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Tanzania Safari tour, Enjoy an 8days | 7night Tanzania classic safari which offers to you a game drive in the Tarangire and or Lake Manyara national park, Ngorongoro crater and the magical Serengeti national park. Game drive in the central Serengeti offers you plenty of chances to view many of the big five animals within this place. Offering a blend of both Tanzania’s wildlife and its cultural heritage, this eight-day Culture and Wildlife Safari gives you a world-class safari game drives alongside the opportunity to interact with two distinct cultural groups. You will have an opportunity to interact with the famous Maasai tribe in their land and stay at the very authentic lodge built in a style to ensure a maximum comfort to the guests as well as safety, this tour allows you to interact and engage on a hunting opportunity with bushmen at Lake Eyasi area offering “ultimate Northern Tanzania safaris” through its most popular Northern Parks. The highlight of this safari will be to experience both culture and animals.
Land at Kilimanjaro International Airport today and our professional private driver guide will meet you, greet, transfer you to your first night accommodation in Arusha and it is this guide that will be with you for the rest duration of your journey. Today you will be transferred by a private car to Arusha city, the gateway to Tanzania’s top national parks. Check in to your hotel and enjoy time to relax after your flight. On this day, your guide will brief you on various aspect of your next day itinerary schedules plus several other optional things to do in Arusha including but not limited to taking you to an open-air market, where the locals come to buy everything from fruits and vegetables to kitchenware and shoes. Take in the sights and sounds as you wander among the stalls, and learn from your guide how to determine the quality of the merchandise—and how to barter (trade) in Swahili ways. Other options include visiting shopping centers in town, visiting nearby museums in Arusha city, coffee estate tour, visiting nearby waterfalls and several other places will be made available for those who arrive early.
Early morning after breakfast we will pick you up from your accommodation in Arusha and we will head to Tarangire National Park, which is known for its huge baobab trees and large herds of elephants. Its sparse vegetation makes it a beautiful and special location, where up to 300 elephants can be found, looking for underground streams in the dry riverbeds at it best visiting time during the dry season between July to October. Migratory wildebeest, zebra and buffalo can also be seen crowding the shrinking lagoons. Here you will enjoy an afternoon game drive with a picnic lunch and later be transferred to Karatu for an overnight and evening leisure.
Today after breakfast in the morning around 0630hr we head off and meet the Hadzabe tribes where they will take you for a hunt and learn about hunting techniques also meet with the Datoga tribes’ men then enjoy a hot lunch at lake Eyasi Camp area relax a bit at the camp before enjoying an afternoon canoeing around lake Eyasi on a local boat with locals, enjoy the bird watching along the lake and learn the local fishing techniques of the local people in Tanzania on a local boat. Transfer back to Karatu for an overnight and evening enjoyments at the lodge before next day schedules.
After breakfast we head off on safari from your lodge in Karatu area to Ngorongoro conservation area, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which lions, zebras, flocks of flamingos, elephants, giraffes just to mention a few. Ngorongoro is often referred as the eighth natural wonder, it has been listed as a UNESCO site which is considered the most beautiful and unique place in Africa where man and wildlife stays together in one area, we will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here. After game drive in the afternoon, we head off the Ngorongoro conservation area to central Serengeti for an overnight stay.
In the morning After you have had breakfast, enjoy full day game drive around Serengeti national park allowing you to have unlimited views of what Serengeti can offer to you, The Central Serengeti offers superb game viewing all year round due to its abundance of resident animals. Specifically, the Seronera River Valley in the Central Serengeti is a ‘must see’ on every safari regardless of the specific month of travel. Game viewing in Central Serengeti is at its best during the dry season (June - November) as resident animals are more concentrated in the immediate area due to the lack of water on the plains. Resident herbivores include impala, buffalo, hippo, warthog, topi, hartebeest, and giraffe. Resident carnivores include lion and leopard. These months are also great to see the huge herds of Wildebeests mixed with zebra on a seasonal migratory in the Serengeti national park.
After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch for a final game drive in Serengeti national park. After lunch, we will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro Conservation area. As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater rim, the crater appears half a mile below, inviting you to gaze at this jaw dropping natural wonders. “Often called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed. The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometers wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands. These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals – including elephants, warthogs, flamingoes, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats. The Maasai can also be seen grazing their cattle alongside the buffalo and wildebeest in the Ngorongoro area”. (Maasai visit here) Optional and afterwards, you will proceed to Mto wa mbu village for evening leisure and hot dinner at the lodge.
The bustling farming community of Mto wa Mbu, located between Manyara and Ngorongoro, is home to more than 18,000 people. Spend full day here with a knowledgeable local guide and you’ll discover a side of Tanzania that many visitors miss. After breakfast at the campsite Local guides will pick you ready for a village walking tour, your guide is very likely to be from the village itself so you will have a unique opportunity to see the community through his eyes. Tours last around 3–4 hours, but are very flexible. During your visit you’ll get a good feel for the social side of the village, you’ll likely start your tour at the rice fields where you will get insights of how they grow them and you will be passed through different places and end at Local mama lunch places where you will have hot local lunch prepared there by them then you will be transferred back to airport in Kilimanjaro for your late evening flight back home.
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