10 DAYS TANZANIA SAFARI, BIRD WATCHING & WILDLIFE VIEWING SAFARI IN

10 Days Tanzania Safari – SAFARI OVERVIEW

This 10 Days Tanzania Safari is a nine-night, ten-day safari in Tanzania tour that explores the fabulous bird watching and wildlife viewing destinations of northern Tanzania; Tarangire, Lake Manyara, the Serengeti, and Ngorongoro Crater.

Your 10 Days Tanzania Safari will focus on Tanzanian endemics/regional specials while giving you ample time to marvel at some of the highest wildlife concentrations on Earth, and all this amidst breathtaking scenery in one of Africa’s wildest, most stable, and least spoilt wildlife destinations! Some of the many specials and endemic birds that you’ll target on this tour are the beautiful Fischer’s and Yellow-collared Lovebirds, Grey-breasted Spurfowl, Ashy Starling, and Rufous-tailed Weaver.

With Mounts Meru and Kilimanjaro as a backdrop, you’ll search for the highly localized Beesley’s Lark, one of the world’s rarest lark species with perhaps no more than 250 birds left! This immensely rewarding Tanzania birding safari is augmented by some of the most outstanding mammal viewing the world has to offer.

If you would like to book or customize this affordable wildlife, bird watching, and scenic Tanzania tour of a lifetime to suit your special interests and budget – please let us know.

10 Days Tanzania Safari – PRIME SAFARI ACTIVITIES

Birding in Tanzania’s finest safari destinations
Classic safari game drives
Chance to witness the Great Wildebeest Migration (seasonal)
See the Big 5 animals in the wild
Spot Big Cats like Lion, Leopard, and Cheetahs
Watch Tarangire’s large elephant herds
Explore the natural wonder of Ngorongoro Crater
Track Lake Manyara’s tree-climbing lions
Drive through picturesque landscapes & villages
Visit a traditional Maasai Village (optional)
Tour Olduvai Gorge (optional)

10 Days Tanzania Safari – FEATURED SAFARI DESTINATIONS

Day 1: Arusha

Day 2: Lark Plains & Lake Manyara National Park

Day 3, 4 & 5: Serengeti National Park

Day 6: Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Day 7, 8, & 9: Tarangire National Park

Day 10: Arusha

10 Days Tanzania Safari – SAFARI HIGHLIGHT

Day 1: Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport & Transfer to Arusha

Day 2: Visit the Lark Plains & Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive.

Day 3: Drive to Serengeti National Park Via Masai Village & Ngorongoro

Day 4: Full-day safari in Serengeti National Park

Day 5: Full-day safari in Serengeti National Park

Day 6: Game drives in Serengeti as you travel to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Day 7: Game drive in Ngorongoro Crater & transfer to Tarangire National Park

Day 8: Full-day safari in Tarangire National Park

Day 9: Full-day safari in Tarangire National Park

Day 10: Drive back to Arusha (Kilimanjaro Aiport) for your departure flight.

10 Days Tanzania Safari – DETAILED SAFARI ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport & Transfer to Your Hotel Arusha.

Welcome to beautiful Tanzania! This gem of a country is a wildlife lover’s paradise, home to some of Africa’s most famous safari destinations and unspoiled game parks. Located in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, Tanzania is known for its vast wilderness areas. This country is home to the Serengeti National Park, where millions of plains animals migrate around its fertile savanna plains.

Also, here is the Ngorongoro Crater, the only place you can see all Big Five animals (lion, elephant, leopard, buffalo, and black rhino) on a single game drive. Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, our company representative will be waiting to transfer you to your overnight hotel in Arusha. After unpacking and unwinding, you can take some time to head out and admire the views.

Not only does this city sit at the foot of the 4,566 meters Meru Volcano (Africa’s 5 highest mountain), but at certain places, you can also spot the snow-capped Kilimanjaro – Africa’s highest mountain. Coffee lovers will want to hit a café and sample this country’s famous robusta and arabica roasts. After all, Tanzania is the third-largest coffee producer in Africa, and this bean is its largest export crop.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Arusha Coffee Lodge/Kibo Palace Hotel/Impala Hotel

Midrange: – Outpost Lodge

Meal Plan: – Dinner

Activities & Services: –

Pick up from the airport.
Transfer to a hotel.

Day 2: Visit The Lark Plains & Lake Manyara National Park For A Game Drive.

On day two of your 10 days Tanzania safari after breakfast, you drive to Lark Plains north of Arusha town. These plains are home to up 8 species of lark, including the erratic Athi Short-toed, the nomadic Short-tailed, Pink-breasted, and the rare, endemic Beesley’s Lark. After birding in the plains, enjoy a packed picnic lunch and continue your drive to Lake Manyara National Park.

You will arrive at your lodge for relaxation before embarking on an afternoon game drive. At 330km², Lake Manyara has a diverse range of habitats. The park lies at the foot of the Rift Valley escarpment, which provides a stunning backdrop for your search for the park’s phenomenal bird life, tree-climbing Lions, Leopards, Elephants; Giraffes, Zebras, Hippos, Crocodiles, Waterbucks, Baboons, and Buffalos.

There are almost 400 bird species in the park including the Purple-crested Turaco, Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Baglafecht Weaver, Grey-olive Greenbul, Crested Guineafowl, Superb Starlings, and Lilac-breasted Rollers as well as several East African specials such as Von der Decken’s Hornbill, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, and White-headed Buffalo Weaver.

Raptors include Augur Buzzard, Gabar Goshawk, Grey Kestrel; Tawny, Crowned, and Martial Eagles. Lake Manyara’s main attraction, however, is the vast number of Greater and Lesser Flamingos. An abundance of other waterbirds is found here, including typical African families such as Pelicans, Spoonbills, Ducks, Herons, Storks, Egrets, Cormorants, Kingfishers, Jacanas, Plovers, and Lapwings.

You’ll return to your lodge for dinner and a good night’s sleep.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge

Midrange: – Manyara Kirurumu Camp

Budget: – Manyara Wildlife Safari Camp

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Drive Distance & Time: – Approx. 2½ hours

Activities & Services: –

Transfer to Lake Manyara
Afternoon birding and game viewing

Day 3: Drive To Serengeti National Park Via Masai Village & Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

After an early breakfast today, make your way to the world-famous Serengeti National Park. Pass through an area that is home to the Maasai people. These tall, proud nomadic pastoralists are renowned for their legendary prowess in battle and singlehanded acts of bravery in fights with wild animals.

Here, you can opt to visit a traditional Maasai village. A local guide will explain their unique culture as you watch the people busy with their daily chores. You will also be treated to a display of the famous Maasai dancing and will have unlimited photographic opportunities.

Depending on time, you may stop at the famous Oldupai Gorge, where Mrs. Leakey discovered the remains of an almost intact human skull dating 1.8 million years ago. You’ll enjoy a packed picnic lunch in the Gorge visitor center courtyard, before touring the museum to learn more about this fascinating place and its secrets.

A bird walk around the site may yield a variety of arid-country species such as the vocal Slate-coloured Boubou, Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Rufous Chatterer, and Vitelline Masked Weaver, and the beautiful Purple Grenadier.

Then, continue your travels westward across the vast, flat and seemingly endless Serengeti Plains, to spend 2 nights in one of the world’s most renowned game reserves, hosting over 3 million wild animals and 530 bird species. Enjoy a game drive up to your overnight camp/lodge.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Serengeti Serena Lodge/Serengeti Sopa Lodge

Midrange: – Serengeti Kati Kati Camp

Budget: – Kijereshi Tented Camp (Bungalow)

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Drive Distance & Time: – Approx. 250km/5-6 hours

Activities & Services: –

Transfer to Serengeti
Evening game drive in Serengeti

Optional Activities:-

Visit a traditional Maasai Village
Tour Olduvai Gorge

Day 4: Full-Day Safari In Serengeti National Park.

Today, have an early breakfast and go on a morning game drive. You will return to your lodge/camp for lunch and some time to relax, before heading out in the park again in search of more animals/birds on an afternoon drive.

Spanning an incredible 14,000km², Serengeti is one of the world’s largest wildlife sanctuaries. Despite its vastness, the number of animals you can expect to see is still astonishing. Serengeti, literally meaning ‘Endless Plain’ in Maasai, consists mostly of grasslands interspersed with Acacia woodlands and rocky Kopjes.

The park has little permanent water and this fact, combined with a fairly regular rainfall pattern, has resulted in the world-famous Wildebeest migration when over 2 million animals (wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles) move between the Serengeti and Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Your visit can be timed so that you might bear witness to this primeval wonder of the natural world.

Also, there will be a real feast of superb birds to keep you busy. Star birds include the East African endemics such as the Grey-crested Helmetshrike, Red-throated Tit, the striking Steelblue Whydah, and the localized Karamoja Apalis. Other specials are Fischer’s Lovebird, Grey-breasted Spurfowl, Rufous-tailed Weaver, the localized race of D’Arnaud’s Barbet, and Athi Short-toed Lark.

Not only is this a great place in which to find game and birds, but the wide gold savanna grasslands, dotted with umbrella-shaped acacia trees, also make it ideal for photography. The Serengeti is delightfully beautiful and offers dramatic views.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Serengeti Sopa Lodge/Serengeti Serena Lodge

Midrange: – Serengeti Kati Kati Camp

Budget: – Kijereshi Tented Camp (Bungalow)

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Activities & Services: –

Full-day birding and game viewing

Optional Activity: –

Hot air balloon safari

Day 5: Full-Day Safari In Serengeti National Park

On day five of your 10 days Tanzania safari, enjoy another full day exploring the wonders of the Serengeti! You’ll go on game drives in the morning and afternoon, then return to the lodge for lunch and a little break in the heat of the day.

The Serengeti ecosystem supports the highest concentrations of large predators in the world. Hyenas are the most numerous of the large carnivores at about 9,000, lions at 3000, and leopards at about 1,000. In general, cheetahs live at much lower densities than other large predators. However, the Serengeti boasts the highest density of cheetah in Africa (at certain times of the year) with up to 40 animals per 60 square miles found on short grass plains during the wet season.

You’ll also look out for more fantastic bird species such as Saddle-billed Stork, Vultures, Secretarybird, Bateleur, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Kori Bustards, Coqui Francolins, Temminck’s Courser, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Red-fronted Barbet, Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill, Southern Ground Hornbill, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Black-lored Babbler, Grey-backed Fiscals, Magpie Shrike, Hildebrandt’s Starling, Red-billed barbet, Beautiful Sunbird, Ostrich, and Blue-capped Cordon-bleu.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Serengeti Sopa Lodge/Serengeti Serena Lodge

Midrange: – Serengeti Kati Kati Camp

Budget: – Kijereshi Tented Camp (Bungalow)

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Activities & Services: –

Game drives in Serengeti

Optional Activity: –

Hot air balloon safari

Day 6: Game Drives In Serengeti As You Travel To Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

After breakfast on day six of your 10 days Tanzania safari, leave the Serengeti and travel to Ngorongoro. You have more opportunities to discover any species you might have missed as you make your way out of Serengeti.

The vast 8,292km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that protects, the planet’s largest intact volcanic caldera (260km²), and one of the world’s most scenically breathtaking natural areas. What’s more, the crater is also one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, home to one of the Earth’s densest populations of large animals, and over 500 bird species.

The fantastic forests that cloak the rim of this iconic site host a feast of Afro-montane forest birds. Schalow’s Turaco, Hildebrandt’s Francolin, beautiful Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, the elusive Brown-backed Woodpecker, Mountain Greenbul, Brown-headed Apalis, skulking Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Brown Parisoma, busy flocks of Mbulu White-eyes and dazzling Tacazze, Golden-winged and Eastern Double-collared Sunbirds can be found.

You will bird the surrounds of your lodge as you enjoy the stunning views of the Ngorongoro Crater from a dedicated viewpoint.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Ngorongoro Crater Lodge/Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Midrange: – Rhotia Valley Tented Lodge

Budget: – Karatu Simba Lodge

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Drive Distance & Time: – Approx.140km/3-4 hours

Activities & Services: –

Transfer to Ngorongoro
Game drives

Day 7: Game Drive In Ngorongoro Crater & Transfer To Tarangire National Park.

After an early breakfast, you descend 2000 feet to the Ngorongoro Crater floor itself.

The crater is deluxe ‘Big Five’ territory and a photographer’s dream destination. Most of the animals are relaxed and habituated to the presence of human admirers, and the high crater walls, usually cloaked in a pure white frosting of clouds, make for dramatic backdrops to animal photographs.

Also, the crater floor provides a mini-example of a complete African ecosystem with forests, lakes, grasslands, swamps, and rivers. About 25,000 large animals reside in the crater and great concentrations of Wildebeest and Zebra are supplemented by great tusked African Elephants and the highly sought-after Black Rhinos.

Ngorongoro Crater reputably boasts the world’s highest concentration of predators, and these include Black-manned Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, Serval, Bat-eared Fox, Spotted Hyena, and African Golden Wolf (Golden Jackal), and Black-backed Jackal.

The birding is similarly rewarding; Flamingos on Lake Magadi, Common Ostrich striding over the grasslands, regal Kori Bustard (the world’s heaviest flying bird), the elegant Grey Crowned Crane, Fan-tailed Widowbird, Rosy-throated Longclaw, Black-bellied Bustard, Dusky Turtle Dove, and good numbers of raptors including the unique Secretarybird, Bateleur, and Martial Eagle could all be found.

Then embark on a drive south to Tarangire National Park, a less explored birding gem. Arrive at your lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Tarangire Sopa Lodge

Midrange: – Tarangire Kirurumu Camp

Budget: – Roika Tented Lodge

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner

Activities & Services: –

Morning game viewing and birding in Ngorongoro Crater

Day 8: Full Day Safari In Tarangire National Park.

Day 8 of your 10 days Tanzania safari will start with an early breakfast at the lodge, followed by a full day of birding/game viewing in Tarangire. You’ll return to the lodge for lunch and some time to rest before you head back out again.

With a total area of 2850km², Tarangire is the fifth largest national park in Tanzania. Seasonally, the park supports the second largest concentration of wildlife in Tanzania, surpassed only by the Serengeti during peak migration. But, Tarangire is most famous for its huge numbers of African Elephants that congregate huge herds of up to 300 strong along the life-giving Tarangire River.

You will take your time to observe these graceful giants and will surely be amazed at their tender family interactions. Other mammals likely to be seen include Dwarf Mongoose, Lion, Leopards, Impala, Kirk’s Dik-dik, comical Common Warthog, Giraffe, and Gerenuk. You can opt for a night game drive in the park or birding around your lodge which offers an opportunity to see the Slender-tailed and Freckled Nightjars as well as the diminutive African Scops Owl.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Tarangire Sopa Lodge

Midrange: – Tarangire Kirurumu Camp

Budget: – Roika Tented Lodge

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner

Activities & Services: –

Full-day game drive

Optional Activity: –

Night game drive
Night birding around the lodge

Day 9: Full Day Safari In Tarangire National Park.

Your day nine of the 10 days of Tanzania safari will start with an early breakfast at the lodge and then back into Tarangire for a full day of birding and game viewing.

You’ll once again return to the lodge for lunch and some downtime before we head back out again. The Acacia woodland and Baobabstudded grasslands provide a home for a large number of birds, with the park’s total exceeding 500 species.

During your time here, you may find African Hawk-Eagle, the diminutive Pygmy Falcon, Double-banded Courser, White-bellied Bustard, Red-necked and Yellow-necked Spurfowl, Black-faced Sandgrouse, Meyer’s Parrot, Bare-faced Go-away-bird, Red-and-yellow and D’Arnaud’s Barbets, Mottled Spinetail, Banded Parisoma, Northern Pied Babblers and delightful Red-cheeked and Blue-capped Cordonbleus.

Two major targets for the area are the Tanzanian endemics, Ashy Starling and Yellow-collared Lovebird.

Accommodation:-

Luxury: – Tarangire Sopa Lodge

Midrange: – Tarangire Kirurumu Camp

Budget: – Roika Tented Lodge

Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner

Activities & Services: –

Full-day game viewing and birding

Optional Activity: – Walking safari

Day 10: Drive Back To Arusha (Kilimanjaro Aiport) For Your Departure Flight.

You can enjoy a relaxed breakfast today as it is an easy drive back to Arusha. You can stop for lunch on the way and arrive in town around noon where you will be taken to your hotel or airport – either from the local Arusha Airport or Kilimanjaro International Airport – for your onward connection.

End of the 10 Days Tanzania Safari

10 Days Tanzania Safari − SAFARI INCLUSIONS

Full Board Accommodation on Safari
Transportation in 4X4 Safari Van/Land Cruiser all with Pop up roof &AC
Fuel
Professional English Speaking driver guide. Any other foreign language speaking guide can be arranged on request.
Entrance fees to the tourist sites including Protected areas mentioned
Activity fees of the tourist activities mentioned
Bottled water while on safari