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Tanzania · Safari
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Explore the wild beauty of Tanzania on a 5-day safari through Lake Manyara National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire National Park. Discover Lake Manyara's dramatic Rift Valley setting, descend into the world's eighth wonder at Ngorongoro Crater, and experience Tarangire's wildlife-rich landscapes, famous for tree-climbing pythons. This quintessential African safari showcases unique savannah wildlife and beautiful nature across some of northern Tanzania's most celebrated parks.
The Tarangire River has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self, but it is choked with wildlife.
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Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport and receive assistance with immigration formalities.
Meet your Tanzania tour guide and continue to Arusha.
Dinner and overnight at Arusha.
Depart from Arusha for Lake Manyara National Park.
Arrive at the national park in time for lunch. Stretching for 50 km along the base of the rusty gold 600-meter-high Rift Valley escarpments, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as "the loveliest I had seen in Africa". The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience.
Explore the park in the afternoon on a game drive.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
After breakfast, depart for the Ngorongoro Crater. Ngorongoro Crater is also known as the world's eighth wonder and stretches across some 8,300 sq km in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania. It boasts a blend of landscapes, wildlife, people, and archaeology that is unsurpassed in Africa. The volcanoes, grasslands, waterfalls, and mountain forests are home to an abundance of animals and to the Maasai.
Eat lunch on the crater floor and ascend the crater in the evening.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park.
Explore the park, famous for its tree-climbing pythons. The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth into a dusty red, with the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire River has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self, but it is choked with wildlife. Tarangire's pythons climb trees, as do its lions and leopards, lounging in the branches where the fruit of the sausage tree disguises the twitch of a tail.
After lunch, leave for an afternoon game drive.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
After breakfast, drive to Arusha.
Have lunch at a restaurant.
Go to the airport for your return flight, or ask your tour guide about a trip to Zanzibar for a beach visit.
Where this trip takes you
Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park
The route
The fine print
Meals and accommodation as per itinerary
Transport in a 4-wheel drive
Park entry fees
All government taxes
Tipping
All items of a personal nature
In case you need a customised tour, please contact us.
Logistics
Your 5 days finish where they began, in Kilimanjaro Airport Rd.
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