The journey
Overview
A truly terrific touring ground, Tanzania boasts Africa’s highest mountain, largest lake, most ancient fossils, and most famous safaris. This tour takes you to witness the Great Migration from the elevated balconies of unique Bush Rovers. Showcasing abundant wildlife and spectacular scenery from the Serengeti plains to the sands of Zanzibar, this Tanzanian tour starts in the picturesque Lake Manyara National Park, a place of remarkable ecological diversity that Ernest Hemingway praised as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. Legendary Ngorongoro is the largest unbroken caldera on Earth, its prolific wildlife protected by 600m-high crater walls, its reaches encompassing the Olduvai Gorge, where fossil footprints date back 3.6 million years. The Serengeti is home to the phenomenal Great Migration of huge herds of wildebeest and zebra. Often billed as an annual event, it is actually a continuous circular movement around the Serengeti, and this innovative safari features Bush Rovers, re-positioned season by season, so that you can observe the spectacle away from the busiest viewing sites. And Lake Victoria concludes the tour, looking like a freshwater sea, peppered with islands, and brilliant for birdwatching.
Unforgettable moments
Highlights
01
Witness the iconic Great Migration
02
Stay at the Bush Rovers camp
03
Search for tree-climbing lions
04
Unique Ngorongoro Crater safari
05
Take a boat trip on Lake Victoria
06
Meet the locals at a fish market
Your itinerary
Day by day
- Day1
Join tour in Arusha+
Your tour starts in the small town of Arusha, a well-placed gateway for Tanzania’s big game parks.
Your Tour Guide will meet you in the hotel reception at 6pm for a welcome briefing. If you arrive later and miss this join time, they will catch you up at a later point.
Settle into Moivaro Coffee Plantation Lodge for an overnight stay.
- Day2
Visit Lake Manyara and enjoy a game drive+
Travel to Lake Manyara, the shallow soda lake tucked beneath the Great Rift Valley escarpment, a birdwatching haven, visited by elephants and giraffes, home to hyraxes, civets and porcupines, and the best place for seeing the tree-climbing lions, draped, loose-limbed, along shady branches. Enjoy a game drive. Stay two nights at Endoro Lodge, or similar.
(B, L, D)
- Day3
Explore Ngorongoro Crater on an extended game drive+
Descend into Ngorongoro Crater, the UNESCO listed Conservation Area covering huge expanses of highland plains, woodland and savannah; the 16km wide crater floor encircling Lake Magadi and its flocks of flamingos, and boasting an astonishing density of wildlife, ensuring spectacular game viewing. We make the most of it with an extended game drive, including lunch.
(B, L, D)
- Day4
Visit Oldupai Gorge, later continuing to Serengeti National Park+
Visit Oldupai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools and fossilised bones, including a skull 1.75 million years old, recording the evolution of early Man. The on-site museum has finds from the gorge and a hall dedicated to the Leakey’s work. Continue to Serengeti National Park, renowned for rewarding safaris. Overnight at the Tanzania Bush Camps.
(B, L, D)
- Day5
Enjoy your Bush Rovers and game viewing+
The Serengeti is synonymous with the Great Migration, the herds’ circular movement within the reserve up to the Mara, which is where the Bush Rovers come in. Tented accommodation on working Land Rovers, that allow for easy re-positioning of the ‘mobile camp’, to prime locations, the Kusini area, the Grumeti and Mara River, for the season’s viewing. Enjoy game viewing and two nights in the Bush Rovers.
(B, L, D)
- Day6
Spend the day game viewing+
Antelopes large and small share the park with the A to Z of African wildlife, from aardvark to herds of zebra, from Big Five to Little Five, from shy bushbaby to sly crocodile, and numerous prides of lions. Experience a fabulous day of game viewing in the migration area.
(B, L, D)
- Day7
Enjoy a canoe ride through the Little Okavango+
Leave the Serengeti through its western corridor, emerging at the southern shore of Lake Victoria, with papyrus swamps and prolific birdlife. Immerse yourself in these unspoilt surroundings with a canoe ride through the ‘Little Okavango’ channels and along the lake. Two nights at the Little Okavango Camp, or similar.
(B, L, D)
- Day8
Visit a local market and enjoy a birding walk+
Awake early for a morning game drive in the park, take a look at life on Africa’s largest lake and the settlements on its shores; and enjoy an afternoon birding walk. Species recorded here span the spectrum from White-faced Whistling Ducks to Red-necked Francolin, Emerald-spotted Wood Doves, swifts and lapwings, crakes and cranes. Later in the afternoon, head out again for another game drive.
(B, L, D)
- Day9
Fly to Dar es Salaam+
- Day10
Tour ends in Dar es Salaam+
Your tour ends this morning after breakfast.
Or fly to the ‘spice island’ of Zanzibar for a four-night beach extension to your safari. Speak to us about booking these extra nights.
(B)
Peace of mind
What's included
- ✦9 nights’ accommodation
- ✦Meals Included: full board
- ✦Itinerary as described
- ✦Park fees
- ✦Services of guides and local representative
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- ✦Flights from the UK can be added — ask your adviser