6 Day Tanzania Lodge safaris

Description

6 Day Tanzania Lodge safaris to Tarangire and Manyara, Ngorongoro crater and the Serengeti national parks is led by tour driver guides in 4by4 land cruisers. You will visit the crater and see the elephant, lion buffaloes, rhinoceros, and hyenas just to say few.

Tour Itinerary 6 Day Tanzania Lodge safaris.

Day 1: Tarangire National Park.

After breakfast in your hotel, we will pick you up from Arusha and drive to the Tarangire National Park. The park, which is roughly the size of Luxemburg, covers an area of approximately 2600 km². Bush savannah, seasonal marshes and fearsome baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve. The Tarangire National Park is probably one of the best places in East Africa to watch elephants and to get very close to these animals.

• Lodging Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge.
• Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 2: Serengeti National Park.

After breakfast, you will drive to the Serengeti national park. On the way, you will visit the Oldupai Gorge where the English couple, Louis and Mary Leak, pioneered archaeological excavation work. In the sixties, some of the earliest archaeological deposits of human evolution were found here and a small museum (visit optional at extra cost) reports these discoveries. After Olduvai you will drive to Serengeti national park, the name “Serengeti” origins from the Masai word “Siringiti” meaning “endless plains”. You can see why the Masai gave this region this name as the grassland savannah stretches to the horizon in the South and is only interrupted by the so-called Kopjes (rock out crops) just like an island in the sea of grasses. In the afternoon, you will reach the destination for the day and keep driving around the Seronera Valley in the central Serengeti area until sunset.

• Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.
• Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

This day is only dedicated to wildlife watching in the Serengeti National Park. Depending on the migration of the herds, you will visit these specific areas to sight the animals. The fluctuation in annual rainfall can affect the animal’s location from year to year; however, your guide will know the exact location of the animals and the best vantage spots.

• Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.
• Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 4: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro.

After breakfast, you will continue the game drive through the Serengeti National Park. You will sight hundreds of wildebeests and zebras and often lions and other big cats such as leopards and cheetahs in the Seronera Valley. After lunch at a picnic site, you will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro.

• Lodging Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge.
• Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater.

After an early breakfast at daybreak, you will drive down into the caldera of the Ngorongoro crater. Inside the world’s biggest caldera, you cannot fail to be captivated by the rich and diverse wildlife. Quite often you can observe the “Big Five” (lions, elephants, buffalos, rhinoceros and leopards) within a couple of hours. After an extensive wildlife tour and a picnic lunch, you will leave the caldera in the afternoon and travel to the small village of Mto wa Mbu that is situated directly at the border to the Lake Manyara National Park.

• Lodging Accommodation: Eileen’s Tree Lodge.
• Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day 6: Lake Manyara then to Arusha.

After breakfast, you will do game drive inside Lake Manyara. The name Manyara comes from the Maasai word “emanyara”, which stands for euphorbia species of plant that is grown into a hedge around a family homestead (Euphorbia tirucalli). The name “is a Masai description not for the lake, but in general for a lake shore region. Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge indifferently along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper lightly between the ancient mahogany trees, graceful bushbuck tread carefully through the shadows. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favoured worry of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants and then later drive back to Arusha reaching there at approximately 4pm.

• Lodging Accommodation: none.
• Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch.

End of 6 Day Tanzania Lodge safaris.