13 Days/12 Nights Tanzania Safari and Zanzibar Beach
We bring you to an understanding and planning Tanzania safari. We are small local owned Maasai Warrior Safari Tour Company that gives excellent personalized service and quality guaranteed.
Day 1
Arrival: Transfer to Arusha
Meet upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport or domestic airport or at any border post by our safari representative upon arrival. You will be picked up on time then transfer to Arusha through. Place of your arrival is where you will get your Tanzania Visa then drive direct to Arusha town and get into your accommodation at the Hotel.
Day 2
Travel Day: Tarangire National Park
After breakfast at the hotel, you will be driven to Tarangire National Park. This is the home of elephants in Tanzania. There will be many opportunities for game viewing as we drive through the park. Tarangire contains a range of ecosystems from grassland and woodlands in the north, to scrub and wetlands further south. The Tarangire river cuts through the park and empties into Lake Burunge in the west. Tarangire boasts one of the largest and most conspicuous elephant populations in East Africa. There are large family groups with many calves being born each year as the population continues to recover from the devastating effects of poaching in the eighties. You will see herds of elephants and experience close contact with the matriarchs, the babies, teenagers and bulls. Your close contact will help you in understanding these incredible animals. Spend several hours surrounded by the herds and you cannot help but feel their wisdom. Tarangire is also known for its abundant baobab trees, most of which are over 400 years, old and the beautiful landscape.
Day 3
SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After a relaxed breakfast, you drive westwards descending onto the vast Serengeti Plains. “Serengeti” derives from the Maasai word ‘siringet’ meaning “an extended area” description of the endless rolling plains that give these grasslands a timeless romantic beauty. The principal features of the Serengeti are its stunningly dense wildlife populations and the annual spectacle of the migration of millions of zebras and wildebeest in pursuit of water and forage as the seasons change. En route you may visit Olduvai Gorge. Here in 1959, there was a discovery of an early hominid fossil, nicknamed Zinj, dated to 1.8 million years old. This discovery, and later the uncovering of a set of hominid footprints dated to 3.6 million years old, changed the way scientists thought about human evolution. After a picnic lunch you continue to central Serengeti.
Day 4
Travel Day: Serengeti- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Spend another half day game drive in central Serengeti National Park before drive to Ngorongoro conservation area. This is the time of seeking out wildlife and exploring the Serengeti's rich landscapes. The so- called Big Five and the Great Migration are the most well-known of the Serengeti's offerings, but there is much more to see. Thousands of equally fascinating dramas of a smaller scale play themselves out on these endless plains
Day 5
Ngorongoro Crater tour
Wake up early morning likely before sunrise. After some coffee or tea, you will take the steep, scenic descent road onto the crater floor. This mini-ecosystem of savanna, forest and small lakes sustains a huge number of non-migratory animals year-round. You may see lion, flamingo, warthog and hippo, to name just a few. All with the 10-mile-wide caldera.
You will have a picnic lunch down in the bottom of the crater at the hippo pool and will continue your game drive until you are ready to drive back up and out, back to lodge. After your game drive you will return to lodge, high on the Ngorongoro Crater rim. At this elevation, temperatures are cool year-round, so be sure to bring a sweater. Take advantage of the roaring fire, sitting in a comfortable chair, admiring the canopy of stars overhead and talking about all the day’s interesting sightings.
Day 6
Travel Day: Lake Eyasi Bushmen
Early morning breakfast depart for Lake Eyasi to meet up the elusive Hadzabe tribe, whom you learn more about their fascinating culture and their ancient skills of hunting. The Hadzabe are known for living depending on hunting and gathering wild fruits for their sustenance. Picnic lunch then we go for Dagota Village tour.
Day 7
Full Day Stay with Hadzabe in Lake Eyasi
Start off early with your bushman guide to meet a group of resident Hadzabe people. Enjoy the Hadzabe Tour walking into the bush with the only hunter-gatherers remaining in the East African region. The Hadzabe speak a click-based language and move their encampments with the seasonal movements of the wildlife. Your guide is a member of the group so he will explain to you about their customs and their way of life. You will get a chance to hunt, track wildlife, make fire and even take honey from bee’s nests with the Hadzabe people. Return to the camp for lunch, then afternoon proceed with more activities with Hadzabe people.
Day 8
Travel Day: Lake Manyara National Park
After an early breakfast, we drive to the beautiful and intimate Lake Manyara National Park for a full day of game viewing. The park is famous for its magnificent array of bird life and its impressively large elephant population. Soda Lake, located on the floor of the Rift Valley and next to a strikingly dramatic escarpment, attracts the breathtakingly elegant and delicate flamingos and pelicans, as well as countless species of hornbills, kingfishers, and the eye-catchingly peculiar hamerkop. The park is also home to olive baboon, vervet monkey, giraffe, hippo, African buffalo, impala and pride of lions. The varied and diverse ecosystems within the park make for a unique experience. In the evening we will drive back to Arusha.
Day 9
Travel Day: Arusha - Zanzibar
After breakfast you will be transferred to Arusha airport for your domestic flight to Zanzibar. Meet and greet on arrival at Zanzibar airport then picked up and drive to your accommodation.
Day 10
Zanzibar Island
Morning at 8:30 pick up from hotel to Fumba village where you will meet your special boat Guided safari blue tour: It is about visiting three different sand banks and you stop in one of those for Sea food lunch where by later you can go snorkeling and have chance of seeing dolphin. It is full day back at evening from Fumba village and arrives at hotel.
Day 11
Travel Day: Zanzibar Dar es Salaam
Morning time at 9:00 am pick up from hotel to north beach at nungwi to the natural aquarium to swim. You will see tortoise then drive to Zanzibar airport where you will connect with your fast luxury boat from Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam. On your arrival you meet and transferred to the hotel or hostel Dar es Salaam.
Day 12
Travel Day: Hotel – Airport
After relaxation at your accommodation place you will be picked up and transferred to Dar es Salaam airport, Julius Nyerere International Airport for your flight back home.
