2024 Wildlife Safari and Zanzibar Beach Vacation Women Only Tours
On this 10 days safari to Tanzania and Zanzibar, you will experience both the bush and the beach. You will get to see the big five as well as other exciting animals that you could ever imagine. This tour will cover, Tarangire, Serengeti, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and Zanzibar on a luxury level. Kindly note that, after the bush safari, you will fly to Zanzibar to relax and enjoy the beach as well as explore Zanzibar.
Itinerary
After breakfast at your hotel, meet your safari guide for full briefing on safari and later depart for Tarangire National park. Famed for its large number of elephants and the huge Baobab trees. Tarangire also is a home to other cats like the Leopard, cheetah, Lion and other wild game. After lunch, proceed for an afternoon game drive and later on exit the park as you transfer to your Lodge located at the base of Great Rift Valley, arriving for dinner and overnight at Sopa Lodge Tarangire
Breakfast at the lodge and with packed lunches depart for Lake Manyara National park . Arrive at Lake Manyara mid-morning and embark on an extensive game drive of this park. It’s a beautiful little park and is well known for its tree-climbing lions, elephants and large troops of baboons. The park is home to an amazing variety of birds and animals considering its small size. A short visit to this serene park will greatly diversify your safari experience as the lush green jungle habitat is of stark contrast to the other parks you will visit during your safari.
Lake Manyara, the shallow alkaline water mass named after the park, covers two thirds of the park’s total area of 330 Kilometers square. Diner and overnight at the lodge
After breakfast at the lodge with an en route game drive, depart for Serengeti with game drives through Ngorongoro. with a visit to the Olduvai George-an important archaeological site for Dr. Leakey’s family where fossils of mankind are stored.
A further afternoon game drives through Serengeti as you transfer to the Lodge at central Serengeti, arriving for dinner and overnight. Meals on Full Board at Mbuzi Mawe Luxury Serena Camp Serengeti.
After breakfast, proceed for a game driving. Serengeti National Park is an immense park and with its unsurpassed concentrations of wildlife and its vast endless grasslands offers the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth and the annual wildlife migration, largest mass movement of land mammals on planet earth, is perhaps what makes it famous. Over a million wildebeest and zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then go west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. Serengeti, characterized by the endless plains, acacia trees and punctuated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife. Animals present include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs, Serengeti’s essential features of climate, flora and fauna have barely changed in the past years. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Mbuzi Mawe Luxury Serena Camp Serengeti
After breakfast, depart Serengeti for Ngorongoro crater with an en route game drive. This being the great migration season herds are set to be seen at the plains. This may guarantee you lots of spotting especially the cats and if lucky witness a kill.
Arrive Ngorongoro on time, Descend into the crater floor for an extensive game drive of park.
This area covers the world’s largest unbroken caldera namely Ngorongoro crater and the Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Louis Leaky discovered the origin of early man by unearthing jaws of the Zinjanthropus man. This protected area also includes huge expanses of highlands plains and volcanoes, scrub bush, and forests where the indigenous pastoralists – Maasai people are allowed to live within its boundaries.
The Ngorongoro Crater is a world heritage site and the world’s largest unbroken volcanic caldera which is often referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. The crater is 610 meters deep and 260km2. Breathtaking views of scenery and game can be witnessed from both the crater rim and within the crater floor. It is estimated that over 25,000 larger mammals, mainly Zebra and Wildebeest, exist within the crater itself. Others include Elephant, Warthog, Impala and Buffalo. A Rhino sighting is a rare Possibility but Ngorongoro is your best chance in Tanzania to see the endangered black rhino. Flamingoes and over 100 species of water birds are found at the soda lake on the crater floor.
Dinner and overnight at Serena Lodge Ngorongoro.
After breakfast at the lodge, Depart Ngorongoro for the Masai Village visit. You will get a chance to learn about the Masai Culture but before that, you will be welcomed by enchanting songs and captivating dances.
After lunch and some shopping, drop off at the airport for flight to zanzibar
After morning breakfast, proceed to stone town and tour around. Stone town is a city of prominent historical and artistic importance in East Africa. Its architecture mostly dating back to the 19th century, reflects the diverse influences underlying the Swahili culture, giving a unique mixture of Arab, Persian, Indian and European elements and for this reason, the town was designated as a UNESCO world Heritage site in 2000.After the tour, you will head back to the Resort for lunch. In the Afternoon, you can either chose to have some relaxation at the beach or embark on sea excursion/water sports at own extra charges. Dinner and overnight at Melia Zanzibar
After breakfast, depart your resort for Prison Island to learn more about history, the reason why there’s many turtles in the island. The island is home to more than 50 Turtles in which some of them are more than 100 years old. It’s possible to feed them and take up close pictures with them and have a great time. The island is also home for peacocks and tiny antelopes.
After the tour, head back to the resort for lunch. Free time in the afternoon for relaxation. Dinner and overnight at Melia Zanzibar
After breakfast, proceed for a spice tour. Get to learn, taste and see spices like never before.
Get back to the Resort for lunch. Afternoon for relaxation. Dinner and overnight stay at Melia Zanzibar
Check out of the resort at 12 PM. Depending on your flight back home, late check out may be requested.
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