itinerary
DAY 1: ARRIVE AND FLY TO LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport you will be met by our representative and assisted with your scheduled flight to Manyara Airstrip. Spend two nights at Lake Manyara Tree Lodge. Accommodation is in an elegant, stilted treehouse, which is cradled in the boughs of mahogany trees. Your room is built of timber and makuti (palm fronds) and has a spacious sitting area, viewing deck and a lovely en-suite bathroom. Your stay includes three meals daily, soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits and beers, teas and coffees, emergency medical evacuation insurance, laundry and daily lodge activities.Lake Manyara National Park offers a wilderness experience in diverse habitats, from its Rift Valley soda lake to dense woodlands and steep mountainsides. Apart from a spectacular setting, the park is famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds it was established to protect. The shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds, many of them waterfowl or migrants. Large herds of buffalo, cheetah, Masai giraffe and impala roam the lake shores and the forested valley slopes. A Lake Manyara safari is a fascinating experience as the park also features a ground-water forest; acacia tortilis woodland and hot springs called Maji Moto.
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
Game Drives in Lake Manyara National Park
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
DAY 3: DRIVE TO NGORONGORO CRATER
Enjoy an early morning breakfast and transfer to Ngorongoro Crater. Spend two nights at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge. Accommodation is in a suite with ensuite bathroom with bath and shower. Your stay includes three meals daily, soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits and beers, teas and coffees, scheduled safari activities, refreshments on game drives and laundry. The Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, within the Serengeti, is home to more than 30 000 protected animals. It is an area of spectacular beauty and excellent game viewing, a truly unique safari destination in Africa. The Ngorongoro Crater, once a gigantic volcano, is the largest intact caldera in the world. Some maintain that before it erupted, it would have been higher than Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Today, long since having collapsed and eroded, it is an extensive highland area with the famous 600 metre deep Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. Fresh springs and a large soda lake quench the thirst of all the inhabitants. Black rhino are protected within its rim, giant tusked elephants wander the forests, black-maned lions stalk the grasslands, and flamingos crowd the soda lakes.
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
DAY 4: GAME DRIVES IN NGORONGORO CRATER CONSERVATION AREA
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
DAY 5: FLY TO THE SERENGETI
Drive back to the Manyara airstrip for your scheduled flight to the Serengeti. Spend three nights at Serengeti Under Canvas in an en-suite tent. Your stay includes accommodation, meals, scheduled activities, laundry, soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits and return airstrip transfers. The Serengeti National Park, meaning “endless plains” in the Masai language, is undoubtedly one of the world’s most celebrated Wilderness areas and is an on-going source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers and photographers. It is Tanzania’s oldest game reserve, renowned for the part it plays in the annual Great Migration, when an estimated three million antelope – mostly wildebeest – migrate to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve. This epic, seasonal journey is a deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject. Here visitors to the park can roam its sprawling plains on exhilarating game drives or hop into a hot-air balloon ride for an once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure. The Serengeti National Park is also home to the Olduvai Gorge, where ground-breaking archaeological discoveries have been made, as well as the breath-taking Ngorongoro Crater - a World Heritage Site.
Accommodation: Serengeti Under Canvas
DAY 6: GAME DRIVES IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Accommodation: Serengeti Under Canvas
DAY 7: GAME DRIVES IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Accommodation: Serengeti Under Canvas
DAY 8: FY TO ZANZIBAR AND BOAT TRANSFER TO MNEMBA ISLAND
Depart by road to the Airstrip, where you will board your scheduled flight to Zanzibar Airport via Arusha. On arrival in Zanzibar you will be met by our representative who will assist with your road transfer to the crossing point for Mnemba Island. Here you will be met by a boat for your transfer to Mnemba Island Lodge. Spend three nights at &Beyond Mnemba Island Lodge in a Banda. Your stay includes accommodation, meals, soft drinks, house wines, local beer, local brand spirits, snorkelling, kayaking, salt water fly-fishing, windsurfing and scuba diving (guests must provide proof that they hold a valid diving certificate, alternatively diving courses are available at an additional cost).
Accommodation: &Beyond Mnemba Island Lodge
DAY 9: MNEMBA ISLAND
Accommodation: &Beyond Mnemba Island Lodge
DAY 10: MNEMBA ISLAND
Accommodation: &Beyond Mnemba Island Lodge
DAY 11: DEPARTURE
