Arrival: Welcome to Tanzania - The Trip of Your Lifetime!

On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be met by our driver guide who will be with you for the entire duration of your safari in the northern circuit. You will then be driven to Arusha where you arrive at the Four Points by Sheraton Arusha to spend one night with all meals included. You spend the rest of the day at leisure at the lodge.

Accommodation: Four Points by Sheraton Arusha or a Similar

Meals Planned:   Dinner and Lunch (HB)

Day 1: Arusha - Serengeti National Park & a Late Afternoon Game Drive

After breakfast, you board the safari vehicle and proceed to  Serengeti National Park  (a 6 – 7-hour drive) with packed lunch boxes, arriving in the afternoon. On arrival, go for a late afternoon game drive at the enormous, famous, and second-largest park in the country to experience its abundant wildlife. All the  ‘‘Big 5’’  are found in this great park as another huge number of animals including wildebeests, spotted hyenas, cheetahs, impalas, and quite several birdlife. In the late evening, transferred to the Serengeti Luxury Retreat for dinner and stay overnight. Dinner, Lunch, and Bed & Breakfast included  (FB).

Accommodation:   Serengeti Luxury Retreat or Similar

Meals Planned:   Dinner, Lunch and Bed & Breakfast (FB)

Day 2: Full-Day Game Drive At Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, go for a full-day game drive across the famous  Serengeti National Park with packed lunch boxes until sunset. It is in this park that more than six million hooves pound the legendary  “endless plains.”  Every year, triggered by rains, more than a million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson gazelle gather to undertake their long trek to new grazing lands. The rutting season is a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquest and mating, followed by a survival of the fittest as the 40km long column of animals plunges through crocodile-infested waters on their annual exodus north. The species are replenished during the brief population explosion that produces more than 80,000 calves a day before the 1000km return pilgrimage begins. Return in the late evening and stay the night at  Serengeti Sopa Lodge or  Asanja Africa Camp. Dinner, Lunch, and Bed & Breakfast included  (FB) .

Accommodation: Serengeti Luxury Retreat or Similar

Meals Planned:   Dinner, Lunch and Bed & Breakfast (FB)

Day 3: Full-Day Game Drive At Serengeti National Park

After a relaxed night’s sleep, you enjoy a leisurely late breakfast. Depart for another full-day game drive at the enormous  Serengeti National Park with packed lunch boxes to once again enjoy and experience its affluent wildlife until evening. Back to the camp in the late evening for dinner and stay overnight at  Serengeti Sopa Lodge or  Asanja Africa Camp. Dinner, Lunch, and Bed & Breakfast included  (FB).

Accommodation:   Serengeti Luxury Retreat or Similar

Meals Planned:   Dinner, Lunch and Bed & Breakfast (FB)

Day 4: Depart To Ngorongoro Crater & For A Game Drive

In the morning after breakfast, depart to  Ngorongoro Crater, the 8th Natural Wonder of the World with your packed lunch boxes for a game drive. The crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusks, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you'll ever see in your life.  ‘‘Ngorongoro Crater’’  is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world and fourteen kilometers of isolated natural beauty. The Crater is surrounded by a ring of extinct volcanoes and the floor, dotted with watering holes, and shelters some 30,000 animals. In the late evening, transfer to the lodge, have your hot dinner, and stay overnight at  Neptune Ngorongoro Luxury Lodge or  Farm House Valley. Dinner, Lunch, and Bed & Breakfast included  (FB).

Accommodation:  Neptune Ngorongoro Luxury Lodge

Meals Planned:   Dinner, Lunch and Bed & Breakfast (FB)

Day 5: Maasai Boma Tour & Depart To Airport

After breakfast at the lodge, go for a  ‘‘Maasai Boma Visit’’  - an authentic glimpse into the distinctive  Maasai Culture. Preservation of their proud traditions has set the Maasai apart from other indigenous groups in Tanzania and embodies a side of Africa with which few outsiders can contact. Maasai expeditions will offer you as a visitor, a memorable opportunity to interactively experience the Maasai way of life including their dress code, occupation, dancing and singing, and visit their bomas (traditional family dwelling). In the afternoon you will be transferred to the Airport where you will take your flight to Zanzibar Island. On arrival you will be Met and greet by our guide and driver at Zanzibar Airport. Our representative will be holding a name card for you for easy identification and transfer to the Melia Zanzibar Hotel. Dinner and Breakfast included  (HB).

Accommodation: Melia Zanzibar or similar accommodation

Meals Planned:   Dinner and Breakfast (HB)

Day 6: Stone Town City Tour + Zanzibar Spice Tour + Prison Island Boat Trip

The morning after breakfast pick up from  Zanzibar Queen Hotel for the  Zanzibar Spice Tour on this tour you will see and taste the tropical fruits, spices plantations, or plots on the island. A variety of spice plants used as ornament, medicines, flowers, fruits, and other interesting flora can be seen during the spice tour and if you have time, you will visit the Kidichi bath built in 1850 by the first Sultan for his wife Sheharzad (Granddaughter of Fateh Ali Shah of Persia). After the Spice Tour, we'll head to Stone Town one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Cultural Arts Centre of East Africa. You will have the  Stone Town City Tour take you around the historical culture and architectural town of Zanzibar with a century of history. It includes a visit to the former slave market site, which now stands as an Anglican church built in 1871, a town market, the Zanzibar Memorial Museum, the House of Wonder built-in 1883 (Beit-Al-Ajab), Old Arab Fort, Palace Museum, Old Indian dispensary (Cultural Centre).

After the Lunch, you will have a trip to  Prison Island Boat trip, Visit Lloyd Mathew's Architecture built in 1893 and the Island is a home of Aldabra Giant Tortoises. Flanged by an amazing beach of reef sanctuary, the island is ideal for swimming, snorkeling, and beach relaxation. After tours, you will be dropped off at  Zanzibar Queen Hotel for overnight  (HB).

Accommodation: Melia Zanzibar or similar accommodation

Meals Planned:   Dinner and Breakfast (HB)

Day 7: Safari Blue Sea Adventure

The morning after breakfast pick-up from  Zanzibar Queen Hotel for  Safari Blue. A full day sailing/snorkeling/sunbathing on a traditional dhow and seafood barbecue. Setting sail from Fumba, you will explore the Menai Bay where dolphins are often sighted. When dropping the anchor at the Kwale sandbank, you can snorkel the coral reefs.  Kwale Island  - a great place to explore and climb an ancient baobab tree, which fell hundreds of years ago but still stands tall. You’ll be served a buffet of grilled fish, lobster, calamari, chicken, and coconut rice. The boat sails to a stunning natural lagoon where there is an opportunity to swim before the day is over and back to your hotel. Dinner and Breakfast included  (HB).

Accommodation: Melia Zanzibar or similar accommodation

Meals Planned:   Dinner and Breakfast (HB)

Day 8: Time to Say Goodbye!

Breakfast at the Hotel – Some leisure with the Hotel till the time for the transfer to the Airport/Seaport for the departure transfer (Depending on the flight departure timing).

Accommodation:   None /On Request

Meals Planned:   Dinner and Breakfast (HB)