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This 21 day lodge and tented camp safari in Kenya and Tanzania, with beach extension in Zanzibar covers the highlights of East African safari destinations. It is one of our most popular safari programs and at a great value too!

We organise this trip only as a private safari, there will be only you in the safari vehicle! Optionally you can skip the Zanzibar part - just let us know. We can also start and end this trip in Nairobi, going first on the Kenya tour, then to safari in Tanzania. Flight from Arusha to Zanzibar, where the program ends.

This itinerary starts at Kilimanjaro Airport, and ends at Zanzibar airport.

Day 1: Arrival Tanzania
Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport where you will be met by our representative, and transfered to your hotel, the Moivaro Coffee Lodge. Dinner is included.

Days 2-3: Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you will depart by road to your private tented camp, situated at the boundary of Tarangire National Park. Tarangire is Tanzania’s third largest national park, and is known for it’s majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them.

The park supports a great diversity of wildlife, especially during in the dry season of July to Novmeber, when the Tarangire River provides the only permanent water supply in the area. During this season wildlife, including up to 6,000 elephants concentrate along the river.

For a cultural experience, walking in the area and visits to some neighboring tribes is offered. Maasai live in the area as well as the Datoga, another tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who migrated to this region many decades ago, looking for good grazing land. The Datoga have resisted neighbouring tribes' cultural infiltrations. The women, still wear fat treated goatskin gowns and carve their faces and bodies to beautify themselves . Learning about their history is as fascinating as the views are breathtaking from the several hilltop peaks in the area.

Overnight at Tarangire River Camp. All meals included.

Day 4: Tarangire - Lake Manyara
After breakfast you’ll drive across the floor of the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful park with it’s lush vegetation and tropical forests of giant fig and mahogany trees, takes its name from the Maasai word for "euphorbia tirucalli", a bush which is used to make a thorny hedge to protect their cattle.

Elephant, giraffe, buffalo, zebra and a variety of antelope inhabit the park as well as a variety of monkeys and a large population of hippo. If you are lucky you may see the Manyara lions, well known for their tree climbing habits, lazily resting on the branches of an "Acacia tortilis" tree. The birdlife is also abundant, with flamingoes, pelicans, hornbills and plenty of forest inhabiting species.

After a game drive and a picnic lunch in the park, you’ll depart for the Ngorongoro highlands and your overnight accommodation at Karatu.

Overnight at Kirurumu Tented Lodge. All meals included.

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater
This morning your driver will take you the short distance to the "eighth wonder of the world", the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest unbroken caldera on earth. The floor of this collapsed volcano spreads for 102 sq. miles and the walls are 2,000ft high, a truly awesome sight. The crater floor is a virtual "Noah's Ark", inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the black maned lion and the endangered black rhino.

The crater contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake - complete with many flamingoes, a forest and open plains.

With a picnic lunch you will descend the crater walls and spend the afternoon and early evening wildlife viewing on the crater floor.

Overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. All meals included.

Days 6-7: Serengeti
After breakfast you will depart for the Serengeti National Park with a stop en-route at Oldupai Gorge. Oldupai is the famous archeological site where the Leakeys discovered remains of Australopithecus, Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus, bringing crucial understanding to the study of the evolution of the human species.

From Oldupai you’re off to the “Great Serengeti”, the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world. The vast Serengeti plains cover an area of over 14,763 square kilometers and during the months of the migration, is the habitat of huge numbers of wildebeest, zebra and Thomson’s gazelle with estimates of up to 1.5 million.

From December through March they concentrate at the Ndutu and Salei plains, where the calving season takes place, attracting the attention of predators like lion, cheetah and hyena.

In June and July they move into the western corridor and in October and November the herds can usually be found in the northern Serengeti.

The Serengeti "Kopjes", massive boulder islands of granite standing in a sea of grass, provide shelter to a great variety of plants and animals, from the elusive leopard to the tiny dik-dik.

Overnight at Mapito Tented Camp. All meals included.

Days 8-9: Lake Victoria
Take an amazing game drive to Lake Victoria. In the afternoon you will drive into the nearby hills to take a look at rural Africa, passing through the small villages of the Sakuma people, who grow cotton, ground nuts, sorghum and cassava as well as keeping livestock.

Life carries on simply as it has done for centuries, but with a few poignant reminders of the 20th Century! See the local school and take a stroll to the top of a small kopje.

Overnight at Speke Bay Lodge. All meals included.

Days 10-11: Masai Mara (Kenya)
After breakfast, we head for the Masai Mara, Kenya's premier wildlife reserve. The Masai Mara is picture book Africa, endless plains punctuated by flat top acacia trees and home to an array of wildlife.

Check into Mara Sopa Lodge, your home for the next 2 nights. After lunch, relax before embarking on an afternoon game drive.

Overnight at Mara Serena Lodge. All meals included.

Day 12: Lake Nakuru
In the early afternoon you will head north into the Rift Valley and Lake Nakuru famed for its vast flocks of flamingos. Enjoy a game drive in Nakuru National Park - home to rhino, lion, leopard, buffalo and numerous species of plains game.

Overnight at Lion Hill Lodge. All meals included.

Day 13: Nairobi - Zanzibar
After breakfast you will be transfered to the airport in Nairobi, for your flight to Zanzibar.

Transfer to the The Zanzibari beach hotel for overnight stay. Breakfast and dinner included.

Days 14-18: Zanzibar - Beach Hotel
Relax and enjoy the beaches of Zanzibar. There are a wide range of water sport activities to take part in, such as snorkeling, scuba diving, boat trips and more. Breakfast and dinner included.

Day 19: Zanzibar - Stonetown
After breakfast transfer to the Dhow Palace in Stonetown. On the way we will do the famous Zanzibar Spice Tour. We have developed a special tour with in-depth information not only about spices, but also organically grown herbs and a detailed description about their traditional uses in medicine, cosmetics and cooking.

After the tour we invite for an opulent lunch at our spice restaurant, where you can taste the spices and fruits you learnt about during the tour. The Spice Tour is also the cheapest place to purchase spices and spice oils in Zanzibar.

Overnight at Dhow Palace. Breakfast included.

Day 20: Zanzibar - City Tour
Today we will show you Stone Town on our Historical Stone Town Tour. This tour takes you through fabled old town, where history appears to stand still. With visits to the House of Wonders, the Palace Museum (People's Palace), Dr Livingston's House and the Arab Fort amongst others, it is a fascinating look at the essence of Zanzibar. You will see Zanzibar's bustling market, winding alleyways, ornately carved and studded doors, two cathedrals and countless mosques!

Overnight Dhow Palace. Breakfast included.

Day 21: Departure
In the morning depart to Zanzibar airport.

Please note: Lodges and hotel choices depend on availability.

Please ask us for an upgrade to luxury mobile camping, whilst on safari.

In the Serengeti you will have the opportunity to go on an unforgetable hot air balloon trip!

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