8 Days Wildlife Safari and Beach Holiday

On this first day in Tanzania you will arrive at the Kilimanjaro International Airport – 45 minutes’ drive from Arusha. You will be picked by our Kuzoka African Safaris

representative and transferred to your lodge in Arusha.

Early morning breakfast at your lodge in Arusha then your guide will pick you up from the lodge and drive to Tarangire National Park (about 2 hours’ drive from Arusha). It is a scenic drive from Arusha to Tarangire with amazing scenery and sights of the Maasai herds men tending for their cattle. Arriving at around mid-morning you will register at the park’s gate and start on your first safari game drive straightaway in this famous park n Tanzania’s Northern safari circuit.  The Tarangire River cuts across the park ensuring a constant supply of water and many animals converge at the banks in search of water. You will take a picnic lunch at one of the many Picnic sites inside the park then continue with game drives, also Tarangire is characterized by large herds of elephants and the huge baobab trees that dot the plains of Tarangire. Later in the afternoon after enough game viewing you will be transferred to the Karatu where you will check in at the lodge. 

Breakfast will be taken early this morning or depart with packed breakfast and packed lunch. You will be picked up by your guide early this morning who will transfer you to the Loduare (main) gate at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will register for you to enter the NCAA. You will then make you next stop at the Ngorongoro Crater’s View point for fascinating views over the Crater’s floor and a chance to take photos. You will then drive down the winding roads that go down the 600-meter walls towards the floor of the Crater where majority of the animals roam this 21-kilometer-wide world’s largest unbroken caldera. The Ngorongoro Crater is famous for its large number of cats with large lion prides, large herds of elephants, buffaloes, leopards, large and small antelopes, but also the rare black rhino. You can spot all the big five on one lucky day. Later after satisfactory game viewing you will be transferred back to your lodge at Karatu.

Early this morning after breakfast or with packed breakfast and packed lunch you will descend down the Rift valley escarpment; a very scenic drive and into the floor of the of the Great Rift Valley. You will register at the Lake Manyara National Park’s main gate and enter the park for game drives for the whole morning until around noon when you will take your picnic lunch at the park’s gate again before leaving to Arusha. Lake Manyara is very famous for its legendary tree climbing lions but also large herds of elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, giraffes, dikdiks hippos and many more. Lake Manyara is also one of the best birding safari destination with more than 440 bird species spotted and recorded. Later in the afternoon after satisfactory game drives you will be driven to Arusha Domestic Airport for your domestic flight to Zanzibar Island. On arrival you will be transferred to the beach for relaxation.

After your memorable African safari adventure in the Northern Tanzania Safari circuit you will spend these 3 full days at leisure enjoying a beach holiday in the Island of Zanzibar. You will be booked on half board with breakfast and dinner included. Lunch can be ordered from the restaurant and paid as extra.

Breakfast at leisure in your beach hotel at Zanzibar Island then you will check out around 10 -11.00 Hrs. (depending on the hotel’s check out policy) and transferred to the Zanzibar International Airport (ZNZ) for your flight back home. You can be booked on a Day room that expires at 06.00 pm (at extra cost) but only on availability and at the discretion of the hotel.