Private Multi-Day Tour in Tanzania Safari

Hop into your private 4 x 4 safari Jeep and we’re off to Lake Manyara National Park. Our drive is through the scenic Maasai country, offering distinct climates and vegetation. We’ll enjoy a picnic lunch in this compact but very pretty park. You can’t miss the flocks of pink flamingoes lining Lake Manyara but we’ll look a little harder to see if we can spot the park’s distinctive tree-climbing lions. Our game drive will pursue impala, warthog, elephant, giraffe and we’ll be on the lookout for the park’s many baboons. Besides flamingoes, the park offers other birdlife such as pelicans, egrets, and spoonbills. We’ll also enjoy an evening drive, out of the park and up the towering escarpment for wonderful views.

Along our route, we’ll break up the drive with a relaxing picnic lunch. Then we will arrive at the famous Serengeti – the almost treeless plains with its vast expanse of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, impala, thousands of lions, and leopards. Look here as well for the over 50,000 buffalo, dotting the immense grasslands.

Serengeti has come to be called one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of Africa”, with its millions of predators and grazers, roaming under a canopy of 500 bird species. Even the name Serengeti comes from the Maasai phrase “siringet”, meaning “endless plains”, a testament to this immense world of wildlife discovered throughout our time here. We’ll break up the day with a hearty lunch to fortify ourselves for the active game drives over these great plains. The balance of the day will bring us tracking more wildlife like monkey, baboon, wild dog, and honey badger. In the park’s forest areas, look for hippo and even crocodile in its meandering rivers.

Perhaps we’ll do some early morning exploring before pausing for a safari breakfast. Then it’s time to jump into our 4 x 4 Jeep and set out for the Ngorongoro Crater.

Gorge where significant artifacts of early man were discovered. The site is a trove of insights into our ancestors dating back hundreds of thousands of years. Then we’ll drive up to the crest of the extinct volcanic crater that is Ngorongoro. The planet’s largest intact caldera, it hosts its own world of big cats, elephants, gazelles, zebras – over 25,000 animals in a self-contained valley-like plain at the core of the extinct volcano. This is where we will spend our next day exploring. In addition to the wonderful views here, you can also take an optional visit to a nearby Maasai boma. This is a local destination of indigenous Maasai villagers, where for a small fee you can learn about their culture and their traditions.

This is a green world of grasslands, marshes, and acacia forest boasting the highest density of predators on the continent. But in addition to lions and leopards, you can find endangered black rhinos in this marvelous eco-system and even pink flamingoes! Amidst this wildlife splendor, we’ll stop and refresh with a picnic lunch before continuing with more drives looking for everything from golden jackals to hippos. Come late afternoon, we’ll ascend back up the crater wall after a full day of animal spotting.

dscape before we embark to Tarangire National Park. We’ll make a lunch stop along the way and arrive around midday. Elephants may well be Tarangire’s calling card – over 3,000 of these majestic creatures roam this compact but vibrant park. But sightings of lions are not uncommon. Another distinctive attraction of the reserve is the great stands of baobab trees that populate its savannahs. These distinctive trees with their fat trunks and short branches are picturesque sentinels seemingly guarding these ancient plains.

Elephants may well be Tarangire’s calling card – over 3,000 of these majestic creatures roam this compact but vibrant park. But sightings of lions are not uncommon. Another distinctive attraction of the reserve is the great stands of baobab trees that populate its savannahs. These distinctive trees with their fat trunks and short branches are picturesque sentinels seemingly guarding these ancient plains.

We’ll break up our drive back with a lunch stop at a comfortable restaurant and perhaps share thoughts about our safari week