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12 days

Day 1 - Arrive Tanzania

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 4 WD Land Cruisers and transfer you to your lodge. This Driver Guide will now be with you for your Safari.

Overnight at Mount Meru Game Lodge (BB)

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Day 2 – Tarangire National Park

After breakfast and a safari briefing we depart for Maramboi Tented Camp arriving in time fro an early lunch. The camp offers 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.

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. In the wet season, the Manyara and Tarangire Pans fill with water which attracts huge flocks of Flamingos and other wading birds. The area is also the only place in Easter Africa where one is often able to see the migration herds of tens of thousands of Wildebeest and Zebra, followed by predators. Although the migrations do occur in other areas of Tanzania, the tree cover prohibits a view of the magnitude that you are able to see at Maramboi Tented Camp because of the exposed nature of the surrounding grassland.

Activities include, game drives, guided walking safaris, bird watching on the shores of the not too distant Lake Manyara and cultural interaction with Datoga and Maasai, whose bomas populate the adjacent land. 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 rare African Hunting Dog. After lunch we will go for an afternoon Game Drive returning to the Camp before dusk for dinner.

Dinner and overnight at Maramboi Tented Camp (BLD)

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Day 3 – Tarangire National Park

Today you will have a full day game viewing in Tarangire National Park; you will take a picnic lunch to make most of the day. Tarangire National Park has some of the highest population density of elephants anywhere in Tanzania, and its sparse vegetation, strewn with baobab and acacia trees, makes it a beautiful and special location. Before the rains, droves of gazelle, wildebeest, zebra, and giraffes migrate to Tarangire National Park’s scrub plains where the last grazing land still remains. Tarangire offers unparalleled game viewing, and during the dry season elephants abound. Families of the pachyderms play around the ancient trunks of baobab trees and strip acacia bark from the thorn trees for their afternoon meal. Breathtaking views of the Masaai Steppe and the mountains to the south make a stop at Tarangire a memorable experience.

Dinner and overnight at Maramboi Tented Camp (BLD)

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Day 4 – Serengeti National Park

After breakfast at Maramboi Tented Camp we drive to the Serengeti with picnic lunches via the Ngorongoro Highlands. The Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers. Large prides of lions laze easily in the long grasses, plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trump to each other across the plains, and giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, and the whole range of African wildlife is in awe-inspiring numbers. Hopefully you will see the annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti. More than a million animals make the seasonal journey to fresh pasture to the north, then the south, after the biannual rains. The sound of their thundering hooves, raising massive clouds of thick red dust, has become one of the legends of the Serengeti plains.  The Serengeti National Park should only be enjoyed for the Luxury of a Mobile camp. Feel a part of the bush and experience the incredible sounds and smells of the wild African bush. The camp has three different locations during the year according to the movement of the wildlife.  Nevertheless the location might change depending on the movements of the Migration.  Mobile Camps offer guests the perfect balance between comfort, privacy and splendid isolation.

Dinner and Overnight at Serengeti Medium Tented Camp (BLD)                     

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Day 5 - Serengeti National Park

After breakfast we have a full day to explore. Your driver-guide will choose your route based on his extensive knowledge of the park and local conditions but the Serengeti rarely disappoints. We carry our picnic lunches 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 through the Gol Kopjes or hunting leopard along the Seronera River. The entire ecosystem thrives from the annual migration, from the lions and birds of prey that gorge themselves on the weak and the faltering to the gamut of hungry crocodiles that lie in patient wait at each river crossing for their annual feed. But it’s not just the wildebeest that use the Serengeti as a migratory pathway. Animals and birds of the area have a free range of movement to follow their seasonal migrations. Indeed, in the wake of the wildebeest migration, many of the less attention-grabbing features of the Serengeti are often overlooked. The park has varied zones in which each ecosystem is subtly different.

Dinner and Overnight at Serengeti Medium Tented Camp (BLD)                     

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Day 6 – Ngorongoro Crater

Today we depart the Serengeti for the Ngorongoro Crater, with a final game drive en-route. Again we take picnic lunches with us. We will visit the World Famous Olduvai Gorge. This truly magical place is where the Leakeys discovered the hominoid remains of a 1.8 million year old skeleton of Australopithecus boisei, one of the distinct links of the human evolutionary chain. In a small canyon just north of the crater, the Leakey’s and their team of international archaeologists unearthed the ruins of at least three distinct hominoid species, and also came upon a complete series of hominoid footprints estimated to be over 3.7 million years old. Evacuated fossils show that the area is one of the oldest sites of hominoid habitation in the world. Continue through the spectacular Ngorongoro highlands to your camp situated just outside of the Crater. A small exclusive lodge facing the Oldeani Volcano, only 5 kms. from the Ngorongoro Lolduare gate, meant to offer our clients an original experience reminiscent of the atmosphere of the olden days. Ngorongoro Farm House is a perfect stopover within any safari in the Northern Circuit of Tanzania and a privileged place to visit the Crater.   A visit to the village of Karatu or the Njia Panda school, rehabilitated with the contributions of our clients, can also make the day of anyone interested in cultural interaction or in helping to the development of the rural communities of Africa.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farmhouse (BLD)

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Day 7 – Ngorongoro Crater

A full day in the Ngorongoro Crater, with a picnic lunch, gives us time to explore in detail this fascinating wildlife amphitheatre. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. This unique caldera, formed by a sinking volcano, hosts a unique cross-section of eco-systems, from Soda Lake to savannah and is home to almost every major species of African mammal. Our presence does not threaten the wildlife making for an exhilarating proximity to the game that we rarely encounter elsewhere. 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 return to the lodge just before dusk. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farmhouse (BLD)

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Day 8 - Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha- Zanzibar

After breakfast you will return to Arusha. You will have lunch at The Savannah Grill, an exclusive restaurant on a beautiful coffee estate. Then transfer to Arusha Airport for your flight to Zanzibar where you will stay at Tembo Hotel in the heart of Stone Town, It may not have a particularly romantic name, but Stone Town is the old city and cultural heart of Zanzibar, little changed in the last 200 years. It is a place of winding alleys, bustling bazaars, mosques and grand Arab houses whose original owners vied with each other over the extravagance of their dwellings. This one-upmanship is particularly reflected in the brass-studded, carved, wooden doors - there are more than 500 different examples of this handiwork. You can spend many idle hours just wandering through the fascinating labyrinth of narrow streets and alleyways.

Dinner and Overnight at Tembo Hotel. (BLD)

Website; www.tembohotel.com

Day 9, 10, 11 – Zanzibar Three full days at leisure at Sunset Bay Hotel

Three full days at leisure at Sunset Beach Hotel

 Zanzibar's tropical climate ensures that a stay at Sunset Bay Hotel means a tanned homecoming at almost any time of the year and temperatures are usually above 25 degrees. The hotel’s central areas are set in beautifully landscaped gardens with an adjoining beautiful white sandy bay and fabulously clear waters where you can swim even during low tide (which is not always the case in Zanzibar). Or make use of the beautiful swimming pool, relax and soak up the laid back Zanzibar atmosphere beside the crystal blue pool. Dinner and Overnight at Sunset Bay Hotel. (BLD)

Website; www.sunsetbeachzanzibar.com

Day 12 – Zanzibar – Home

After a leisurely breakfast you will transfer to Zanzibar Airport and connect with your International Flight home.

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