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Tanzania Highlights 2013
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Tour Operator |
Globus |
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Tour Code |
IQT3 |
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Vacation Quality |
First Class |
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Vacation Type |
Independent Vacation |
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Number of Days |
9 |
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Countries Visited |
Tanzania
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City Highlights |
Arusha, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Tarangire |
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Day 1: Arrive in Arusha, Tanzania. Welcome to Africa! Check in to your hotel and prepare for your safari adventure!
Day 2: Arusha–Tarangire National Park Area. Today, travel south to TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK. With its permanent water source, the park has great game viewing year round, highlighted by a large population of elephant. This afternoon, enjoy a GAME DRIVE. (B,L,D)
Day 3: Tarangire. Today features MORNING AND AFTERNOON GAME DRIVES in the savannah grasslands. Enjoy panoramic views of baobab and acacia trees as you search for the wildebeest, eland, zebra, and Cape buffalo that congregate around the waterholes. (B,L,D)
Day 4: Tarangire–Lake Manyara National Park–Ngorongoro Conservation Area. One last GAME DRIVE in Tarangire before heading to LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK at the base of the Rift Valley escarpment. This small park is ecologically diverse with groundwater forests, grassy plains, and the alkaline Lake Manyara itself. During your GAME DRIVE you may see elephant, giraffe, and Cape buffalo. The park is also home to the world’s largest concentration of baboons. Later, continue to NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA, which is home to Ngorongoro Crater. The crater is technically a caldera—the world’s largest unflooded, in fact, at over 2,000 feet deep with a floor covering over 102 square miles. Enjoy the rest of the afternoon at your leisure. (B,L,D)
Day 5: Ngorongoro. Today, enjoy a FULL-DAY GAME DRIVE IN THE CRATER, including a picnic lunch. Game viewing here is fantastic, as most of the animals stay in this area year round. You can see lion, Cape buffalo, hippo, elephant, and flamingo. This is also your best chance to see the rare black rhinoceros. Return to your lodge for dinner. (B,L,D)
Day 6: Ngorongoro–Serengeti National Park. Today, drive to SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania’s largest and most famous park. Home to the annual wildebeest migration, it attracts visitors from around the world and is great for game viewing year round. Enjoy an AFTERNOON GAME DRIVE. (B,L,D)
Day 7: Serengeti. MORNING AND AFTERNOON GAME DRIVES BOTH DAYS. The Serengeti is home to all of the “Big 5”—lion, leopard, Cape buffalo, elephant, and rhino. The park is also home to myriad other animals, including cheetah, giraffe, gazelle, and eland. (B,L,D daily)
Day 8: Serengeti. MORNING AND AFTERNOON GAME DRIVES BOTH DAYS. The Serengeti is home to all of the “Big 5”—lion, leopard, Cape buffalo, elephant, and rhino. The park is also home to myriad other animals, including cheetah, giraffe, gazelle, and eland. (B,L,D daily)
Day 9: Serengeti–Arusha–Homebound Flight. This morning, fly back to Arusha, where your vacation ends with lunch. We have secured a day room for you at the Mount Meru Hotel before a transfer to the airport for your late-evening flight. (B,L)
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Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Arusha: Serena Mountain Village Location: Nestled amid coffee plantations at the foot of the wooded slopes of Mount Meru on the shores of tranquil Lake Duluti. Designed to echo the traditional style of the colonial coffee farm, which originally stood on this site, Mountain Village offers a range of tastefully presented cottage-styled rooms set amid extensive landscaped grounds. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Arusha: Mount Meru Hotel Location: Situated at the foothills of Mount Meru in the center of Arusha, the hotel sits on nine acres of lush landscape with panoramic vistas of the surrounding area. Situated at the foothills of Mount Meru in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, the Mount Meru Hotel lies on 9 acres of lush landscape, surrounded by some of Africa's most breath-taking vistas, rich with a diverse array of wildlife, etched against the fertile slopes of this beautiful mountain. Bask in the Tanzanian warmth and kindness, renowned all over the world. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Arusha: Arusha Coffee Lodge Location: Situated on the western edge of Arusha town in one of Tanzania's largest coffee plantations and surrounded by endless acres of coffee bushes. Arusha Coffee Lodge lies cradled in the endless acres of Tanzania's largest coffee plantation. This exclusive, boutique hotel lodge has been designed around the farms' original plantation homes, radiating the warmth and invitation of the old colonial plantation homes historically distinctive to the coffee plantations. Luxurious accommodation, fine cuisine, and roaring fires beckon to the most seasoned traveler. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Tarangire National Park: Tarangire Sopa Lodge Location: In the heart of Tarangire National Park surrounded by ancient baobab trees. Hidden among the kopjes, lies Tarangire Sopa Lodge, surrounded by ancient baobab trees. It is the home of the greatest concentration of elephants in Africa, and other game including the elusive leopard. Over 400 bird species can be spotted here as well. With water constantly available in the area, the greenery is lush providing a wonderful contrast to the burnt ground. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Tarangire National Park Area: Tarangire Treetops Location: Situated in a private game reserve bordering Tarangire National Park. Tarangire Treetops sits alone in a private game reserve bordering Tarangire National Park and the Maasai Steppe amid rolling, baobab-studded hills with views to Lake Manyara and the Rift Valley wall. The boutique style lodge, exudes a timeless essence, its majestic trees and the landscape, sparking the imagination. Each of the 20 suites are perched high up in the age old Baobab and Marula trees with a private balcony. Natural materials are blended with contemporary Africana décor, to provide guests with a unique and most memorable safari experience. Encasing a vast Baobab tree the spacious and tranquil dining room, reception and lounge overlooks the swimming pool and a waterhole that sees a constant flow of wild animal visitors. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Ngorongoro Conservation Area: The Manor at Ngorongoro Location: Situated on a 1,500-acre coffee estate adjacent to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area approximately 1.5 hours from the floor of the crater. The Manor at Ngorongoro is reminiscent of an elegant, up country farm home in the Cape Dutch style of architecture. The 20 luxurious guest cottage suites fuse East African safari hospitality with old world Afro-European architecture, and decor. They also provide a wealth of comfort with private outdoor areas that offer distant views of the rolling highlands. The Manor often receives frequent visits from a few inquisitive passer bys, such as elephant, buffalo and blue monkeys. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge Location: On the eastern rim of Ngorongoro Crater. Perched on the rim of the collapsed volcano, the Ngorongoro Crater, a world heritage site, often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world. It has the most magnificent views over the crater floor, which is home to vast herds of buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, the rare and endangered black rhino, elephant, cheetah, leopard, lion and herds of gazelle and wildebeest. Its position on the Eastern rim allows the most spectacular and uninterrupted views of the sunset. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge Location: On the southwestern rim of Ngorongoro Crater. Regularly voted one of the best hotels in the world, this unique lodge clings to the rim of the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater, the largest and most perfect volcanic crater on Earth. Long and low, the lodge is built from local river stone and camouflaged with indigenous vines. Designed to blend completely into the landscape, it is entirely invisible from the floor of the Crater 600 metres below. Hugging the contours of the jagged Crater rim, the lodge takes its inspiration from the so-called `Cradle of Mankind', the prehistoric site of Olduvai Gorge, which lies close by. Linked by arched stone passages and timbered decks, its walls are decorated with stylized prehistoric cave paintings and lit by flaring torches. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Serengeti National Park: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge Location: Set on a ridge in Serengeti National Park with panoramic views of the vast Serengeti plains. Centrally located adjacent to the famous Western Corridor and Grumeti River, the lodge has been designed to blend completely into the living landscape. A series of traditional domed `rondavels' are widely spaced throughout the grounds, which are cooled by groves of acacia trees and watered by sparkling streams. On the very edge of the ridge is a `vanishing horizon' pool, which looks out over the `endless plains' after which the Serengeti is named. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Serengeti National Park: Serengeti Sopa Lodge Location: Nestled in the acacia woodlands on the edge of the escarpment overlooking the plains of the southwestern Serengeti National Park Nestled in the acacia woodland on the edge of the escarpment overlooking the plains of the south-western Serengeti National Park, one of the most famous parks in the world, and host to the largest and most spectacular annual migration of the wildebeest. Please Note: Standard and Premium accommodations are listed, call us for details about specific package and pricing. Serengeti National Park: Kirawira Luxury Tented Camp Location: In the famed western corridor of Serengeti National Park. Located in the famed western corridor of Serengeti National Park the camp has just 25 widely-spaced luxury tents, raised on timber platforms, each with a glorious view of the plains.
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