9 Day Tanzania & Zanzibar Explorer

Arriving at the Kilimanjaro International Airport, your driver will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel for the evening.

After checking into your room, the rest of the afternoon is spent at your own leisure.

After breakfast, you will be transferred back to the airport for your flight to Southern Sergenti for your safari.

Your guide will be waiting at the airstrip for your transfer to camp, arriving you are checked in and can have lunch before departing on your first-afternoon safari drive.

You return to camp where you can freshen up before dinner.

These days are spent doing morning and evening safaris, discovering the environment and wildlife with your experienced local guide. 

Just south-west of Lake Ndutu the camp is discretely set on the rift above the marsh allowing safe observation of wildlife just below camp.

800 meter to Lake Ndutu, 5 Km to Lake Masek and 10 min away from Ndutu Airstrip and the Ranger Post this magic location is in easy reach of Shamba Maharagi, otherwise called the short grass plains to the south of the Serengeti in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where the Wildebeest gather in their millions.

This morning you will have after breakfast you are transferred to the airstrip for your flight to Zanzibar.

Arriving at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport a driver will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel.

After checking into your room, the rest of the day is spent at your own leisure.

Immerse yourself in the crystal-clear water of the Indian Ocean, sip a freshly cut coconut from our waving palm trees, indulge in a massage, dive our Coral reef, experience our warm, genuine Swahili hospitality. The Unforgettable Beach experience at the Zanzibar Collection.

Spend these days enjoying long days on the beach or joining the many activities available.

The South East Coast gives visitors the chance to see and feel the real Zanzibar beach experience.

• En route to The Zanzibar Collection is the Jozani forest, home to the Red Colobus monkey. A species unique to Zanzibar
• We are located in a part of Zanzibar that is relatively undeveloped with few hotels, charming fishing villages and a spectacular natural environment.
• Our beach is simply one of the best in Zanzibar, if not East Africa, if not the world.
• Our beautiful coral reef which stretches across our coast, makes swimming safe, snorkeling spectacular and has ensured that we have the finest white powder sand beach.
• We are a quick drive to Kizimkazi, home of the famed Dolphin laguna where you can swim with Dolphins. Add to that breathtaking diving, water sports and reef safaris and you can experience the great variety of marine life that has makes Zanzibar special.

Experience Breezes

The Mangrove Forest and Dhow Trip: The day begins with a leisurely cruise around the mangroves in a traditional Swahili Dhow where the guides will show the guests some of the abundant marine and wildlife thriving in these forests. After the visit to the mangroves the guests are instructed on how to hand line fish as it has been done on the island for hundreds of years. This is just one small way that the reefs and marine life are preserved on the island as there is no trolling, dynamiting or mass fishing. The boats do not anchor but rather drift with the currents whilst the guests fish. The guest’s catch is then brought back to the hotel and after a short meeting with our chef, prepared for their dinner that evening.

A visit to our local village of Bwejuu: Guests pay $20 for the trip and The Palms provides the transport and tour free of charge with all proceeds going to our charity The Palms for Bwejuu. Our guests have the opportunity to visit the local school, dispensary, mosque have a soda in the village and take a walk through a typical Zanzibari fishing village. All the proceeds of this trip go to our charity, which is engaged in giving back to the village. (Please see what this charity has done in the About Us section, “The Palms giving back”).

Reef Safari: At low tide, guests are able to go for a reef safari where you take a walk out to our coral reef and see the spectacular marine life. Guests will be accompanied by a member of staff out on the coral shelf in front of the hotel and will point out many of the juvenile fish that seek refuge in the shallow waters at low tide. The guests will listen to how the coral itself is vital to the island and its inhabitants as well as information about the sea life they encounter.

World Renowned Diving: The Zanzibar Archipelago features some of the best diving in the world and Baraza offers diving with the only National Geographic affiliated Diving Center in Zanzibar.

Turtle Rescue Program: The Rising Sun which is based in Baraza founded a very successful Turtle Rescue program to discourage local capture of turtles where they pay local fishermen to bring live turtles to our beach. They are then and marked and released back in the ocean.

Stone Town: Baraza organizes Educational visits to The World Heritage site of Stone Town, viewing of historic Spice Plantations, the slave chambers, Maruhubi baths and Prison Island on the island of Zanzibar.

Jozani Forest: 25 minutes away is the Jozani Forest: home to the Red Colobus Monkey which is indigenous to Zanzibar and only found on the island.

After breakfast you are able to check out from the hotel before being transferred back to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport for your flight home.