9 Days Classic Tanzania trip

9 Days Tanzania trip

9 Days Tanzania trip

9 Days Tanzania trip is a life time experience tailor made purposely for the nature lovers. This takes you deep to the most hidden treasure secrets of Serengeti national park and other best Tanzania parks in the Northern Corridor while on Tanzania Safaris.

Day 1.  Arrival to Arusha

Warm welcome at the airport by our safari driver guide who will later transfer you to the Hotel in Arusha brief you on the program of 9 Days Tanzania trip, depending on the time of arrival we can have a city tour as you get used to African climate.  Retire back for dinner and overnight.

Day 2. Transfer to Tarangire national park

Wake up early enjoy the morning cup of coffee or tea before we depart for Tarangire National park. The drive takes like 4 hours due to traffic and speed limits on the way hence reaching the park at mid morning. We will continue for a game drive for the whole afternoon then later drive to our accommodation for relaxing evening, dinner and overnight.

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Tarangire National Park Wildlife

Day 3. Full day in Tarangire National Park

Day 3 of our 9 Days Tanzania trip starts with breakfast and picnic lunch boxes we hit the road to Tarangire national park to catch up with early risers in the park, our full day tarangire experience does not leave any stone from the park unturned meaning all corners will be visited and enjoyed. The park has a lot of plants, animals especailly the African Big 5 and birding life to offer to the guests from the smallest Dik dik to the giant Elephants, king of the juggle the lion, the buffalos and many more. After our long day game drives we return back for a shower and rest at the lodge

Day 4. Transfer to Serengeti National Park

After our early breakfast at our lodge in Tarangire we depart for Serengeti national park passing through Ngorongoro stop at crater view point before we continue with our journey with fantastic enroute animal viewing, we can have an optional visits to Olduvai Gorge the famous historical site in Tanzania where the remains of an early man discovered by Dr Leaky and Louis in 1950’s this is complementary of our 9 Days Tanzania trip

We leave the museum and join back the main road for the continuity of our journey to Serengeti national park. Clear from the gate then proceed to the lodge to check in for refreshments and lunch, after our lunch we drive for an evening game drive on the open vast plains having scenic view of nature, birds, animals and many more reptiles.

Return back to our lodge for dinner and overnight at the lodge

Day 5. Full day Game drive and Serengeti Exploration

After a delicious breakfast served to us at the lodge which normally starts from 6:30 to 7:30 am, the driver guide will pick up our lunch boxes and take them to the car as we continue with our 9 Days Tanzania trip. Our safari jeep roof will be opened at the starting point as we start viewing animals just from the lodge. We drive as far as possible as we look for these animals especially the tree climbing lions which are unique but can easily be seen, leopards, cheetahs, serval cat, hippos, dik-dik, wildebeest and others. We spend a full day at the park doing game drives with break for lunch at tourist center then embark on the evening game drives in Serengeti to look for what we missed in the morning

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Game Drives in Serengeti National Park

Return back to the lodge for our dinner and overnight.

Day 6. Full day Serengeti Safari (Optional balloon)

The day starts with an early pick up from the lodge by balloon driver be driven to the starting point of the balloon Safari where you will get briefing from the pilot before we enter and enjoy the terrific starting point before you start ascending miles away higher feeling the cold breeze of Serengeti early in the morning.

Balloon safaris can make your 9 Days Tanzania trip much rewarding especially for the morning when the weather is cool and the animals are much active as they are looking for what to eat for the day.

Alternatively we will go for morning game drive and afternoon game drives reaching all the remote areas of the park looking for all what we missed on the previous day.  Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Day 7. Serengeti to Ngorongoro crater

With he dreams and experience of the previous days we will depart Serengeti for the new exciting challenge which is excellent and more exciting, clearing from the gate of Serengeti we enter to the new park of Ngorongoro will all the drive seeing only Masaai people and a lot of animals.

After reaching to the descending area we will have a top view of the crater, relax for lunch then descend down to the wonderful point of viewing, have all round game drive at the crater to see various wildlife: animals and birds like Hyenas, buffalos, zebras, wildebeest, antelopes, Elephants, Rhinos, Lions, Leopards mention but a few the birds are secretary birds, ostriches, open billed stock, kori bustard and others. Ascend out and continue with our drive to the lodge for relaxing evening as we wait for dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Ngorongoro to Lake Manyara

Wake up early for breakfast before we start our drive to Lake Manyara a real home of the tree climbing lions, leopards and other Big 5. At this point of our 9 Days Tanzania trip one can now compare the different parks and get to know why Tanzania is always voted the best tourism destination in Africa. Its one of the great parks found on the Great Rift Valley hence having more and more birds. Depending on the season you visits we can have an afternoon boat ride at the lake if its rainy season or go for canopy walk at the top of the trees

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Lake Manyara National Park Lions

Drive back to our lodge for refreshment and dinner

Day 9 Departure

Depending on the time f your flight as we come close to the end of our 9 Days Tanzania trip we can have an early morning game drive  to check for what we might have missed during the previous game drive then later we start our journey back to Arusha with enroute craft shopping depending on our preferences.

Quotation Includes;

  • conservation fee
  • all accommodation as per itinerary
  • 4X4 safari vehicle & Fuel
  • Full time English speaking driver/ guide
  • All meals as indicated
  • Park entrance fees
  • Vehicle entrance fees
  • Bottled mineral water while on safari
  • All activities as indicated

Excludes;

  • Tips
  • Visa fees
  • Air tickets
  • Optional (balloon safari)
  • All items of personal nature like laundry, phone calls, beer, etc.

You may also like some short or longer trips than 9 Days Tanzania trip we do provide tailor made packages for our guests. Have a look at some below:

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