6 DAYS/5 NIGHTS TWENDE TANZANIA SAFARI

he arrival of your flight into Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Met by our representative outside the customs and immigration hall. 

Transfer to your hotel. Check-in, dinner and overnight stay. 

Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Safari briefing and introduction to your driver-guide by the Tour leader. Depart in a 4x4 land cruiser for Lake Manyara National Park Region.

Arrive and check-in at your lodge. Lunch. Have a brief rest.

15h00: Depart for a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park.

Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience.

Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favoured haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants. Squadrons of banded mongoose dart between the acacias, while the diminutive Kirk’s dik-dik forages in their shade. Pairs of klipspringer are often seen silhouetted on the rocks above a field of searing hot springs that steams and bubbles adjacent to the lakeshore in the far south of the park

Return to the lodge before sunset. Dinner and overnight stay.

Early breakfast at the lodge and check out.  Proceed to Serengeti National Park via Karatu and Ngorongoro Conservation area. Sight-seeing en route.

Arrive and check-in at your lodge, followed by a hot lunch.

At 15h30, depart for a game drive in the park until sunset. Return to the lodge before sunset for dinner and overnight stay.

Full-day game drive in Serengeti National park.

The Great Migration of animals consists of 1.4 million Wildebeest, 250,000 zebras & 450,000 gazelles making their annual passage through various regions of Tanzania’s parks and conservation areas, in an endless search for food and water. At this time of year they are heavily concentrated in the Northern extension of the Serengeti National Park, near the Mara River. The waters there are treacherous and infested with giant Nile crocodiles awaiting to feast upon prey. The animals instinctually must cross the dangerous river for greener pastures and it is one of nature’s most spectacular events!

While in the north, also plan on viewing herds of elephants, pride of lions, jackals, spotted hyenas, giraffes, and large schools of hippos and crocodiles in the Mara River. This region is, without a doubt, the best kept secret of the Serengeti! It is twice the size of the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya, but has fewer crowds. The vistas and landscapes are unsurpassed, which make for terrific back-drops while game-viewing. Resident animal numbers are extremely high as well, with prides of lions up to thirty strong. Migration and predator action here is non-stop, assuring the reputation of this area as one the finest game-viewing regions in Africa.

Meals and overnight stay at the lodge.

Early breakfast at the lodge and check out. Settle any extras. Depart for Ngorongoro  Conservation Area with game drive en-route as you exit Serengeti.

Arrive and descend for a game drive in the crater bed. 

picnic lunch. Later in the evening before 17h30, ascend and drive out of the park towards Karatu.

Arrive, check-in, dinner and overnight stay. 

Dinner and overnight stay. 

Have a leisurely breakfast at the lodge. Settle all extras and check out.  08h00: Depart to Arusha. Arrive in time for lunch at the Arusha coffee lodge. If time permits have a tour of the shanga beads project then the Tanzanite museum.  You will later be transferred to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for your outbound flight. 

~End of our services, wishing you an excellent trip~