SAFARI

Day 1 – Lake Manyara

Departure from the Villa Dida Resort in the early morning for the Zanzibar airport, boarding and flight of about an hour and a half to Arusha; transfer to Lake Manyara National Park with our guide. A photo safari is planned for the duration of the visit.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Lake Manyara Serena Hotel or Farm House or similar.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kiboko Camp, or the Lake Manyara or Bouganville Lodge or similar located outside the park.

Day 2 – Ngorongoro

Departure for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Ngorongoro Crater), a wonderful area rich in wild animals, where the surrounding environment is a unique spectacle. When you descend into the crater, you will be left speechless because of the magical atmosphere that resides there. You will feel like you are the director of a documentary film set in a valley full of animals in a relaxing nature. The ascent is scheduled for the afternoon, followed by the trip back to the accommodation. Photo Safari for the whole day.

Luxury accommodation: Dinner and overnight stay at the Ngorongoro Farm House or Lake Manyara Serena.
Comfort Accommodation: Dinner and overnight stay at the Jambo Hotel, the Lake Manyara Hotel Kiboko or similar.

Day 3 – Tarangire

Departure is scheduled for the early morning with arrival at the Tarangire Park, the extensive area of northern Tanzania that boasts the largest number of elephants in all of Africa. From lunch time onwards, based on flight schedules, transfer to airport and return to Villa Dida Resort.

Day 1 – Lake Manyara

Departure from the Villa Dida Resort in the early morning for the Zanzibar airport, boarding and flight of about an hour and a half to Arusha; transfer to Lake Manyara National Park with our guide. A photo safari is planned for the duration of the visit.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Lake Manyara Serena Hotel or Farm House or similar.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kiboko Camp, or the Lake Manyara or the Bouganville Lodge or similar located outside the park.

Day 2 – Serengeti National Park

Wake up and breakfast. Day dedicated to visiting the Ngorongoro conservation area. You will see many wild animals that make Serengeti Park the most famous in Africa. Game drive and exploration of the park, following herbivorous herds as they move, which may vary from season to season.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Serengeti Sopa Lodge, or the Serena Lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Ikoma Camp or at the Seronera Wildlife Lodge.

Day 3 – Serengeti National Park

Fourth day of exploration inside the Serengeti Park, continuing the visit to this immense and fascinating area. Dinner with overnight stay.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Serengeti Sopa Lodge, or the Serena Lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Ikoma Camp or at the Seronera Wildlife Lodge or other options.

Day 4 – Serengeti National Park

Wake up and breakfast in the bush. A new visit to the Serengeti Park with game-drive awaits us. The Safari continues with an important stop at the Olduvai Gorge archaeological site and the Ngoro-Ngoro crater. Arrival scheduled for the evening. Dinner with overnight stay.

Luxury accommodations: Ngoro-Ngoro Serena Lodge or Ngoro-Ngoro Sopa Lodge.
Comfort accommodation: Ngoro-Ngoro Wildlife Lodge or similar.

Day 5 – Ngoro-Ngoro

You will wake up in the Ngoro-Ngoro Conservation Area, a wonderful area full of wild animals, where the surrounding environment is a unique spectacle. When you descend into the crater, you will be left speechless because of the magical atmosphere that resides there. You will feel like you are the director of a documentary film set in a valley full of animals in a background of relaxing nature. The ascent is scheduled for the afternoon, followed by the trip back to the accommodation.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Ngoro-Ngoro Sopa Lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Jambo Hotel, or the Lake Manyara or similar.

Day 6 – Tarangire Park

Departure is scheduled for the early morning with arrival at the Tarangire Park, the extensive area of northern Tanzania that boasts the largest number of elephants in all of Africa. Afternoon game-drive, after a stop at the Mto wa mbu Market.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in the Tarangire Sopa Lodge Park.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in the Park at the Tarangire Safari Lodge.

Day 7 – Tarangire / Arusha / Zanzibar

Departure scheduled for lunch time (depending on scheduled flights) with transfer to Arusha airport for Zanzibar and transfer to Villa Dida Resort.

DAY 1 – Lake Manyara

Departure from the Villa Dida Resort in the early morning for the Zanzibar airport, boarding and flight of about an hour and a half to Arusha; transfer to Lake Manyara National Park with our guide. A photo safari is planned for the duration of the visit.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Lake Manyara Serena Hotel or Farm House or similar.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kiboko Camp, or the Lake Manyara or the Jambo Hotel or similar located outside the park.

DAY 2 – Lake Natron-Massai Community

Departure after breakfast, heading towards the northern shores of Lake Natron. You will pass through numerous Massai villages, encountering many animals including gazelles, buffaloes and zebras. The day will be dedicated to encountering the Massai culture, which is based on livestock faming. Arrival scheduled for lunch at the lodges, in a great location for getting a great view of the Great Rift Valley. After a few hours of relaxation after lunch, we will head to the blue shores of Lake Natron to see hundreds of white and pink flamingos at sunset.

Looking towards the backdrop of the lake, you will notice the sacred mountain of every Massai, Oldoinyo Lengai, a volcano that is still active. The Massai consider this place the home of their own divinity and it is here that they perform sacred ceremonies and rituals at certain times in their lives. The summit is climbed by the Masai at the end of a long ritual period of groups of young people who then become adults. A spectacular view from the top. You will be mesmerised by the magnificence of Kilimanjaro, the plain of the Serengeti park, and lava behind us inside the cone.

Optionally, for the more intrepid early risers, you wake up around one o’clock at night and hike on the volcano. The last eruption took place in April 2008, and today it has been reopened to the public. The fact remains that like every active volcano there is always the risk of an eruption.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Lake Natron Tented lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kamakia Tented or the Ngarasero lodge.

DAY 3 – Trekking on the Oldoinyo Lengai volcano or a nature hike between lakes and waterfalls

Wake up in the morning and after breakfast, an alternative to walking to Oldoinyo Lengai: outing by jeep and on foot to the places around the lodge where you can observe the plants, rivers and uncontaminated waterfalls an where you can also cool off. Re-entry for sunset, with the return of the most adventurous of the group from trekking on Oldoinyo Lengai.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Lake Natron Tented lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kamakia Tented or the Ngarasero lodge.

DAY 4 – North Serengeti

In the morning after breakfast we will leave for the plain of Serengeti, through the North entrance. Day dedicated entirely to the Photo Safari, where you can encounter every species of animal of the African Savannah in an enchanting landscape, where the gaze disappears into the infinite expanse.

Picnic box lunch in the rest areas provided. We will arrive at the lodges in the northern area of the Serengeti before dusk, an area that is a crossroads of millions of herbivores that cross the entire plain every year headed towards the park of the Massai-Mara in Kenya to then return again to the north.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in one of the following places: the Serengeti Sopa lodge, the Serengeti Serena Lodge, the Mbuzi Mawe Tented.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in one of the following places: the Ikoma Tented, the Seronera Wildlife lodge, the Lobo Wildlife lodge, the Serengeti Medium Tented, the Belila Safari lodge.

DAY 5 – Central-West Serengeti

Wake up and breakfast. Photo safari inside the Serengeti Park in a south-easterly direction, observing the behaviour of the animals until evening, when we will return to the tented lodge-camps in the centre-west of the park.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in one of the following places: the Serengeti Sopa lodge, the Serengeti Serena Lodge, the Mbuzi Mawe Tented, the Ndutu Safari lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in one of the following places: the Ikoma Tented, the Seronera Wildlife lodge, the Lobo Wildlife lodge, the Serengeti Medium Tented, the Belila Safari lodge.

DAY 6 – Serengeti-Ngorongoro

After breakfast, our day will start very early in the morning with a new photo safari inside the Serengeti Park, in the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater. Descent into this extinct volcano, within which a spectacular Eden has been created, unique in the world, that hosts fauna and flora of diverse African habitats, by some compared to an ark of natural Noah.

Return to the lodge and dinner, inside the park.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in one of the following places: the Serena hotel, the Sopa lodge, the Ngorongoro farm house, the Tiloma lodge, the Plantation lodge, the Lake Manyara hotel, the Bougainvillea safari lodge, the Kudu lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in one of the following places: the Octagon lodge, the Crater-rim View lodge, the Ngorongoro wildlife lodge.

DAY 7 – Ngorongoro

Wake up and departure after breakfast to enter the crater, then the whole day for the Photo Safari. Return to the lodge scheduled for the afternoon, with dinner in Karatu outside the Ngorongoro in the direction of Lake Eyasi.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kisimangeda Tented lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Tindiga Tented lodge.

DAY 8 – Lake Eyasi-Hadzabe Community

Breakfast and departure for Lake Eyasi, located north-west of Arusha. A wonderful day awaits you near the lake, with a photo safari on foot observing the different species of birds and the local flora. We will meet the local nomadic bushmen: the Hadzabe. The Hadzabe, a community of hunters and gatherers, will show us their hunting techniques and pass on to us their knowledge and understanding of the roots and plants used for medical and food purposes. Return to the lodge in the afternoon, with dinner in Karatu outside the Ngorongoro in the direction of Lake Eyasi.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Kisimangeda Tented lodge.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay at the Tindiga Tented lodge.

DAY 9 – Hadzabe community-Tarangire

In the morning after breakfast, we will get to know the Hadzabe tribe, who will show us new aspects of their culture: dances, a fundamental element of their festivities and the passages into higher age classes. Picnic lunch en route to Tarangire Park, which boasts the largest elephant community in Africa. The charm of the Tarangire park is unique: numerous centuries-old baobabs and the huge amount of water that attracts hundreds of animals makes this area one of the most beautiful in the whole of northern Tanzania.

Return to the lodge and dinner.

Luxury accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in the Tarangire Sopa Lodge Park.
Comfort accommodation: dinner with overnight stay in the Park at the Tarangire Safari Lodge.

DAY 10  – Tarangire-Zanzibar

Wake up early in the morning and once again a spectacular new photo Safari in the direction of the Park exit. Picnic lunch en route and arrival at the airport for check-in.