Explore the Big 5 & the Cultures of Tanzania with Xandro Adventures
This journey 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. The tour will further take you to the Serengeti National Park, into the heart of wild Africa, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where everyday brings a new landscape and a new adventure. You will visit the Lake Eyasi, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically area and the Tarangire National Park
Xandro Adventure Tours also gives an opportunity to its clients to interact with the local community in some of the projects that we truly believe are making an impact in their local community. We give you an opportunity usually at the end of your safari either one or two full days to take part in a program that is making a positive mark in the local community.
Day 1: Arrive in Tanzania
We stay at Arusha Masailand Safari Lodge or similar, which is a beautiful lodge located on the lower slopes of Mount Meru and is a perfect place to prepare you for the adventure.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge
Day 2: Tarangire National Park -Game Drive
Today we drive to Tarangire National Park, for excellent game viewing. Tarangire is a small park that offers some excellent sights. Generally, in the dry seasons, Tarangire comes alive as the wildlife and birdlife congregate on the Tarangire River, which is a permanent source of water. We spend the night in our lodge beautifully set outside the park with stunning views and a unique atmosphere.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge, Full Board
Day 3: Game Drive to Lake Manyara National Park
Today we drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day of game drives. This is one of Tanzania’s smaller parks but still offers a rewarding and diverse safari experience. The lakeshore at Manyara teems with birdlife, and while you are looking for the birds, you might spot one of the elusive tree-climbing lions. There are a surprising number of other large mammals and the striking cliffs on the Rift escarpment form a dramatic backdrop.
In the late afternoon, we make a short journey from the park to our Lodge.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge, Full Board
Day 4: Walking Tour to Lake Eyasi Visit Local Tribes Tindiga/Hadzabe and Bushman.
Breakfast in the lodge departs for Lake Eyasi safari to meet up the elusive Hadzabe tribe, whom you learn more about their fascinating culture. Picnic lunch then goes for the Datoga village tour then back in the evening for the overnight.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge, Full Board
Day 5: Tour to Hadzabe Tribe – Procee to Serengeti
Start off early with your bushman guide to meet a group of resident Hadzabe people. Enjoy the Hadzabe Tour walking into the bush with the only hunter-gatherers remaining in the East African region. The Hadzabe speak a click-based language and move their encampments with the seasonal movements of the wildlife. Your guide is a member of the group and teaches you more about how they hunt, track wildlife, make fire, and even take honey from bee’s nests before introducing you to his people and explaining a little more about the customs and the way of life.
Then proceed to Serengeti National Park with an en-route game drive.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge, Full Board
Day 6: Another Full Day – Serengeti National Park.
We have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide-open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top, we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge, Full Board
Day 7: Game Drive to Ngorongoro Crater.
We start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place in that it is a Conservation Area, not a National Park; this means that the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife. During the drive-in Ngorongoro, we have a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life. After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, we will drive around the rim of the Crater itself, and from here we can look down and see the herd of wildebeest or buffalos.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge, Full Board
Day 8: Ngorongoro to Arusha.
Free morning to relax after your great northern safari or explore the Masai market in Arusha.
We will arrange a private transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) after the safari.
Tanzania Affordable Big Five Safari Includes:
- Full board accommodation whilst on safari in the above mentioned tented camps and lodges
- Private safari guide
- Private 4 x 4 safari jeep with pop up roof for game viewing
- Transfers in both directions between the International Airport
- Park fees
- Crater fees
- Airport Arrival/Departure Meet and Greets at the airport
Tanzania Affordable Big Five Safari Excludes:
- 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. 500 per person etc)
- Tips and any items of personal nature.