Tour Overview:
This unforgettable African safari tour will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. Your tour will also take you to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. Finally, your African safari tour will also take you to the Tarangire National Park, which features some of the greatest concentration of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and unspoiled – possessing a wild beauty. The size of the selected Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks, make them a perfect choice for our shorter safaris.
DAY 1
Early in the morning you will drive from Arusha or Moshi towards Lake Manyara national park and doing game drive not less than 4 hours game drive in the park with picnic lunch in the park. So it will be evening game drive when the temperature cool from the park and gives a chance to see animals grazing under the shade of baobab tree and park can offer to see impalas, giraffe, lion, zebra and different kind of bird’s at Lake Manyara. Dinner and overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp.
Distance:
- Moshi to Lake Manyara national park time 3hrs 203km
DAY 2
After an early breakfast, your guide/driver will take you to Ngorongoro and having full day game drive to Ngorongoro Crater and having an option of doing Maasai activities in Ngorongoro, lunch in a side of hippo’s pool, late evening driving back to overnight to your lodge or campsite. This will be at Karatu 30 min driving from Ngorongoro exit gate. Ngorongoro crater offer different animal and it’s a house of black rhinos, pride of lion, bird’s variety, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest and much more.
Distance:
- Mtowambu to ngorongoro 50min. (41.3 km)
DAY 3
After your breakfast you will be picked up from your hotel or campsite then drive to Tarangire National Park which takes three hours. This park is spectacular in the dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of the Tarangire River. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, elands and Oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rain when they migrate again to good grazing areas. In the late afternoon drive to Kilimanjaro or Arusha, (or can be drop off straight either at Arusha airport or Kilimanjaro airport).
Distance:
- Tarangire to Arusha 2hrs 40min (152.7km)
- Tarangire to Moshi 4hrs 41m (261.6km)
Safari Include:
- Full board accommodation whilst on safari in the above mentioned en suite tented camps and lodges
- Private safari guide
- Maasai Experience tour
- Extended Toyota Land Cruiser
- Private 4 x 4 safari jeep with pop up roof for game viewing
- Transfers in both directions between the International Airport and Moshi.
- All entrance Park fees
- NgorongoroCrater fees
- 18% VAT to our entrance fees.
- All meals while on safari.
- One night Hotel accommodation in Moshi/Arusha.
- Government taxes, VAT and service charges relating to accommodation and included meals
Safari Exclude:
- Tanzania Visa: $50 per person on arrival, USA and CANADA passport holders USD.100
- Personal Expenses (e.g. laundry, telephone, beverages, etc.)
- Meals not listed above
- Optional Tours (balloon rides USD. 540 per person etc)
- Tips and any items of personal nature
Tipping is highly appreciated at the end of safari:
Tips will vary depending on the length and complexity of the trip, the number of staff on the trip and the number of clients on the trip. Generally, groups like to meet before the end of the trek to discuss how much they would like to tip each staff member based on their individual trek experience.
The following are daily rates for each climber recommended to tip per staff member:
- Driver guide: $20/day
- Cook: $15/day (this is for the ones opting for a budgeted camping safari.
Please note: If you opt lodge safari, you will be with your driver guide only, therefore you can arrange tip for driver only. If you opt camping safari, then you will be with safari driver guide and cook, therefore you can arrange tip for both two.
Rock Explorers we also offer the short safaris to enable our client to use their time and achieve their expectations, our sample safaris will include Ngorongoro crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire and Arusha national parks.
Remember, all Rock Explorers are customized to meet your needs and budget. You may mix your accommodations between lodges and tented camp sites. You may want to schedule a leisurely itinerary, pace yourself or leave time for other types of outings like visiting the Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakey’s did their research and made their discoveries on the history of man.
Rock Explorers we also offer the short safaris to enable our client to use their time and achieve their expectations, our sample safaris will include Ngorongoro crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire and Arusha national parks.
Remember, all Rock Explorers are customized to meet your needs and budget. You may mix your accommodations between lodges and tented camp sites. You may want to schedule a leisurely itinerary, pace yourself or leave time for other types of outings like visiting the Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakey’s did their research and made their discoveries on the history of man.