Compare The Best of Tanzania by Expect In Africa Safari vs Bush & People 6 Days by Zama Tours & Safaris
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| Duration | 11 days | 6 days |
| Price From | $ 6,860 | $ 2,640 |
| Price Per Day | $ 624 | $ 440 |
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| Trip Style | Group tour | Private guided tour |
| Lodging Level | Premium | Premium |
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| Countries Visited | N/A | |
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| Flights & Transport | Internal airfare and ground transport included | Ground transport included |
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11 Breakfasts, 10 Lunches and 9 Dinners |
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| Description |
Start your Safari in Tarangire and learn about the inner workings of the bush on a walking safari before moving to the Serengeti to marvel at the endless golden plains and the herds of wildebeest thundering across the landscape in the Great Migration. |
A 6-day varied journey alternating wildlife viewing with cultural visits, witnessing the harmonious though sometimes challenging cohabitation between humans and animals. Accommodation will be mostly in luxury tents with en-suite facilities in natural surroundings, such as the Tarangire area, Serengeti National Park and Lake Eyasi. The night close to Ngorongoro will be in a lodge room of outstanding quality. Your private guide takes you in a 4x4 vehicle with pop-up roof along the rough roads of the parks and into the remote villages to get an insight in local tradition and culture. Talk with the elders, see daily life tasks of the women and hunt with the men. |
Day 1: Mount Meru Hotel
Arusha
Nestled in the foothills of Mount Meru among the verdant coffee bushes of one of Tanzania’s largest coffee plantations is the idyllic of Arusha Mount Meru Hotel. A short drive from Arusha airport, this is the perfect haven for relaxation before your safari begins.
Days 2 – 4: Sangaiwe Camp, Tarangire National Park
Activities:
Game drives
walking safaris
fly camping
Discover Africa just as it should be from Sangaiwe Camp in the remote southern reaches of Tarangire. Game drive through forests of enigmatic baobab, home to vast herds of buffalo and elephant, or discover the inner workings of the bush on foot on an exclusive walking safari.
Day 5– 7: Kiota Camp, Central Serengeti
Explore the heart of the Serengeti from Kiota Camp, a tranquil tented camp with expansive views of the pristine wilderness. Enjoy superb sightings of resident game, migration viewing twice a year and round it all off by gliding serenely above the plains on a sunrise balloon safari.
Activities
Game drives
Balloon safaris
The Great Migration (May/June and November/December)
Days 8 – 10: Chaka Camp, Northern Serengeti
Continue your exploration of the Serengeti on the beautiful of Northern plains where extraordinary wilderness encounters are commonplace, both from a vehicle and on foot. And do it all in remarkable luxury from award-winning Chaka Camp, a contemporary and elegant safari escape.
Activities
Game drives
Walking safaris
The Great Migration (July/August to November)
Day 11: Your last day at Chaka Camp,
Northern Serengeti
Depending on your arrangements, enjoy a final game drive deep in the wilderness before transferring to the airstrip for the next part of your journey.
Day 1: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Nimali Tarangire Lodge
Activity: Game drive in Tarangire
On arrival at the airport, you will be met by your guide and transferred to the Tarangire National Park, Tanzania’s third largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah and up to six thousand elephant. Late in the afternoon you will drive to your tentd lodge camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Tarangire National Park – Esilalei – Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Nyumbani Serengeti Camp
Activity: Cultural visit to the Maasai of Esilalei
After breakfast the tour takes you to the Maasai village of Esilalei, where a local guide will introduce you to his village and people. Get a better understanding of the natural medicines still used on a daily basis with a Maasai medicine walk of the surrounding area. Then continue down to a Boma (mud dwelling) for an introduction into the Maasai way of life, beliefs and rituals. The road then leads you through the Crater Forest and over the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. Short stop at the viewpoint with breath-taking views over the crater, before descending towards the Serengeti National Park. The vast extensions of the Serengeti plains before you will impress you and wanting you to explore this area in deep. Continue into the park to the tented camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Nyumbani Serengeti Camp
Activity: Game drives in Serengeti
The whole of the day is dedicated to wildlife watching in the Serengeti. In the Seronera Valley you will find wildebeest and zebras and often lions and other big cats such as leopards and cheetahs. Other areas that you will visit will depend upon where the migrating herds are to be found. Usually the wildebeest and the zebras during the short rainy season in October and November are to be found moving from the hills in the north, to the plains in the south. During the longer rainy season of April, May and June they return north. With fluctuations of annual rainfall, the exact location of the animals varies from year to year. Your guide however will know the location of the herds and also where to get the best views. You will spend another night in the same accommodation.
Day 4: Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Oldeani Mountain Lodge
Activity: Game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast you will start a new game drive in the Serengeti National Park before heading into the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater. As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater the caldera opens up before you and is a sight to behold. You’ll descend onto the crater floor to emerge into this fishbowl of wildlife. On the grass steppe and in the acacia tree woods, you will find almost all species that are found in the East African savannah with the exception of topis, Masai giraffes and impalas. Quite often you can observe the “Big Five” (lions, elephants, buffalos, rhinoceros and leopards) within a couple of hours. After an extensive wildlife tour you leave the Conservation Area for dinner and overnight in the lodge in the Crater Highlands.
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater Highlands – Lake Eyasi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Activity: Cultural visit to the Hadzabe tribe
Accommodation: Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp
We enter the true tribal areas of Tanzania after leaving the tourist trail and heading towards Lake Eyasi, home to the hunter-gathers, an ethnic group of the Hadzabe Bushmen bearing similar characteristics to those of the Bushmen in Southern Africa. The small people of this indigenous tribe are probably the last living in true harmony with nature and have a wealth of fauna and flora knowledge to share with us. The time you’ll spend with them is filled with tours and game walks guided by bushmen taking you on their traditional hunting tracks. Dinner and overnight in a tented camp.
Day 6: Lake Eyasi – Arusha
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Activity: Hunting with the Hadzabe
A last early morning hunt with the Hadza, offering a perfect end to your iconic bush & people experience. Then it is back to Arusha for your flight home or further destination.
