10 Days Northern Tanzania Combo Safari

Day 1: Arrrival

Pick up from Kilimanjaro airport on arrival and transferred to Mount Meru Hotel in Arusha, It is a peaceful secluded respite where you can enjoy the beauty around you to the sounds of the surrounding for overnight on Bed and breakfast.

Meal Plan – Breakfast

Day 2: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast depart for full day game drive in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes to a variety of colorful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance of quietly observing many families of elephants interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to view animals drinking water in the river (and many times lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest), continue game viewing and finally drive to your lodge for dinner.

Overnight at the beautiful Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park

Depart after breakfast to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive with packed lunch boxes for your picnic lunch. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to a large numbers of buffalos, giraffes, elephants, impalas and a Hippo lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 different species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places where you’ll be able to see the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle. This park has become famous for the the climbing lions and the flamingos in the lake shore. The landscapes of these park are absolutely stunning, very different from the Serengeti for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground with the lake, flamingos and flat plains in the horizon. Great photo opportunities! In the late afternoon you drive to Lake Manyara Serena Safari lodge for overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 4: LAKE EYASI

Depart after breakfast for a visit to Lake Eyasi where you will visit the Datonga tribes and the Hadzabe tribe and you will do lake Eyasi activities and in the late afternoon you will drive for overnight at Kisima Ngenda Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 5: NGORONGORO CRATER

After early breakfast in the morning, you will drive to Ngorongoro Conservation area and on arrival descend down to the crater floor with picnic lunch for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, drive up the steep road out of the crater for overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 6: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast you depart to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti mean “endless plains” in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson’s gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds.

Overnight at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge on Full Board.

Day 7: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast you will go for morning game drives with fresh lunch in your lodge with afternoon game drives with overnight at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 8. SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast you will do game drives as you drive northwards towards Kogatende area and in the afternoon you will do game drive around Kogatende area of Northern Serengeti with overnight at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 9: LAKE NATRON

After breakfast you will do game drives as you drive towards loliondo area of Serengeti and depart Serengeti National Park and drive to Lake Natron for Late afternoon game drives around lake Natron as you watch the flamingoes and in the evening you drive to Lake Natron Tented Camp with overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 10: LAKE NATRON AND ARUSHA

After early breakfast you will do game drives around Lake Natron with morning activities and later drive back to Arusha. On arrival in Arusha you will be dropped at either your hotel for overnight at own expenses or be transferred to Kilimanjaro International airport for your flight to your next destination.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch

End of Safari