8-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Hadzabe Culture

• You will depart after breakfast and drive to Tarangire National Park for a day game drive in the park.
• Your guide will prepare a hot lunch.
• After lunch, you will continue with an afternoon game drive, and in the evening drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
• The park is located slightly off the main safari route.
• Tarangire National Park is a lovely, quiet park in Northern Tanzania that is most famous for its elephant migration, birding, and quiet, authentic safari atmosphere.
• The majority of travelers to the region either miss out on Tarangire altogether or venture into the park for only a matter of hours, leaving parts of Tarangire virtually untouched.

Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

• After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a morning walking safari in the park and a game drive. Your guide will prepare a hot lunch with soft, cold refreshments. In the evening, you will drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
• Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania's birdlife.
• More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day.
• Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara's legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants.

Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

• After breakfast, you will depart and drive to Lake Natron.
• En route, you will visit the Engaruka Ruins, lake waterfalls, and the village. You will then have a hot lunch. In the evening, you will have your overnight stay at the lodge.
• The East African Halophytics comprise two saline lakes, both situated in Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley.
• These lakes are inhospitable environments for most plants and animals, as the water is saline, extremely hot, and subject to rapid salinity changes following rains.
• However, the lakes are home to huge flocks of lesser and greater flamingos that breed on the mud flats surrounding the lakes.

Accommodation: Lake Natron Tented Camp

• You will depart after breakfast and drive to Serengeti National Park.
• You will have a hot lunch in the afternoon and proceed with a game drive in Central Serengeti. In the evening, you will check into the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
• Even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa.
• Great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephants and giraffes, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, and Grant's gazelles can be seen here.
• You will explore a range of different habitats that include swamps, woodland, soda lakes, and the world-famous Serengeti short grass plains.
• During a short period around February, usually lasting about 3 weeks, the majority of the wildebeests calve. The sea of grass provides little cover, and the young are easy pickings for various predators.
• Wildebeest calves can run minutes after they are born, and within 3 days they are normally strong enough to keep up with the herd.

Accommodation: Serengeti Tortilis Camp

• After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive in Serengeti Central, with a hot lunch served by your guide. In the evening, you will return to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
• A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfill their instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life.
• It is a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating, survival of the fittest, as 40 km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north.
• They replenish the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

Accommodation: Serengeti Tortilis Camp

• You will depart Serengeti after breakfast and drive to Ngorongoro for a full-day game drive in the crater.
• Your guide will set up a full table and serve you a delicious hot lunch.
• You will proceed with an afternoon game drive and in the evening drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
• The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20 km across, 600 m deep, and 300 km in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder.
• You will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater.
• A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here.

Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

• You will depart after breakfast and drive to Lake Eyasi for the bushmen tour, with a hot lunch. In the evening, you will check into the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
• Small groups of Hadzabe bushmen live around Lake Eyasi. Their language resembles the click languages of other bushmen farther south in the Kalahari.
• Their small population was seriously threatened, in particular during the period when Julius Nyerere tried to introduce his Ujuma policy in Tanzania.

Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge

• You will wake up early in the morning and go hunting with the bushmen.
• Then, you will return to the lodge for breakfast. Afterwards, you will depart and drive back to Arusha, where lunch will be served en route.
• You will arrive in Arusha for the drop-off.