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7 day tour Tanzania overview: Africa Natural Tours
AFRICA
NATURAL TOURS
(The best tour company in Tanzania)
Specialized in: Mountain climbing,
Wildlife safaris, Cultural tourism and Beach holidays
All
our 7-day Africa wildlife safaris and tours specifically include the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the world famous Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. This
specific Africa safari and travel itinerary has been designed for visitors with
more time on hand for a longer safari or tours.
It specifically includes the
Tarangire National Park and have been designed to offer you a total Tanzanian
northern circuit safari experience, while attempting to keep your non
game-viewing travel time to a minimum.
This
unforgettable Africa safari packages will take you to the Lake Manyara National
Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of
a shallow but huge soda lake, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s
western escarpment. The size of the park makes it perfect for a one-day game
drive and is notably famous for its tree-climbing lions.
This safari will also
take you to the Serengeti National Park, a massive wilderness of 14500 square
km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. It will also
take you to the Ngorongoro Crater and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in
Tanzania, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game and arguably the
densest population of predators and carnivores in Africa. Here you will witness
an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world
teeming with animals.
Finally, your safari will also take you to the Tarangire
National Park, which once again features some of the greatest concentration of
game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and
unspoiled – possessing a wild and unkempt beauty.
The
travel itinerary below, is a suggested or sample safari itinerary – it can be
adapted to suite your own personal needs and preferences or to any seasonal
changes and migratory animal movements.
As with all our Tanzanian safaris, we
have offered you a variety of accommodation options – directly impacting on the
total safari costs – in order to offer you – the widest possible tour budget options.
Please do not hesitate to contact one of our travel consultants directly,
should you require any further assistance or more detailed information.
Day 1 – Arusha – Lake Manyara
Non game-viewing travel time:
Pick
up from Moshi or Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. We arrive
in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch we head into the Lake Manyara
National Park for an afternoon game drive.
This national park is one of
Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive
but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of
the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts
a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of
elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks
of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.
Dinner
and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.
Day 2 – Lake Manyara National Park –
Serengeti Plains
Non game-viewing travel time: 6 hours
Distance: 205 km
Distance: 205 km
After
breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high
lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Leaving the
highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti
National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as
the eye can see.
We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area,
one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River,
which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts
wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. We arrive in
time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National
Park.
Dinner
and overnight in the Seronera area, as per the standard and type of
accommodation option requested.
Day 3 – Serengeti Plains
Be
one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the
Serengeti Plains (available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement). Floating
silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the
amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small villages.
We
do an after breakfast game viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which
loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, and which is good for
possible lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. The
visitor’s centre not far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public
campsites, is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive.
This nicely
designed centre, offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift
shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The centre also has a
shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased, as well as a picnic area
and information trail up and around a nearby kopje. We will enjoy a relaxed
picnic lunch at the centre in the shade of the giant acacia trees.
In
the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around
the Maasai Kopjes, which usually attract a number of lion and some formidably
large cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops, scattered around the
plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking
water in pools left in the rock after the rains.
This makes the kopjes
particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry seasons – including lions,
which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink!
Dinner
and overnight in the Seronera area, as per the standard and type of
accommodation option requested.
Day 4 – Serengeti Plains –
Ngorongoro Crater
Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
Distance: 145 km
After
breakfast at the lodge do we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. We will
stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of
time.
It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey
discovered the skulls of the’Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very
significant links in the chain of human evolution.
We
arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and spend the afternoon at leisure.
Dinner
and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested on
the crater rim, no accommodation available inside the crater.
Day 5 – Ngorongoro Crater
After
breakfast we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-day game
drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African
wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals
including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino.
Supported by a year
round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast
variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland,
warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this
picturesque national park is its huge population of predators, which include
lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard. We will enjoy a
picnic lunch on the crater floor.
Dinner
and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested on
the crater rim, no accommodation available inside the crater.
Day 6 – Ngorongoro Crater –
Tarangire National Park
Non game-viewing travel time: 3½ hours
Distance: 155 km
After
breakfast we depart for the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the
line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the
Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia
woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south.
Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during
Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some
of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African National Park is also
home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared
Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings.
After a picnic lunch we do an afternoon
game drive.
Dinner
and overnight in the Tarangire National Park area, as per the standard and type
of accommodation option requested.
Day 7 – Tarangire National Park –
Arusha or Moshi
Non game-viewing travel time:
Distance:
We
enjoy an early morning game drive in the Tarangire National Park, followed by
breakfast at the lodge. We will then transfer back to Arusha or Moshi.
Upon
arrival in Arusha will we have lunch and then we will end our African safari
adventure. The group should tip the guide around $20 a day. You will be taken
to your hotel, which ends our safari services.
Departure dates
The
departure dates for all our safaris and tours are totally flexible according to
your own personal needs. Please contact us for further and more detailed info.
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