Tanzania Wildlife Experience & Lake Victoria safari
Tanzania Wildlife Safari & Lake Victoria Experience
1–2 People: Starting at $1,200
1–2 People: Starting at $1,200
4–6 People: Starting at $1,200
6 – Above People: Starting at $1,200
Itineraries
Day 1: Mwanza Town - Saa nane National Park
We pick you up from the agreed point in Mwanza town and transfer you to Saa Nane Island National Park at the main gate, where you will embark on a boat to the park. You will be riding for 10 minutes at Lake Victoria with the boat before reaching this wonderful Island of Saanane.
On arrival, you will start to participate in game viewing, Bird watching, rock hiking, and sport fishing mainly Tilapia and Nile Perch. This park had a record of being the first-ever National Park to be located within the City and the smallest National Park in both Tanzania and East Africa.
It is the home of mammals like Impala, Rock Hyrax, Velvet Monkeys, and Wild Cats. The presence of “De-Brazos Monkey” underscores its potential as the only Park in the country inhabiting the species. Reptiles are also dominant; they include crocodiles, Monitor Lizards, Agama Lizards, Pancake and Leopard Tortoises, Snakes particularly Python. Bush lunch to be served at the picnic site with a nice view of Lake Victoria.
Late evening take your boat back to your hotel in Mwanza.
Main Destination : National Park
Accommodation : Gold Crest Hotel | Tilapia Hotel | A Cozy Room In a Nice House
Meal Plan : Lunch & Dinner
Day 2: Mwanza town – Bujora Museum – Lamadi Village
After breakfast, we pick you up and drive through the Bujora Museum center. This is SUKUMA tribal museum. The museum offers presentations from anthropologists.
You will have a chance to learn more about Sukuma History and culture as well as to participate in an impressive dram and snake dancing. Proceed with your drive to Speke Bay.
On arrival at your hotel, you will check-in and leave for an evening bird watching along with the lodge and the Lake.
Main Destination : Lamadi Village
Accommodation : Speke Bay Lodge | Speke Bay Campsite.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 3: Lamadi Village to Serengeti National Park
Early morning attends to the scheduled canoe trip at the lodge beach by professional fisherman and brought to Mwaburungu Village. This activity is recommended to start in the early morning when the lake is calm and the fisherman’s bringing their overnight catch.
Your guide will tell and show you different fishing methods while Explore the Lake view, small Island, and Village. It’s also the best chance to see different water birds.
On your way back you will experience the tribe rhythmic melody of the fisherman’s where you will meet other local people. Come back to the hotel around 10 am for the branch, and then leave for Serengeti Park for an evening game drive.
Main Destination : Serengeti National Park
Accommodation : Four Season Safari Lodge | Kati kati Tented Camp | Serengeti Campsite
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Full Day Game Drive at North Serengeti Mara River
Early breakfast then leaves with your lunch box for a game drive along Mara River. In August and September, you can see the herds spread out across the northern Serengeti, where the Mara River provides the migration with its most serious obstacle.
This river gushes through the northern Serengeti from Kenya’s adjacent Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Watching the frantic herds of the wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River can be very spectacular; there are often scenes of great panic and confusion.
It’s common to see herds cross the Mara River north on one day, and then back south a few days later.
Main Destination : North Serengeti Mara River
Accommodation : Serengeti Bushtops Luxury | Kati kati Tented Camp | Lobo Public Campsite
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 5: Full Day Game Drive at Northern Serengeti
After breakfast enjoys a full day game drive in the Wagakuria area. Resident wildlife numbers are exceptionally high in the Wagakuria area, with pride of lion up to 30 strong, however, from July to October the area turns into a wildlife paradise.
A herd can be seen next to the river and only decide to cross or not cross until a couple of days later.
This area is a stunning region with kopjes, woodland, riverine vegetation, and open plains, similar to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve.
Main Destination : Northern Serengeti
Accommodation : Serengeti Bushtops Luxury | Kati kati Tented Camp | Lobo Public Campsite
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6: North Serengeti –Center Serengeti
After breakfast you head towards the Serengeti Central reaches of the Serengeti National Park. You will do a game drive en route from the Western Corridor area to the Seronera area. You arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch, you will enjoy an afternoon game drive in the area.
Main Destination : Lake Natron or Ol Doinyo Lengai
Accommodation : Lake Natron Viewpoint Campsite
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 7: Full Day Game Drive at Serengeti National Park
You have a full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of your time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; you 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.
Your 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.
This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, you will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions, and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of the interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich.
Main Destination : Serengeti National Park
Accommodation : Ole Serai Luxury Camp | Serengeti Serena Lodge | Serengeti Public Campsite
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8: Serengeti Park to Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast at the Lodge, you depart to the Ngorongoro Conservation area. You will stop over at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time.
It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the ’Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handyman’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. You arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and spend the afternoon at leisure.
Main Destination : Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation : Ngorongoro Crater | Ngorongoro Wildlife | Serengeti Public Campsite
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater Tour – Lake Manyara Park
After breakfast, descend to the Crater floor for a game drive. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world and fourteen kilometers of isolated natural beauty.
Ngorongoro Crater is surrounded by a ring of extinct volcanoes and the floor, dotted with watering holes, shelters some 30,000 animals. You can expect to see lions, elephants, Zebras, Hippos, Flamingos, Jackals, Rhinos Antelopes, and many birds.
The birds seen here include eagle, vulture, and flamingos in the Crater Lake, stork, bats, giant vulture, sacred ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long-necked heron, and the cattle eagle. Picnic lunch will take place at hippo pool after lunch drive to Lake Manyara National Park.
Main Destination : Lake Manyara Park
Accommodation : Manyara Kilima Moja Luxury | African Sunrise Lodge | Panorama Safari Camp
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 10: Tarangire National Park to Kilimanjaro airport
After breakfast, you will depart for Tarangire National Park for a day of game drives and a picnic lunch. Established in 1970 and covering 2,600 square kilometers, the park is famous for its striking landscape dominated by numerous iconic baobab trees. It derives its name from the Tarangire River, a permanent water source that acts as a vital lifeline during the dry season, drawing thousands of migratory animals—including elephants, wildebeests, zebras, and rare fringe-eared oryx—from as far away as Lake Natron. Beyond its massive wildlife concentrations and elephants that dig for water in the dry riverbeds, the park boasts the highest density of breeding bird species of any habitat in the world. Your tour concludes in the late afternoon with a drive back to Kilimanjaro International Airport for departure.
Main Destination : Kilimanjaro airport
Accommodation : No accommodation on this day.
Meal plan: Breakfast
Included in Price:
- All activities as per the itinerary
- All Accommodation as per itinerary – N.B. accommodation mentioned in the itinerary is dependent on availability at the time of booking; alternatives of a similar class may be booked instead
- All meals as per itinerary (3 a day unless otherwise stated)
- All transfers to and from agreed pick up and drop off points (e.g. Airport, Bus Station or hotel in town etc.)
- All camping gear (if you are camping)
- Service of an English speaking driver/guide
- Safari base 4×4 Vehicle with open roof for game viewing (sometimes a saloon car or other SUV for excursions in town etc.)
- Driver’s salary and allowances and park fees for vehicle and driver
- Bottled mineral water daily
- All Government taxes
- All National Park and Game Reserve Fees
- If included in your itinerary: foot safaris, boat safaris
- TANAPA armed ranger (where needed, e.g., on foot safaris, some boat safaris etc.)
- Crater service fees (if visiting Ngorongoro Crater)
- Kilimanjaro only – Oxygen is not normally needed but can be carried if requested before tour begins
- Rescue fees
- Professional Kilimanjaro Team with English speaking Mountain guide, up to 4 porters per person
- Professional Cook
- Climbing Certificates
- All wildlife reserve entry fees
Exluded in Price:
- Extras, personal expenses i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry etc.
- Optional activities not outlined on the itinerary
- International flights & corresponding taxes
- Visa
- Flying doctors rescue services
- Travel, medical, injury and luggage insurances
- Tips to the driver & guides
- Anything else not mentioned in the inclusions (above)
