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12 Day Tanzania Experience and Safari

Personalize your adventure with a custom-built Tanzanian itinerary. Witness wildlife safari thrills and learn about Maasai traditions. Visit Bethany School in Kisongo and interact one-on-one with the locals.

Sample Itinerary

  • Start your travel
  • Day 1:  Arrive at the airport, check into your hotel
  • Day 2:  Local points of interest in Arusha
  • Day 3:  Tarangire National Park
  • Day 4:  Manyara National Park
  • Day 5:  Serengeti National Park
  • Day 6:  Serengeti National Park
  • Day 7:  Serengeti National Park
  • Day 8:  Serengeti National Park
  • Day 9:  Ngorongoro Crater
  • Day 10:  Visit Bethany School/Local points of interest in Arusha
  • Day 11:  Local points of interest in Arusha
  • Day 12:  Relax, repack, Local points of interest in Arusha, and leave for home

Detailed Sample Itinerary

Day 1 – Arrive in Tanzania

Activity:

  • Arrive Kilimanjaro (JRO) Airport via Ethiopian Airlines in the afternoon or KLM in the evening. Emmanuel will be waiting for you!
  • Transit time from JRO to your hotel: ~1 hr 20 min

Lodging:

Day 2 – Arusha

Activity:

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Day 3 – Tarangire National Park

Activity:

  • Tarangire National Park
  • Transit time from Arusha to Tarangire: ~2 hr
  • Game drive in Tarangire. Tarangire National Park is known for its elephant’s herds of up to 300, migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland grazing and browsing in the dry river bed. There is Silale swamp that attracts 550 varieties of birds, the most breeding species you’ll see in one habitat anywhere in the world!  The park is also home of tree climbing pythons, as well as lions and leopards.
  • Transit time from Tarangire National Park to your lodge ~ 1hr, 40 mins

Lodging:

Day 4 – Manyara National Park

Activity:

  • Lake Manyara National Park
  • Transit time from Octagon lodge to Manyara National Park: ~30 mins
  • After breakfast you will pack your lunch, and Emmanuel and driver will drive you to the beautiful Manyara National Park for a full game drive and migratory flamingos in Lake Manyara.
  • On your way back to your lodge you’ll have the opportunity to visit the African Galleria. View their display inside the store to learn about Tanzanite mining.
  • Transit time from Manyara National Park to Octagon Lodge ~30 mins

 

Lodging:

Day 5 – Serengeti National Park

Activity:

  • Serengeti National Park via Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  • Transit time with stops from Ngorongoro Crater to your tented camp: ~ 7 hr
  • Activities along the way:
    • Ngorongoro Maasai Boma Cultural Tour  (~1 hr drive / 1 hour visit)
    • Ngorongoro Crater Overlook (~30 min drive / 15 min stop)
    • Olduvai Gorge monument (~1.5 hr drive / 5 min stop)
    • Naabi Hill Serengeti Entrance (~1 hr drive / 45 min stop for lunch and walk up the hill)
      • Walk up the Naabi Hill to overlook the Serengeti
      • When at Naabi Hill, walk the scenic observation trail, which provides a view of the vastness of the plains of the Serengeti. Look for the colorful lizard that bobs his head! The older male is pink and purple.
      • Game drive as you head towards your camp (~ 1.5 hr drive)
      • Be prepared. The journey into the Serengeti is lovingly called the “African massage”.  You will reach your camp at sunset. It is a washboard straight road and “vibrating” over it at about 65-75 mph is best on the vehicle and is totally safe. The next vehicle rides within the park will be much more enjoyable, as you will drive slowly on dirt roads looking for animals.

Lodging:

Day 6 – Serengeti National Park

Activity:

  • Serengeti National Park Game Drives

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Day 7 – Serengeti National Park

Activity:

  • Serengeti National Park Game Drives

Lodging:

Day 8 – Serengeti National Park

Activity:

  • Serengeti National Park Game Drives

Lodging:

Day 9 – Crater

Activity:

  • Ngorongoro Crater Drive
    • After your early breakfast, you’ll pack your lunches, and set out before sunrise at approximately 5:30 –  6 am for the 3-hour drive out of Serengeti National Park to the Ngorongoro Crater. There will be two short stops as Emmanuel passes through the checkpoints at the park entrances. You will arrive at the crater around 9:30 am.
    • The crater which is the highlight of this day is a caldera which measures between 10 and 12 miles across and has an area of 102 square miles, making it the largest Caldera in the world. The crater contains all the big five animals (lions, elephants, rhinos, leopard and buffaloes), plus hippos, cheetah, antelopes and spotted hyena, different species of birds and many more animals. The only animal you will not find in the crater is the giraffe. Their legs do not allow for them to traverse the terrain to enter the crater.
  • Around 4 pm you will leave the park. It is a 12–14-minute drive out of the crater on a paved switch-back road.
  • Travel time from crater to hotel: ~3 hr 25 min

Lodging:

Day 10 – Bethany School

Activity:

  • Half day at Bethany Pre and Primary School accompanied by 7th graders
    • Welcomed at school with song and dance
    • Serve morning porridge
    • Serve lunch (lunch at school)
    • Walk up the hill behind the school to overlook Kisongo

Lodging:

Day 11 – Arusha Area Activities

Activity:

  • Pick 2 new activities from the Arusha points of interest list.

Lodging:

Day 12 – Depart for home

Activity:

  • Re-pack, relax, take in one more Arusha activity!
  • Leave for the airport early to mid afternoon depending on your flight.

Package Includes:

  • All airport pick up and drop offs in Tanzania and Zanzibar
  • All Park entrance fees, crater fee & taxes (Value Added Tax inclusive)
  • All Accommodations, meals and drinks that come with the meals, other than Zanzibar meals and drinks
  • Private 4×4 wheel drive vehicle
    • Roof hatch and sliding windows for 360-degree view of the wildlife
    • First aid kit – fully stocked
    • Mini fridge-to cool off waters and any other drinks Unlimited water
    • Charging station with adaptor in vehicle for your phone
    • 1 pair of binoculars in vehicle (you may wish to bring your own)
    • Animal and bird reference guide in vehicle
  • Full attention from your guide, Emmanuel Boaz, for the full duration of your safari

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