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TANZANIA SERENGETI SAFARI

DURATION:

5 Nights / 6 Days

Begins: Arusha, Tanzania

Ends: Arusha, Tanzania

Ngorongoro - Serengeti - Lake Manyara

 

Highlights: This exciting safari takes you through some of Tanzania’s finest reserves.  Lake Manyara National Park in the Great Rift Valley abounds in elephant, hippos and buffalo.  The Eighth Wonder of the World – Ngorongoro Crater – rising high above the Serengeti plains, is a vast, natural amphitheatre rich in wildlife. The Serengeti is a magnificently vast expanse of savannah where lions, cheetahs and hyenas stalk their prey.

Safari Routing & Accommodation:

2 Nights Full Board at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge / Sopa Lodge or Wildlife Lodge in Ngorongora Conservation

2 Nights Full Board at  Serengeti Serena Lodge / Sopa Lodge or Seronera Wildlife Lodge in Serengeti National Park

1 Night Full Board at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge / or Lake Manyara Lodge in Manyara National Park

ACCOMMODATION:

Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Close to Olduvai Gorge, “the cradle of mankind”, the stunning Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge has been constructed into the crater rim  skilfully set to match the existing contours of the site...read more on Ngorongoro Serena Lodge on a Safari in Tanzania

Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge

Serengeti Serena Lodge is set high on a hill with breathtaking vistas of a landscape teeming with game. Big game feed in full view of the lodge itself. .read more on Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge on a Tanzania Safari .

Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge

Dramatically set on the edge of the Mto wa Mbu escarpment, Lake Manyara Serena offers breathtaking views of the Great Rift Valley ...read more on Lake Manyara Serena Lodge on a Tanzania Safari


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As you are only a 20 minute connecting flight from Zanzibar, why not combine this Tanzania safari with a Zanzibar beach holiday....



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Zanzibar Beach Extension:

Combine this safari with a 5-night Zanzibar Beach Holiday at the 5* The Zanzibari Beach Resort - from GB£ 515 per person sharing double/twin inclusive of flight Kilimanjaro / Zanzibar and airport transfers....view Zanzibar Beach Holiday

Or:

5 Nights half-board at Tanzanite Beach Resort from GB£ 385 per person....

 

 SAFARI ITINERARY:

Day 1 – Kilimanjaro / Arusha / Ngorongoro – duration 4hrs

Collection from Kilimanjaro Airport. Lunch in Arusha Town.

Transfer to Ngorongoro Serena Lodge arriving in the late afternoon.

Time at leisure to relax and enjoy the magnificent views from your lodge.  Dinner & overnight at the lodge.


Day 2 – Ngorongoro Conservation

After breakfast, transfer down to the crater for a day of game viewing.  Packed lunch will be provided. The first light of the day sends its golden shafts under the ethereal mist and fog hovering on the rim to spill in puddles of gold on the Crater floor far below.  The Crater is actually a huge caldera or collapsed volcano, 12 miles across, providing a Garden-of-Eden like home for the thousands of animals that live there.

All meals & overnight at your lodge.


Day 3 – Ngorongoro / Serengeti – duration 3hrs

Breakfast and transfer to Serengeti National Park stopping at Olduvai Gorge, made famous by the Leakey Family who began their excavations here in 1931.  Abundant fossil material dating back more than a million years, including hominid remains of Zinjanthropes bossei, have been discovered here. 

After a picnic lunch, you enter the short grass plains of Serengeti National Park, punctuated by periodic rocky outcrops (called kopjes).  Wildlife viewing en route, you arrive at the lodge .  Afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park.

Dinner & overnight at the lodge.


Day 4 - Serengeti National Park

Full day of game drives in the Serengeti with either packed or hot lunch depending on the movement of the animals. The Serengeti is world famous as the home of a million and a half wildebeest and zebra.  There are a multitude of the other plains animals (more than 35 species) to see, as well as hippos, giraffes and black manned lions.
Dinner and Overnight at the lodge.


Day 5 – Serengeti – Manyara – duration 3hrs

After breakfast a further game drive in the Serengeti and drive to Lake Manyara with packed lunch. Afternoon of game drive in Lake Manyara National Park searching for wildlife taking their afternoon siesta. The park is bounded to the east by the shores of the lake and northwest of the Rift Valley.  The park has a large variety of habitats, making it possible to support a wealth of wildlife in its small area.

The most famous spectacle in the park is the tree-climbing lions, which are occasionally seen along branches of acacia trees. Other animals found in the park include buffalo, elephants, leopards, baboons, impala, giraffes, zebra, wildebeest, ostrich and hippos.


Dinner and Overnight – Lake Manyara Serena Lodge


Day 6 – Arusha – departure – duration 1.5hrs

Breakfast and transfer to Arusha.  Lunch may be taken in Arusha.  Transfer for your return flight from Kilimanjaro Airport or proceed with your chosen beach extension to Zanzibar.


2011 Tanzania Serengeti Safari Costs..

Select our Private Safari or a Join-In Safari for a thrilling Tanzania Safari.

Tanzania Serengeti Safari 2011

 

PRIVATE SAFARI - Departs on your dates of travel

per person sharing - costs based on 2 persons in your group - contact us for reductions for more then 2 in group.

 

JOIN-IN SAFARI - Departs from Arusha every Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays

Per Person Sharing:

1st June to 31st October 2011 &

21st to 31st December 2011

Serena Lodges (5*)

 

Sopa Lodges (4*)

 

Wildlife Lodges (3*)

 

Serena Lodges (5*) Sopa Lodges (4*) Wildlife Lodges (3*)
£1,655 £1,570 £ 1,440  - £1,460 -
 

1st November to 20th December 2011

 

£1,330 

 

£1,415

 

£1,350

   

£1,125

 

Inclusive of: 5 Nights Full Board accommodation , park fees,  game-drives daily in 4WD safari vehicle with professional English-speaking driver-guide , all transfers,

Cost Excludes: Tanzania Visas - currently US$ 50 per person ;  international flights;

Contact us for sale fares on your dates of travel

2012 Tanzania Serengeti Safari Costs

Tanzania Simba Safari 2012

 

PRIVATE SAFARI - Departs on your dates of travel - costs based on 2 persons in your group - contact us for reductions for more then 2 in group.

 

JOIN-IN SAFARI - Departs from Arusha every Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays

per person sharing

1st January to 29th February 2012  &

1st June to 31st October 2012 &

21st to 31st December 2012

Serena Lodges (5*)

 

Sopa Lodges (4*)

 

Wildlife Lodges (3*)

 

Serena Lodges (5*) Sopa Lodges (4*) Wildlife Lodges (3*)
£1,750 £1,605 £ 1,535

 £1,500

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1st to 31st March 2012   &

1st November to 20th December 2012

 

£1,410

 

£1,445

 

£1,380

 

£1,145

 

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1st April to 31st May 2012   £1,210 £1,190 £1,170

£945

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