Adventure
Family Safari - 8 days
Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport & overnight in Arusha.
Overnight: Gold: Arusha Coffee Lodge /Silver: Lake Duluti Serena /Bronze: Mount Meru Hotel
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Lying on the gently rolling foothills that cascade down from the ever-present Mount Meru is the bustling and vibrant town of Arusha. It is here on the outskirts of this town, hidden amongst one of Tanzania’s largest coffee plantations, that you will find Arusha Coffee Lodge, a perfect haven for relaxation.
Set among the woodland slopes of Mount Meru at the edge of Lake Duluti, there’s no better destination than Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa for soaking in the beauty and magnificence of the Tanzanian “Northern Safari Circuit”. Guest rooms give way to glorious views of Lake Duluti and the hotel’s extensive gardens. Savour local cuisine and scenery combined in a manner that ensures a dining experience to remember.
Mount Meru Hotel, situated at the foothills of Mount Meru, is Arusha’s most famous hotel. It lies on 15 acres of serene and lush landscape and is also surrounded by some of Africa’s most breathtaking vistas, rich with a diverse array of wildlife, etched against the fertile slopes of this beautiful mountain, the fifth highest peak in Africa. An oasis of tranquility, the Mount Meru Hotel blends stylishly elegant African architecture with supremely luxurious accommodation; sparkling water gardens with a beautifully landscaped gardens and a wide choice of international restaurants.
Drive to Karatu located below the Ngorongoro Crater (approximately two and a half hours) and arrive in time for lunch and a village visit. The Masai are semi nomadic people and one of the most recognizable tribes in East Africa with their red shukas and elaborate beading. Visit a Masai Boma and meet with the village elder who will introduce you to the traditional Masai lifestyle and culture that has been maintained successfully for centuries and still continues to thrive in our ever changing world.
Overnight: Gold: The Manor at Ngorongoro /Silver: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge /Bronze: Ngorongoro Farm House
Meal Plan: B,L,D
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The Manor at Ngorongoro, located in the north west Tanzania, is one of the first safari lodges of its kind to blend East African hospitality with old-world Afro-European architecture and decor. Located adjacent to the famous Ngorongoro conservation area and within a 1500-acre Arabica coffee estate, The Manor is reminiscent of an elegant up-country farm home in the Cape Dutch-style of architecture. Every detail of The Manor has been designed with its guests’ comfort in mind. Each of the cottages has been carefully positioned to maximise the views of the adjacent verdant hills but at the same time to maintain the intimacy and privacy of this old-world Manor home.
Perched on the rim of a collapsed volcano called the Ngorongoro Crater, this World Heritage Site is often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world. The Lodge has magnificent views over the crater floor which is home to vast herds of buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, and more. Each of the spacious double bedrooms has two queen sized beds, a separate dressing area, and a glass-fronted veranda.
Ngoronogoro Farm House, built on a 500 acre coffee plantation, with its hand plaited thatched rooftops, large verandas, and colonial interiors, will take you back to past times. Take a walk around the farm to contemplate the daily activities, relax in the fragrant gardens or enjoy the spectacular sunsets with the Oldeani volcano as a backcloth.
Your game drive today will be like no other as you visit one of the most dramatic safari destinations in Africa, the Ngorongoro Crater. Descend to the crater floor in search of the 'Big Five'. The forest-covered crater walls surround you creating stunning back drops for all of your wildlife photographs. Travel through the Lerai Forest looking for leopards onto the plains where the wildebeest and the zebra graze while the cheetah and the lion lay and watch. Old elephants pass your vehicle while in the distance the rhino wander and the hippos hide in the pools. A picnic lunch is provided so you can fully enjoy your day in the crater. Ngorongoro Crater is a deep, volcanic crater and the largest unbroken caldera in the world. About 20kms across, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater's ridge, tall Maasai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.
Overnight: Gold: The Manor at Ngorongoro / Silver: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge / Bronze: Ngorongoro Farm House
Meal Plan: B,L,D
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The Manor at Ngorongoro, located in the north west Tanzania, is one of the first safari lodges of its kind to blend East African hospitality with old-world Afro-European architecture and decor. Located adjacent to the famous Ngorongoro conservation area and within a 1500-acre Arabica coffee estate, The Manor is reminiscent of an elegant up-country farm home in the Cape Dutch-style of architecture. Every detail of The Manor has been designed with its guests’ comfort in mind. Each of the cottages has been carefully positioned to maximise the views of the adjacent verdant hills but at the same time to maintain the intimacy and privacy of this old-world Manor home.
Perched on the rim of a collapsed volcano called the Ngorongoro Crater, this World Heritage Site is often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world. The Lodge has magnificent views over the crater floor which is home to vast herds of buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, and more. Each of the spacious double bedrooms has two queen sized beds, a separate dressing area, and a glass-fronted veranda.
Ngoronogoro Farm House, built on a 500 acre coffee plantation, with its hand plaited thatched rooftops, large verandas, and colonial interiors, will take you back to past times. Take a walk around the farm to contemplate the daily activities, relax in the fragrant gardens or enjoy the spectacular sunsets with the Oldeani volcano as a backcloth.
Leave your lodge and drive along the crater rim before descending the outer slopes of the Ngorongoro crater and onto the vast plains of the Serengeti. Arrive at your lodge approximately 4-5 hours later and enjoy lunch at the lodge. This afternoon, venture out into the Serengeti’s game filled savannah for an afternoon game drive. Driving through the Serengeti in late afternoon light provides the perfect opportunity to capture some magical wildlife photographs. As the light fades, return to your lodge for dinner. The Serengeti is not only famous for the great Wildebeest Migration that moves around the park from October – July every year but also for the vast number of species that reside in the park year round. The concentration of predators in the Serengeti is high with large prides of lion, numerous hyena clans and regular sightings of both cheetah and leopard. Elephant, buffalo, giraffe and antelope can be found feeding on the rich plains as well as some of the lesser known species such as aardwolf, mongoose, caracal, servals and hyrax. One of the world's last great wildlife refuges, the Serengeti, stretches between the Ngorongoro Highlands and Lake Victoria. The name comes from the Maasai word siringet, meaning 'endless plains'. The Serengeti's 14,763 square kms contains about three million large animals, many of them taking part in seasonal migrations, unparalleled in nature.
Overnight: Gold: Serengeti Pioneer Camp / Silver: Serengeti Sopa Lodge / Bronze: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meal Plan: B,L,D
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Located in South Central Serengeti, Serengeti Pioneer Camp is ideally situated to offer superlative access to the annual migration and the ‘Big 5’. Serengeti Pioneer Camp’s ‘zero footprint’ and close proximity to nature combines to make an unmistakably distinctive and truly individual offering. Comprising of ten-tented accommodations, all of which have en-suite facilities including a flushing toilet, vanity basin, and showers, the tent interiors are designed to evoke the very best of an era long-gone but certainly not forgotten. A dining tent hosts the Camp’s guests for both breakfast and dinner while luncheons are taken either in the Camp or in the bush. Serengeti Pioneer Camp truly captures the original essence of the mobile African safari.
Located on the edge of the escarpment overlooking the plains of the south-western Serengeti National Park, host to the largest and most spectacular annual migration of wildebeest and home to many thousands of wild and rare animals, Serengeti Sopa Lodge lies within an area of out-standing natural beauty. The lodge allows its guests to experience magnificent sights and enjoy interaction with the land and animals difficult to find elsewhere, whilst at the same time enjoying the highest level of cuisine and hospitality
Kati Kati is a mobile camp strategically situated in central Serengeti, ideal for exploring the extensive Serengeti plains. The camp offers comfortable accommodations while still being designed to cause a minimum impact on the environment. All of the infrastructure is mobile and the philosophy of the company is not to leave anything behind. In its comfortable tents one will feel completely immersed in the surroundings and one can enjoy the rich animal life and vegetation of the area. The camp has a cozy dining room tent, with interior and exterior areas.
Spend your day exploring the extensive plains of the Serengeti in search of the 'Big 5'. If you would like to maximize your time game viewing, you can take a picnic lunch out into the park and enjoy a meal in the vast savannah before returning to your lodge later in the day. Every year, triggered by the rains, 1.3 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle gather to undertake the long trek to new grazing lands. The migration of the herbivores roughly defines the boundaries of Serengeti National Park, which is the central zone of the Serengeti ecosystem, an area that also takes in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Maswa Game Reserve in the west.
Overnight: Gold: Serengeti Pioneer Camp / Silver: Serengeti Sopa Lodge / Bronze: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meal Plan: B,L,D
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Located in South Central Serengeti, Serengeti Pioneer Camp is ideally situated to offer superlative access to the annual migration and the ‘Big 5’. Serengeti Pioneer Camp’s ‘zero footprint’ and close proximity to nature combines to make an unmistakably distinctive and truly individual offering. Comprising of ten-tented accommodations, all of which have en-suite facilities including a flushing toilet, vanity basin, and showers, the tent interiors are designed to evoke the very best of an era long-gone but certainly not forgotten. A dining tent hosts the Camp’s guests for both breakfast and dinner while luncheons are taken either in the Camp or in the bush. Serengeti Pioneer Camp truly captures the original essence of the mobile African safari.
Located on the edge of the escarpment overlooking the plains of the south-western Serengeti National Park, host to the largest and most spectacular annual migration of wildebeest and home to many thousands of wild and rare animals, Serengeti Sopa Lodge lies within an area of out-standing natural beauty. The lodge allows its guests to experience magnificent sights and enjoy interaction with the land and animals difficult to find elsewhere, whilst at the same time enjoying the highest level of cuisine and hospitality
Kati Kati is a mobile camp strategically situated in central Serengeti, ideal for exploring the extensive Serengeti plains. The camp offers comfortable accommodations while still being designed to cause a minimum impact on the environment. All of the infrastructure is mobile and the philosophy of the company is not to leave anything behind. In its comfortable tents one will feel completely immersed in the surroundings and one can enjoy the rich animal life and vegetation of the area. The camp has a cozy dining room tent, with interior and exterior areas.
Leaving your lodge, drive through the crater highlands, down the Rift Valley escarpment and onto Lake Manyara. A drive around Lake Manyara will take you through the underwater forests thick with monkeys, warthogs, wildebeest and buffalo before arriving at a clearing that looks out over the lake. Your first view of Lake Manyara National is spectacular with it's wide variety of habitats attracting a host of different animals. Monkeys leap between the trees of the ground water forest while elephants stand in the shade of the baobab on the slope of the escarpment . Hippos wallow in the pools along the lakeshore and lions rest in the trees in the acacia woodland. The birdlife is fascinating with pelicans, storks, geese, herons and cormorants sharing the water with migrant flamingoes that turn the crystalline edges of the lake a bright pink. Lunch is at the lodge followed by a different game drive experience in Lake Manyara this afternoon as you drive through the thick forest watching for blue monkey’s, baboons, vervet monkey’s and impala. Drive further toward the lake edge to spot buffalo, elephant, wildebeest and hippo before continuing to your lodge for dinner.
Overnight: Gold: Escarpment Luxury Lodge / Silver: Kirurumu Manyara Lodge / Bronze: Tloma Lodge
Meal Plan: B,L,D
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Escarpment Luxury Lodge is located high on the rim of the Great Rift Valley allowing for amazing views all around. A spreading deck surrounding the main lodge allows for a breathtaking view of the lake and the gorge. The pool is also surrounded by the beauty of Lake Manyara National Park and the Great Rift Valley. Each chalet has its own private deck to take in the magnificent sight of Lake Manyara and wildlife passing through the lodge grounds.
Kirurumu Manyara Lodge is set high on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, enjoying a marvellous, uplifting and panoramic view eastward over Lake Manyara, the Rift floor and Mt. Losimingori. Behind Kirurumu, the Ngorongoro Highlands rise in green and fertile splendour and form the gateway to Ngorongoro Crater and, finally, Olduvai Gorge, the Serengeti.
The excellent location of Tloma Lodge on the top of a valley offers fantastic views over a coffee plantation and the walls of the Ngorongoro cráter which can be enjoyed from the private terraces of the rooms. All the rooms have a private terrace with seating with views of the Ngorongoro highlands. Meals are made daily with fresh products from the farm’s gardens and served as a buffet. Depending on the weather, dinners are served on the terrace.
From your lodge at Manyara drive approximately and hour and a half to Tarangire, famous for its large elephant herds and its picturesque landscape dotted with baobab trees. Following lunch at the lodge, your afternoon is spent exploring Tarangire’s valleys and riverbeds looking for herds of impala, eland, kudu and buffalo that wander the parks vast swamps and river. The park is also a birdlover’s paradise with over 550 bird species and flocks of migratory birds from January to March. Return to your lodge just before sunset to freshen up before dinner. Tarangire National Park is one of the finest parks in Tanzania. Centered on the Tarangire River, this park has expansive views with wide panoramas of wooded savannah stretching in every direction. The most outstanding feature is the Tarangire River, which is permanent, and the only reliable dry-season source of water available to wildlife in a vast stretch of Tanzania's Rift Valley, attracting tremendous concentrations of animals.
Overnight: Gold: Tarangire Treetops / Silvier: Tarangire Sopa Lodge / Bronze: Maramboi Tented Camp
Meal Plan: B,L,D
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Tarangire Treetops sits serenely on the border of the Tarangire National Park. Centered about a Main Lodge - which itself encases a thousand year-old baobab tree - Tarangire Treetops comprises of 20 rooms all of which are elevated above the ground affording views over the tops of surrounding marula and baobab trees. Each Treetops Room boasts one of the largest bedrooms to be found in any camp or lodge in East Africa and the ‘up-in-the-air’ experience is completed by the open-fronted room design affording views across the Tarangire plains from an expansive but private balcony. Dining at Treetops sustains the momentum of undeniably memorable moments whether enjoying a lantern-lit dinner in a traditional Boma echoing to the sounds of Maasai chants or eating poolside by candlelight whilst a wealth of wildlife comes to drink at the Lodge water hole.
Built to blend in with the vastness of its surroundings, Tarangire Sopa Lodge lies hidden among the kopjes, ancient baobab and grasses of the Tarangire National Park - home to the greatest concentration of elephants in Africa. Built on different levels, the main public area building offers an extremely cool respite from the outdoor heat as soon as you step into the reception. From the lobby, a short flight of steps takes you up a level and into the lounge and bar with floor to ceiling windows and an outdoor terrace where you can enjoy an evening sundowner. While our circular guest suites with their high, conical roofs and sheltered verandas fan out to either side of the public areas, it is worth mentioning a word of caution here. Because the lodge is not fenced in any way, wild animals are at liberty to come and go as they please and transits to your room and back might be – but rarely – delayed by an elephant or two. This is the only reason our guards will insist on taking you to and fro at night.
Relax in the luxury camp, Maramboi Tented Lodge, situated in the ecosystem of Lake Manyara with the best views of the Great Rift Valley. Wildlife calls - you could see them appear between the palm trees from the terrace of your exclusive tent, from the swimming pool while enjoying a cool drink after a walk with a Maasai guide or while you enjoy a delicious dinner under the stars. Individually built tents on a raised deck with en-suite bathrooms have their own terrace allowing you to enjoy views of Lake Manyara and the Rift Valley.
Drive approximately two hours back to Arusha for lunch and then continue for another hour to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your flight home.
Meal Plan: B
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