7 Days Tanzania Standard Safari

On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, JRO/Arusha airport, meet our representative & transfer to Mount Meru Game Lodge & sanctuary in Arusha. Later, our safari manager will come for a detailed safari briefing & leave you to enjoy the lodge’s facilities & the game sanctuary.

• Breakfast & dinner included
• Overnight at Mount Meru Game Lodge & Sanctuary at the suburb of Arusha

Distance: 130 km

Non – game-viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs.

After breakfast depart for Tarangire National Park for a game drive. First, you will stop in Arusha Town for any last-minute purchases before heading to Tarangire. The driving is along Masai steppe, shopping centers & many villages.

Tarangire is famous for its huge Baobab trees & large elephant population, you may expect to spot heads of, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, hippos, baboons, many antelopes & the giant African elephant. For bird watchers, Tarangire is the place over 400 bird species have been recorded here which includes the rare species of Ash Starling, Greater Kudu & fringed Eared Oryx are also among rare animal species found in the Park.

Predators like lions, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals & the ever-mysterious leopard also inhabit this park. Tarangire Park forms the central annual migratory cycle within the Tarangire Lake Manyara ecosystem, which includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest, and about 30,000 zebra. Late afternoon drive to Sangaiwe Tented Lodge close to the park for sunset watching, dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Overnight at Sangaiwe Tented Lodge close to the Park

Distance:  50 km

 Non – game-viewing time: 1 hour.

After breakfast, depart for Lake Manyara National Park & start a game drive after check-in, Lake Manyara National Park is situated in a dramatic location & it is endowed with a lot of underground streams, which makes it green throughout the year. At the base of the Great East African Rift Valley, the park has beautiful overlapping habitats, hence sporting much wildlife which includes a high concentration of baboons found nowhere else in the world, beautiful flocks of flamingos, hippos, giraffes, buffalo, wildebeest, zebras & many antelopes. The Lake Manyara tree-climbing lion is among the beautiful features of this park. In the afternoon, drive to Lake Eyasi and visit the Datoga tribe & the blacksmith. In the late afternoon, you will walk along the Lakeshore while watching the sunset, then drive to Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge for dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Overnight at Lake Eyasi Safari lodge, close to the Lake

Distance: 132 km

Non – game-viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs.

On this day you will depart for early morning hunting with Bushmen including tuition on survival skills. Bushman is an indigenous tribe that inhabits the area around Lake Eyasi, this tribe is divided into three clans of Hadzabe, Tindiga & Datoga “The blacksmith”.

The bushmen live by hunting and gathering eggs, fruits & tubers, pretty much the same as people who lived during the Stone Age. Afterward, you will come back to the camp for a full breakfast before departing for Serengeti National Park, driving along the Great Rift Valley and across the beautiful high-laying farmlands of Karatu and along the Crater rim of Ngorongoro.

You will stop at the viewpoint of the Crater for a nice picture of the crater floor from the rim. On the way, you will visit one of the Masai villages for a cultural encounter, a Masai warrior will invite you & take you in and around their houses, you will meet some kids & other family members, you may ask as many questions as you can. Later, they will sing & dance to their favorite song, which involves high jumping. If you wish, you can join the dancing.

Afterward, drive down into the heart of the “wild Africa” Serengeti National Park with its endless rolling plains. Break for picnic lunch at Naabi Hills Gate or at the Kopjes (Rocky outcroppings) when heading to the Central Serengeti area called Seronera. This is one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, endowed with the Seronera River, a valuable water supply in this are,a hence attracts a vast number of wildlife around the Serengeti. Afternoon game drive in search of the Great Wildebeest Migration (this will depend on travel dates). Late afternoon drive to Thorn Trees Camp for dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Overnight at the Thorn Trees Camp, Central Serengeti

Spend 2 precious days in the Great Serengeti, on these days of your 7 days Tanzania lodge Safari (if you wish) as early as 06:30 with a packed breakfast box & lunch box, you will do early morning game drives in the endless rolling plains of Serengeti. Early morning game drive can allow you to spot the cat family on the road as they avoid the morning mist. You may also expect to see other nocturnal predators coming back from their long night of hunting, or a group of lionesses organizing a morning ambush or eating along the road after, you will break for breakfast in the bush.

Serengeti National Park is the scene of the Great Wildebeest Migration, so they will be in Serengeti your safari driver guide will have already known so the early start will take you straight to where they are & spend much time with the herds anticipating seeing animal actions like eating, fighting, even killing. You may also expect to spot other predators like leopards, hyenas, cheetahs & jackals. Herds of buffalo, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, zebras & many antelopes can also be spotted wandering around the plains of Serengeti.

Packed lunch can be served at the picnic site or somewhere in the bush. This is a full day game drive in Serengeti where you will return to your campsite before or during sunset for dinner & overnight at Thorn Trees Camp

• All meals included – Breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Overnight at Thorn Trees Camp, Central Serengeti