10 days CAMPING safari tanzania

ITINERARY DESCRIPTION BY DAY

Day 1: Arrival

This is the day that you will be arriving in Tanzania. A driver guide will be sent to pick you up at the airport and you will be taken to your hotel so that you get enough rest before you officially begin your tour the next day.

Day 2: Arusha National Park

Day 2 will be spent in Arusha National Park and its surrounding areas. Some of the activities that you get to enjoy while here include canoe rides, birding, guided walks through the Park and the areas around the Park. You get to also explore Arusha town and after that get back to your hotel for the night.

Day 3 And 4: Arusha To Serengeti National Park

You will be picked from your hotel room after breakfast and driven to Serengeti National Park. Serengeti is filled with a wide range of animals and if you time your safari right, you will witness the wildebeest migration which normally from June to October. On day 3, you will be driven around the Serengeti tracking down animals and after a packed lunch, take a guided walk to the Masai villages before retiring for the night. On day 4, you will follow the great wildebeest migration where you get to see over 2 million animals like Zebras, buffalos, giraffes, antelopes, wildebeest and elephants migrating to Kenya after a change in the weather.

Day 5: Serengeti To Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast in the morning, you will be driven around Serengeti National Park and later on transferred to Ngorongoro crater. You get a chance to visit the Olduvai Gorge which was discovered by archaeologists millions of years ago and it is where the oldest fossils of humans were discovered. In the evening, you will be served with dinner and later on rest in the recommended accommodation facility.

Day 6 And 7: Ngorongoro Crater

On day 6, after breakfast you will transfer from the Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro carter. The Ngorongoro crater was declared as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The crater was formed after the collapse of a volcano which led to the large caldera which is a home to large herds of wildlife. When you get to the crater, you will drive through the area and with the help of your tour guide, you will be available to spot and identify some of the wild animals which include the black jackals, hippos, black rhinos, lions, giraffes, antelopes, zebras, elephants, hyenas among others. There are also several bird species that you can see and these include the black kite, Jackson’s widowbird, kori bustard, capped African spoonbill and the capped wheatear. After the day’s drive, you get to rest at the accommodation facility that was chosen for you and the ones that we recommend include the plantation lodge which is budget friendly, the Neptune Ngorongoro lodge which is a luxury facility and the Ngorongoro wildlife lodge which is mid-range.

Day 7 will be for touring the Ngorongoro conservation area. Your tour guide will take you around the area on a guided Masai walk where you will be able to get to know more about the Masai tribe, their ways of life, how they hunt and traditional norms, go through the dense forest which gives Ngorongoro a beautiful scenery, a wide range of animals and birds and then you will have lunch before continuing on your drive. Later on you will enjoy a dinner before retiring for the night and then the next day, you will be driven to Lake Manyara National Park.

Day 8 And 9: Ngorongoro To Lake Manyara National Park

You will be transferred to Lake Manyara National Park in the morning on the 8th day. Lake Manyara Park is best known to be a home of over 400 bird species which are mostly seen at the banks of Lake Manyara. The lake covers 3/4s of the National Park and some of the animals that you will get to see while on a game drive include elands, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, bat eared fox, leopards, spotted hyenas, elephants and the bird species include the African grey hornbill, African fish eagle, grey crowned crane, Abdim’s stork and the African Jacana among others.

Day 9 will also be spent in Lake Manyara National Park taking guided nature walks, visit the villages near the Park and meet the locals and also drive around the National Park tracking animals that you might not have seen the previous day. In the evening, you get to enjoy dinner and the rest for the night.

Day 10: Departure

You will be served with breakfast and thereafter driven around the National park one last time before being dropped off at the airport for your flight.