Our 22 Days Tanzania standard Safari journey starts from the capital city of Tanzania to the prime safari city of Arusha, where you will have an authentic Maasai cultural experience on your last day. Everything is under one safari package. Discuss your next Africa vacation holiday with us today.
Arrive anytime at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) or Arusha Airport. Meet and greet with our representative, followed by a transfer to Arusha, ready to start your 22 Days Tanzania Standard Safari. When you land at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you might see Mount Kilimanjaro if the day is clear. You may also have the option to do some activities in Arusha, such as a coffee tour, City tour, museum tour, local market tour, or Maasai market tour. Dinner and overnight will be at PLANET HOTEL.
After breakfast, we will pick you up at the hotel and then transfer you to Dar es Salaam International Airport to catch your flight to Kigoma at 10:10 hrs, arriving at 15:20 hrs.
On your arrival at Kigoma Airport, your ‘Safari Guide’ will pick you up and transfer you to a lodge.
Dinner and overnight will be at Kigoma Hill Top Hotel (FB).
A hot Breakfast followed by a boat transfer to Gombe Stream National Park through the world’s longest and second-deepest lake – Lake Tanganyika.
On arrival, go for trekking of chimpanzees with packed lunch boxes. You’ll also visit the two waterfalls of Gombe, including the ‘Kakombe Waterfalls,’ which have many bird species.
Dinner and Overnight at Gombe Forest Lodge(FB)
Gombe Stream National Park is a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat for Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees. The most visible of Gombe’s other mammals are also primates. Trekking the chimps of the Gombe Stream is an exceptionally magical experience.
Another half-day chimpanzee trekking with your packed lunch boxes at Gombe Stream National Park until the afternoon.
You will have a chance to experience various activities, such as snorkeling and swimming on the beautiful beaches of the lake (Lake Tanganyika).
Dinner and stay overnight at Gombe Forest Lodge (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
After breakfast at the lodge, take a boat and transfer to Kigoma Town (one hour drive); arriving in the early noon, stay overnight at Kigoma Hill Top Hotel (bed & breakfast)
After breakfast, you will drive to Katavi National Park with your packed lunch boxes, passing through various towns and making a few stops on the way. You will arrive in the late evening.
Dinner and overnight at Katavi Wildlife Camp (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
After breakfast, go for a full-day game drive across the enormous Katavi National Park with packed lunch boxes until sunset. Back in the late evening and spend the overnight at Katavi Wildlife Camp (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
Katavi National Park: Katavi’s most singular wildlife spectacle is provided by its hippos. Not only that, but also an estimated 4,000 elephants might converge on the area, together with several herds of 1,000-plus buffalo, while an abundance of giraffe, zebra, impala, and reedbuck provide easy pickings for the numerous lion pride and spotted hyena clans whose territories converge on the floodplains
After breakfast, go for another full-day game drive across the enormous Katavi National Park with packed lunch boxes until sunset.
Dinner and overnight at Katavi Wildlife Camp (FB)
After breakfast, depart for Lake Shore Lodge, Lake Tanganyika, with packed lunch boxes. Arrive in the early evening, check-in, and have dinner when you are ready.
Dinner and overnight at Hotel Club Du Lac Tanganyika (FB).
After breakfast, depart for various activities offered by Lake Shore – Diving at the biggest freshwater aquarium on earth, with no currents, no surges, just hundreds of cichlids around you.
Snorkeling is usually conducted at one of the seven islands in front of Lake Shore. There are literally hundreds of different species of cichlids in Lake Tanganyika. Still, one very special endemic cichlid is the Opthalmotilapia Boops (known as the blue neon by hobbyists) at one of the islands. This cichlid is found only in this area.
You’ll also do Kayaking, which is an awesome way to explore the lake. Double and single kayaks are available, and they are very stable and easy to use, even for novice kayakers.
Dinner and overnight at Hotel Club Du Lac Tanganyika (FB)
After breakfast, take a short walk to visit the ‘Old Kipili Mission’ – The Mission was built by the White Fathers and Congolese slaves between 1890 and 1895. This is one of the oldest churches in Tanzania and is well worth a visit.
You can cycle on gravel tracks past rural farms and through miombo woodlands. This is a lovely way to see the areas around Lake Shore Lodge (You can do this using bicycles or quad bikes). Break for lunch.
In the evening, you’ll have a sunset cruise in a comfortable boat – a perfect way to end off a magical day. A trip up the river to do some birding and then a cruise around islands to watch the sun slip behind the Congo Mountains.
Dinner and overnight at Hotel Club Du Lac Tanganyika (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
Drive to the Town of Mbeya with packed lunch boxes and fewer stops on the way, arriving in the early evening.
At Utengule, there’s a huge coffee plantation – you might visit it if you have the chance in the evening and swim at the huge pool available at the lodge.
Dinner and stay overnight at Utengule Coffee Lodge (bed & breakfast)
After breakfast, drive to Iringa with packed lunch boxes, which arrive in the evening.
On the way, stop for a historic visit at the “Isimila Stone Age” Site—A Walk through The Canyons. The area is well-known for its archaeological sites, some of which yielded very important fossils that enlightened us about the origin of mankind.
On arrival in Iringa, you’ll pay a little visit to “Iringa Local Market” – a market built by the Germans during their colonial rule era.
Later, you’ll visit the ‘NEEMA CRAFTS CENTRE’ – The Centre was founded in 2003 by the Diocese of Ruaha to provide training and employment opportunities for people with disabilities through handicrafts in the Iringa region of Tanzania. It also aims to change negative attitudes towards people with disabilities locally.
Dinner and overnight at Iringa Sunset Lodge (FB)
Drive to Ruaha National Park with packed lunch boxes.
On your arrival, go for a full-day game drive at the enormous, beautiful Ruaha National Park to experience the abundant wildlife of this largest national park in the country.
Dinner and overnight at Ruaha River Lodge (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
After breakfast, go for another full-day game drive across the enormous Ruaha National Park with packed lunch boxes until sunset. Back in the late evening and stay overnight at Ruaha River Lodge (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
Ruaha National Park: This is the largest national park in the country, currently bigger than The Serengeti; magnificent mammals such as greater and lesser kudu can be spotted here. The park has a high diversity of plants and animals, including elephants, buffalos, antelopes, and some rare and endangered species like wild dogs. There is also a great number of birdlife, about 570 species.
After breakfast, drive for 4 hours to Udzungwa Mountains National Park, arriving in the late afternoon. On arrival, check-in at the camp, have dinner when you are ready, and spend the overnight at Udzungwa Forest Tented Camp (FB)
After breakfast, hike through the beautiful forests and landscape scenery of Udzungwa with packed lunch boxes with a professional guide; on the way, you will learn about various trees used for the traditional healing a bird life and then head to the top for a great and an amazing view of the ‘Sanje Waterfalls’ And while on top of the Waterfall, you can have a great view of the enormous Kilombero Sugarcane Valley (one of the biggest Tanzania’s sugarcane plantation).
Back in the late afternoon, depart to Mikumi National Park, arriving in the early evening,
Dinner and overnight at Voyage Village (FB)
Udzungwa Mountains National Park is an exclusive hiking and walking safari park. Udzungwa is a magnet for hikers, offering an excellent forest trail network, including the popular “Sanje Waterfalls.”
After an early breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive across the Mikumi National Park with packed lunch boxes to enjoy and experience the abundant wildlife of the enormous, beautiful Mikumi until sunset.
Dinner and overnight at Vuma Hills Tented Camp (breakfast, lunch & dinner included)
Mikumi National Park: During a game drive at the park, you can see a rich variety of bird species, as well as large numbers of giraffe, buffalo, and elephants. You may also be able to spot lions, leopards, and African wild dogs. Likely to be seen animals include zebras, hippos, hartebeest, wildebeest, impala, warthog, eland, and antelope.
After breakfast, drive for about 5 hours with an on-route game drive to Selous with packed lunch boxes while passing in the middle of the enormous Selous Game Reserve; during this drive, you’ll be spotting the abundant animals and birdlife of this second largest game reserve in Africa.
dinner and overnight at Rufiji River Camp (FB)
Early breakfast at 07.00 and then drive to the Selous Game Reserve. Enjoy an all-day game drive in a specially modified safari vehicle with a professional guide, in which you should see and learn much about a large number of animals, including all the great favorites – lion, elephant, giraffe, buffalo, zebra, impala – and all the other major species including the now rare African hunting dog. Great variety of bird species. Wonderful scenery, with varied topography: wetlands, dry grassland, light acacia forest, and higher ground with long views of far-off mountains.
Packed lunch and time to rest: Your guide will select a location with shade and water nearby to watch animals coming to drink—a place with a clear view all around so that no predator can creep up unseen!
Dinner and overnight at Rufiji River Camp (FB)
An early morning walking safari with a professional guide across the reserve’s environment to learn various histories (including traditional trees used for medicines and healing, various animals’ footprints, and other small animals that you cannot see during the game drive). You may also be able to spot animals coming for water to the river for drinking (especially elephants) and hippos heading back to their dwelling after their forage. Then, back to the camp for breakfast.
After breakfast, depart for a half-day game drive to once again experience the wildlife of the enormous Selous Game Reserve until afternoon. After a game drive, return to the camp and have a hot lunch.
Go for an evening boat safari through the Rufiji River in the evening. Here, you can experience the aquatic life, mostly crocodiles and hippos. You may also be able to see some animals come for drinking. Also, you can see an uncountable number of bird species since the reserve has over 440 known species of birds while enjoying an amazing reserve sunset Marking the end of the 21 day of your 22 Days Tanzania Standard Safari
Dinner and overnight at Rufiji River Camp (FB)
After breakfast, depart to Dar es Salaam (a 5 – 6 hours drive), with a stop for lunch on the way, arriving at Dar in the late afternoon, and transfer you to the hotel/catch your flight back home (breakfast & lunch included) Marking the end of your 22 Days Tanzania Standard Safari