Safari Overview
This 9 Days Tanzania Beach safari gives you an opportunity to visit 3 of Tanzania’s best safari parks ie Tarangire National Park, Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater which will give you some of the best savanna wild mammal encounters you will come across on the African continent. You will also have an opportunity to relax on the sandy beaches of Zanzibar after your wild game drives.
Safari Highlight
Day 1: Pick up from Kilimanjaro airport and transfer to a hotel in Arusha
Day 2: Drive to Tarangire National park for an afternoon game drive
Day 3: Transfer to Serengeti National Park and enjoy an afternoon game drive in its uncharted savanna plains
Day 4: Enjoy a full day of unlimited game drives in Serengeti
Day 5: Transfer to Ngorongoro crater and do a game drive inside the crater
Day 6: Transfer to Arusha’s Kilimanjaro airport for your connecting flight to Zanzibar
Day 7: Spend the day at leisure at the beach
Day 8: Another day to be spent at the beach
Day 9: Transfer to Zanzibar airport for your departure flight
Detailed safari itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Kilimanjaro airport, meet and greet and transfer to a hotel in Arusha
You will be picked up from the airport and transferred to your hotel in Entebbe where you will relax from as you recover from your flight jet lag.
Accommodation: Mount Meru Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast
Day 2: Drive to Tarangire National Park for game drives
The second day of this safari will have start your journey into Tanzania’s wilderness as you get to visit Tarangire national park. Tarangire national park is one of the richest national parks in Tanzania in terms of bio dioversity as its home to numerous wild animals such as Lions, Cape Buffaloes, Elephants, Zebras and Ellands, Wildebeests and many more. It also comes with close to 500 bird species hence its never a dull place to be if you have an avid love for birds. Upon your arrival here, you will engage in a game drive to see some of the animals mentioned above.
Accommodation: Tarangire Simba Lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Transfer from Tarangire to Serengeti
On day 3 of this safari you will leave Tarangire National Park and go to Serengeti National Park. Serengeti national park is the epitome of all Africa wildlife safari journeys as it boasts of being home to most of the African savanna wildlife species. the Serengeti eco system will stretch you gaze as it will seem to go on forever in every direction you look. A safari game drive is in Serengeti is indeed something that to look forward to by every African safari adventurer as it comes with returns of wild encounters ranging from Elephants, Lions, Cape Buffaloes, Leopards, Cheatahs, Burchells Zebras, Giraffes, and an array of antelope subspecies that roam these vast lands. Of course it becomes quite pointless to speak of Serengeti and don’t mention the fact that Serengeti is the birth place of the dramatic and bewildering natural wonder of the world – The annual Wildebeest migration which sees over 2 million hooves of numerous wild animals make a tremendous and equally treacherous journey up North in search for greener pastures. The good thing with a safari to this park, you, in most cases, you’re more likely to encounter this migration as it happens in phases over the year given the vastness of this park. For a person who is also keen for birds, Serengeti boasts of housing over 500 bird species including the Black headed Gonolek, Fischers Love bird, Grey backed Fiscal, Southern ground hornbill, Verreaux Eagle, Secretary bird and many others. At the end of this game drive you will transfer to your lodge and unwind from your today’s wild escapades.
Accommodation: Into Wild Africa
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Full day of unlimited games drives in Serengeti
You will wake up to the unbelievable sounds of wild Serengeti and have breakfast which you will depart from the lodge and follow on of the numerous game drive tracks that have been carefully paved to optimize your chances of encountering many of the wild dwellers of this park. After about 4-5 hours of traversing Serengeti you will return to your lodge to take a lunch break in order to regain your strength that is very much need for round two of game drive that’s to come.
Accommodation: Into Wild Africa Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Transfer to Ngorongoro crater and engage in an afternoon game drive
This day will have you cross to Ngorongoro crater, this crater is a constant reminder of how strong the natural forces that molded this earth particularly here were, the Ngorongoro crater is a remnant of the geological forces of volcancity that occurred here millions of years ago. After blowing off the top of what is said to been a relatively higher Ngorongoro mountain, this crater is all what is left behind and to your advantage enjoying a geological lecture isn’t the only thing that you’ve come here for, this crater is part of the larger Serengeti eco system and as such its filled with numerous wild savanna mammals and a game drive here promises nothing short of epic sightings of animals like lions, Elephants, Giraffes, Cape Buffaloes, Wildebeests, Leopards and Cheatahs etc all roaming these savanna fields.
Accommodation: Marera Safari lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Transfer to Arusha airport and fly to Zanzibar
This is the final day of the savanna safari and its fairly relaxed, you will wake up a bit late but still in time for breakfast, after having breakfast, you will check out of your lodge and embark on a drive back to Arusha Kilimanjaro airport just in time for your connecting flight to Zanzibar island
Day 7 & 8: Spend a full day relaxing at the beach
You can decide to spend this day relaxing at the beach or you can opt to get out and engage in several of the beach activities here such as a tour of the old town or boat cruise to some of the small islands, swim with the dolphins here and many others. Any of these activities can be arranged for you by the resort at an extra charge.
Accommodation: Zanzibar Queen Hotel – Click here
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 9: Transfer back to Zanzibar airport for your departure
This is the last day of your tour with us and depending on your departure time, you will be driven to the airport and your arrival here signifies the end of this tour.
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast
