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6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari
This is one amazing 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari in some of the most famous Tanzania parks. It will give you all the choices one would want to experience in a park. You will be able to spot all the big mammals and the big five from this Tanzania safari
Detailed 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Airport Pick Up
Our guide driver will pick you from the airport and will drive you to Arusha in one of the hotels of your choice. He will also brief you on the entire safari. Enjoy a restful night before you beginning your safari the following morning
Recommended Accommodation:
- Villa Maua Arusha
- Fun Retreat Resort
- Karama Lodge
- Savannah House
- Mirimba palm Hotel
- Villa Maua Arusha
- Siringit villa by Mantis
- Meal Plan: half board
Day 2: Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, our guide driver will pick you up and brief you on the activities of the day before departing to Tarangire National Park, this is one of the largest parks in Tanzania and is located in the Manyara region.
It is characterized by the large herds of elephants and tree climbing lions that call it home, as well as the fascinating baobab trees that are renowned for their mythical powers by some of the local cultures.
The Tarangire River flows through the park year around and is the only source of water to the animals during the dry season. After this experience, you will return to your lodge and refreshen and go for dinner and later overnight
Recommended Accommodation:
- Tarangire Simba Lodge
- Mbali Mbali Tarangire Ridge Lodge
- Tarangire Safari Lodge
- Tarangire Kuro Treetops lodge
- Sanctuary Swala
- Nimali Tarangire
- Burunge Tented Lodge
- Baobab tented camp
- Meal plan: full board
Day 3 of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will depart for Serengeti National Park with an en Route Lunch. You will enjoy a game drive en route. The Serengeti is famed for its incredible wildlife, stunning views and the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras.
In this frenzied bout of territorial conquest and mating, witness an actual survival of the fittest as these animals plunge through crocodile- infested waters. The wildebeest will give birth to more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again
Recommended Accommodation:
- Four seasons Safari lodge Serengeti
- Melia Serengeti Lodge
- Sand River Masai Mara by Elewana
- Seronera wildlife lodge
- Serengeti serena safari lodge
- One nature hotel nyaruswiga Serengeti
- Serengeti safari lodge
- Kananga special tented camp
- Kubu kubu tented lodge
- Meal plan full board
Day 4: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will set off on a full day game drive in the wilderness following the great migration trails. You can engage our guide driver as much as you can to give you the information necessary for this park and the animals and other interesting facts about this park
Serengeti, a UNESCO World heritage site, is home to around 200,000 zebras, and 300,000 Thomson ’s gazelle which join in the wildebeest’s great migration in search for fresh grazing. Listen to the exotic sounds of over six million hooves pounding the open plains. This is just like you imagined African to be
Recommended Accommodation:
- Four seasons Safari lodge Serengeti
- Melia Serengeti Lodge
- Sand River Masai Mara by Elewana
- Seronera wildlife lodge
- Serengeti serena safari lodge
- One nature hotel nyaruswiga Serengeti
- Serengeti safari lodge
- Kananga special tented camp
- Kubu kubu tented lodge
- Meal plan full board
Day 5 of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari: Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, you will head towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for a game drive. This is another UNESCO World Heritage site located west of Arusha in the crater highlands of Tanzania. The area is named after the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera.
The largest landscape of Ngorongoro, with its vast expanses of highlands plains and concentration of wildlife, animals making this place one of the most exotic natural wonders on earth
Recommended Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
- And Beyond Ngorongoro Crater lodge
- Neptune Ngorongoro Luxury Lodge
- Lemala Ngorongoro tented camp
- Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge
- Meal plan: full board
Day 6: Lake Manyara National Park and Transfer Back to Arusha
After an early breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park, whose lake Ernest Hemingway claimed was “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.
The park offers a compact game viewing circuit and is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. The lake itself covers two-thirds of the park and the Great Rift Valley with a stunning backdrop
Over 400 species of birds can be found in the Manyara, including thousands of pink-hued flamingoes on their perpetual migration, as well as other large waterbirds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks
In the afternoon you will transfer to Arusha, where you guide will drop you at the hotel or at the airport if your flight is that very day.
End of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari
SAFARI in Tanzania was a CHALLENGE! (Ngorongoro & Serengeti)
Highlight of this 6 day best of Tanzania safari
Airport pick up and transfer to your hotel
Activities Of This Trip
- Game drive
- Nature walks
- Community visits
6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari Inclusions and Exclusions
Safari includes:
Transportation in a tour van/Landcruiser
Service of an English -speaking tour guide/driver
All activities mentioned in the itinerary
Park admissions
Accommodation on full board
Entrance fees to all destinations as per the program
Transfer to and from the airport
Safari exclusions
All activities not mentioned in the program
Phone calls bills
Tips
International transfers
Gratitude to tour guides
Personal insurance
Personal effects of any nature
Hotel fees before and after the safari
Background Information of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari
Lake Manyara National Park – Lake Manyara
This is a protected area in Tanzania’s Arusha and Manyara regions. Situated between Lake Manyara and Great Rift Valley. It is administered by the Tanzanian National Park Authority.
And covers areas of 322 km (125 sq. mi) including about 230 km (89 sq. mi) lake surface. More than 350 bird species have been observed on this lake. Since the 1920, the lake Manyara area was used for sports hunting. In 195, a game reserve was established.
In 1960, it was given a National Park status and in 1974 about 550 ha (1,400 acres) were added to the southern end. The majority of the land area of the park a narrow strip running between the Gregory Rift wall to the west and lake manyara, an alkaline lake
Ngorongoro Conservation Area – The Crater
The Ngorongoro crater (260km2) is the most densely populated area in the world. There are estimated 25,000 animals on the crater floor including the big five. The rim of the crater is about 600 meters above the crater floor in the middle of which is a Salt Lake.
At night herds of zebras and elephants climb the edge of the crater and in day time the Maasai herds their cows and goats down into crater allowing them graze on the green crater floor.
Olduvai Gorge
Running 45 kilometers along the rift valley between Ngorongoro crater and Serengeti, this gorge is named after the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant. Often referred to as “the cradle of humankind” East Africa is one of the most important anthropological areas in the world.
Louis and Mary Leakey began searching for evidence of early humans in the 1950s, and in 1974 the well-preserved skeleton of Lucy’ was discovered and has since retained the fame as the oldest human ever found
The Serengeti National Park
This is a Tanzanian National Park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions. It’s famous and well known for its annual migration of 1.5 million white- bearded (brindled) wildebeests and 250,000 zebra and for its numerous Nile crocodile and honey badger.
That migration is the largest remaining unaltered animal migration. It contains 1.5 million ha of savannah. The park is the centrepiece of the Serengeti ecosystem and twice as large. The park covers, 14,750 square kilometers (5,700 sq. mi) of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest, and woodlands.
The park lies in north-western Tanzania, bordered to the north by the Kenyan border, where it is continuous with Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park is Ngorongoro Conservation Area, to the west are the Ikorongo and Grumeti Game Reserve, and to the northeast and east lies the Loliondo Game Control Area. Together, the areas form the larger Serengeti Ecosystem
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