The Big Five Tanzania Safari (9 Days) holiday is one of the unforgettable luxury safaris, where you will explore the vast wilderness, witness the battle between the predators, crossing the Mara river in search of greener pasture, hunger crocodile awaited the wildebeest and common zebra.
Itinerary
Day 1: Northern Tanzania
You’ll be personally met when you arrive at the Kilimanjaro or Arusha airports and taken to a lovely resort in a thick African forest, in the foothills of Mount Meru, Africa’s 5th highest mountain. Activities are available for those who arrive early for their Big Five Tanzania Safari in Tanzania.
Accommodation: Rivertrees
Days 2, 3: West Kilimanjaro
After breakfast, you drive onto the western slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro onto a private Maasai conservancy of more than 60 000 acres. Bordering Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, the area has an abundant game and breathtaking scenery. You’ll have opportunities to track elephant on foot, meet local Maasai and experience some fantastic game viewing. Join others around the campfire for sundowners before gourmet dinners prepared by professional bush chefs. Gaze at the unbounded evening sky before turning in.
Accommodation: Olmalog Camp
Day 4: West Kilimanjaro > Arusha > Manyara
This day of your Big Five Tanzania Safari in Tanzania is spent meandering through northern Tanzania, through villages that rarely see tourists, and including the booming town of Arusha as well. You’ll have a privately guided tour of an important anti-venom snake farm, and by late afternoon arrive at next overnight stay, a beautiful tented lodge located right on the edge of the Great Rift Valley.
Accommodation: Kirurumu
Day 5: Manyara > Ngorongoro
Dawn game drive in this park famous for its early elephant studies, and one of the most beautiful parks on the circuit. Return to Kirurumu for lunch, and in the afternoon continue to Ngorongoro Crater on one of the most beautiful drives in the world. Stop to catch your breath at the overlook of Africa’s great natural wonder, the 12-mile wide Ngorongoro Crater.
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater
Full day exploring this great natural wonder. The hundred square miles contain an incredible amount of game, including a large pride of lion, free-ranging black rhino and some of the most approachable elands on the continent. The unusual ecosystem has protected wildlife for millennia.
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Day 7: Ngorongoro > Tarangire
An early departure to arrive Tarangire National Park by noon. This is the best time of the year for this great elephant park, with its many magnificent sand rivers and dense bush. After lunch at a northern lodge, spend the afternoon game viewing through the park, encountering the large numbers of aggressive elephant. In some respects, the park is more like a southern than an East African park, with its heavy woodlands.
Accommodation: Swala Camp
Day 8: Tarangire
Full day exploring the sand rivers, woodlands and amazing baobab forests of this great park on this Tanzania safari. The birdlife in Tarangire is outstanding, sitting directly underneath a flyby between southern Africa and Europe, capturing migrants from both hemispheres. Leopard is particularly abundant here, as is the giraffe. But above all, the highlight is the large numbers of elephant families, forced together after hundreds of miles of migration, to dig for water in the sand rivers.
Accommodation: Swala Camp
Day 9: Tarangire > Arusha > Depart
Return to Arusha after breakfast for lunch at a popular local restaurant, and for some time for shopping before returning to Rivertrees where private rooms are available until the transfers to the airport for the evening departures.
