskets, and the neat stacks of fruit and vegetables as traders sell their wares from their stalls. Even Enjoy the Breeze from the Indian Ocean while seating at the poolside.

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Day 12: departure

Following breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your outwards flight.

Activities

  • Accommodation as specified in the itinerary
  • Meals, drinks and laundry as specified
  • Scheduled flights/Private charters as specified in the itinerary
  • Private transfers as specified in the itinerary
  • Private sightseeing and excursions as specified in the itinerary
  • National parks, concession and landing fees where applicable
  • Emergency medical evacuation insurance
  • Domestic/international departure tax, fuel and safety levies from airports and airstrips unless otherwise stipulated
  • Administration Fee
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fun facts

1220

photos taken

450

beaches visited

84

mountains climbed

120

cruises organized