9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Overview

Tanzania is a quintessential safari land where a million animals can be spotted in their natural habitat. The place is not only having rich wildlife but also has diversified rich cultures and the land has to offer something interesting for all the people irrespective of age and choices. A Tanzania safari holiday is a delightful and ideal break for family holidays. A tour to Tanzania is not only a holiday gateway but also a great learning process for the children where the young minds get a practical overview of the real wild world along with they learn to respect and treasure the nature.

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Highlights

  • Day 1: Kilimanjaro Airport – Arusha Town
  • Day 2: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
  • Day 3: Tarangire N.P – Lake Manyara National Park
  • Day 4: Lake Manyara – Lake Eyasi
  • Day 5: Lake Eyasi – Serengeti National Park
  • Day 6: Full Day in Serengeti National Park
  • Day 7: Serengeti N.P – Ngorongoro Crater Rim Area
  • Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater Floor – Arusha Town
  • Day 9: Arusha – Kilimanjaro Cultural Tour – Kilimanjaro Airport

itinerary

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 1: Kilimanjaro Airport/Arusha

Our driver will pick you on your arrival at the airport whereby you will drive to Arusha town and drop you at the lodge booked for overnight.

Main destination: Kilimanjaro airport/Arusha

Accommodation: Merves Hotel

Meals: BB

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 2: Arusha/Tarangire National Park

Early in the morning after your breakfast you will drive to Tarangire Park by Land cruiser, crossing the Maasai Steppe on your way to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania’s fourth largest and one of its most diverse. Stop at the picturesque park gate for the driver to fill up the parks registration book e. Full day game drive in the park enjoying viewing animals in the park. Soon, the impressive Great Rift Valley Escarpment will come into view – a 2,000 foot high wall that rises up, improbably steep and incredibly tall, out of the flat plains.

Elephants, Buffalos, pythons are seen easily regularly cross your path, unbothered by your benign presence and going about their daily routines. You’ll meander along bush tracks and explore the Tarangire River’s twists and turns, finding elephant drinking and playing in the refreshing waters. Late this afternoon you’ll arrive at your lodge where you can settle in and relax before dinner and your overnight.

Main destination: Tarangire National Park

Accommodation:Heaven Nature Campsite

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 3: Tarangire/Lake Manyara National Park

In the morning after done with breakfast you will make your way to Lake Manyara Park for full day game drives. Lake Manyara National Park which is among Tanzania’s smallest park. Drive through the lush garden is a gentle reminder that you are now in Africa. Exotic birdcalls fill the air. Enjoy a picnic lunch and afterwards you’ll continue with game viewing of animals in the park. Zebra, wildebeest, bushbuck, dik-dik and guinea fowl regularly cross your path, unbothered by your benign presence and going about their daily routines. You’ll meander along bush tracks and explore the Lake which is home of thousands of Flamingos and River’s twists and turns, finding elephant drinking and playing in the refreshing waters.

Note: In the evening you will do a Maasai village tour. This tour is complimentary from DAT team

Main destination: Lake Manyara National Park

Accommodation: Heaven Nature Campsite

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 4: Lake Manyara/Lake Eaysi

After breakfast you will drive to Lake Eyasi village for full day culture tour with the Bushmen’s and Hadzabe tribe. The Hadzabe live in caves and they don't wear any kind of clothes but rather skin to cover the private parts. Their community is endangered, because most of their land has been taken away from them for commercial production and they are forced to join the civilization. In this day you will join their daily activities, going on hunting expeditions with local weapons like arrows and bows as well as visiting the Hadzabe who still work on iron melting and designing different iron items plus decors which at the end of the day they do exchange with the bushmen’s who give them meet and they offer them knives, arrows etc. You will also go around visiting the local farmers and experience how they grow onions and other crops etc. In the evening you will go back to the lodge for overnight.

Main destination: Lake Eyasi

Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Campsite

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 5: Lake Eyasi/Central Serengeti Endless Plain:

Having an early breakfast before you take your way to the Serengeti's endless plains for afternoon to sunset game drives in the park. You will make your way around the southern edge of the crater rim, spotting the occasional hyena, elephant or African buffalo along the way. By late morning, you will arrive at the famed Serengeti National Park. The plains seem endless from this vantage point. Stop to enjoy your picnic lunch at NaabiHill before meandering through the wildlife-rich central Serengeti. Later in the evening at your lodge, you will be able to settle into your accommodation before joining other travelers in the dining area for some palate teasers in anticipation of a scrumptious meal this evening. Afterwards, gather round the campfire before heading off to bed. Relax in your comfortable surroundings tonight as you are lulled to sleep by the sounds of the Serengeti plains.

Main destination: Serengeti endless plain

Accommodation:Nguchiro Campsite

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 6: Full Day In The Endless Plain Of Serengeti Park

Full day game drives in the endless pain of Serengeti Park. This starts from sunrise to sunset game drive in the endless plain of Serengeti park. You will have great time visiting retima hippo and crocodile pool. You’ll continue your wildlife viewing for the rest of the day, stopping to enjoy a picnic lunch at your leisure. Full day ‘discover Serengeti’ game drives. The day for the big cats – cheetahs, leopards and lions. In the evening drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Full day in the endless plain of Serengeti

Accommodation:Nguchiro Campsite

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 7: Serengeti National Park/Ngorongoro Crater Rim Area

Wake up early to do an early morning safari before breakfast in Serengeti. After game drive we can have brunch and drive to Ngorongoro. Sunrise game drives starts at 6:00AM to 9:00am whereby you will break for breakfast. In this day your driver guide will pack for you a breakfast basket so as you can depart early from the lodge for sunrise game drives. After breakfast you will have more game drives to afternoon whereby you will break for your lunch before you take your way to the Ngorongoro crater rim for dinner and overnight.

Main destination:Ngorongoro rim area

Accommodation: Simba Campsite

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater Floor/ Arusha Town

Rise early for breakfast before you spend a half day exploring the crater floor. The area is world-renowned in its reputation and very small in its scale, so you will see other safari goers. Don’t let that distract you from the beauty of the place or from the fact that this remains one of the only places on earth where you may see all of the Big Five at once: Lion, Leopard, Bull Elephant, African Buffalo and Black Rhino. To maximize your time on the crater floor you will enjoy a special boxed lunch at a scenic picnic spot.

Your journey will take you throughout this tremendous landscape that is constantly changing as animals move to and fro in search of pasture, water or east prey. In the afternoon ascend to the rim and drive back to Arusha for dinner and overnight.

Main destination:Arusha

Accommodation: Merves hotel

Meals: B,PL,D

9 Days Tanzania Budget Camping Safaris

Day 9: Visit Materuni In Kilimanjaro Mountain Area/Drop Off At Kilimanjaro Airport

In the morning after done with the breakfast our driver will drive to Moshi Kilimanjaro mountain area (Materuni) for short walking tour. You will be walking through the banana farms, coffee plantation and final you will visit the waterfalls as well as you will get great chance to learn all stages of coffee from planting, roasting to drink. You will be seeing the Kilimanjaro Mountain very close by you but it depends on the weather. Visit some local Chagga tribe in the area, taste their local brew made from ripe banana. Lean their culture etc. Late in the evening you will drive back to the airport for your flight back home.

Main destination:Kilimanjaro Airport

Accommodation: Departure

Meals: B,PL

Transport while on Safari: -We’ll provide special Safari Jeep 1 stretched – Land cruiser 4WD. The vehicles are fitted with a pop – up roof for game viewing and photographing.

Re: Advice for the trip-Others are like Light weight safari shoes or trainers, sandals, sunglasses, sun creams, insect repellent creams, a light weight first aid kit, day pack for your cameras, rucksack for your safari gears and clothes. Of course, you will want to capture much of Tanzania's wildlife, so don't forget a camera, batteries and film. A medium range telephoto lens will be found useful as will a pair of binoculars. In case you're bringing any electrical equipment, the electricity is 220v.Also our vehicles has got charging system for our clients to charge their cameras etc.

Include

  • Pick up and drop off at the Airport.
  • Hotel before safari in Arusha.
  • All Game drives and the Park fees.
  • Accommodations as indicated in the itinerary (One double room).
  • Meals as per the above itinerary – 3 Meals a day – Vegetarians and Non vegetarians.
  • A very high quality safari land cruiser with pop up roof
  • A highly experienced safari guide
  • Unlimited mineral water during the entire safari
  • All government taxes
  • All transfers in the mainland.
  • AMREF Flying doctors in case of emergence rescue

Exclude

  • Beer, wine and spirits (as well as gifts like local crafts etc.)
  • International flights tickets (airline).
  • Tips for staff such as guides and the cook staff
  • Fees for passport, visas, immunizations and insurance
  • Laundry, phone and other items of a personal nature

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