Compare 8 Days Tanzania Safari by Wakawaka Adventures
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Trip |
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Duration | 8 days |
Price From | $ 2,290 |
Price Per Day | $ 286 |
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Trip Style | Group tour |
Lodging Level | Standard |
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Flights & Transport | Ground transport included |
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Meals Included |
8 Breakfasts, 8 Lunches and 7 Dinners |
Description |
Discover this 8 days of tour to Africa, exploring to Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Conservation Area biking/hiking, Coffee Plantations, Serengeti and Ngorognoro Crater. |
Day 1: Karatu – Tarangire
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Pick up in Karatu and drive to Tarangire National Park. Enjoy a game drive through the park with a picnic lunch. This park is known for its holding one of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Lions, giraffes, zebras well seen and over 500 different birds species to find. Later go to Panorama Safari Camp/Fanaka Lodge for your dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Lake Manyara
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today you will explore the wonderful Lake Manyara. Enjoy a game drive in the park with a picnic lunch. Lake Manyara is best known for its rich variety of bird life and tree climbing lion. Elephants, monkeys, flamingos, pelicans, cormorants and storks, to mention a few also visible in Manyara. Later you will drive to Jambo Rooms/Flamingo Safari Lodge in Karatu or similar for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area biking/hiking
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Nature lovers will love the bike and walk in the Ngorongoro Forest Highlands. With a guide, you’ll learn about medicinal plants, view a number of bird species, watch waterfalls tumble down a cliff and see the elephant caves. If you are lucky, you may also see a number of animals who live in the forest such as elephants, buffalo, baboons, and various reptiles. The so-called elephant caves are where elephants as well as a number of other species come to extract salt and other minerals from the soil. Remember that while your chances of seeing a buffalo or elephants aren’t high these animals walk these same paths every day. A great day to take a break from the vehicle and enjoy true nature of Tanzania. Later go back to Karatu to Jambo Rooms/Flamingo Safari Lodge for your overnight.
Day 4: Coffee Plantation Resthouse
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast go to Coffee Plantation Resthouse, bordering the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Take a walk through the coffee, and vegetable plantations. Here you can see a variety of different species of trees as well. If you're lucky you can see elephants in the distant jungle. Take a walk through the nearby hills, optional to see and visit local families living the true African way.
Day 5: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will head off to Serengeti National Park. This is undoubtably Tanzania's most famous park. Great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant's gazelle are resident at any time of the year. Lions and leopards easily seen. You will enjoy a late afternoon game drive in the amazing Serengeti. Later go to your dinner and overnight at Nguchiro Campsite/Serengeti Wild Camp.
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and DinnerAfter breakfast you will venture into Serengeti’s wilderness corners for a full day of game viewing in the park. With a picnic lunch beside you, take your leisure while exploring this world heritage site, where earth’s largest concentration of plain game still roams free! In the evening you will go to Nguchiro Campsite/Serengeti Wild Camp for your dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast head out for your last game drive in the amazing Serengeti. You cannot see too much of the park. That's just the way it is! About 70 larger mammal and 500 bird species are found in this park. Blue wildebeests, gazelles, zebras, and buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region. Later drive to Simba Campsite/Ngorongoro Wild Camp for your dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater – Karatu
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
After breakfast descend down into the crater for a half day game drive inside the crater. This is the best place in Tanzania to see black rhino as well as prides of lion that include the magnificent black-manned males. There are lots of colorful flamingoes and a variety of water birds. Other game that you can see includes leopard, cheetah, hyena, other members of the antelope family, and small mammals. Later drive back to Karatu and end your journey with us.