10-Day Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday

Pick up from your Hotel in Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. We arrive in time for lunch at the camp 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 (rare), as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Dinner and overnight will be at Pamoja Africa Lodge.

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 will be at Pamoja Africa Serengeti Tented camp.

Be one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Serengeti 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 full day game drive with lunch at the lodge. 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 at Pamoja Africa Serengeti tented camp.

After breakfast we enjoy a full day game drive with lunch at the lodge, along the Ndutu area which loops into the plains southern of the Serengeti National Park, and which is good for possible lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. A bit far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed center, offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The southern Serengeti also has a shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased. Dinner and overnight will be at Ndutu Heritage Tented Camp.

After breakfast we enjoy a full day game drive with lunch at the lodge, along the Ndutu area which loops into the plains southern of the Serengeti National Park, and which is good for possible lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. A bit far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed center, offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The southern Serengeti also has a shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased. Dinner and overnight will be at Ndutu Heritage Tented Camp.

After breakfast at the camp 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. (Optional visit) We arrive in time in Ngorongoro Crater for afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s Tree inn Lodge.

A leisurely breakfast at the lodge then check out and drive to Arusha town where you will be transferred to Arusha airport to the spice Island of Zanzibar. On arrival you will be met and transferred to Michamvi Spirit Lodge. After arrive at your lodge you will have afternoon leisure in the beach. Dinner and overnight will be at Michamvi Spirit lodge.

Spend two days and nights at the beach relaxing. Other activities like water sports, spice tour, stone town tour, Jozani Forest Tour, Prison Island Tour or Dolphin Tours can be arranged from the Beach Hotel. Today you will have time to spend at the beach in Zanzibar, Find below is few things that you my do while in Zanzibar. Explore Zanzibar’s fascinating wildlife on a 7-hour outing that combines dolphin-spotting, snorkeling, and a pristine forest reserve. Check out the marine wildlife beneath the waves. Next head to Jozani Forest Reserve, Zanzibar’s only national park, where old-growth forest is home to the endemic red colobus monkey, as well as hyrax, bush babies, and dozens of species of birds. Combination wildlife tour from Zanzibar Watch for dolphins on a motorboat cruise Snorkel off the Zanzibar coast Visit an important forest reserve Watch for wildlife in native habitat.

Spend the morning and day at leisure or take a tour of Spice Plantations and Stone town (at extra cost) then transferred to the Zanzibar Airport back home. In case you fly back home from Nairobi we can arrange that connection for you (at extra cost). To stay at more luxurious places like standard luxury or deluxe/upmarket accommodations – Please request for revised package and price quotation.