10-Day Tanzania Safari and Zanzibar Beach Tour with Big Five Parks

• Meet and greet your guide on arrival in the morning at the airport, or be picked up from your hotel in Arusha.
• Depart for Lake Manyara National Park with a packed lunch, arriving in good time for morning and afternoon game drives. Lake Manyara National Park takes pride in its diversified habitat, reflected in its varied fauna. Some of the more common and visible large mammal species here include buffalo, elephant, giraffe, zebra, lion, and wildebeest. Prominently renowned for its tree-climbing lions, Lake Manyara is also home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is rich in fantastic birdlife, with more than 400 species of birds recorded here.

Dinner and overnight at Manyara Serena/Wildlife Lodge or similar.

• Have an early morning breakfast at around 07.00 am.
• After breakfast, leave the lodge and proceed to Serengeti National Park with a packed lunch via the Ngorongoro Crater Rim, enjoying game viewing en route.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge or similar.

• After breakfast, continue with morning and afternoon game drives. Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's largest and best-known national park, with a massive concentration of migratory animals that move around the park according to the availability of food. Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a World Heritage Site and one of the best wildlife sanctuary areas, recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder.

All meals and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge or similar.

• Enjoy an early morning game drive in Serengeti National Park.
• Return to the lodge for breakfast.
• Check out of the lodge and drive with a packed lunch, enjoying game viewing en route to the Ngorongoro Crater Rim.
• Optional activity: visit Olduvai Gorge at an extra fee payable directly to the museum. Ngorongoro Crater is the world's biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km and is arguably the most stunning arena. It is frequently described as one of the wonders of the world, not only because of its geological magnificence, but also because it serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa's largest populations of large mammals.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

• Enjoy an early morning breakfast, then descend to the Crater Floor with a picnic lunch for a game drive.
• Have lunch at the picnic site.
• Thereafter, continue with game viewing while ascending from the crater and drive to your Tarangire National Park lodge. Tarangire National Park is a beautiful and special park in Northern Tanzania. It is famous for its high density of elephants, exceeding that of Lake Manyara and Serengeti. The park displays a diverse range of wildlife, namely pythons, lions and leopards climbing trees and lounging in the branches, African buffalo, lesser and greater kudu, cheetah, fringe-eared oryx, Maasai giraffe, spotted hyena, common zebra, white-bearded wildebeest, warthog, eland, olive baboon, bat-eared fox, impala, common waterbuck, bushbuck, Coke's hartebeest, gerenuk, and bohor reedbuck. Over 550 bird species have been recorded here, making it a sure pleasure for any bird lover. Baobab trees are especially common here.

Dinner and overnight at a lodge.

• Have an early morning breakfast, then drive to Tarangire National Park for the morning game drive.
• Thereafter, have lunch and leave the park while viewing the last game.
• Drive back to Arusha, arriving in the evening.

Dinner and overnight stay at either Kibo Palace Hotel or Arusha Safari Lodge.

• Have breakfast at leisure in the morning, and thereafter transfer to the airport to board your flight to Zanzibar.
• Meet and greet the representative at the airport and transfer to the beach resort.

Optional beaches: Bellevue Guesthouse, Casa Del Mar, Paradise Beach Hotel, or Coral Rock at the beautiful Zanzibar East Coast, or similar, to start your beach holiday.

• Spend the full day relaxing and enjoying Zanzibar beaches with optional beach activities.

Dinner and overnight at either Bellevue Guesthouse, Casa Del Mar, Paradise Beach Hotel, or Coral Rock.

• Spend the full day relaxing and enjoying Zanzibar beaches with optional beach activities.

Dinner and overnight at either Bellevue Guesthouse, Casa Del Mar, Paradise Beach Hotel, or Coral Rock.

• Have breakfast at leisure in the morning, and then transfer in the afternoon to the airport for your flight back to Kilimanjaro International Airport.