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Tanzania · Luxury Safari
The journey
This safari covers Tanzania's popular Northern Circuit game parks in custom-designed 4x4 safari vehicles with open roofs for game viewing. Over 7 days, this small-group seat-in-vehicle safari is limited to a maximum of 6 travellers per vehicle, all with window seats. The journey includes meals, accommodation, park entry fees, and visits to Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire National Park. We strongly recommend booking the Serengeti Balloon Safari in advance as tickets are often sold out.
Manyara is also home to rare tree-climbing lions.
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Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport. After clearing customs, look for your AWAT Adventure driver, who will be waiting for you holding a sign with your name. Your driver will transport you to Moshi.
Overnight at Springlands Hotel (with breakfast) or similar.
Drive to Lake Manyara National Park in the morning. Set against the steep escarpment of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park features an evergreen groundwater forest and various ecosystems, including acacia woodland, grassy plains, a swampy fan delta, and, of course, the expansive lake. This diversity attracts a wide range of mammal, bird, and wildlife species.
Manyara is also home to rare tree-climbing lions. The park offers excellent game viewing, with buffalo, impala, giraffe, bushbuck, waterbuck, hippos, and many elephants roaming near the lake. Also look out for blue monkeys, velvet monkeys, and very active olive baboons.
Overnight at Highview Hotel (with lunch, dinner & breakfast) or similar.
Head out after breakfast for the drive to Serengeti National Park.
Relax for a full day in the Serengeti - unequalled for its beauty and home to the Great Wildebeest Migration. The huge herds of plains game, such as wildebeest, zebra, and antelope, dominate the park, while the attendant predators, such as lion and cheetah, are found among the many kopjes scattered across the plain.
The landscape varies from open grass plains in the south, savanna with scattered acacia trees in the center, and hilly, wooded grassland in the north, to extensive woodland and black clay plains in the west.
Overnight at Serengeti Safari Lodge (with lunch, dinner & breakfast) or similar.
Enjoy a morning game drive en route to Ngorongoro Crater. Descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for game driving and exploration. The crater is 600 m deep, 16 km across, and 265 sq km in area.
Enjoy the spectacular scenery and game viewing in what has been described as the eighth wonder of the world. Many of Tanzania's last remaining black rhinos can be seen grazing on the open grassland of the crater floor, surrounded by some of the 20,000 large animals that occupy the crater, including lion, cheetah, eland, zebra, and gazelle. Flamingos, among other bird species, can often be seen feeding at Makat Soda Lake.
Afternoon drive to your lodge for your overnight stay.
Overnight at Highview Hotel (with lunch, dinner & breakfast) or similar.
Drive to Tarangire National Park in the morning. Tarangire is traversed by the Tarangire River, which never dries up completely. As the only water source during the dry season, it draws hundreds of animals to the park, making wildlife and bird viewing spectacular.
The landscape is varied, with grassy savanna plains, swamps, hills, and spectacular baobabs. Enjoy a full day in the park with game viewing.
Overnight at Springlands Hotel (with lunch, dinner & breakfast) or similar.
Enjoy a morning of leisure before your transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport for your flight home.
Where this trip takes you
Serengeti National Park grass plains, Ngorongoro Crater floor, Lake Manyara National Park groundwater forest, Tarangire National Park baobab-studded savanna
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Your 7 days finish where they began, in Moshi.
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