8 Days Luxury Lodge safari

Short Overview

This 8 Days Luxury Lodge safari is offered in 5 star safari lodges making this 8 Days Luxury Lodge safari luxury African trip in Tanzania safari parks designed just for you. This is a popular affordable safari for this year; you will visit all major parks in Tanzania.

Tour Itinerary 8 Days Luxury Lodge safari.

Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania.

You will be met by our transferring driver at the airport or any arrival point upon arrival time and transfer to Arusha for the rest of the day your tour will start the next day morning.

Lodging Accommodation: Impala Hotel.

Camping Accommodation: Sakina campsite.

Meal Plan: none.

Day 2: Tarangire National Park.

After breakfast in your hotel, we will pick you up from Arusha and drive to the Tarangire National Park. The park, which is roughly the size of Luxemburg, covers an area of approximately 2600 km². Bush savannah, seasonal marshes and fearsome baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve. The Tarangire National Park is probably one of the best places in East Africa to watch elephants and to get very close to these animals.

Lodging Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge

Camping Accommodation: Simba Public campsite.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

After breakfast, you will drive to the Serengeti national park. On the way, you will visit the Oldupai Gorge where the English couple, Louis and Mary Leak, pioneered archaeological excavation work. In the sixties, some of the earliest archaeological deposits of human evolution were found here and a small museum (visit optional at extra cost) reports these discoveries. After Olduvai you will drive to Serengeti national park, the name “Serengeti” origins from the Masai word “Siringiti” meaning “endless plains”. You can see why the Masai gave this region this name as the grassland savannah stretches to the horizon in the South and is only interrupted by the so-called Kopjes (rock out crops) just like an island in the sea of grasses. In the afternoon, you will reach the destination for the day and keep driving around the Seronera Valley in the central Serengeti area until sunset.

Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Camping Accommodation: Nyani Public campsite.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 4: Serengeti National Park.

This day is only dedicated to wildlife watching in the Serengeti National Park. Depending on the migration of the herds, you will visit these specific areas to sight the animals. The fluctuation in annual rainfall can affect the animal’s location from year to year; however, your guide will know the exact location of the animals and the best vantage spots.

Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Camping Accommodation: Nyani Public campsite.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 5: Full day in Serengeti National Park.

This day will be spent in Serengeti sighting animals in different locations and time. You will start the game drives at 6 am after an early breakfast and spend the whole day inside the park. Depending on time of the year you will see migration of huge herds of wildebeest migration dotted by zebras on the Serengeti open plains.

Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Camping Accommodation: Nyani Public campsite.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 6: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro.

After breakfast, you will continue the game drive through the Serengeti National Park. You will sight hundreds of wildebeests and zebras and often lions and other big cats such as leopards and cheetahs in the Seronera Valley. After lunch at a picnic site, you will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro.

Lodging Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge.

Camping Accommodation: Simba Public campsite.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater.

After an early breakfast at daybreak, you will drive down into the caldera of the Ngorongoro crater. Inside the world’s biggest caldera, you cannot fail to be captivated by the rich and diverse wildlife. Quite often you can observe the “Big Five” (lions, elephants, buffalos, rhinoceros and leopards) within a couple of hours. After an extensive wildlife tour and a picnic lunch, you will leave the caldera in the afternoon and travel to the small village of Mto wa Mbu that is situated directly at the border to the Lake Manyara National Park.

Lodging Accommodation: Eileen’s Tree Lodge.

Camping Accommodation: Twiga Public campsite.

Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 8: Lake Manyara then to Arusha.

After breakfast, you will do game drive inside Lake Manyara. The name Manyara comes from the Maasai word “emanyara”, which stands for euphorbia species of plant that is grown into a hedge around a family homestead (Euphorbia tirucalli). The name “is a Masai description not for the lake, but in general for a lake shore region. Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge indifferently along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper lightly between the ancient mahogany trees, graceful bushbuck tread carefully through the shadows. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favoured worry of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants and then later drive back to Arusha reaching there at approximately 4pm.

Lodging Accommodation: none.

Camping Accommodation: none.

Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch.

INFO

Included in the price

• Game safari to national park as specified
• Price quoted per person sharing in US dollars
• Professional English speaking safari and tour guide / driver
• All game viewing activities specified

Excluded from the price

• Any sightseeing
• excursions and optional activities other than those specified
• Entry visas
• International flights
• Laundry
• Please
• read our Terms and Conditions
• Tips and gratuities to safari crew – recommended: 15-20 USD per day to safari driver
• 10 – 15 USD per day to safari cook
• Travel insurance

Itinerary Note All prices are subject to change if Tanzanian National Park Entry fees change! US Dollar notes from the years before the year 2006 are not accepted in Tanzania.