Affordable Tanzania (6 nights)

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Arrive Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania.

After clearing with Tanzania customs, Immigration & Covid formalities at the airport, you will be met by your driver guide for the short transfer to your lodge, nestled between the peaks of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro. Spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure or visit the Game Sanctuary that has for many years provided a safe haven to African plains game.

Optional activities include a cultural walk through the local farms, mountain biking, forest walks and a coffee farm tour. These activities are only possible if you arrive in the morning. The next morning you depart early for the safari.

Overnight Mount Meru Game Lodge

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This morning, wake to the views of Mt Meru before heading down to breakfast. You will then be collected by your Albatros driver guide and traverse the floor of the Great Rift Valley as you head to Tarangire National Park for a game drive.

Tarangire National Park; named after the river that crosses through the park, is Tanzania’s sixth largest park and home to large herds of elephants. Spend the afternoon exploring the park before making your way towards Honeyguide Tarangire Guide for dinner and overnight. 

This camp is located within the park and only 15minutes from the park entrance gate. Situated in a quiet and undisturbed wildlife rich area, with countless game viewing tracks and easy access to the lower Tarangire valley. Due to the surrounding Acacia studded grasslands, you need not go far to enjoy the abundant resident game, before finishing off your day with breathtaking sunsets. The camp is small and intimate, with only 10 well placed tents, all of which can be extended into triples and quadruples. This is an eco friendly camp offering 24hr electricity, plumbing to each tent & solar hot water day or night.

Overnight Honeyguide Tarangire Camp

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After breakfast and check out, depart to the Serengeti with a packed lunch. Today is an extended drive through the Ngorongoro Highlands and down to the Serengeti Plains. Depending on your wildlife sightings enroute, arrive at your camp in the late afternoon.

On arrival you will be assisted with check in and shown your tent.

Two nights Kati Kati Serengeti Camp.

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Enjoy a full day, with morning and evening games drives in Serengeti National Park. Enjoy quiet evenings by the camp fire and the exclusivity of absolute comfort combined with the authenticity of a night spent in the African bush, an extraordinary experience for all nature lovers.

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After breakfast and check out in the Serengeti - depart with a packed lunch and drive towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. On the way you will visit one of the world's most important prehistoric sites, Olduvai Gorge, for a tour and lecture. Learn how the gorge was vital in establishing the African origin of humankind and in turn, why it is referred to as the 'Cradle of Mankind'. Proceed on to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and on clearing the paperwork you will drive through the Crater Rim from where you will have the opportunity – weather permitting – to see the Crater, in all its glory. Drive onto your Lodge located in lush grounds within the Karatu Area. On arrival you will be assisted with check in and shown your room. 

Two nights Acacia Farm Lodge

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Descend into the sunken cone of the Ngorongoro Crater and enjoy a full-day game drive along the crater floor. The crater’s high walls serve as a natural enclosure for an abundance of wildlife. All the so-called 'big five' may be seen. Among the notable birds are Lammergeyer, Vereaux's Eagle and Egyptian Vulture, which make their home in the highest of the crater wall, the beautiful Rosy-breasted Longclaw, which appears on the plains after rains and flocks of lesser and Greater Flamingos which are occasional visitors to the crater lakes.

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This morning will be your last day. If time permits, you have one last game drive in the Lake Manyara National Park, on your way back to Arusha with a packed lunch. Named after the Maasai word emanyara, a euphorbia plant species grown into a hedge around a family homestead, Lake Manyara’s shores are a shimmer of pink, due to the large flamingo population and was once dubbed the ‘loveliest lake in Africa’ by Ernest Hemingway. You will spend a full morning in the park taking in the many different species of birds and mammals, including elephants, leopards and if you are lucky, the tree climbing lions that the park is famous for. In the late morning you will continue from Manyara and drive the short distance to Arusha, where the safari ends. 

Transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport can be arranged at additional cost.

From Arusha, you can extend your East Africa trip, to Zanzibar and its beach resorts. Or continue on safari, by crossing the border into Kenya. Amboseli National Reserve, at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro is a short drive away.