8-Day Ngorongoro Manyara Safari and Zanzibar

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The 8-Day Ngorongoro Manyara Safari and Zanzibar is a luxury safari that starts within Tanzania and ends in Zanzibar, offering a coastal experience and a wildlife experience. Some safari activities include birding safaris, beaching, primate safaris, and wildlife safaris.

• Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport
• Day 2: Arusha to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
• Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Lake Manyara National Park
• Day 4: Lake Manyara National Park – Arusha
• Day 5: Arusha and fly to Zanzibar
• Day 6: Old Town & Spice Plantations
• Day 7: Jozani Forest tour
• Day 8: Depart Zanzibar – Onward
  

Detailed Itinerary: 8-Day Ngorongoro Manyara Safari and Zanzibar

Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport

As soon as you arrive, your safari guide will be there to warmly welcome you and ensure you have an unforgettable experience. From the airport, you will be taken to the lodge, where you can relax and enjoy your dinner before settling in for a comfortable and restful overnight stay.

• Main Destination: Arusha
• Accommodation: Luxury, Mid-range
• Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 2: Arusha to Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Rise early enough to have breakfast and then head to the car to depart early from Arusha towards Ngorongoro Conservation Area, famously known for its Ngorongoro crater, which gives an amazing view onsite. While here, you will see quite a few natural beauties, among which are some animals and vegetation. You will check in at your lodge in time for lunch and relax a bit before the evening, descending into Ngorongoro Crater for an afternoon game drive with lunch included on the crater floor. After the evening viewing of animals, you will drive back to the lodge for dinner and evening entertainment at the lodge.

Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Lake Manyara National Park

After a delicious morning breakfast that’s leisurely, you will then check out of the lodge and leave for a wonderful half-day game tour within the crater. This crater houses over 30,000 animals, including a variety of birds that move to the area due to the presence of water throughout the dry and wet seasons. We shall drive out of the crate and proceed to Lake Manyara with a stop for a picnic lunch on the floor of the crater, depending on the desired location, especially at the hippo pool. After that, we shall depart for Lake Manyara National Park.

This afternoon we will have a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, where you could be able to see elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, impalas, waterbucks, warthogs, and baboons, among others. You could also see tree-climbing lions and flamingos, and it is said to have breathtaking scenery. Evening transfer to the lodge, including dinner and an overnight stay.

• Accommodation: Luxury, Mid-range
• Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 4: Lake Manyara National Park – Arusha

After breakfast, you will check out and enjoy the last hour’s national park you will visit in the Northern Circuit. This park is well known for its tree-climbing lions. A large part of the park covers the alkaline Manyara Lake, which is seasonally visited by large flamingos and many other water birds. Along the shores of the lake, you will spot many animals, including elephants, hippos, giraffes, buffalos, antelopes, banded mongooses, and gazelles. After animal watching, you will be driven to Arusha and check in at the Mount Meru Hotel.

• Main Destination: Zanzibar
• Accommodation: Luxury, Mid-range
• Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 5: Arusha and fly to Zanzibar

After your transfer to Arusha Airport, you will catch your flight to Zanzibar. Once you arrive, the hotel’s drivers will be there to pick you up. The island is known for its abundance of spices, which have grown there for centuries, and its perfumed air carries their scents for miles.

• Main Destination: Zanzibar
• Accommodation: Luxury, Mid-range
• Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 6: Old Town & Spice Plantations

The day begins with breakfast and a serene view over the Indian Ocean to the endless horizon. An optional walking tour is the best way to experience the town, which exists today much as it did in the days when the “Isle of Spices” was a great trading centre known the world over for spices, timber, and slaves. The marketplace is alive with vendors who hawk their exotic wares in a multitude of languages, as well as the intense palette of colours in their fabrics and trinkets for sale. As we move away from the raucous market, the winding streets grow serene and mysterious, with whitewashed houses, ornately carved wooden doors, and balconies studded with brass. We visit the Zanzibar Museum and the Old Fort.

• Accommodation: Luxury, Mid-range
• Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 7: Jozani Forest tour

There are few places in the world where the red Colobus monkey can be found, and this morning we travel across the island through quaint villages and lush vegetation to just such a place—the enchanting Jozani Forest. These Old-World monkeys leap acrobatically throughout the arboreal canopy in troops of up to one hundred.

• Accommodation: Luxury, Mid-range
• Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 8: Depart Zanzibar – Onward

Today brings a farewell to the island. Breakfast at the hotel check-out and a day at leisure according to your arrangements. Later, you will be transferred to the airport for your onward international flight back home with sweet Tanzania memories.

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