Tanzania
Big Game and Bird watching Safari - 10 days
Day 1: Arrival Arusha/Kilimanjaro pick and Transfer
to Novotel Mount Meru Hotel.
Day 2: Breakfast at about 8:00am,transfer to Arusha
National Park with your Picnic boxes for Lunch. You have a full day
exploring the Ngurodoto Crater, the famous Momella Crater Lakes as well
as clear views of Mount Meru ( 4500M above sea level ), all Big Game
including Herds of Buffaloes, Masai Giraffes, Black and white colobus
monkeys... will be viewed in their natural habitat with the exception
of Rhinos and Lions. Bird life in the park is as well unbeatable.
Return to your Hotel for Dinner and Over night.
Day 3: An early Breakfast will
be taken, and a picnic Lunch will be carried, getting ready for a long
drive to the Serengeti plains. En route you will drive through the Masai
country side passed the Rift valley escarpment where you will stop for
panoramic views of the spectacular Lake Manyara escarpment, continue
through the Agricultural township of Karatu into the Ngorongoro Highlands
then to Olduvai gorge where you will un-pack your Lunches while listening
to Lectures from a resident Archeologist at the Olduvai gorge - re discovering
the fossils of the early man, you will also have chance to visit the
Paleontology Museum where the Australopithecus Bosei skeleton was discovered
dating million years ago. Continue into the Serengeti Plains with very
brief game viewing as it will be approaching sun set. Check in Sopa
Lodge.
Day 4: Early rise to catch up
with the game as hundreds of Mammals rise out of their dens to begin
a typical jungle day,-the Serengeti is famous for her annual Million
herds of Wildebeests migrating within the Serengeti–Masai Mara eco–system;
Grazers ,Browsers and Carnivores will be seen sharing this great plains
in harmony, game viewing and return to the Lodge for your break fast.
After Break fast, you will join in for the official Full day game viewing,
returning to the Lodge for a hot Lunch. After Lunch you may have the
option of either staying in for a nap and go for a late afternoon game
viewing once again or relax till next day. Count down your day’s spot
list, which may include a handful of Lion Prides, Thomson and Grant
Gazelles, Dikdik and other Cats such as the Caracal, Cheetah and Leopard.
Enjoy your Dinner and over night at Sopa Lodge.
Day 5: Morning at Leisure, Breakfast
at own pace, depart with picnic Lunches, to have the last of the Serengeti
Plains - taking the last pictures of the Serengeti with chances of catching
up with the Klipspringers and other Antelope species such as Topi, Eland
,Water bucks. Drive out of the Serengeti into Ngorongoro Conservation
Area for Dinner and Overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. Enroute to Ngorongoro
are Maasai local home stead (locally known as the Maasai Boma , the
Maasai will welcome you to visit their home for a "fee") Rest
of the evening relaxing at the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge balcony with taking
views of the crater floor.
Day 6: After the 7:30Am Breakfast,
you will descend the crater walls onto the crater floor which has a
radius of about 265sqKm. The Crater is uniquely dotted with watering
holes and shelters about 30,000 Mammals including the White bearded
Gnus, Cheetah and Tanzania’s only Black Rhinos." This is the eighth
wonder of the world and the world’s only remaining memories of the "
garden of Eden" better described as Noah’s Arc.. After the excitement
at the Crater floor, you will ascend the Crater walls to your Lodge.
Day 7: Depart the Ngorongoro
conservation area after breakfast, drive into the jungles of Lake Manyara,
Lake Manyara is famous for her tree climbing Lions, large schools of
Hippos at the Hippo pool and the Maji moto hot springs. You will then
take your picnic Lunch at one of the many Picnic sites set aside by
the park Authorities and then continue exploring the Lake Manyara jungles,
where a good list of wild life will be added to your previous record.
Dinner and over night at the Migunga Tented Lodge.
Day 8: We will have an optional
Pre breakfast bird walk around E Unoto Retreat, after breakfast you
will have the option to go out game viewing full day back in the Manyara
Jungles or just relax at your Balcony where birding opportunities are
superb. You can then later join in a walk exploring the local surroundings
where again you will have further chances of birding for waders and
a mix of dry country species as well as meeting up with the local people.
Dinner at your Lodge.
Day 9: Leisurely Breakfast, Drive
to Tarangire National Park, rest of the day Game viewing and Bird watching
in Tarangire park. Dinner and over night at the Tarangire Sopa Lodge.
Day 10: Depeding on your flight
arrangements, we may have another couple of hours in the park before
driving to Arusha / Kilimanjaro Airport for our outbound Flight.
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