Northern Circuit

9 DAYS SAFARI IN TARANGIRE, SERENGETI, NATIONAL PARK, NGORONGORO CRATER, & ZANZIBAR

Overview
1. The tour is private
2. The itinerary is flexible
3. Close encounter with wildlife
4. Small group ensure personal service
5. Free hotel pickup and drop off
6. Meals option available especially for vegetation
7. Informative, friendly and professional driver guide

DAY 01: Moshi to Tarangire national park
• Morning departure from Moshi to Tarangire National Park for game-viewing and photography.
• The Park is home to several animals, including wildebeests, zebras, elands, elephants, buffaloes, hartebeests, and more that migrate from the Maasai steppe to the Tarangire River. Not surprisingly, lions and other predators find the place attractive.
• Afternoon break for picnic lunch.
• After lunch, continue with game drive.
• In late evening, leave Tarangire National Park and drive towards lodge or campsite at Mto Wa Mbu or Karatu for dinner and overnight.

DAY02: Tarangire to serengeti national park
• After breakfast, drive to the Great Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch.
• Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti is famed for its annual wildebeest migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing.
• Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most amazing game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, and Grant’s gazelle.
• After arriving at Serengeti, continue to explore the vast rich-game animal plains.
• In the evening, leave the park to drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY03: Serengeti national park
• Full day game drive to explore the vast rich animals of Serengeti plains.
• In the afternoon, return to lodge for hot lunch.
• Shortly after lunch, take one hour for rest.
• Later, continue with game-drive in the park.
• In the evening drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY04: Serengeti national park to ngorongoro crater
• Morning, after breakfast game drive en-route the Serengeti / Ngorongoro plains via Oldupai Gorge with your picnic lunch.
• The Oldupai Gorge provides evidence of the earliest signs of mankind, where hominid footprints are preserved in volcanic rocks dating 3,600,000 years old.
• Arrive at Ngorongoro Crater, the world largest caldera measuring 600 metres in depth and covering 250 square kilometres in area.
• Dinner and overnight at the lodge in Ngorongoro.

DAY05: Ngorongoro crater to Arusha to Zanzibar
• After breakfast, descend 610m/2000ft down into the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater for a full morning tour. This collapsed volcano is home to a large concentration of wildlife, including lion, rhino, hippo, hyena, and elephant. ( The big five is available here)
• Afternoon, enjoy lunch by the hippo pond before drive back to Arusha and after lunch fly to Zanzibar.

DAY0 6: Zanzibar beach.
Full day enjoying at the beach relaxing at the hotel swimming in the nice beach

DAY07: ( dolphin tour & jozani forest tour)
06:30 am pick up at your hotel to Kizimkazi beach for a boat ride to the dolphin sports, spend some time swimming, watching the dolphins, you can even get a chance to touch them, Snorkling and swimming just beside them, enjoy the moments then back to the beach for a drive to #jozaniforest, arrive at the forest, get the introduction about it spend some time to explore the forest and discover Zanzibar flora and fauna, different Colobus monkeys, see mangroves forest and some animals living on it, enjoy the moments then take a drive back to the hotel

DAY08: (spice tour, stone town tour & prison island tour)
7am pick up at your hotel for a full day historical tours, start with Spice farm tour, get to know the Zanzibar spices, test them, touch them, smell them, know why Zanzibar Is Valles a spice island, enjoy the moments then to take a drive to stone town for a boat transportation to #prisonisland, discover the beauty of island, see the giant tortoises, get the great history of the island, spend some time then back to #stonetown for a city tour, get lots of informations about the island, visit the historical places, get a chance to walk in the narrow streets of Stone Town, enjoy the time at the city then transfer back to the hotel.

DAY08: ( safari blue island excursion full day)
7:00am pick up at your hotel to #fumba beach or #kikugwi beach for a boat ride to safari blue island, the only beautiful island in Zanzibar with clear crystal water and conservation with lots to sport, enjoy Snorkling with beautiful and colourful schools of fish, test of Zanzibar tropical fruits inside the boat, enjoy the moments then to the beach for a BBQ seafood lunch with drinks after then take a drive back to your hotel.

DAY09: Departure day
Depending on your flight schedule and departure point you will be transferred to the Zanzibar Airport to take a flight back home. If you are flying out of Dar es Salaam or Nairobi, we will arrange a connection flight for you to catch your flight back home. 

Price includes:
- Ground transportation 4x4 land cruiser 
- National Park fees and accommodation
- Breakfast in the day two
- Drinking water, 1.5L per day per person
- Tax and VAT
Price excludes:
- Soft drinks eg; Sodas ,Beers
- Lunch & Dinner
- Extra needs
- Tips