15 Days - Luxury Escape to Nature - Serengeti & Zanzibar

Luxury Escape to Nature - Serengeti & Zanzibar is exceptional with experiences that open your mind, enhance your image, and give you a unique way to look at everything differently. All of Nature inclusive of sights, sounds, and smells join us to offer you remarkable adventures in Africa’s vast country of Tanzania. The beauty of these luxury safaris is that no two places, no two days, and no two game drives are similar. On these safaris you watch many different wildlife animals wander around their natural vegetation habitats. On your Luxury Safari in Tanzania, you get to sleep and relax in the African luxurious and cozy accommodation facilities that are equipped with fine features, and amenities to give you the Best Wilderness experiences while traveling alone or with friends and family.

Trip Info

You will enjoy and experience nature, wildlife, habit and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas, also peoples and culture. Book today

Minimum Rate Per Adult: US$ 12,504.

Departing From: Arusha

Duration: 15 Days / 14 Nights

Departure Time: 0830 Hrs (possible to leave earlier than)

Departures: Daily

Minimum Persons Required: 2

Best Time: December to March

Detailed Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) - Arusha City
Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro airport, our representative will meet you and drive you to your first evening. Arusha is a major international diplomatic hub. The city hosts and is regarded as the de facto capital of the East African Community. Arusha is surrounded by some of Africa's most famous landscapes and national parks. Situated below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, it has a mild climate.

Overnight at Legendary Coffee Lodge: Set in lush tropical gardens on a working coffee farm just outside Arusha, the Legendary Lodge features six beautiful garden cottages, each with an inspiring view of Mount Meru from its own private veranda. Designed with a unique blend of African arts and crafts, combined with old, colonial-style luxury, the cottages offer king-sized beds, a separate lounge with a fireplace, and ensuite bathrooms with deep tubs and refreshing showers.

The two-bedroom Kahawa Cottage is ideal for families, while two cozy en suite rooms are available in The Old Farmhouse for those who prefer to be closer to the dining room and guest lounge. Mouth-watering gourmet meals are served in the gracious environment of The Old Farmhouse, while the Legendary Therapies Spa offers rejuvenating treatments in the elegant therapy room or in the privacy of the guest cottages.

Included: Dinner with alcoholic beverages

Day 2: Transfer to Tarangire National Park
-Enjoy a leisurely morning at the lodge with views of Mount Meru in the background. Enjoy breakfast either at your cottage verandah or at the main house restaurant. After breakfast leave for Tarangire National Park, arriving at Oliver's Camp for lunch. After lunch leave the camp for a walking safari, a specialty of Oliver's Camp. The privilege of walking in these natural areas gives you an exhilarating feeling of adventure.

Although you'll usually get close to large mammals such as elephants, giraffes, buffalos, or even lions, walking safaris are very safe. The experienced guides of Oliver's Camp and an armed national park ranger will accompany you on every walk. Walking safaris can take an hour or a whole afternoon depending on your flexibility and liking. Return to camp in time to enjoy a sundowner around the bonfire and later dinner shall be served at the main mess tent.

Oliver's Camp: Oliver’s Camp is situated in the remote south-eastern reaches of the Tarangire National Park. This relatively undeveloped park – celebrated by safari travelers looking to head a little off the beaten track – offers a welcome respite from the crowds of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater to the north. At Oliver’s, the ten en-suite safari tents offer bush luxury without superfluous frills.

Included: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner and all drinks (except champagne, cellar wines, and premium brand spirits)

Day 3: Game drive to Tarangire National Park
-After breakfast, you will leave the camp and drive to Tarangire National Park for a full day of game viewing. Named after the river that flows through the park, Tarangire National Park is one of the lesser-known Tanzanian national parks, giving it a real air of undiscovered Africa.
-Famous for its tree-climbing pythons, massive baobabs, and large herds of elephants, Tarangire National Park is small but still home to a significant wildlife population. Birding is particularly good here; the swamps, tinged green year round, are home to 550 bird varieties; the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world. After a fun-filled day at the park, you will be driven back to Oliver's camp arriving in time to enjoy the sunset as you sip your chilled drinks and snacks provided by the camp.

Included: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with all drinks (except champagne, cellar wines, and premium brand spirits)

Day 4: Tarangire - Ngorongoro Crater Rim (walking).
At 0900hrs after breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will have lunch at your lodge. The lodge sits on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater from where you get awesome views of the collapsed volcano. Afternoon after lunch, commence a walking guided trip to Empalai Crater, an armed ranger will guide you, dinner and overnight at Crater's Edge Luxhry lodge.

Day 5: Game Drive to Ngorongoro Crater
Today, you will visit the Ngorongoro crater, the main feature of which is a large, unbroken, unfolded volcanic caldera. The crater, which formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago, is mostly open grassland with two small wooded areas dominated by Acacia xanthophloea.

Game drives through the Ngorongoro Crater begin early in the morning in closed safari vehicles with pop–up roofs. Accompanied by an expert driver guide, a magnificent experience is sure to be had! The descent into the crater is one of scenic beauty, as you make your way through lush forests, home to numerous elephants and buffalo.
-As you reach the inside of the Ngorongoro Crater, marveling at the incredible landscape around you, your guide will take you through the grassy crater floor, the unbelievable fever tree forest, the banks of Lake Magadi, and the surrounding marshes. Lunch is served picnic style, surrounded by the natural wonders around you as well as the exceptional wildlife, roaming freely, with which you share this extraordinary paradise.

You will have the privilege to observe the interaction between the different species. You will return to Crater's Edge Luxhry lodge. for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation booked on full board basis, FB.

Day 6: Transfer to Ngorongoro Ndutu Area
-After breakfast, leave Ngorongoro Crater Rom heading for the seemingly endless plains of NDUTU Area, bordering Serengeti Park to visit the Oldupai Gorge, home of the historic site well known where the world-famous archeologist, Dr. Leakey, discovered the remains of early humankind.

You will then arrive at the Lake Masek Luxury Tented Camp situated in the Ndutu Area.

The Camp: Like the wildebeest that are the stars of the Ndutu Area, built in the perfect location to spott the migration. WHY NDUTU, if you see/spott a wilderbeest in Serengeti or in Masai Mara in Kenya, it was born in Ndutu, Ndutu is the annual calving ground for the Wildebeest which starts between December through March.

Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and all drinks with the exception of a few

Day 7 & 8: Migration Game Drive in Ndutu Area
-The annual wildebeest migration is, quite simply, a drama in two acts: the dramatic dash for freedom as the herds cross the deadly Mara River on their march from Kenya, and the remarkable months of calving in the lush grasslands of the south Serengeti and Southwest Ngorongoro. And with Masek Luxury Camp offers a front-row seat to witness the action.
With the expertise of ou safari guides, the camp has year-round access to the finest areas in Ndutu Area for game viewing. Game drives are the main activity in the area with walking safaris being exceptionally popular when the camp is in the south from December to March.
- In the evening, guests gravitate towards the campfire to reflect on the day’s adventures. Here under the stars, the staff share stories and serve a delicious dinner few would imagine possible in the middle of the wilderness.

Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and all drinks with the exception of a few

Day 9: Transfer to Central Serengeti
- After breakfast, leave the Olakira Camp heading towards the Seronera area in Central Serengeti. The central Serengeti is home to the beautiful Seronera Valley. Several perennial rivers run through this valley enabling many resident animals to thrive year round. The combination of location and resident prey attracts the largest populations of predators in Africa. It is this amazing abundance and diversity of easily seen large predators that attracts thousands of visitors and hundreds of researchers to the Seronera River valley each year.
-There is simply no better place in Africa to observe these large carnivores and since many are residents, excellent encounters are available year-round regardless of the season or where the great migratory herds are located. It is not unusual to see all four large predators (lion, hyena, leopard, and cheetah) during the course of a day in the central Serengeti. You will enjoy a full-day game drive safari as you track the "Big Five" in this extensive and intriguing park. You will then be driven to youe luxury tented lodge arriving for dinner and overnight.

The lodge offers superb access for game viewing all year round from its secluded location in the southwest corner of the Central Seronera Valley - the heart of the Serengeti. This area is renowned for its abundance of game, especially big cats, and is right in the path of the extraordinary annual Great Migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebra. Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and all drinks with the exception of a few

Day 10: Full Day Game drive in Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, leave the camp to spend a great day in this African savannah land. Serengeti National Park quite simply offers the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa. Unrivaled concentrations of wildlife, stunningly beautiful landscapes, and vast pristine areas make Serengeti National Park our pick for the best national park in the whole of Africa.

As well as the migration of ungulates, the Serengeti National Park is well known for its stock of other resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five” - lion, leopard, elephant, black rhinoceros & buffalo – as well as cheetahs, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, topi, elands, waterbucks, hyenas, baboons, impalas, African wild dogs and giraffes. The park also boasts about 500 bird species, including ostrich, secretary bird, Kori bustard, crowned crane, marabou stork, martial eagle, lovebirds, and many species of vultures.
- In the evening, you will drive back to the camp just in time to enjoy a drink as you watch the sunset over the Serengeti plains. After a well-deserved shower, you will sit at the lodge's mess tent for freshly prepared food for dinner.

Return to lodge arriving just in time to enjoy an evening sundowner. Dinner and overnight. Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and all drinks with a few exceptions

Day 11: Fly Serengeti - to - Zanzibar Island
Breakfast at your lodge in Serengeti, at 0900hrs transfer to Seronera airstrip for your flight to Zanznibar departs at 1130hrs. Flight will arrive in Zanzibar Airport at 1414hrs, where you will meet by our staff and transfer to your resort in the Northeast coast of the Zanzibar island for your stay at SAFIRA BLU, accommodation booked on ALL INCLUSIVE basis. AL.

Day 12: OPTION excursion – NUNGWI East BEACH
–Today you have a morning at leisure, option visit in Stone town.
You may opt to do excursions at extra cost and pay direct. Afternoon at 1300hrs depart for OLD Town of Stone Town walking tour, visit the Old Fort, the oldest structure in Stone Town built between 1698 and 1701, visit the House of Wonders, the most elegant building in Stone Town, Built in 1883, visit the Old Customs House, visit Darajani Market, visit Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ, Built between 1873 and 1883 by the Universities' Mission in Central Africa (UMCA) under the auspices of Edward Steere, third bishop of Zanzibar (1874-82), visit Beit el Amani Memorial Museum, visit slave market to mention the few, and lastly visit Forodhani Gardens on the seafront and was laid out in 1936 to mark the silver jubilee of Sultan Khalifa. At 1700hrs in the evening, transfer back to North Coast of the Island for overnight booked on All Inclusive basis, AL.

Day 13/14: R & R at the BEACH
These days spent at leisure on the beach side of the Island for Resting and Relaxation by the resort booked on All Inclusive basis, AL.

Day 15: Zanzibar – Depart for your next Travel:
After breakfast, then at any time of your departure flight time, you will be transferred to the airport for your out bound flight, End of Services

Price: Quoted in USD per person sharing

Season 1 Pax 2 Pax 3 Pax 4 Pax 5 Pax 6 Pax SRS
DECEMBER - MARCH USD 13,532 USD 13,018 USD 12,861 USD 12,607 USD 12,504

Note:

-The above prices are based on a minimum of 2 persons. Group Incentive Safari Prices Available contact us and enjoy up to 25% saving on the per person rate!
-Christmas and New Year Supplements US$ 45 per person per day 23 December to 3 January
-Tour Rates in US$ (Click here to convert rates shown below to major world currencies)

Package Includes:

- Flying Doctors Emergences
- Arrival and departure Airport Transfers
- Full board accommodation while on Safari, Zanzibar is ALL INCLUSIVE basis
- Service of an English speaking driver guide
- Transport based on an excellent 4x4 Vehicle with open roof for game viewing
- Flight from Serengeti to Zanzibar
- Driver's Salary and allowances and park fees for vehicle and driver
- Activities as per the Itinerary
- Complementary bottle of water daily
- Complementary of printed Safari hat and T-shirt
- Complementary visit of Maasai Village in Ngorongoro on the way to Serengeti
- Government taxes

Package Excludes:

- Extras at the lodges i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry, Internet etc.
- International flight
- Departure tax
- Tips to drivers (highly recommended)
- Visa, Travel Insurance

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