12 Days Tanzania Safari and Zanzibar Beach Holidays

>> Travel Duration: 15 Minutes
>> Meal Plan: Dinner Only
>> Accommodation: Tembo Hotel
Meet and greet at Seaport or Zanzibar International Airport and get transferred to Tembo Hotel which is located in Zanzibar stone Town, it is one of the best 4* Hotel in Stone Town. This Seafront Hotel is decorated with wood carved furniture, and offering a Swahili four-poster bed, each room features a seating area with TV, air conditioning and a bathroom with shower and traditional hammam bath. Most of the rooms feature a balcony with sea or pool views. The hotel’s Bahari Restaurant offers local as well international cuisine. Dinner and stay overnight at Tembo Hotel on bed and breakfast basis.

>> Tour Durations: Half Day
>> Meal Plan: Lunch On Tour
>> Accommodation: Tembo Hotel
After breakfast at 08h00 we take a boat ride to Prison island. The Island is fringed with a beautiful coral reef, ideal for snorkeling and has a lovely white beach for sunbathing. This tour is a great way to see some history and wildlife, and also to see Stone Town from the sea as many old maritime legends would have done. The island is more commonly known as a home of Zanzibar’s Giant Aldebaran tortoise colony, some of which are over a hundred years old! Once on the island, you have the opportunity to feed and pet the tortoises, if you have time you may also like to take a stroll through the forested interior where you will see a wide variety of birds, colorful peacocks, bats, and beautiful butterflies. Keep your eyes peeled too for the shy and elusive Duikers – an unusual tiny antelope species. After the tour we ride back to the hotel for lunch, leisure, dinner and overnight stay based on bed and breakfast. 

>> Tour Duration: Full Day
>> Meal Plan: Lunch
>> Accommodation: Tembo Hotel
After breakfast we drive to Fumba beach for safari blue tour. This is a full day trip on locally constructed sailing dhows, fitted with outboard motors, marine VHF radios, life jackets and other security requirements. The dhow anchors in a safe and shallow area to allow for snorkeling. High quality snorkeling materials are provided, and a large range of sizes is available. Lunch is served on a sand bank or on one of the many uninhabited island in the region. A traditional dish of barbecued fish, rice, lentils and fish curry is served. Chilled fruit juice, mineral water, and bottled soft drinks are available throughout the tour. After lunch, clients can sail on an outrigger canoe carved out of a single mango tree, snorkel and swim or just relax. Return to Fumba is by sail, wind permitting, and clients arrive back at their hotel at about 1730 hrs. Dinner and stay overnight at Tembo Hotel on bed & Breakfast basis.

>> Tour Durations: Full Day
>> Meal Plan: Lunch On Tour
>> Accommodation: Uroa Bay Resortl
After breakfast at 08h00 we drive to Kizimbani for the spice tour and lunch which will be followed by transfer to Uroa Bay Beach Resort. Here on the spice plantations, you will explore the island and its hidden treasures at a relaxed pace. Travel deep into the interior to see the fragrant spice plantations. Discover how pods, bark, buds and berries are harvested and dried. The intoxicating aromas of fresh cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg will delight the senses and stimulate appetites, so while you are on the island please be sure to sample the sweet tropical fruits, fresh seafood and zesty curries Zanzibar is famous for. This is the cheapest place to buy locally made perfumes, oils and spice rings. After taking a special locally prepared spice lunch we will drive you direct to Uroa Bay Beach Resort for accommodation, leisure, dinner and overnight stay based on bed and breakfast. 

>> Activity: Leisure Days
>> Meal Plan: Breakfast
>> Accommodation: Uroa Beach Resort
These are your days to relax on the beach, beside the swimming pool or you can just stretch your legs by walking around the Village. The Village is located in the Eastern part of the island. The village is very famous for its beach with fine powder-soft white sand or ground shells. The water is turquoise blue and calm. You can use the days by taking some more extra activities like going fishing, enjoy with scuba dive, discover the village life or just relax on the beach. Dinner and stay overnight on BB, 

>> Airport Travel Duration: 1 hr
>> Meal Plan: Full Board
>> Arusha – Manyara: 130 Km
We take breakfast in the morning before we drive to Airport to catch our flight to Arusha Airport. Pick up from Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara national park. We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch do we head into the Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

>> Distance: 205 km
>> Non game-viewing travel time: 6 hours
After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species.

We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Nark. Dinner and overnight in the Seronera area, as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

>> Tour Duration: Full Day
>> Meal Plan: Full Board
Be one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small villages. We do an after-breakfast game viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, and which is good for possible Lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. The Visitor Centre close to the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed center offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The center also has a shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased, as well as a picnic area and information trail up and around a nearby kopje. We will enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch at the center in the shade of the giant acacia trees. In the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes, which usually attract a number of lion and some formidably large cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops, scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry seasons – including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink!

Dinner and overnight in the Seronera area, as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

>> Distance: 145 km
>> Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
After breakfast at the lodge do we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA). We will stopover 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 ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution.

We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch we will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half day’s crater tour. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the NCAA supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

> Distance: 190 km
>> Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
Enjoy breakfast, after which we will transfer back to Arusha. Upon arrival in Arusha will we have lunch and then we will end our African safari adventure at Arusha Airport or Kilimanjaro International Airport. *It is possible to have an additional half day game drive at Ngorongoro conservation area if you are not restricted to an early departure time from Arusha, please note additional cost will apply.

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This tour package is just a sample, you can book if its ok for you or for your family, otherwise, together with you, we can customise the tour to meet your budget, accommodation in terms of standard, as well as your preferred duration of stay. We can also add more days or reduce depending on your schedule.

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