10 Days Best of Tanzania Safari Tour
10 Days Best of Tanzania safari Tour is your ultimate Tanzania safari tour that takes you to the highlights of Tanzania, traversing Zanzibar Island, southern Tanzania and the northern Tanzania safari region. With this 10 Days Best of Tanzania Safari Tour, you shall enjoy a Zanzibar beach holiday, visit Selous game Reserve now known as Nyerere national Park, visit Mikumi National park, transfer to Arusha via road or flight for an opportunity to explore the amazing and most sought after Tanzania wildlife parks of Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the beautiful and popular Serengeti National Park.
While on this 10 Days Best of Tanzania Safari Tour, you shall enjoy various activities including the Stone Town tour, Zanzibar spice tour, prison island visit, boat trips, guided walking safari experiences as well as extensive game drives.
Summary Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival
Day 2: Stone Town, Prison Island and Spice Tour
Day 3: Transfer to Selous Game Reserve, Game Drive and Boat Cruise
Day 4: Game Drive and Walking Safari, Transfer to Mikumi National Park
Day 5: Game Drive, Drive to Dar es Salaam
Day 6: Transfer to Arusha
Day 7: Pick up and drive to Tarangire National Park
Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater Drive, Maasai Bomas, and transfer to Serengeti National Park
Day 9: Full day in Serengeti National Park
Day 10: Departure
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival
Upon your arrival at the airport in Zanzibar, you shall be picked up by your guide in Zanzibar, and transferred to your hotel of stay. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel. Depending on your time of arrival, you may enjoy touring the hotel, and familiarize with your surroundings.
Accommodation: Zanzibar Beach Resort
Day 2: Stone Town, Prison Island and Spice Tour
You will also take a private boat from Stone town to Changuu Island or Prison Island where you will enjoy seeing the Giant tortoises and during your tour of the island you will also enjoy snorkeling. You will take a boat back from Changuu Island back to Stone town. On this day you will also engage in a spice tour as you explore the plantations where you will see different exotic spices and also get to know the uses of the spices like cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg among others. After the spice tour, you will return to your hotel for dinner and to spend the night as above.
Day 3: Transfer to Selous Game Reserve, Game Drive and Boat Cruise
After an early breakfast at the hotel, head out for an early morning ferry trip to Dar es Salaam. You shall be met by your guide at the harbor. After a short briefing, transfer to Selous Game Reserve the largest of its nature, clad with your picnic lunch.
Enjoy a game drive in Selous looking out for various wild game including elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, antelopes, among so many others. After your picnic lunch, get to discover the Rufiji River on a boat ride. While on a boat safari on the Rufiji River look out for animals like hippos and crocodiles, as well as bird species.
Thereafter, proceed to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Africa Safari Selous Camp.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Game Drive and Walking Safari, Transfer to Mikumi National Park
After early breakfast, proceed for game drive with picnic lunch. Enjoy the scenic views of the Selous Game Reserve, and spot more animals that you may have otherwise missed. Selous is roughly the size of Switzerland with unexploited African wilderness and rolling savanna plains. Look out for various animals including African Wild Dogs, herds of elephants, giraffes, among so many others. Enjoy your picnic lunch in the wilderness.
Later in the late afternoon hours, you shall enjoy a guided walking safari through the plains of the park, for an opportunity to come up-close with nature and wildlife. Proceed thereafter for a transfer to Mikumi National Park arriving in time for dinner. Check in, relax as you wait for dinner and an overnight stay at Camp Bastian.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Game Drive, Drive to Dar es Salaam
We begin with an early morning game drives in Mikumi then back to the lodge for breakfast. With packed lunch proceed for a transfer back to Dar es Salaam. Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel in Dar.
Day 6: Transfer to Arusha
By Road: About 10-11 Hours. Flight option Available
Proceed for an early morning transfer to Arusha, with lunch and necessary stops along the way. Get to enjoy the Tanzanian countryside. Arrive later in the evening in Arusha. Dinner and overnight stay at Masai Land Safari Lodge.
Day 7: Tarangire National Park Game Drive
You will be picked up from your hotel in Arusha and your guide will welcome you for the safari. Thereafter you shall start your journey to Tarangire National Park, the third largest national park in Tanzania with huge herds of elephants and baobab trees. You will engage in a game drive around the national park as you look out for various wildlife species such as elephants, zebras, cheetahs, lions, buffalos, leopards, cheetahs among others. You will have your lunch ahead of your drive to Karatu where you will check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Karatu tented lodge.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater Drive, Maasai Bomas, and transfer to Serengeti National Park
After an early morning breakfast at the lodge, descend the Ngorongoro Crater floor to enjoy the Ngorongoro Carter drive on this 10 Days Best of Tanzania Safari Tour. Get to see over 25000 animals, including the African big 5 like lions, rhinos, buffaloes, elephants and leopards. You shall also see other animals in Ngorongoro Crater like hyenas, jackals, wildebeests, zebras, warthogs, among so many others. Enjoy a Maasai Bomas visit and get to see how the Maasai tribe lives in the midst of the wilderness.
Thereafter, transfer to Serengeti national park. Serengeti national park is famous for the wildebeest migration and also for the big 5 which includes lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinos as well as elephants.
Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
Accommodation: Osinon Camp.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 9: Full day in Serengeti National Park
As you prepare for a full day of engaging in game drives around Serengeti national park during your 6 days Tanzania safari, your guide will drive you from your lodge for a morning game viewing experience during which you will see a variety of wildlife species which are very active in the morning and can easily be spotted.
You will enjoy looking out for wildlife species such as elephants, impalas, elands, giraffes, hippos, waterbucks, wildebeests, lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinos, cheetahs, hartebeests, topi, hyenas and many others. During your afternoon game drive in Serengeti national park while on your 6 days Tanzania safari, you will enjoy the beautiful scenery such as the open savannah plains and woodlands and enjoy the sunset. Dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: As above
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: Departure
After an early breakfast, with your packed lunch proceed to transfer to Isebania border to connect to Masai Mara National Reserve Kenya, or back to Arusha arriving in time for your flight/bus transfer back to Uganda, bringing your 10 Days Best of Tanzania safari Tour to an end.
