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Day 1: Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park |
0800hrs:
Depart from Arusha town for a 2.5 hrs drive to Lake
Manyara National Park for game drives.
Lake Manyara National Park is a small but scenic safari
park, excellent for bird watching and a good area to
find elephant, as well as the potential excitement of
spotting a legendary Lake Manyara tree-climbing lion.
Lake Manyara is a good soft introduction to the Tanzania
safari experience. It is a magical and pretty park that
winds its way around a mainly forested driving route
between the banks of Soda Water Lake and the impressive
rise of the Great Rift escarpment. Elephant, giraffe,
buffalo and wildebeest can be found grazing in
unexpected clearings or heading towards the water to
drink or wash, and the rivers and riverbeds provide
scenic vistas for possible animal spotting. Warthog
thrive here, growing notably fat and tusked, and it is a
natural playground for baboons and monkeys. The
tree-climbing lion of Lake Manyara inspire extensive
theorizing as to the wonders of evolution, and are also
notoriously rarely seen.
Dinner and
overnight at
Migunga Tented Camp.
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Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park - Ngorongoro
Conservancy Area |
After breakfast depart Lake Manyara National Park for
Ngorongoro Conservancy Area with game drives en route,
Go for afternoon game drive.
Ngorongoro is a fascinating and unusual Conservation
Area which includes the Ngorongoro Crater at its centre,
and then extends through the Crater Highlands, in which
local tribes are permitted to maintain their traditional
lifestyles in as natural environment as possible. This
extraordinary volcanic landscape is rich and fertile,
with stunning craters and lakes, and the high altitude
creates a scenic environment for photography.
Dinner and overnight at Bougainvillea Safari
Lodge.
0630hrs: After breakfast descend into the crater with a
picnic lunch with you for a full day crater tour with
game drive. Return to the lodge in the evening
The crater is said to have the most-dense concentration
of wildlife in Africa. As such, Ngorongoro Crater has
achieved world renown, and attracts a growing number of
visitors each year. Even if time is limited this natural
but accessibly small caldera ensures a rewarding
safari.
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The Ngorongoro Crater
is the world's largest intact caldera in an
exceptional geographical position, forming a
spectacular bowl of about 265 sq km with sides up to
600m deep. It is the stalking ground of 20 - 30,000
wild animals at any one time.
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The crater floor
consists of a number of ecological environments that
include grassland, swamps, forests and Lake Magadi,
a central soda lake filled by the Munge River. All
these various habitats attract various wildlife to
drink and graze.
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Although animals are
free to move in and out of this contained
environment, the rich volcanic soil, lush forests
and spring source lakes on the crater floor tend to
incline both grazers and predators to remain
throughout the year.
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Ngorongoro Crater is
also presently one of the most likely areas in
Tanzania to see the endangered Black Rhino, as a
small population is thriving in this idyllic and
protected environment one of the only areas where
they continue to breed in the wild.
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The Crater rim, over
2,200 meters high, touches swathes of clouds for
most days of the year, with cool high altitude
vapors that seem to bring a clean lightness to the
air, and also a chill. These highlands wake up to a
misty fog in most months.
Later in the evening ascend back to the lodge for dinner
and overnight atBouganvillea Safari Lodge.
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Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area -Tarangire
National Park |
After breakfast drive to Tarangire. After noon game
drive,
Attractions:
Here herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river
bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest,
zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland
crowd the shrinking lagoons. It's the greatest
concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti
ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one
place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the
stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked
gerenuk are regularly observed.
On drier ground you find the Kori bustard, the heaviest
flying bird; the stocking-thigh ostrich, the world's
largest bird; and small parties of ground hornbills
blustering like turkeys.
Disused termite mounds are often frequented by colonies
of dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet,
which draw attention to themselves by their loud
clocking.
Tarangire pythons climb trees, so do the lions and
leopards, lounging in the branches where the fruit of
the sausage tree disguises these predators.
Meals
and overnight at Tarangire Safari Lodge
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Day 5: Tarangire – Arusha
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Take an early morning game drive and after
breakfast depart for Arusha arriving in time for lunch..
Cost per
person sharing
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Low season |
01 April – 30 June /m 01 Nov
- 14 Dec |
US$ 1400 |
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Peak season |
01 Jul - 30 Oct |
US$ 1580 |
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High season |
01 Jan – 30 March / 15 Dec-
31 Dec |
US$ 1490 |

Safari Costing include:
1.
Accommodation as specified in the itinerary
2.
Transport
in a 4x4 Safari Vehicle with a pop up roof for game
viewing
3.
Professional English speaking driver/guide
4.
All park
entrance fees
5.
All game
drives as mentioned in the itinerary
6.
Government
Taxes
Price excludes:
1.
Personal
Expenses
2.
Tipping to
the drivers, in hotels and restaurants
3.
What is
not mentioned in what is included.