If you are looking for something more comfortable, but still wanting to enjoy the wildlife, then we recommend the lodge safari. With this package, you will spend your day at the wild nature in a safari jeep with an experienced guide-driver and your picnic lunch. In the evening you will enjoy the comfort of a warm shower, private room or private tented bungalow and a setup dinner.
We recommend the lodge safari for our clients who need a good nights sleep after a long day spent in the safari jeep and sleeping in a tent is not their cup of tea.
Again, it depends on what you want to see – we can organise a different lodge safari for you!
Package 1: Northern Circuit – Experience it all in 6 days
This package will allow you to get the most out of the northern Tanzania parks. You will see amazing landscapes, wildlife, and experience the local culture. In this package, you will visit four spectacular National Parks, including Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti. You will also visit Lake Eyas to meet the local Handzabe tribe for a cultural experience.
Itinerary
- Day 1: From Moshi or Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast in your hotel, you will drive in a 4×4 safari jeep for about 4 hrs to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara lies in the Great African Rift Valley and it is famous for monkeys jumping from tree to tree, elephants, zebras, impalas, buffalos, hippos, giraffes and others. It is recommended to visit this park during the late afternoon hours when the animals are resting under the shadows or just going for a drink at the streams or at the lake. Before starting your afternoon game drive, you will have your picnic lunch and stretch your legs. Your guide-driver will open the top roof of your safari jeep ready for you to enjoy the animals.
Before the sunset, you will drive to a nearby campsite for shower, dinner and overnight. Depending on the time, you might also visit the nearby town of Mto Wa Mbu ‘the mosquitos river town :)’. Don’t worry, it is just a name, it doesn’t mean that there are a lot of mosquitos here :).
- Day 2: A day out to Lake Eyas
After breakfast at the camp, you will drive for about 2 hrs to Lake Eyas. Lake Eyas is a salt lake at the floor of Great Rift Valley. For bird lovers, this is your paradise. Here you will see flamingos, African spoonbill, gray-headed gulls, great white pelicans, stork and many other small and big birds of different colours. Along the lake shore, you will also find several animals such as hippos, leopards and monkeys.
After a packed lunch, you will visit a local Handzabe tribe bushmen, famous for their clicking noises language, similar to that of Kalahari bushmen featured in the movie ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’. You will visit the bushmen and if you are interested, you can go on a hunting trip with the bushmen. Drive back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
- Day 3: Drive to Serengeti National Park
Today is a further journey to the amazing Serengeti National Park. You will drive for 3 to 4 hours with an en route stop at the world famous archaeological site, Olduvai Gorge, where the first human fossils were found. You will have your lunch here then continue to the Serengeti plains, where you will occasionally meet a Masai walking just in the middle of nowhere :). You might see some animals also on the way. You will arrive at your camp in the early evening for shower, dinner and overnight.
- Day 4: Explore Serengeti’s wildness in full
This is your day to explore the endless corners of this unique world’s best-known wildlife sanctuary. Serengeti is famously known for its great wildebeest migration in October and November (flown from the northern hills to the southern plains) or during April, May and June (to the west and north). Serengeti offers a variety of wildlife from the ‘big five’ to all others.
It is impossible to visit all of the Serengeti plains in one day; therefore, your driver guide will communicate on the radio with other drivers to make sure that you see the best of the park during your time of travel. In the evening you will return to the camp for overnight.
- Day 5: Down to the Crater we go!
After early breakfast, you will leave the camp for a few hrs drive to Ngorongoro Conservation area and descending to the crater where you will see plenty of animals being protected by the crater rims. Ngorongoro is famous for black rhinos and black-maned lion males. You will also see families of lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and plenty of other animals. In the late afternoon, you will experience an adventurous drive up out of the crater, which only an experienced driver can do. Then you will drive back to Mto Wa Mbu to the camp for overnight.
- Day 6: The best at last- Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you will drive for 2 hrs to Tarangire National Park. Before starting the game viewing or during the game viewing, you will stop for a packed lunch. Tarangire is famous for its huge baobab trees and home of many animals such as elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, and other animals and birds. In the late afternoon, you will drive back to Moshi or Arusha back to your accommodation.
Price: xxx USD/person (for a group of 4 and more travellers)
Price include: all meals, camping accommodation plus camping equipment, private 4×4 safari jeep, professional driver-guide, bottled water in the safari vehicle, all parks entrance fees, extra car fees to enter the Ngorongoro crater, all government taxes and levies, 24 hrs support during your safari
Price excludes: airport transfers, flights (domestic and international), visas, insurance, gratitude for guides and other staff, alcoholic drinks and other meals not described in the itinerary, hotel accommodation the night before and after the safari, and personal items such as laundry or hygiene kit. For hygiene purposes, we recommend that you bring your own sleeping bag.
Package 2: Select the Best to see in 4 Days
This safari is designed to show you the selection of the best of the Northern Circuit. Your safari will start at Lake Manyara National Park, taking you to the Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park. We have skipped Serengeti to save your time on the road and leave you more time to explore the parks more extensively.
Itinerary
- Day 1: From Moshi or Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast in your hotel, you will drive in a 4×4 safari jeep for about 4 hrs to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara lies in the Great African Rift Valley and it is famous for monkeys jumping from tree to tree, elephants, zebras, impalas, buffalos, hippos, giraffes and others. It is recommended to visit this park during the late afternoon hours when the animals are resting under the shadows or just visiting going for a drink at the streams or at the lake. Before starting your afternoon game drive, you will have your picnic lunch and stretch your legs. Your guide driver will open the top roof of your safari jeep ready for you to enjoy the animals. Before the sunset, you will drive to a nearby campsite for shower, dinner and overnight.
- Day 2: Hiking and a bit of cultural experience
Today is a hiking day! You will enjoy nature at a close look when hiking in the southern Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will meet monkeys on the way trying to get something to eat, but please do not feed them, otherwise they will take your backpack :). Just kidding, but the rules apply, ‘do not feed the animals in the park!’
You will have also a cultural experience by visiting the local Iraqw tribe and the Iraqw tribe cultural center and learn the methods that Iraqw tribe used to protect their herds from the Masaais. After the day full of experiences, you will go back to your camp for dinner and overnight.
- Day 3: Down to the Crater we go!
After breakfast, you will leave the camp for a few hrs drive to Ngorongoro Conservation area and descending to the crater where you will see plenty of animals being protected by the crater rims. Ngorongoro is famous for black rhinos and black-maned lion males. You will also see families of lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and plenty of other animals. In the late afternoon, you will experience a drive up out of the crater, which only an experienced driver can do because the drivers are not allowed to make any tiny mistake and they need a gear number one to drive up. Then you will drive back to the camp for overnight.
- Day 4: Tarangire National Park and back to Moshi or Arusha
After breakfast, you will drive for 2 hrs to Tarangire National Park. Before starting the game viewing or during the game viewing you will stop for a packed lunch. Tarangire is famous for its huge baobab trees and home of many animals such as elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, and other animals and birds. In the late afternoon, you will drive back to Moshi or Arusha back to your accommodation.
Price: xxx USD/person (for a group of 4 and more travellers)
Price include: all meals, camping accommodation plus camping equipment, private 4×4 safari jeep, professional driver-guide, bottled water in the safari vehicle, all parks entrance fees, extra car fees to enter the Ngorongoro crater, all government taxes and levies, 24 hrs support during your safari
Price excludes: airport transfers, flights (domestic and international), visas, insurance, tips for guides and other staff, alcoholic drinks and other meals not described in the itinerary, hotel accommodation the night before and after the safari, and personal items such as laundry or hygiene kit. For hygiene purposes, we recommend that you bring your own sleeping bag.