6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari

This is one amazing 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari in some of the most famous Tanzania parks. It will give you all the choices one would want to experience in a park. You will be able to spot all the big mammals and the big five from this Tanzania safari

Detailed 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari

Day 1: Airport Pick Up

Our guide driver will pick you from the airport and will drive you to Arusha in one of the hotels of your choice. He will also brief you on the entire safari. Enjoy a restful night before you beginning your safari the following morning

Recommended Accommodation:

  • Villa Maua Arusha
  • Fun Retreat Resort
  • Karama Lodge
  • Savannah House
  • Mirimba palm Hotel
  • Villa Maua Arusha
  • Siringit villa by Mantis
  • Meal Plan: half board

Day 2: Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, our guide driver will pick you up and brief you on the activities of the day before departing to Tarangire National Park, this is one of the largest parks in Tanzania and is located in the Manyara region.

It is characterized by the large herds of elephants and tree climbing lions that call it home, as well as the fascinating baobab trees that are renowned for their mythical powers by some of the local cultures.

The Tarangire River flows through the park year around and is the only source of water to the animals during the dry season. After this experience, you will return to your lodge and refreshen and go for dinner and later overnight

Recommended Accommodation:

  • Tarangire Simba Lodge
  • Mbali Mbali Tarangire Ridge Lodge
  • Tarangire Safari Lodge
  • Tarangire Kuro Treetops lodge
  • Sanctuary Swala
  • Nimali Tarangire
  • Burunge Tented Lodge
  • Baobab tented camp
  • Meal plan: full board

Day 3 of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari: Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will depart for Serengeti National Park with an en Route Lunch. You will enjoy a game drive en route. The Serengeti is famed for its incredible wildlife, stunning views and the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras.

In this frenzied bout of territorial conquest and mating, witness an actual survival of the fittest as these animals plunge through crocodile- infested waters. The wildebeest will give birth to more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again

Recommended Accommodation:

  • Four seasons Safari lodge Serengeti
  • Melia Serengeti Lodge
  • Sand River Masai Mara by Elewana
  • Seronera wildlife lodge
  • Serengeti serena safari lodge
  • One nature hotel nyaruswiga Serengeti
  • Serengeti safari lodge
  • Kananga special tented camp
  • Kubu kubu tented lodge
  • Meal plan full board

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will set off on a full day game drive in the wilderness following the great migration trails. You can engage our guide driver as much as you can to give you the information necessary for this park and the animals and other interesting facts about this park

Serengeti, a UNESCO World heritage site, is home to around 200,000 zebras, and 300,000 Thomson ’s gazelle which join in the wildebeest’s great migration in search for fresh grazing. Listen to the exotic sounds of over six million hooves pounding the open plains. This is just like you imagined African to be

Recommended Accommodation:

  • Four seasons Safari lodge Serengeti
  • Melia Serengeti Lodge
  • Sand River Masai Mara by Elewana
  • Seronera wildlife lodge
  • Serengeti serena safari lodge
  • One nature hotel nyaruswiga Serengeti
  • Serengeti safari lodge
  • Kananga special tented camp
  • Kubu kubu tented lodge
  • Meal plan full board

Day 5 of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari: Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, you will head towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for a game drive. This is another UNESCO World Heritage site located west of Arusha in the crater highlands of Tanzania. The area is named after the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera.

The largest landscape of Ngorongoro, with its vast expanses of highlands plains and concentration of wildlife, animals making this place one of the most exotic natural wonders on earth

Recommended Accommodation:

  • Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
  • And Beyond Ngorongoro Crater lodge
  • Neptune Ngorongoro Luxury Lodge
  • Lemala Ngorongoro tented camp
  • Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge
  • Meal plan: full board

Day 6: Lake Manyara National Park and Transfer Back to Arusha

After an early breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park, whose lake Ernest Hemingway claimed was “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.

The park offers a compact game viewing circuit and is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. The lake itself covers two-thirds of the park and the Great Rift Valley with a stunning backdrop

Over 400 species of birds can be found in the Manyara, including thousands of pink-hued flamingoes on their perpetual migration, as well as other large waterbirds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks

In the afternoon you will transfer to Arusha, where you guide will drop you at the hotel or at the airport if your flight is that very day.

End of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari

SAFARI in Tanzania was a CHALLENGE! (Ngorongoro & Serengeti)

Highlight of this 6 day best of Tanzania safari

Airport pick up and transfer to your hotel

Tarangire National Park

Serengeti National Park

Ngorongoro

Lake Manyara National Park

Activities Of This Trip

  1. Game drive
  2. Nature walks
  3. Community visits

6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari Inclusions and Exclusions

Safari includes:

Transportation in a tour van/Landcruiser

Service of an English -speaking tour guide/driver

All activities mentioned in the itinerary

Park admissions

Accommodation on full board

Entrance fees to all destinations as per the program

Transfer to and from the airport

Safari exclusions

All activities not mentioned in the program

Phone calls bills

Tips

International transfers

Gratitude to tour guides

Personal insurance

Personal effects of any nature

Hotel fees before and after the safari

Background Information of 6 Days the Best of Tanzania Safari

Lake Manyara National Park – Lake Manyara

This is a protected area in Tanzania’s Arusha and Manyara regions. Situated between Lake Manyara and Great Rift Valley. It is administered by the Tanzanian National Park Authority.

And covers areas of 322 km (125 sq. mi) including about 230 km (89 sq. mi) lake surface. More than 350 bird species have been observed on this lake. Since the 1920, the lake Manyara area was used for sports hunting. In 195, a game reserve was established.

In 1960, it was given a National Park status and in 1974 about 550 ha (1,400 acres) were added to the southern end. The majority of the land area of the park a narrow strip running between the Gregory Rift wall to the west and lake manyara, an alkaline lake

Ngorongoro Conservation Area – The Crater

The Ngorongoro crater (260km2) is the most densely populated area in the world. There are estimated 25,000 animals on the crater floor including the big five. The rim of the crater is about 600 meters above the crater floor in the middle of which is a Salt Lake.

At night herds of zebras and elephants climb the edge of the crater and in day time the Maasai herds their cows and goats down into crater allowing them graze on the green crater floor.

Olduvai Gorge

Running 45 kilometers along the rift valley between Ngorongoro crater and Serengeti, this gorge is named after the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant. Often referred to as “the cradle of humankind” East Africa is one of the most important anthropological areas in the world.

Louis and Mary Leakey began searching for evidence of early humans in the 1950s, and in 1974 the well-preserved skeleton of Lucy’ was discovered and has since retained the fame as the oldest human ever found

The Serengeti National Park

This is a Tanzanian National Park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions. It’s famous and well known for its annual migration of 1.5 million white- bearded (brindled) wildebeests and 250,000 zebra and for its numerous Nile crocodile and honey badger.

That migration is the largest remaining unaltered animal migration. It contains 1.5 million ha of savannah. The park is the centrepiece of the Serengeti ecosystem and twice as large. The park covers, 14,750 square kilometers (5,700 sq. mi) of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest, and woodlands.

The park lies in north-western Tanzania, bordered to the north by the Kenyan border, where it is continuous with Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park is Ngorongoro Conservation Area, to the west are the Ikorongo and Grumeti Game Reserve, and to the northeast and east lies the Loliondo Game Control Area. Together, the areas form the larger Serengeti Ecosystem

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