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Day 1 – Arusha
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport you will be met by a Nordic Travel Professional
Driver Guide holding a sign board with your booking name clearly written. After checking that you have all your luggage and belongings he will take you to one of our safari 4WD vehicle and transfer you to your lodge. This Driver Guide will be with you for your Safari.
Mount Meru Game Lodge - The main emphasis of the Game Sanctuary is to provide safe haven to African plains game and birds. These include eland, ostriches, waterbucks, zebras, buffalo, small carnivores such as Monitor lizards, small wild cats and of course the enormous variety of birdlife who come to feed, breed and enjoy the unique freedom offered by our very safe environment. The lodge comprises 15 double or twin en-suite bedrooms and 2 suites. The design and character of the rooms are as individualistic as the lodge itself. All rooms have a veranda with comfortable chairs where guests may sit during the late afternoons enjoying the peace of the surroundings, soaking up the unique atmosphere of the Lodge and watching the animal and birdlife.
Overnight at Mount Meru Game Lodge (BB)
Website: www.intimate-places.com
Kilimanjaro airport – Mount Meru Game Lodge: 35kms, approx. 45 minutes
Day 2 – Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast and safari briefing, drive to Manyara and arrive in time for Lunch at Losirwa Tented Camp. Afternoon game viewing in Lake Manyara National Park. The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands, colorful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world.
Losirwa Tented Camp - is a Luxury Tented Lodge over looking Lake Manyara. All the rooms with private verandas, walk ways and thatch roofing all are overlooking Lake Manyara. The Lounge, dining room, bar and balcony are all spaciously designed for your comfort. A clear blue swimming pool is also available
Dinner and overnight at Losirwa Tented Camp (BLD)
Website www.losirwa.com
Mount Meru Game Lodge – LosirwaTented Camp: 150 kms, approx. 2 ½ hours
Day 3 – Serengeti National Park
After breakfast we capture our way through the forested slopes of the Ngorongoro Highlands, en route to the Serengeti. We stop at Olduvai Gorge to visit the site where Mary and Louis Leakey first discovered the remains of Zinjanthropus Bosei, a distant ancestor of man believed to be 1.8 million years old, Australopithecus Bosei, the ‘Nutcracker Man’, a species that became extinct about 1 million years ago and fossilised footprints that date back 3,6 million years. Pack lunch en route. From here the predator-rich plains of the Serengeti as we game drive through the park to arrive at the Camp, just before dusk.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Medium (BLD)
Website: www.tangantikawildernesscamps.com
LosirwaTented Camp – Serengeti Medium: 225kms, approx. 5 ½ hours
Day 4 – Serengeti National Park
We have full day to explore Serengeti, the most famous National Park in Africa. Your driver-guide will choose our route based on his extensive knowledge of the park and local conditions but the Serengeti rarely disappoints. We carry our packed lunch with us so as to make the most of the day, but our trip might include a trail along the banks of the Grumeti River in search of basking lions, tracking cheetah or hunting leopard along the River.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Medium (BLD)
Day 5 – Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After early breakfast we depart with packed lunches for afternoon Crater tour. We descend down the 2000-ft walls of the Crater, a World Heritage Site and home to nearly 25,000 animals, for a game drive. Here you have a very real chance of spotting the big five: lion, elephant, endangered black rhino, buffalo and leopard plus countless other African mammal species. We drive to the lodge just before dusk.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House (BLD)
Website: www.tanganyikawildernesscamps.com
Serengeti Medium – Ngorongoro Farm House Lodge: 160kms, approx. 3½ hours
Day 6 – Tarangire National Park
After breakfast we depart for Tarangire arriving in time for an early lunch. Afternoon game viewing in Tarangire National Park. In the dry-season of June - October, Tarangire National Park can surpass the Serengeti in terms of animal concentration as big herds begin to congregate around the permanent water of Tarangire River. It is not uncommon to see herds of 50 + elephant as well as every other mammal species including the rare Kudu and Oryx. The park is also noted for its prolific bird life and the occasional sighting of cheetah and the African Hunting Dog.
Maramboi Tented Camp – Is a unique opportunity to experience and explore the Tarangire and Manyara ecosystem. The Camp offers permanent camp facilities and endless vistas of rolling golden grasslands and palm lined desert between Tarangire and Manyara Lake. A visit to the area is essential for anyone interested in evolution and the origins of Mankind and an explanation of the Rift Valley and Africa’s big picture. It is a complete semi desert experience focusing on safari walks and game drives also an impressive landscape from the Rift Valley gives the visitor an amazing natural welcome to an area extraordinarily rich in wildlife. The camp offers stunning views of the Manyara National Park, Rift Valley, Ngorongoro highlands and on clear days even Oldonyo Lengai a sacred mountain to the Maasai.
Dinner and overnight at Maramboi Tented Camp (BLD)
Ngorongoro Farm House – Maramboi Tented Camp: 215kms, approx. 4:45 hours
Day 7 – Arusha / Zanzibar Stone Town
After breakfast you drive back to Arusha for hot Lunch at Shanga River House before you take Zan Air afternoon flight to Zanzibar ETD 1400 ETA 1520. Upon arrival in Zanzibar airport you will be met by Island Express driver guide who will take you to your Hotel in the heart of Stone Town.
Tembo house - Ideally-sited on the Zanzibar harbour-front, this beautiful Stone Town Hotel was an old historical merchant’s house carefully restored. There is an excellent swimming pool and restaurant, although the whole area has such an excellent range of eating places that we recommend a stay on a bed and breakfast basis. The hotel has two wings - traditional - and all rooms have all modern facilities with traditional Zanzibari sunken baths.
Overnight at Tembo Hotel Prime Room (BB)
Website www.tembohotel.com
Zanzibar Airport – Tembo House Hotel: 20min approx.
Day 8 – Zanzibar Beach
After breakfast you can check out from the hotel rooms and walk for yourselves through the market to see and taste some of the fruits available in Zanzibar such as Mabungo and Baobab fruits. Visit “kuku,” the chicken market, and the fish market where many exotic fish are sold following with your own exploration then you will be transferred to the East Coast of Zanzibar for your beach extension.
Lunch will be on client’s own account.
Dinner and overnight at Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa – Superior Room (HB)
Website: www.bluebayzanzibar.com
Tembo House Hotel –Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa: 1 hour. approx.
Day 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 – Zanzibar Beach
You will spend another five nights on the lovely beaches of Zanzibar. There are a number of activities that can be arranged through the hotel front desk, or you can simply relax along the beautiful beaches.
Bluebay Beach Resort - is situated on the finest wide, white, sandy beach on the island of Zanzibar. The Resort is on the most beautiful 30-acre site with its bedroom cottages located on rising ground overlooking verdant gardens, the public areas, the pool, the more than 1,000 beautiful palm trees, the sparkling white beach and the azure seas beyond.
Dinner and overnight at Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa – Superior Room (HB)
Day 14 - Departure
Today you will be transferred to Zanzibar airport for your international flight home departing out of Zanzibar or take a flight to Dar es Salaam to connect an International flight.
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