ZANZIBAR TO TANZANIA 9-DAY FLIGHT SAFARI
This Is Our MIGRATION SPECIAL

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Tarangire National Park – Lake Manyara Park (145 km. Approx. 4 hrs.)

It’s our first morning on safari and we should take advantage of this quiet and peaceful time to explore the park all around us coming alive. We’ll breakfast and then aim our safari Jeep for Lake Manyara National Park, a lovely reserve, dominated by the alkaline lake and its nearby acacia forests.

It will probably be the park’s flamingoes that first catch your eye – thousands of fluttering pink feathers gathered along the shores of the blue lake. And keeping them company – pelican, stork, grey heron, ibis, and the African fish eagle.

Even though the lake can dominate the park, you’ll love the surprises waiting in Manyara’s nearby acacia forests.

If you enjoy the antics of monkeys and baboons you’ve come to the right place. Perhaps one of the largest troops of baboons is found here deftly maneuvering through the mahogany and acacia trees.

We will spend our second safari night at our Lake Manyara lodge or tented camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

FULL DAY AT LAKE MANYARA  WITH OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES

This is a full day to explore the park but we are also offering an extensive choice of optional activities you can choose to enhance your safari experience.

Balaa Hill – you’ll earn beautiful views of Lake Manyara climbing to the top of this rift valley wall. Check out the village of Mto wa Mbu below and the Maasai Steppe beyond.

Maasai Boma Tour – Ever milk a cow or get a painted Maasai tattoo? You can at a Maasai Boma, enjoying a close-up introduction to these legendary tribal people.

Maasai Market Tour – If it’s Thursday it must be the lively Maasai market where you can view and buy crafts, and sample their famous BBQ. Your guide will even help you haggle for your goods!

Village Walk – Here’s a chance to get a peek into the homes of Mto wa Mbu’s tribal people. View local wood carvings and community art, while sampling freshly brewed banana beer.

Farm Tour – Want to know where that banana beer came from? Tour the local farmsand the 32 varieties of local bananas grown here.

Miwaleni Waterfall and Lake Tour – Bike or hike – your choice – to this surging waterfall, draped with lush papyrus foliage. Then take a refreshing plunge in the pool beneath the falls.

Biking to Lake Manyara – Pedal to the shores of the pretty lake while riding close by the zebra, giraffe, water buffalo, and even hippos. It’s a biking safari!

We will spend our third safari night at our Lake Manyara lodge or tented camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Lake Manyara  – Ngorongoro Crater (80 km. Approx. 2 hrs.)

Let’s take a last look around this pretty park before taking the short drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world’s largest intact volcano crater.

This will be a special day as we are going to descend into a unique and colorful universe mainly cut off from the rest of Africa. This crater floor is a distinct ecosystem that has evolved into a thriving region of over 30,000 animals – predators, grazers, birds, hippos, crocodiles, and more, all awaiting our discovery.

We’ll head down the crater walls in our 4 x 4 Jeep for a fun day of exploration – lions, leopards, buffalos, zebra, rhinos, elephants, and even pink flamingoes.

You’ll find all that wildlife inhabiting a blue/green world of forests, marshes, grasslands, and lakes – a very rich safari experience.

And then for a final delight, we’ll head back up the crater wall toward late afternoon to arrive in time for one of Ngorongoro’s spectacular sunsets.

We will spend the evening at our Ngorongoro lodge or tented camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Ngorongoro Crater – Serengeti National Park (211 km. Approx. 4 hrs.)

Today we will head for our final destination and the region where we’ll spend the bulk of our time exploring – Serengeti National Park.

But on our way, we can’t miss a fascinating stop at Olduvai Gorge, a world-famous ravine that has offered a treasure of antiquities. Here was discovered and keeps on revealing thousands of fossilized human remains and ancient tools, a magnificent record of our evolution dating back millions of years.

Speaking of timeless lands, we will continue to the vast Serengeti and its central region. The area is known for its immense herds of elephants, buffalo, giraffe, and its many predators – lions, cheetahs, and hyenas. We will find this wonderful variety of wildlife year-round, even when it is not the migration season.

We’ll spend the evening at our Central Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

FULL DAY AT SERENGETI – CENTRAL AREA

Get set for a full day of game drives in this beautiful region, accented with Africa’s signature acacia trees and kopjes, small but rocky hills that dot the plains. As we travel over the fields you may spot lions warming themselves on these dramatic formations.

We’ll also be tracking for impala, jackals, topi, bat-eared foxes, wild dog, honey badger, and lurking in the nearby rivers, hippos, and crocodiles.

There will be no shortage of wildlife to discover today. However, if you are here from April through June or October to December, you’ll be treated to the grand procession of wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, and more during the Great Migration.

We’ll spend a second evening at our Central Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Central Serengeti  – Northern Serengeti (122 km. Approx. 3 ½ hrs.)

Your special migration safari is also a Serengeti spectacular! After we explore the central region, we will head north to a more remote part of the park, called the Northern Serengeti.

The remote quality of this region means fewer visitors and more park for yourself. This is a world of stunning rolling green hills and acacia woodlands contrasting with open savannah and large granite outcrops.

This part of the Serengeti is where you’ll find the largest number of elephants but also plenty of lion, leopard, hyena, and cheetah.

We’ll spend the evening at our Northern Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

FULL DAY AT NORTHERN SERENGETI

Another day of unlimited game drives! Some of our favorite wildlife to spot on these rolling hills and savannahs are topi, eland, and giraffe.

But this area is especially active when the herds of the Great Migration pass through on their way to the river crossing at the Masai Mara during June and July. It is then you’ll be treated to the sight of thousands of wildebeests and zebra moving through these lands.

And then again from September through November, as the uncountable herds return from the Mara, once again flooding the landscapes of the Northern Serengeti, now moving south on their timeless cycle of survival.

You can be a witness to our planet’s great spectacle of herding wildlife in the beautiful reaches of this world-renown park.

We’ll spend our evening at our Northern Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp.

Northern Serengeti – Zanzibar

3  Hour Flight

We’ve enjoyed so many beautiful game drives on our nine-day safari but let’s go for one more on our way to the nearby airstrip, taking in the stunning landscapes and gifts of the wildlife we spot.

You’ll say goodbye to your driver/guide, your companion, and friend for these many days of your adventure. Lift-off is at 11:30 hrs for the 3-hour flight back to the shores of Zanzibar. You’ll touch down at 14:30 hrs. (2:30 pm) back at Abeid Karume International Airport.

Back in Zanzibar, you’ll be greeted by a Natural World Kenya Safaris driver who will take you back to your hotel or resort in plenty of time for dinner.

Over a week on safari, flying driving, and exploring the beautiful lands and parks that nature has gifted us. You’ve seen more wildlife than most people ever imagined and you’ve gotten to know the rhythms of our deeply natural world. From all of us, at Natural World Kenya Safaris, we thank you for your time, your commitment, and your company. It was our pleasure to share Africa and Tanzania with you.