7 Days Tanzania Cultural Experience
7 Days Tanzania Cultural Experience
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Travel: Tanzania Wildlife Safari
Duration: 7 days
Destinations: Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Lake Eyasi, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park
Trip Highlights
This seven-day tour will be accompanied by a driver guide who will take you around the famous northern circuit parks while spending your nights at best budget accommodations. Ngorongoro and Serengeti are the highlighted destinations with beautiful landscapes and easy seeing animals. This tour gives you adequate time to view wild animals and to relax. It is a good tour if you are really passionate to explore animals.
Tour Features
Budget tour
This budget tour uses lodges.
Private tour
This tour will be organized exclusively for you and won’t be shared with others.
Solo travelers
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Can be customized
You can request minor changes to the accommodations and destinations of this tour.
Can start any day
If availability permits, this tour can start on any day.
Minimum age of 3 years
Minimum age allowed is 3 years old.
Activities & Transportation
Activities: Game drives, Cultural Tourism
Game drives: Pop-up roof 4x4 vehicle
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Day 1: Arrival / transfer to Arusha
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro international airport, you will be met by our driver Guide and transfer to the lodge in Arusha which takes approximately 1h30m. If the weather is good, you will get to see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro. You will also get to see people from different communities and culture conducting their normal daily activities alongside the road. You will arrive the lodge in good time to check-in, freshen up and rest a bit before dinner.
Main destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Crest Safari Lodge
Day 2: Tarangire National Park
After breakfast you will depart lodge with picnic lunch and head to Tarangire National Park. This park is well known for its large elephant herds. You will experience the seasonal swamps, savanna, and life-giving Tarangire River as it the main source of water in the park. Tarangire River, is full of wildlife ranging from a variety of birds species, herbivores and of course a number of predators species.
You will have lunch in the park’s picnic site then proceed searching for game viewing opportunities seeking to encounter multitude creatures from zebra to wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and giraffe, to name a few.
In the evening you will drive to the lodge in Makuyuni for dinner and overnight.
Main destination: Tarangire National Park
Accommodation: Maasai Eco Boma
Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, at 7:30am set off for a cultural experience at Kigongoni area just before getting to Mto wa mbu. You will have an opportunity to visit a Masai Boma and meet the semi-nomad’s tribe, one of the East African world-known icons. Take your time to interact with them and experience their culture and traditions and see how they go about their daily lives’ activities.
You will then proceed to Mto wa Mbu village for a local hot lunch, a good way to explore Tanzanian local dishes.
After lunch you will proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. The Park well known for its tree-climbing lions and large flocks of flamingos along the lake. You will see the Great Rift Valley escarpment, flowering plants, an evergreen forest and the shallow alkaline Lake Manyara that makes the park spectacular with many photographing opportunities. Tree-climbing lions can be spotted in Lake Manyara National Park although seeing them is a game chance. Other predators that can be seen here include African wild cats, spotted hyenas, jackals, servals, leopards etc.
Lake Manyara National Park is also home to thousands of herbivores such as zebras, gazelles, buffalos, bushbucks, waterbucks, giraffes, baboons, hippopotamus, elephants, warthog and many others.
You will end the day listening to amazing bird sounds from trees and gardens at the lodge where you will spend your night.
Main destination: Mto wa Mbu
Accommodation: Sumawe Suites
Day 4: Lake Eyasi, Hadzabe and Datoga Experience
After an early breakfast you will drive to Lake Eyasi with picnic lunch ready to encounter the African Bushmen. Lake Eyasi is a shallow Lake located on the floor of the Eastern Arm of the Great Rift Valley, acknowledged as the father of all rifts being the oldest on Earth. The lake hosts millions of crustaceans that are very much preferred by flamingos for meals.
When you’re done on the lake, you will meet Hadzabe & Datoga who still hunt for food to date. You will get enough time to interact with these iconic tribesmen documented to live in groups with no hierarchy & rules since all the resources are shared. You will also get to learn how they hunt for food and equipment they use.
After time with the Hadzabe you will head Later on you will drive back to your lodge for lunch and have the rest of the afternoon to yourself for self-discovery around the lodge before dinner.
Main destination: Lake Eyasi
Accommodation: Sumawe Suites
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater – Serengeti National Park
Today, we will start with morning game drive (with a picnic lunch) inside the Ngorongoro Crater. With its 2000 ft. high walls, expect to see lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, and many bird’s species. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is an extensive highland area along the eastern arm of the Rift Valley. NCA was established to conserve wildlife and other natural resources. It also safeguards the interests of indigenous people and promotes cultural tourism. Thus, guests on safari have the unique experience of seeing Maasai herdsmen whose cattle graze side by side with the tremendous variety of wildlife found in the area.
The jewel in Ngorongoro’s crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest caldera in the world. About 20kms wide, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. You will also visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner of the crater where you will see a large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds. After game drive at around 15:00, you will ascend the crater and drive to Serengeti National Park with game enroute. You will pass through the highlands of Ngorongoro Conservation Area and with luck you will see a variety of wildlife species. You will arrive at the lodge in good time to shower and some time at the bar before dinner.
Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Osero Serengeti Camp
Day 6: Full day Serengeti National Park
Today is fully dedicated to Serengeti National Park, perhaps the world’s most enchanting and breathtaking park on the planet.
There may be few destinations that should top everyone’s bucket list to visit over a lifetime, however, Serengeti tops most of the adventure lovers. Your guide will take you through different parts of Serengeti in search for the best wildlife viewing spots.
In the afternoon you will stop around the Seronera Valley for a delicious lunch while scanning the surroundings for game viewing opportunities. Seronera Valley is kept alive by the Seronera River which attracts thousands of wild animals being the main source of water in the Central Serengeti.
Continue searching for various animals to explore from the Big five to other wild animals.
Main destination: Serengeti National Park
Accommodation: Osero Serengeti Camp
Day 7: Drive to the airstrip
On this day you will start after breakfast by enjoying the sunrise game drive while heading to the Seronera airstrip for your flight to Arusha. You will board on a flight that will land at Arusha, have lunch in one of the restaurants in town. After lunch you will transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight.
Main destination: Arusha
Rates for January to December
NUMBER OF PAX TRAVELLING TOGETHER |
PRICE PER PERSON IN USD ($) |
2 |
$2658 |
3 |
$2314 |
4 |
$2097 |
5 |
$1996 |
6 |
$1909 |
7 |
$1860 |
The price include
- All park fees
- All meals and accommodations during the entire tour
- A high-quality safari land cruiser with pop up roof
- Arrival and departure transfers
- Flight (Serengeti – Arusha)
- Highly experienced safari guide (who speaks good English, Spanish, French & German)
- Unlimited mineral water on safari
- All government taxes
- AMREF Flying doctor’s emergency rescue
The price exclude
- International Flights
- Gratuities
- Drinks at the lodges
- Any other things not mentioned above.
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