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This 21 days Lodge and tented camp Safari in Kenya and Tanzania,
with beach extension Zanzibar covers the highlights
of Kenya and Tanzania. It is one of our most popular East African
Safari programs and a great value too!
We organise this trip only as a private Safari,
there will be only you on the Safari car! Optionally you can skip
the Zanzibar part, just let us know. We can also start and end this
trip in Nairobi, going first on the Kenya Safari, then Tanzania.
Flight from Arusha to Zanzibar, where the program ends.
This itinerary starts at Kilimanjaro Airport, JRO,
and ends on Zanzibar airport. Please see here for international
flights for this tour.
Day 1 Arrival Tanzania
Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport where you will be met by our representative,
and transfered to your hotel, the Moivaro
Coffee Lodge. Dinner.
Day 2 + 3 Tarangire Nationalpark
After breakfast, you will depart by road to your private tented
camp, situated at the boundary of Tarangire National Park. Tarangire,
Tanzania’s third largest national park is known for it’s
majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals
that feed beneath them. The park supports a great diversity of wildlife,
especially during in the dry season of July to Novmeber, when the
Tarangire River provides the only permanent water supply in the
area. During this season wildlife , including up to 6.000 elephants
concentrate along the river.
For a cultural experience, walking in the area and visits to some
neighboring tribes is offered. Maasai live in the area as well as
the Datoga, another tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who migrated
into this area many decades ago, looking for good grazing land.
The Dataoga have resisted neighbouring tribes' cultural infiltrations.
The women, still wear fat treated goatskin gowns and carve their
faces and bodies to beautify themselves . Learning about their history
is as fascinating as the views are breathtaking from the several
hilltop peaks in the area. Overnight at Tarangire
River Camp. All meals included.
Day 4 Tarangire - Lake Manyara
After breakfast you’ll drive across the floor of the Great
Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful park with
it’s lush vegetation and tropical forests of giant fig and
mahogany trees, takes its name from the Maasai word for "euphorbia
tirucalli", a bush which is used to make a thorny hedge to
protect their cattle. Elephant, giraffe, buffalo, zebra and a variety
of antelope inhabit the park as well as a variety of monkeys and
a large population of hippo’s. . If you are lucky you may
see the Manyara lions, well known for their tree climbing habits,
lazily resting on the branches of an "Acacia tortilis"
tree. The birdlife is also abundant, with flamingoes, pelicans,
hornbills and plenty of forest species.
After a game drive and a picnic lunch in the park you’ll depart
for the Ngorongoro highlands and your overnight accommodation at
Karatu. Overnight at Kirurumu
Tented Lodge. All meals included.
Day 5 Ngorongoro Crater
This morning your drive takes you the short distance to the "eighth
wonder of the world", the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest unbroken
caldera on earth. The floor of this collapsed volcano spreads for
102 sq. miles and the walls are 2000ft high, a truly awesome sight.
The crater floor is a virtual "Noah's Ark", inhabited
by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including
the black named lion and the endangered black rhino. The crater
contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake - complete with flamingoes,
a forest and open plains. With a picnic lunch you will descend the
crater walls and spend the afternoon and early evening wildlife
viewing on the crater floor. Overnight at Ngorongoro
Sopa Lodge. All meals included.
Day 6 - 7 Serengeti
After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park with a stop enroute
at Oldupai Gorge. Oldupai is the famous archeological site where
the Leakeys discovered remains of Australopithecus, Homo Habilis
and Homo Erectus, bringing crucial understanding to the study of
the evolution of the human species.
From Oldupai you’re off to the “Great Serengeti”,
likely the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world. The vast
Serengeti plains cover an area of over 14,763 square kilometers
and during the months of the migration, is the habitat of huge numbers
of wildebeest, zebra and Thomson’s gazelle with estimates
of up to 1.5 million. From December through March they concentrate
at the Ndutu and Salei plains, where the calving season takes place,
attracting the attention of predators like lion, cheetah and hyena.
In June and July they move into the western corridor and in October
and November the herds can usually be found in the northern Serengeti.
The Serengeti "Kopjes", massive boulder islands of granite
standing in a sea of grass, provide shelter to a great variety of
plants and animals, from the elusive leopard to the tiny dik dik.
Overnight at Mapito
tented camp. All meals included.
Day 8 - 9 Lake Victoria
Game-drive to Lake Victoria. In the afternoon drive into the nearby
hills to take a look at rural Africa, passing through the small
villages of the Sakuma people, who grow cotton, ground nuts, sorghum
and cassava as well as keeping livestock. Life carries on simply
as it has done for centuries, but with a few poignant reminders
of the 20th Century! See the local school and take a stroll to the
top of a small kopje. Overnight at Speke Bay Lodge.
All meals included.
Day 10 - 11 Masai Mara (Kenya)
After breakfast, we head for the Masai Mara, Kenya's premier wildlife
reserve. The Masai Mara is picture book Africa, endless plains punctuated
by flat top acacia trees and home to an array of wildlife. Check
into Mara Sopa Lodge, home for the next 2 nights. After lunch, relax
before embarking on an afternoon game drive. Overnight at Mara
Serena Lodge. All meals included.
Day 12 Lake Nakuru
Early afternoon and head north into the Rift Valley and Lake Nakuru
famed for its vast flocks of flamingos. Enjoy a game drive in Nakuru
National Park home to rhino, lion, leopard, buffalo and numerous
species of plains game. Overnight at Lion
Hill Lodge. All meals included.
Day 13 Nairobi - Zanzibar
After breakfast you will be transfered to the airport in Nairobi,
for your flight to Zanzibar. Transfer and overnight in the Matemwe
Beach Village. Breakfast
and dinner.
Day 14 - 18 Zanzibar - Beach Hotel
Relax and enjoy the beaches of Zanzibar. There is a wide range of
water sport activities you can do, like snorkeling, scuba diving,
boat trips and more. Breakfast and dinner.
Day 19 Zanzibar - Stonetown
After breakfast transfer to the Dhow Palace in Stonetown. On the
way we will do the famous Spice Tour. We have developed a special
Spice Tour with in depth information not only about spices, but
also organically grown herbs and a detailed description about their
traditional uses in medicine cosmetics and cooking. After the tour
we invite for an opulent lunch at our guides' home, where you can
taste the spices and fruits. The Spice Tour is also the cheapest
place to purchase spices and spice oils. Dinner in the Dhow
Palace. Breakfast and dinner.
Day 20 Zanzibar - City Tour
Today we will show you Stone Town on our Historical Stone Town Tour.
This tour takes you through fabled Stone Town, where history appears
to stand still. With visits to the House of Wonders, the Palace
Museum (People's Palace), Dr Livingston's House and the Arab Fort
amongst others, it is a fascinating look at the essence of Zanzibar.
You will see Zanzibar's bustling market, winding alleyways, ornately
carved and studded doors, two cathedrals and countless mosques!
Overnight Dhow Palace, breakfast and dinner.
Day 21 Departure
In the morning departure to airport Zanzibar.
note: lodges and hotels depending on vacancies
Please ask us for an upgrade to luxury
mobile camping, while on Safari.
In the Serengeti you have the opportunity to do
an unforgetable balloon
ride!
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