11 Days Tanzania Authentic Safari

Arrive anytime at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). We will arrange a private transfer from the Airport to your accommodation around USA River in Arusha. Our safari guide will gather in the evening at the hotel for a pre-safari briefing. You will have dinner and a goodnight sleep ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

Dinner and overnight; Mtoni River Lodge- HB

After breakfast, a short break, and some rest from the journey, we begin our wonderful day by touring the city of Arusha and exploring what it has to offer.
Arusha City Tour offers visitors a vibrant introduction to the cultural and historical heart of northern Tanzania. The city, often called the safari capital, lies at the foot of Mount Meru and serves as the gateway to famous national parks like Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
During the tour, you can explore key highlights such as:

• Cultural Heritage Centre - A stunning complex showcasing Tanzanian art, crafts, gemstones, and traditional carvings. It also includes a modern art gallery and a museum displaying the rich history and culture of Tanzania's tribes.
• Maasai Market - A lively open-air market where Maasai artisans and other local vendors sell handmade jewelry, fabrics, beadwork, paintings, and souvenirs.
• It's a great place to experience local life and bargain for unique crafts.
• Arusha Museum (or Arusha Declaration Museum) - Offers insights into Tanzania's political history, independence movement, and cultural heritage.
• After a full day of exploration, we wrap up our wonderful day, take some rest to the hotel and get ready for tomorrow’s early journey.

Dinner and overnight; Mtoni River Lodge- FB

After breakfast you will begin two-hour drive to Tarangire National Park. Along the way you'll take in the changing landscape as Arusha's urban jungle is replaced by wide open plains and quaint Masai villages. Checking in at the park offers a good chance to see mischievous monkeys darting about in the shade and you can also pose with a gigantic Baobab at the park's entrance.

Once inside the park, you'll see the eponymous Tarangire river lined with acacia and Baobab where game amble to and fro throughout the day. Tarangire river is among the attractions it is described as a permanent water source in the park where different wildlife species gather to drink water.

Exclusive to the park are endangered animals such as the Greater Kudu, Fringe-Eared Oryx, and the Ashy Starling. 

Enjoy a picnic lunch at one of the park's picnic areas and take in an unparalleled view of the Tarangire River. Keep an eye on your food though, as the local monkey population will be only too happy to make off with a tasty treat if given the opportunity!

In Tarangire you will be able to spot varieties of giraffes, zebras, waterbucks, dik dik, elands, impalas, warthogs and monkeys among others. 

In Tarangire also bird’s species can be seen in many numbers and they include ostriches, kori bustard, hornbills,ash starlings, yellow collared lovebirds, barbets, parrots, yellow necked spur fowl, striped swallow, hammerkop, bee eaters, eagles and many others this activity is best done during the wet season. 

Dinner and overnight: Pure Tented Camp- FB

At 8:30 AM from your lodge in Tarangire and depart for Lake Manyara National Park gate with a picnic lunch for a full day game drive Lake Manyara NP is a small park at the base of the Rift Valley escarpment. Its groundwater forest offers a nice change of scenery from the more savannah-dominated parks. Although the park is known for tree-climbing lions, big cats aren't that easily seen. Elephants are prolific and are the main attraction, expect to see an abundance of wildlife. You can expect to see a range of large mammals, including tree-climbing lions, elephants, buffaloes, and warthogs.  The Park, with its underground water forest supports many lives, especially the primates. Hot water springs are one of the rare geological features that give visitors to this area an opportunity to explore. 

The lake has more than 400 bird species, one can bird watching including Eurasian migrant bird species, acacia bird, raptors, endemic Tanzania birds, species like Africa fish eagle, African hawk eagle African spoonbill, baglafecht weaver, pied kingfisher, southern ground hornbill, stork, sacred ibis, little stint, lesser Flamingos, great white pelicans, comb duck and many others. It’s also the best park to spot animals nearby for good photography. In the late evening drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight; Africa Safari Lodge-FB

In the morning at 08:00Am drive from Karatu for about 1 hour to the Hadzabe tribe found in Lake Eyasi, located in the immediate southwest of Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. The Eyasi Valley and nearby hills are the native homeland of the Hadzabe (Hadza), one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in Africa with approximately 1,300 tribe members. Spend the afternoon, visiting with the Datoga tribe. These pastoralists are also skilled blacksmiths. They collect metal scrap, which they cleverly process into bracelets, arrowheads, and knives. You also can visit one of the huts in the village. Here you can watch women as they grind corn to make flour, which they use later to bake bread. So, it’s more of bird watching, getting photos, hunting beautiful views of sunset and cultural stuff. In the evening, you will learn more about tomorrow from your guide, gaining an understanding of the Hadzabe people, their traditions and skills, and the wider area. Like other hunters and collectors, the San tribe of the Kalahari in southern Africa, the Hadza speak a click language.Also you will be able to experience the sunset around the lake.  

Dinner and overnight: Africa Safari Lodge-FB

At 08:00 AM you will be picked from your accommodation drive for 4 hours and 30minutes to this wonderful Serengeti National Park.  While in Serengeti you will see the riverine forests: a favorite spot for hippos and crocodiles. Other animals are the long-neck giraffes, eland, zebra, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant's gazelle, Lions, cheetahs, leopards and hyenas. 

Also, in Serengeti you will be bird watching nearby. It Has more than 500 species of birds you will be able to spot Kori bustard, ostrich and African Fish Eagle, you may even be able to spot our 'Serengeti specials'. These special birds are endemic to the region and can't be seen anywhere else in the world. We will normally meet migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals, such as giraffe, buffalo, and elephants, and many large predators such as lion, cheetah, and leopard. Spotting big 5 in Serengeti is a must!  At evening hours check in to your beautiful lodge for overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight; Serengeti Safari lodge-FB

This day continues after breakfast, you will enjoy a full day safari in the Eastern Serengeti. Wildebeest parting in the Serengeti Wildebeest Migration typically resides in the northeastern Serengeti and migrate further south in December. Gol Kopjes, located on the eastern plains, has the highest concentration of cheetahs in Africa during the rainy season. Most cheetahs in the Serengeti are migratory, as many of them follow the migration of the Thomson's gazelle to the eastern shortgrass plains during the wet season and then return to the central Serengeti (plain/forest boundary) during the wet season this part is the habitat of most animals found in the Serengeti Migration. During the rainy season, the eastern plains offer the best cheetah viewing in the Serengeti and in all of Africa.

The great Serengeti wildebeest migration is the movement of vast numbers of the Serengeti's wildebeest, accompanied by large numbers of zebra, and smaller numbers of Grant's gazelle, Thomson's gazelle, eland and impala. These move in an annual pattern which is predictable. They migrate throughout the year, constantly seeking fresh grazing and better-quality water. On this day also it’s good for sunset viewing, in the evening hours drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight; Serengeti Safari Lodge-FB

We have another fully day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year, Main Activities 

• Game driving in the open plains
• Bird watching – over 500 species of birds in Serengeti National Park

We will have time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watching a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide-open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top, we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions, and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of the interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. We return to our special tented camp for the night.

Dinner and overnight; Serengeti Safari Lodge-FB

We start the day with an early morning game drive at Serengeti national park before heading to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place in that it is a Conservation Area, not a National Park; this means that the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife. We will drive-in Ngorongoro,via Olduvai George is an archaeological site located in the eastern Serengeti plains, where early human fossils were first discovered. It has the amazing landscape that earned it the Maasai name Serengeti. After stopping at the entrance gate for gate formalities, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape around Ngorongoro Main activity and route game from Serengeti to Ngorongoro and visit olduvai George. Later we will drive to our beautiful hotel inside Ngorongoro conservation area.

Dinner and overnight; Ngorongoro Safari Lodge-FB

After early breakfast, we will descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater for your crater tour. Here we will explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where we may see flamingos. We will also visit the open savannah where the lions hunt. Picnic lunch will be served in the crater. In the late afternoon, we make a short journey to Karatu.

Dinner and overnight; Africa Safari Lodge-FB

Visit the Maasai area, the cultures and their activities. With picnic lunch we drive to Masai village for full day learn about their culture, traditions and ways of life of the Masai tribe. You will be accompanied by a Maasai guide throughout your experience explaining you the medicinal plants, local tools, their life and interaction with nature and wildlife, around 5:30pm their will do spears combitision how maasai kill a lion then will also spot beautiful sunset from the lodge view then 7:00pm maasai stories at then fire barbecue and dinner.

Depending on flight schedule then lunch later drive to airport to go back home.