13 Days Tanzania Photographic Safari & Great Highlands Walking Safari

TOUR INFORMATION

Areas visited

Tarangire National Park
Ngorongoro Crater
Olmoti Crater
Bulati
Empakai
Acacia Campsite
Lake Natron
Serengeti National Park
Lake Manyara National Park

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Join us for a 13-day Tanzania Photographic Safari and Great Highlands Walking Safari, combining the best of both worlds in Africa’s premier safari destination. Tanzania’s vast game preserves and parks offer unparalleled opportunities for nature and wildlife photography, making it a top choice for enthusiasts. The Serengeti ecosystem and the Grand Ruaha National Park are highly sought-after destinations for photographers seeking dynamic ecosystems and breathtaking scenery.

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Day 1: Kilimanjaro Airport – Arusha Town

Whatever your arrival time at Kilimanjaro International Airport, your driver guide from our office will be there waiting for you with a warm welcoming smile, relax in your comfortable vehicle as he takes you to your hotel in Arusha. On your journey to the hotel, you will get a brief impression of this large, bustling, commercial city. Depending on your arrival time you may either meet with your Safari expert today for briefing or tomorrow before you start your Safari.

Overnight Stay at Gran Melia Arusha (Bed & Breakfast Included)
Day 2: Arusha - Transfer to Tarangire

Pick up: after breakfast you will be be picked up from the hotel at 7:30am and drive to Tarangire National Park for game viewing Your afternoon game drive in Tarangire with its incredible diversity, massive baobab trees ad herds of elephants. Tarangire is huge, as you stand at the park gate and look south, it stretches as far as the eye can see. Known as the ‘ Elephants Playground” this phenomenal park contains huge herds of these mighty mammals. But Tarangire is also home to buffalo,lion, wildebeest, Zebra and gazelle ad the park can rival Serengeti for sheer animal densities. In the evening you will be taken to your Accommodation for Dinner and Overnight.

Overnight Stay at Lemala Mpingo Ridge (Full Board Accommodation Included)
Day 3: Full Day Game Drive Tarangire

Walking Safari in Tarangire Up close and personal: that could be the motto for a walking safari, and Tarangire is a fantastic location to again leave the comfort of your safari vehicle and enjoy the landscape on foot. With a Park Ranger for safety and accompanied by your expert driver-guide. You may have thought that you have seen all that Tarangire has to offer, but you will certainly enjoy some new experiences as we explore the park further in our afternoon game-drive. The varied terrain in itself could be considered a wonder, with riverine woodlands and grasslands, acacia and baobab. After a game drive you will go back to your hotel for Dinner and Overnight

Overnight Stay at Lemala Mpingo Ridge (Full Board Accommodation Included)
Day 4: Tarangire to Ngorongoro Crater

After our morning breakfast, en-route game-drive as we depart magical Tarangire, we will travel from there to Ngorongoro, After Lunch we will then descend to the Ngorongoro Crater. We reach the rim and then descend into the vast crater itself. At one side there’s the Lerai Forest, classic mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. This is good elephant country, so keep your eyes peeled. By the side of the nearby swampland is what is sometimes called the ‘elephant graveyard’ as the mighty male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the soft, swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.

Overnight Stay at Lemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp (Full Board Accommodation Included)
Day 5: Walking Safari Ngorongoro to Olmoti Crater

After breakfast depart to Olmoti Crater for a half day walking safari, this is a shallow grassy crater and is the source of Munge River which flows water through a gorge in the rim in a beautiful waterfall on its way to Ngorongoro crater. You will descend to the crater floor and spend a few minutes/hours then later you will ascend to the Olmoti campsite for dinner and overnight stay.

Overnight at Olmoti Campsite
Day 6: Walking Safari From Olmoti to Bulati

You will have an early morning breakfast then start a walking safari from Olmoti campsite to Bulati. Here you will descend the outer hills of the Great Rift Valley and walk across the open plains of the beautiful Embulbul depressions where Antelopes, wildebeest, Zebras and other animals are often seen. You will reach Bulati around late afternoon, Bulati is a typical Maasai village and here you will have your picnic lunches. Dinner and overnight stay at Bulati campsite

Overnight Stay at Bulati Campsite
Day 7: Walking Safari From Bulati to Empakai Crater

After breakfast, you will leave Bulati campsite with picnic lunches walking Safari through Bulati village all the way to Bulati ranges where as you will reach Empakaai crater in the midday. You will have lunches at a campsite that is located high above the Empakaai crater. This crater is famous for Buffaloes, hyenas, antelopes and flamingoes at the crater floor soda lake. You will descend the forested crater slopes to reach the crater floor and walk around a lakeshore of the soda lake. Later you will ascend to the Empakaai crater campsite for dinner and overnight stay.

Overnight Stay at Empakai Campsite
Day 8: Walking Safari From Empakai to Acacia Campsite

You will have breakfast at Empakaai campsite, and then with your picnic lunches a walking safari to Naiyobi will start, the walking safari to Naiyobi takes approximately 4-6 hours walk. You will walk through a trail that passes around Empakaai crater rim and into the forest which is inhabited by animals such as Buffaloes and porcupines reaching Naiyobi at midday. Naiyobi is a Maasai village which is located at the edge of the Ngorongoro conservation area. Here is where you will part ways with the armed ranger and continue a walk with a Maasai guide to the Acacia Forest behind Naiyobi village. Lunch at campsite and dinner and overnight stay.

Overnight at Acacia Campsite
Day 9: Acacia Campsite to Lake Natron

After breakfast you will start walking safari as this is the last part of your trekking as you will hike downward to the rift valley escarpment walking safari all the way to Pembe ya swala which is a distinctive point where you will find our safari cars waiting for you and drive to Natron. Upon reaching Natron you will go to the lake for a walking tour around the lake until afternoon when you will be driven to camp for hot lunch. Then you will rest for a while until around 3 pm when you will be taken for a walk to the beautiful waterfall around Natron, you will return back to camp in the evening for dinner and overnight stay.

Overnight at Moivaro Lake Natron Tented Camp
Day 10: Lake Natron to Serengeti National Park

Drive to central Serengeti via Klains gate, arrive Serengeti in the afternoon and enjoy the game viewing enroute to the camps for evening at leisure with hot dinner

Overnight Stay at Nasikia Ehlane Plains Camp (Full Board Accommodation Included)
Day 11: Full Day Game Drive Central Serengeti

Today, we set off from our accommodation in central Serengeti. Wildlife is abundant: sometimes you may think it has come to find you, rather than the other way round. Today’s highlight is unknown as the animals don’t publish their schedule and what we see also depends on the season, but this area is where bushland meets grassland, a favorite spot for big cats looking for prey. Cheetah, leopard and lions are all possibilities today. Today you will have a chance to enjoy the varied landscapes of the central Serengeti. The Seronera River weaves its way through this area, providing waters for all species of wildlife. You may also see the distinctive rocky outcrops, the famous kopjes which characterized the Serengeti landscape. Lunch will be served at the picnic site with an unforgettable experience enjoyed in the middle of the bush.

Overnight Stay at Nasikia Ehlane Plains Camp (Full Board Accommodation Included)
Day 12: Serengeti National Park to Karatu

After morning game drive and lunch, this afternoon we will head south-east towards Ngorongoro, a distance of 145kms and proceed to Karatu which is 25kms and its equal to around 4hours.

Overnight Stay at The Manor at Ngorongoro
Day 13: Karatu - Lake Manyara National Park - Arusha/Kilimanjaro Airport

Pick up: after breakfast you will be be picked up from the lodge/camp for game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Your game drive in wonderful Lake Manyara, with the rift valley escarpment and the lake itself as the wonderful, natural backdrops. Later after game viewing you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your departure flight back home!

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