9 DAYS SAFARI TANZANIA TOUR, MASAI PEOPLE, BEAUTIFUL SCENERY & GAME VIEWING TANZANIA TRIP.

9 Days Safari Tanzania Tour – SAFARI OVERVIEW.

This 9 Days safari Tanzania tour is a memorable 9 day game viewing Tanzania safari the splendid Serengeti, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro crater & Tarangire National Parks. During this 9 days Tanzania holiday package, you visit the renowned spectacular Serengeti National park, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro crater conservation area, and Tarangire National Park.

On arrival at Arusha airport in Tanzania, you meet your professional driver guide who welcomes you to the country and ensures your transfer to a booked accommodation facility in Arusha town using a 4X4 safari vehicle for hire. The next morning, your driver-guide picks you up from your accommodation facility for a drive to Lake Manyara National Park where you arrive in the afternoon and undertake an evening game drive. The next morning, you have another morning game drive at Lake Manyara then after your driver guide transfers you to Serengeti National park arriving in the evening. You spend the next 2 days exploring the vast savannah plains of Serengeti national park. From Serengeti National Park, you then continue to Ngorongoro crater from where you are transferred to Tarangire National Park. The drive from Tarangire to Arusha airport for a departure flight marks the end of your trip.

9 Days Safari Tanzania Tour – SAFARI HIGHLIGHTS.

Day 1: Upon arrival at Arusha airport, you are cleared by the airport staff then welcomed by your Tanzania safari driver-guide for a transfer to a booked accommodation facility in Arusha where you spend the night.

Day 2: From Arusha town, you are transferred by a professional Tanzania safari guide to Lake Manyara National Park arriving in the afternoon for an evening game drive.

Day 3: In the morning after breakfast, you have another morning game drive at Lake Manyara park and then be transferred to Serengeti National Park arriving in the evening.

Day 4: You spend this day at Serengeti National Park where you undertake a morning hot air balloon experience and an evening game drive.

Day 5: This morning again you return to the endless plains of Serengeti national park where you spend the whole day returning to your lodging facility in the evening.

Day 6: After breakfast at Serengeti National Park, you are driven to Ngorongoro crater with a stop at Olduvai Gorge.

Day 7: You spend the day at Ngorongoro crater as you view wildlife in the magnificent crater.

Day 8: From Ngorongoro crater, you are driven by your driver guide to Tarangire National Park arriving in the afternoon.

Day 9: After early morning breakfast, you enjoy a game drive on a drive back to Arusha airport for a departure flight.

9 Days Safari Tanzania Tour – DETAILED SAFARI ITINERARY.

Day 1 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

Upon arrival to Tanzania at Arusha Airport, you are cleared by the airport staff then after you meet your Tanzania safari driver guide who welcomes and briefs you about the whole safari. From the airport, your driver-guide helps you with the transfer to your 4×4 safari vehicle to start the drive to a booked accommodation facility in Arusha town. Arriving at your lodge/hotel, you check-in, refresh, have dinner, and spend the night as you rest from jet lag.

Day 2 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

After early morning breakfast at your lodging facility in Arusha town, a knowledgeable driver-guide picks you up for a transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. On a distance of about 130km, you drive for 2hours 30minutes arriving in the afternoon for check-in and lunch. After then, you go for an evening game drive in the beautiful park mostly covered by a shallow soda lake just at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The possible sightings here include Elephants, tree-climbing lions, and large flocks of flamingos. You, later on, spend the night at a booked accommodation in Lake Manyara National Park.

Day 3 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

Early morning, you return to Lake Manyara National Park to increase your sightings during this wildlife safari in Tanzania on a game drive. You sight the beautiful soda lake with bird species at sunset as you go on in search of several other wildlife species lasting about 2-4hours. After the game drive, you have lunch and then embark on a drive to Serengeti national park. Leaving behind the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu you descend to the heart of Africa one of the richest parks spending the night at a booked Serengeti National Park Tanzania.

Day 4 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

Following morning breakfast in the “heart of Africa,” you go for a hot air balloon experience. Floating on a hot air balloon over the spectacular wildlife-filled Serengeti is an amazing experience and an extraordinary adventure. In the evening after lunch, you go for an evening game drive featuring the Serenora River which provides a valuable water source to the park which attracts several wildlife species.

Day 5 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

After breakfast, you will again get into the Serengeti plains where you go for a full day game drive wild viewing experience. On this day, you go to the Sogore River Circuit south of the Seronera River with possible sightings of the Lion, Thompson gazelle, topi, ostrich, and the cheetah. After the game drive, a visit to the visitor Centre close to Serengeti Seronera Lodge will offer more knowledge on the wildlife and area of the park. You then have a picnic lunch and continue with an afternoon game drive.

With your safari guide, you will follow the Kopjes Circuit that goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes and usually attracts a number of lions and some large cobras. During the dry season, the kopjes provide shade and drinking water in pools which attracts several wildlife species making it a prime game viewing spot.

Day 6 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

You take your last breakfast in Serengeti then depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. Along the way, you stop at Olduvai Gorge which is known as the place where early man’s skull was discovered. You spend a moment here at a spot with significant links to human evolution.

Arriving in the afternoon, you have lunch then descend to the Ngorongoro crater for wildlife viewing. Rewardingly, the Ngorongoro crater hosts a profusion of wildlife like the wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, giant African elephants, lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and leopards to be sighted. At the Alkaline Lake Magadi, you get the chance to sight the beautiful flamingoes and other water birds.

Day 7 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

This morning after breakfast you descend 600m into this splendid Ngorongoro crater for a full-day wildlife encounter. Home to an estimated 30,000 animals, the Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world with probable sightings of black rhinos, wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Predators like the lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the elusive leopard. In the evening after the amazing encounters and picnic lunch, you return to a lodging accommodation Ngorongoro crater where you spend the night.

Day 8 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

After breakfast, you will depart for Tarangire National Park on the low-lying hills of the Great Rift Valley floor. The drive in the African wilderness takes you to a beautiful park covered with Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. After picnic lunch in the afternoon, you have a drive through the park that hosts the largest elephant herds in Africa, the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings.

Day 9 of the 9 Days Safari Tanzania tour

On this last day of your Tanzania tour, after breakfast, you have a morning game drive then after check out of your lodging facility and return to Arusha. The drive back to Arusha is about 3 hours marking the end of your trip.

Known as the heart of Africa, in the almost endless plains of Tanzania are wonders of the wild. Serengeti national park in Tanzania is home of the wildebeest in Africa that trek between Tanzania and Kenya therefore can also be sighted on a Kenya wildlife safari.