8 Days Tanzania Luxury Safari to Serengeti

Description

A trip to Africa isn’t complete without a visit to Tanzania, an untamed country of charming ancient towns, astonishing wildlife, pristine beaches, archaeological sites, and diverse landscapes such as majestic mountain peaks, unending stretches of open plains, and untouched islands. If you crave doses of deluxe treatments while exploring this amazing nation, Luxury Safaris Tanzania is the best operator to take you around. Adding to the experience, our friendly staff, customized tour packages, sumptuous lodging facilities provided and great vehicles used are enough to make your Safari to Tanzania a memorable one. Scenic scheduled safari flights are included allowing time-saving and convenient access to the wilderness. The private safari has plenty of Game drives - giving you the best wildlife viewing and nature experience in Tanzania. Expert and highly experienced safari guide driving a 4x4 vehicle allows maximum flexibility, independence, and personalization, especially during game drives.

Highlights
  • An incredible fly-in safari seeing the iconic northern parks.
  • Ground transportation in private 4x4 custom safari vehicles.
  • Unlimited game drives with expert guides.
  • Unlimited game drives with expert guides.
  • Fully inclusive of full board accommodation and internal flights connecting national parks.
  • This 8 Day Luxury Safari takes you to some of the best national parks and conservation areas in the north of Tanzania.
Includes
  • Airport Pickup and Drop–Off
  • Private Jeep 4×4 equipped with refrigerator, portable charging stations, and pop-up roof
  • Unlimited mileage game drive
  • Professional, English-speaking guide
  • Meals according to the itinerary
  • Mineral water on all days
  • All mentioned activities
  • All park entrances fees
  • Flying Doctors insurance (AMREF) during the safari for emergence evacuations
  • All government taxes
Excludes
  • Flights(International)
  • Alcoholic and soft drinks
  • Tips for safari guide
  • Personal expenses in nature such as money for souvenirs travel insurance, visa fees, etc.
  • Visa fees (100 USD for American and 50 USD for non-American)
  • Immunization documents (yellow fever recommended for visa processing on arrivals)
  • The government imposed an increase in taxes and /or park fees

Location Map

Tour Timeline

  • 1
    Day 1: Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport

    Arriving at Kilimanjaro International Airport. We will meet you at the airport the airport and time of arrival should be advised before so we can arrange the schedule for pick up and transfer to Arusha for overnight at Lake Duluti Serena Lodge on a half board basis.

  • 2
    Day 2 : Arusha - Tarangire National Park

    After an early breakfast, you leave the lodge at 7. 00am and drive via Arusha to Tarangire National Park for a game drive. You will arrive there around 8. 30 to 9. 00Am. After check-in procedures, you proceed with game drive up to the afternoon and will stop for picnic lunch. In the evening you will then drive towards the lodge for dinner and overnight The Park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings.

  • 3
    Day 3: Tarangire National Park - Lake Manyara National Park

    After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara national park for a full-day game drive in the park. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake covering two-thirds of the park, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s ied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Evening drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

  • 4
    Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater - Serengeti National Park

    Leave early in the morning and descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half day’s safari tour. Late afternoon drive to Serengeti for overnight and dinner at the lodge. Ngorongoro crater supports the wildlife with a year-round water supply and fodder. It also supports a vast of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here if the season allows.

  • 5
    Day 5: Full day Serengeti National Park

    On this day we depart early in the morning with our packed breakfast and lunch and drive further to the Mara River whereby then we will find along the way groups of wildebeests moving towards the river or congregating along the river waiting for their time to cross. The wait to see them crossing is like waiting for a person to be born and everyone is alert if you hear at any point they cross! It is such an adventurous event to witness. It is also the time for the monster's crocodiles to wait for their meals after almost a year long. We will spend our day there along with the Mara River areas. Evening drive to central Serengeti for hot showers and dinner overnight at the lodge Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. It is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth - the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, and birds is also impressive.

  • 6
    Day 6: Serengeti Mara River to Serengeti Central

    On this day again you depart early in the morning with our packed breakfast and lunch for the last game drive along the Mara River and then drive to the central Serengeti for a full day game drive dinner and overnight at Mbugani Tented Lodge Central.

  • 7
    Day 7: Serengeti via Ngorongoro – Karatu

    On this day you have a morning game drive in the Serengeti and then lunch at the lodge. After lunch, you drive to Karatu. You will stop at the Maasai village for a cultural tour and then you proceed for dinner Overnight at Bougainvillea Lodge.

  • 8
    Day 8: Karatu - Arusha - Kilimanjaro International Airport

    After breakfast at the lodge, you will then transfer via Arusha to Kilimanjaro international airport JRO for your flight home.