8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari

8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari – Exploring the Serengeti Wildebeests Migration Tour, Tarangire National Park, and Ngorongoro crater and lake Manyara Lodge safaris. The safari will take you around the best places in Tanzania visiting places such as lake Manyara which is famous for its tree climbing lions The Ngorongoro crater which is known also as the garden of eden Serengeti national park Tarangire national park and and chance to see great wildebeest migration while grossing Mara River.

8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari Highlights

• Day 1: Arrive to your hotel in Arusha
• Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National Park
• Day 3: Central Serengeti National Park
• Day 4: Serengeti Migration tour across the river
• Day 5: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro crater
• Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater Tour
• Day 7: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha
• Day 8: Arusha to airport

Detailed 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari

Day 1: Arrive to your hotel in Arusha

We will pick you up from the airport by our 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari driver and drive you to your accommodation in Arusha. Here you will overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come. You’ll stay at Arusha Planet Lodge in Arusha city.

Arusha, also known as “A” Town by the locals, is situated at the foot of Mount Meru, Africa’s 5th highest mountain. The altitude gives the city a pleasant climate and lush green environment. Arusha is not a particularly attractive city in itself and is regarded by many visitors as little more than a necessary stopover before their safari starts in earnest.

• Main Destination: Arusha (City)
• Accommodation: Arusha Planet Lodge
• Meals & Drinks: Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included), Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, your 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari guide will pick you up from your accommodation drive you to Tarangire National Park (approximately 2 hours). Tarangire is best known for its elephant families, savannah, iconic baobab trees, seasonal swamps and the life-giving Tarangire River. Animals gather at the river and giraffes; bushbucks and hartebeests are often seen. The park is also home to buffalo, zebra and wildebeest. These animals are closely followed by a range of predators, the king, Simba, and her cousin, the leopard. From the open roof of the vehicle, you will be able to absorb the landscape and watch the wildlife later drive to farm of dream lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
• Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 3: Central Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, we will journey on heading up towards the fertile highlands where wheat, coffee, and corn, are grown by the Iraqw people. Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, we will be afforded a view of the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater before traveling onwards to the Serengeti National Park which we will reach by midday. The Serengeti National Park is the largest park in Tanzania covering an astounding 15,000 sq km with diverse landscapes and habitats such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannah and mountains.

Here the great migration of wildebeest, zebra, and antelope takes place. Depending on the season of your visit, we may have the opportunity to witness thousands of animals on their search for food and water. After an extensive game drive, we drive to the Seronera Valley for an evening meal and overnight stay in Central Serengeti tented camps.

• Main Destination: Central Serengeti National Park
• Accommodation: Central Serengeti Luxury Camp
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 4: Serengeti Migration tour across the river

In this day you will wake up early morning and have your full breakfast then you will start your game drive inside Serengeti as you will have full day in Serengeti our driver will drive you to the key areas in Serengeti

We will make sure that you will follow wildebeest migration where they will during your 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari tour with us. The Great migration varies every year the best chance of seeing it is during June up to September while the wildebeest calving is from January to March for the July up to September our 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari driver will be able to take to northern Serengeti where they be able to see the great wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River. A million and a half of these majestic animals’ travel throughout the year as they look for fresh grazing pasture and follow the rainfall for better water sources and after your full day game drive you head back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight in Tanzania bush camps Mara River.

• Main Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park
• Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camps Mara River
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 5: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro crater

After an early breakfast, we head out for another game drive in the Serengeti. We may be afforded the opportunity to spot the Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard – before embarking on our 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari journey to the Ngorongoro Crater. The animals roam freely through the unfenced reserves, offering us an uninterrupted game viewing experience. Arriving at the edge of the crater, we have our first glimpse of what awaits us the following day – glistening streams, open grassland and a myriad of animals. We spend the night in Ngorongoro Coffee lodge directly at Ngorongoro highlands, with the orange glow of sunset surrounding us as we drift off to sleep.

• Main Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park
• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Coffee Lodge
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater Tour

You will wake up around 5.30 am for your breakfast, after breakfast you will descend to Ngorongoro crater floor where you will able to see all big five, also you will see different types of birds, black rhino available inside crater. In this day you will have your lunch inside the crater while watching nature and high concentrations of flamingos.

Later after 6 to 7 hours game drive inside crater floor you will start ascend from crater drive back to farm of dreams lodge for dinner and overnight. On this day after crater tour, you will have a walking tour inside Mto wa mbu village where you will experience how local people live, see banana plantations and you can taste local food also.

• Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
• Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 7: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

After breakfast, we will be met at our accommodation by our 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari guide. We then set out for Lake Manyara National Park. This relatively small but diverse park, is so named for a shallow Salt Lake that covers a large area of the park’s surface area. Flooding and drying with the seasons, this soda lake is home to thousands of flamingos with another 500 bird species represented in the park.

On our exploration of the park, we will see monkey, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and, with some luck, lion lounging in the trees. The park is known for its diverse landscapes – not only open grassy plains, but also primate-filled woodlands and baobab-dotted cliffs. After an extensive game drive through the park, we head toward to Arusha planet lodge.

• Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
• Accommodation: Arusha Planet Lodge
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 8: Arusha to airport

Leisure breakfast and lunch at the lodge and depending on your departure back home, you will be transferred to the Kilimanjaro International Airport.

• Main Destination: Kilimanjaro Airport
• Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
• Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari Inclusions & Exclusions

Included

• Park fees (For non-residents)
• All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
• All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
• A professional 8-Day Tanzania Mid-Range Safari driver/guide
• All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
• All Taxes/VAT
• Roundtrip airport transfer
• Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
• Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)

Excluded

• International flights (From/to home)
• Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
• Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
• Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
• Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
• Some meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)