6 Days Tanzania Lodge Safari

Arusha – Tarangire National park

Arusha to Tarangire National Park After breakfast, meet your safari driver-guide in the lobby and depart for Tarangire National Park. You will travel via Arusha, where you can exchange money or make any last-minute purchases before continuing your safari. Tarangire is one of Tanzania’s most scenic national parks. It is famous for its large elephant population, ancient baobab trees, and beautiful landscapes. The Tarangire River provides a vital water source for wildlife, especially during the dry season. As you explore the park, keep an eye out for elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, hippos, warthogs, and many other animals. You may also spot some of the park’s rarer species, including greater kudu, lesser kudu, oryx, and the fringe-eared oryx. Moreover, Tarangire forms part of an important wildlife migration ecosystem with Lake Manyara. Thousands of elephants, wildebeests, and zebras move through this region throughout the year in search of food and water. In the late afternoon, enjoy your final game drive before heading to your lodge. Arrive in time for dinner, relaxation, and an

Overnight: stay

Tarangire – Lake Manyara – Lake Eyasi

After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park, a beautiful destination known for its lush landscapes and diverse wildlife. The park has numerous underground water sources, which help keep much of the area green throughout the year. The combination of different habitats and a reliable water supply attracts a wide variety of wildlife. During your game drive, you may see large herds of wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, and several species of antelope. The park is also home to baboons, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, and other primates. Lake Manyara is particularly famous for its tree-climbing lions and large flocks of flamingos. These unique sights make the park a memorable stop on your Tanzania safari. After lunch at a picnic site inside the park, continue your 6-day Tanzania lodge safari toward Lake Eyasi for an authentic cultural experience. The journey takes you across the dramatic Great Rift Valley escarpment and lasts approximately 1.5 hours. At Lake Eyasi, meet the Datoga people, traditionally known for their metalworking and blacksmithing skills. Visit their homes, interact with the community, and learn more about their daily lives and traditions. You will then visit a local blacksmith to see traditional metalworking techniques in action. Later in the afternoon, take a peaceful walk along the shores of Lake Eyasi and enjoy a beautiful sunset. Afterward, drive to your lodge for dinner and an

Overnight: stay

Lake Eyasi – Serengeti National park

On this day you will go for an early morning hunting with bushman including tuition on survival skills. Bushman is an indigenous tribe divided in three clans of Datoga, Tindiga & the Hadzabe living in hunting & gathering of fruits, tubes & eggs pretty much the same as people who lived in the Stone Age. Late morning you will depart for Serengeti National park, the driving is via beautiful high lying farmlands of Karatu & across Ngorongoro highlands. Check in at Ngorongoro gate & drive up to the Crater view point, stop for some nice pictures of the crater floor from the rim after, driving along the crater rim & down to the endless rolling plains of Serengeti. On the way you will visit one of Masai village whereby some Masai warriors invites you & take you in & around their houses giving some information about their customary life. Later their popular song which involving jumping & dancing will begin, if you want you can join the dancing. Afterward you will proceed to Nabii hills gate for check into Serengeti National Park, you can have your packed lunch here while checking in or at the Kopjes (rocky outcropping). After lunch & some rest, start your en-route game drive on your way to the Central Serengeti possibly your driver guide will have already know where the wildebeest Migration is packed. Late afternoon during or before sunset drive to your Lodge for dinner & overnight.

Full day in Serengeti National Park

Early start for an early morning game drive in Serengeti, (leave the camp with breakfast box and lunch box), early morning game drive starting at 6:30 can allows you to spot cat family on the road as they try to avoid morning mist. You may also see how other animals behave in the morning after a long night of darkness, you can see other predators returning back from their long night of hunting or a pride of a lioness organizing morning ambush. If your traveling dates is when the Great Wildebeest Migration packed in Serengeti, you will go straight to where they are & spend much time with the herds in anticipation of seeing animal actions like fighting, eating, hunting even killing, break for breakfast somewhere in the bush then proceed with game drive until lunch time.You may break for lunch at Soronera visitor’s center or elsewhere, after lunch and some rest, embark on your afternoon game drive. Option In this day you can leave very early in the morning and do the famous Serengeti Balloon Safari. (Extra cost) The Serengeti balloon safari fly in the morning at 6:30 and takes 2 hours before landing in the bush for breakfast and some celebration. Afterward, your safari driver guide will catch up with you and proceed with your full day game drives in the Serengeti.

Overnight: Lodge

Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast depart for Ngorongoro Crater, en route game drive, reach Naabi Hills gate for check out, drive to the highlands of Ngorongoro and descent 600 meters into the Crater floor for wonderful game drive. Picnic lunch will be served in one of the picnic site inside the Crater. Ngorongoro Crater is referred by many as one of the world nature wonders that you cannot afford to miss when planning your Tanzania safari, its scenery is beautiful regardless of wet or dry seasons. The number of animal species in the Crater is big and only few animals are moving in and out of the Crater. You may expect to spot herds of wildebeests, zebras, hippos, eland, elephant, topi & many more. The rare black rhino can be seen here living in their natural habitat. The crater is also home to a good number of predators which includes cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, lions & the ever-elusive leopard that sometimes need sharp eyes to spot. You will drive along Lake Magadi a shallow alkaline Lake at the southwestern corner of the crater frequently visited by some flocks of flamingos, hippos & other aquatic birds, late afternoon drive to the lodge for sunset, dinner & overnight.

Overnight: Lodge

Ngorongoro – Arusha

Morning at leisure, have breakfast & depending on your flight time (Option) you can do a guided nature walk and other related activities along Endoro trial all the way to the elephant cave, the walk is of about 2 to 3 hours (Cost is $ 100 per person). Then back for hot lunch before driving back to Arusha for

Overnight: (own account) or drop off at Kilimanjaro international airport