This is a fantastic diverse safari offering wildlife viewing in Tanzania's Northern Circuit parks combined with a visit to Lake Victoria and a chance to see Chimpanzees in their natural environment at Gombe National Park.
Day 01: Arusha – Lake Manyara National Park In the morning at 0830hrs pick up from your hotel in Arusha and drive to Manyara with your lunch box on the way. Evening game drives in the Manyara National Park. Dinner and overnight at Lodge/Campsite, Manyara.
Day 02: Lake Manyara National Park - Serengeti National Park. After breakfast leave with your packed lunch for full game drive on the Serengeti Park acacia Savannah in the central to the east region. Around 12.30pm and 13.00pm break for your picnic lunch; thereafter proceed with tour afternoon game drive. In mid January to February, much too mid April, 95% of females of wildebeest mate to a total of 60000 then 8 to 8.5 months later those females that conceived give birth on the same southern plains after a long travel. Evening drive to your lodge/Campsite for dinner and overnight.
Day 04: Lake Victoria Collect lunch boxes and visit Lake Victoria. Walk on the shores of the Lake. You may do bird watching or Fishing on the Lake if you are interested. Return to the Lodge/Campsite in the evening for dinner and overnight.
Day 05: Serengeti National Park Collect lunch boxes and drive back to Serengeti with a game drive en route. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/Campsite.
Day 06: Serengeti National Park Have a morning game drive just after breakfast. Lunch at the lodge. Afternoon game drive, still in Serengeti. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/Campsite.
Day 07: Serengeti/ Ngorongoro. After breakfast with your packed lunch drive and game enroute to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Watch for more animals as you head to Olduvai Gorge, the site of Louis and Mary Leakey's renowned archaeological discoveries. Their findings include some of man's earliest known ancestral remains. There is time to walk through the small museum. After a picnic lunch, continue to your lodge for Dinner and Overnight at Campsite.
Day 08: Ngorongoro/Tarangire: Descend in to the Crater for 6 hours Crater tour. This 100 square mile natural amphitheatre is host to an astonishing array of wildlife and you may be lucky enough to see rhino, elephant, lion, buffalo as well as large herd's zebras and wildebeest. A picnic lunch will be taken in to the Crater. Later in the afternoon drive to Tarangire National Park for Dinner and Overnight.
Day 09: Tarangire National Park After breakfast drive with your lunch box to Tarangire National Park for game drives. Lunch picnic and there after lunch continue with afternoon game viewing in the park to look or Lion, Leopard, Elephant, buffalo, Python, Zebra, Oryx, Impala and more… Over 450 species of birds have been observed. Late in the afternoon the driver will take you for dinner and overnight at Lodge/campsite, Tarangire.
Day 10: Tarangire National Park /Arusha - After breakfast game drives in Tarangire national park. Hot lunch at the lodge/camp then drive back to Arusha.
Day 11: Arusha/Dar/Kigoma Arrival Kigoma airport from Arusha/Dar Es Salaam, Pick up and transfer by car to Tanganyika beach hotel, dinner and overnight. BB
Meals: Bed and Break fast Accommodation: Tangayika Beach hotel
Day 12: Gombe National Park: After breakfast, transfer to the lake departure by boat to Gombe National Park. The boat takes two hours, arrival pick up and transfer to TANAPA guest house. Hot lunch, and after lunch chimp trekking, visit kakombe waterfall, on rout monkeys like red colobus monkey red tail monkey Dinner and overnight at TANAPA Guesthouse.
Meals: Full Board Accommodation: TANAPA Guesthouse
Day 13: Gombe National Park: After breakfast, pick up by Tanapa guide for chimp trekking, visit mkenge waterfall, Jen’s and back to the Guest house for late lunch swimming. Snorkeling, bone fire dinner and overnight at TANAPA guest house.
Meals: Full Board Accommodation: TANAPA Guesthouse
Day 14: Gombe National Park: After breakfast Chimp trekking back for hot lunch, after lunch transfer by boat to visit near by village (Mwamgongo) to experience local fishermen preserving fish for subsistence and business and enjoy local traditional dance, back to camp dinner and overnight Tanapa guest house.
Meals: Full Board Accommodation: TANAPA Guesthouse
Day 15: Gombe National Park/ Kigoma. After breakfast Transfer by boat back to Kigoma town, Lunch at Tanganyika beach hotel. After lunch tour in Kigoma town, Visit Ujiji Dr. Living stone memorial centre, slave trade route, final shopping, dinner at Tanganyika beach hotel, and overnight
Meals: Half Board Accommodation: Tanganyika Beach hotel
Day 16; Kigoma /Dar es Salaam After breakfast transfer by car to airport back to Dar es Salaam to connect your flight back home.
Price: US$ 4,638 per person - Camping Accommodation US$ 5,935 per person – Lodge Accommodation
Price Includes: - Accommodation and meals as specified in the itinerary above - Transport on wildlife safari in a 4WD vehicle with an open roof - Sightseeing as specified in itinerary - Flight from Arusha/Dar/Kigoma/Dar -Park entry fees, - Service of English Speaking driver guide
Price Excludes: - International and local flights - Tips to the driver guide - Accommodation on the first night upon your arrival and last night after safari - Airport transfers - And all not mentioned in the safari itinerary
Note: This safari itinerary can be customised to suit you.
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This is a fantastic tour and a "must do" for any first time visitor to Dar, as I was.
It helps you understand more about the people who live in Dar and makes what can seem like a complex and intimidating place, accessible, friendly and understandable.
My customized 13-day trip in Tanzania was absolutely amazing!
From breathtaking Ngorongoro hiking to a taste of Kilimanjaro and local village visits, it was truly a life-changing experience.
My driver and tour manager went out of their way to accommodate my whims and made sure that my stay in Tanzania was a pleasant one. Unfortunately I fractured my ankle during one of the hikes I took, but I was taken to the hospital immediately, and taken a great care of.
I would definitely recommend this operator to anyone who's looking for a tour that's much more than just game drives.'
We went on a two day walking – canoeing trip in Arusha National Park. The tour operator also made hotel arrangements for the first three days we were in Arusha.
They stayed in contact for 11 months via email. The person I was in contact with Elifasi and our guide, Apolo Kihwil, meet us at the airport took us to our hotel. On our rest day we visited a school at our request and not part of the paid itinerary this was on their time.
Our guide Apolo was the best we had on our entire trip. He was informative, friendly and had a great sense of humor, we were rewarded with a dream trip my favorite giraffe and several at a time the last bunch we counted eleven, baboons, wart hogs, black and white monkeys, hundreds of thousand of lesser and greater flamingos on big Momella Lake he provide delicious lunches and was infinitely patient while we took photographs.
I would not hesitate to use them on my next trip to Tanzania and would request Apolo as our guide.
We had a most wonderful holiday in Kenya and Tanzania.
They looked after us very well and we were very satisfied with their service. The service provided value for money. The only comment we would make is that the email from them gave us the impression that we would be staying in a lodge but when we arrived we were in a tent. We were satisfied with the tented accomodation, however it could have been made clearer in the original email that it was tented accomodation.
The staff were very kind and helpful.
Tour Operators Reply:
Thank you for the client's feedback and contructive comment/suggestion. We are glad that they were very satisfied with the service we provided to them, despite their impression that they would be staying in a lodge instead of tent.
As per the first enquiry which the clients sent into our company, she stated that she will prefer to stay in Camping “Accommodation Preference: Camping” and the price given to them was based on Camping accommodation, and these was stated in the itinerary that “Dinner and overnight at the camp”
However, there was typing error at the end of the itinerary which indicates Lodge accommodation instead of Camping accommodation.
We will try our level best to make sure that this mistake will not happen again.
After having a wonderful safari in southern Africa organised through your webiste, we decided to return again to Tanzania after 45 years.
We booked a 19 day safari to visit six game parks...Selous, Mikumi, Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Tarangari.
Our guide/driver, Hurumu, met us at the Dar airport and drove us to a hotel for our day of jet lag recovery. We drove to Selous first. We're not strangers to East Africa, having first arrived in 1963. By far, Hurumu is the best guide that we've ever had. He was extremely knowledgeable of wildlife, has great game eyes, a good conversationalist, and was very caring for all our needs. He understood our physical age limitations (74) but was not at all solicitous. Cool water was always available. Hurumu had the ability to always get the Toyota into position for the best photograph.
We made our initial contact the operator in 2009. Elifasi, in the office, worked with me to create the itinerary. He also was most helpful. While at Selous we requested an itinerary change. Elifasi made the changes without a problem.
The entire safari was most enjoyable and problem free.
The best of Kenya & Tanzania and they made that experience a reality. They were always on time, concerned about our well being and would without any reservations recommend them! The scenery and game viewing were all memorable and expectations met. Organizing the tour was also without any hassle
I went solo, a 50 something white woman, and me and _______ (I forget his name), rode around for 5 hours. It was a unbelievable experience.
He was a wonderful guide, I called him the "Mayor" because everybody knew him! He was so popular everywhere we went that I felt completely comfortable, safe, and like an invited family friend.
He showed me 3 or 4 neighborhoods, I met coffee makers, chapati breakfast cooks (had breakfast there with a Masaai family who stopped by!), a traditional herbalist (where I learned the treatment for meconium aspiration, I'm a perinatal pathologist!), herbal pharmacist (where I saw that fenugreek seed is used to facilitate delivery with prolonged labor), local market, fabric seller, and had a delicious lunch at an outside Swahili restaurant. I played with kids, talked with everyone, and really got a great sense of the community.
My guide also is very active in local projects and inspired me to help with a bridge rebuilding project he is spear heading. The bicycle riding was easy and really the only way to get around in these neighborhoods. It was by far the best experience I had in Dar, and one of the best I have had in my many travels in East Africa!
We could not have asked for abetter way to end our incredible adventures in Tanzania. We saw everything and did everything we could have ever imagined. From the big game watching in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Lake Manyara, to ascending the highly active volcano next to Lake Natron, it was all so unbelievably incredible. A total dream come true!
Our guide Huruma had he most expansive breadth of knowledge of the natural environment, he was a pleasure to talk to. He was also extremely flexible with us as lans often changed for various reasons, but ALWAYS for the better. Huruma made us feel safe and comfortable the whole time. Alex our cook as wonderful as well making sure we had the best quality meals possiblemade from the freshest ingredients.
Choosing a safari operator is tough, but I will just say that I will always recommend these guys. They are very professional and will do everything to make sure you have the best trip possible. Thanks again for our lifetime memories. We will be back, so you will hear from us again.
Thanks Elfasi for all your time, flexibility and support in orchestrating this dream trip.
