9-Day Tanzania Lodge Safari High - End

In the morning transfer to Arusha airport for a flight to Tarangire. Arrive in the park of Tarangire and then have a full day game drive until the evening, then drive back to the lodge.

The park Located slightly off the main safari route, Tarangire National Park is a lovely quiet park in Northern Tanzania that is most famous for its elephant migration, birding, and quite an authentic safari atmosphere. The majority of travelers to the region either miss out Tarangire altogether or venture into the park for a matter of hours leaving parts of Tarangire virtually untouched.

Have a morning walking safari with an armed ranger, and in the afternoon, you will have a game drive in the park. In the evening, drive back to the lodge.

After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park for game viewing. For the evening game drive in the park, herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem – a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.

After breakfast, depart from Kuro airstrip to Serengeti National park, and then drive to central Serengeti for a full day game drive in the park. In the evening, you will go back to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight.

Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, where about six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.

Have breakfast at the lodge then hop on a full day game drive in the Serengeti National park. Try to follow and view the great migration, and late afternoon drive back to the lodge/tented camp.

Serengeti National Park: The park is well known for its healthy stock of other resident wildlife, particularly the “big five”, named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters: Lion: the Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem. African Leopard: these reclusive predators are commonly seen in the Seronera region but are present throughout the national park with the population at around 1,000. African Elephant.

Have breakfast at the lodge then hop on a full day game drive viewing. In the late afternoon, drive to Serengeti central (Seronera).

A million wildebeest… each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 mile) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

After breakfast, you will have a game drive in the Serengeti to the Seronera Airstrip for your flight to Lake Manyara. You will arrive in the afternoon for lunch. Then have an evening game drive and then drive back to the lodge for the dinner and overnight.

Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants.