7 Days Safari and Zanzibar Package

7 Days Safari + Zanzibar Package

DAY 1:

You will be picked up from the airport or hotel ready to start your journey to Serengeti national park for a 4 hours’ drive to the gate of the park. First stop is for lunch, then we start game driving throughout the beautiful plain grassland with acacia woodlands. You will be able to see plenty of different animals in Serengeti, favorite home of wildcats such as lions, leopards, and cheetahs as well as many other animal species. We will spend the entire day exploring the park until around sunset, when we are required to make our way to our accommodations inside the park. You will have the amazing opportunity to spend the night at the heart of the park, at central Serengeti, where you will sleep surrounded by the inhabitants of the savanna.

Accommodation

Luxury: Kubu Kubu Tented Camp / Melia Serengeti Lodge / Four Season Serengeti

Mid-range:Serengeti Bush Camp,Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp / Embalakai Camp / Acacia Central Camp

Budget Camping: Nyani Campsite

DAY 2: Early game driving to see the sunrise at central Serengeti. We would continue the hunt for those sneaky species that may have eluded us the day before or we can focus on those you love the most and could not get enough. After lunch you will continue to do the game drive while we make our way to the exit gate. After leaving the Serengeti Park, we will hit the road and head to the Ngorongoro crater rim, where we will spend the night just at the doors of the next adventure that awaits us the following morning.

Accommodations:

Luxury: Crater Lodge, Sopa Lodge and Serena Lodge

Mid-range: Rhino Lodge, Wildlife Lodge

Budget Camping: Simba Campsite

DAY 3:

Early breakfast is important because you do not want to waste precious time. We will start with an early descend into the crater from where you will be able to witness animals in the thousands roaming at the bottom of the crater. Once we make it to the bottom of the crater, congratulations you just made it to the world’s largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera, and you will soon realize the sheer size of it. We will start our game driving to try and witness as many as possible of the 25,000 large animals that inhabit this crater. At noon we will make it to a rest area inside the crater and eat our lunch boxes. We will then continue driving around the Ngorongoro crater spending more than 6 hours inside to see the many mini habitats inside the crater’s ecosystem. At the end, we will make our way back up and outsideof the crater and you will be taken to the hotel.

Accommodations:

Midrange: Eileen’s trees lodge, Endoro lodge, Marera valley lodge, Karatu simba lodge.

Budget: Lilac Campsite & Panorama

Day 4:

After the breakfast depart to the airport to take domestic flight to Zanzibar. When we arrive to Zanzibar transportation to the hotel will be provided and you will have time to relax in the hotel.

Day 5:

After the breakfast depart to Matemwe for Dolphins tour, where you will be able to chase large groups of dolphins using small speed boats. After Dolphins tour, we will visit the Jozani park. Jozani Forest is the largest area of indigenous forest on Zanzibar Island and is famously home to populations of Zanzibar red colobus monkey (an endangered species found only on Zanzibar) as well as other monkey species, bush babies and more than 40 species of birds as well as other, back to the hotel.

Day 6:

After breakfast depart for a full day Blue Safari Adventure. We will sail in a beautiful traditional wooden dhow, watch Dolphins (if we have a chance of seeing them) at play, snorkel over the reefs of Menai Bay conservation area, feast on a Swahili influenced seafood buffet. We will visit a Baobab tree believed to be more than 500 years old before sailing, back to hotel.

Day 7:

Prison Island was formerly owned by an Arab and was privately used as a place of detention for disobedient slaves. It was built in 1893 as a central prison for Zanzibar, hence the name “Prison Island”. You will be able to see Giant Tortoises, Dik dik, Peacock, Prison Chamber, Mangrove Forest.  In the afternoon we will come back to Stone Town for Lunch (NOT INCLUDED). After lunch we will have another 2-3hrs to visit Zanzibar City. We will have a chance to visit the Town Markets, old slave markets, National Museum, High court building, Old German Consulate, Africa House (former English Club), Tippu Tip House and Grave, Kele kele square, Old British Consulate, Orphanage home, Old Fort, Forodhani Gardens, House of Wonders, Sultan Palace, Dr. Livingstone House, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Old Mosques, Freddie Mercury House, among others. After the tours we will transfer you to the airport to take a  flight