9 Days Tanzania Photo Safari Adventure

9 Days Tanzania Photo Safari Adventure Package

Day 1: Arusha, Tanzania

Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport this evening and transfer to our hotel. Accommodations: Arusha Coffee Lodge or River trees Country Inn

Days 2-3: NGORONGORO CRATER

Get your equipment ready for our first safari in the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest inactive, intact volcanic caldera and home to around 25,000 large animals. Document interactions between predator and prey; zoom in on birdlife from marabou storks to rainbow-hued lovebirds; and test your wildlife photography skills on elephants, rhinos, cheetahs, and more. Return to the crater floor the following morning for a sunrise breakfast and photo safari. Take the afternoon to relax and look over your images. Listen to a talk by our National Geographic photographer, and ready your camera to catch the sunset over the crater this evening.

• Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Daily
• Accommodations: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Day 4: NGORONGORO CRATER – SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

Travel off the beaten path through the Ngorongoro Highlands for a very special opportunity to visit with a Maasai community. With your camera in hand, witness an initiation ritual and learn about this fascinating culture from the village chief and his wives. Capture the spirit of traditional song and dance, and enjoy time to work on portraiture and photographing daily life here. After lunch, drive to the Olduvai Gorge where, on a National Geographic-sponsored expedition in 1960, Louis and Mary Leakey discovered Homo habilis, one of the earliest members of the human genus. Take a private tour of the site and learn about recent finds before continuing on to our lodge in the Southern Serengeti, looking out for lions, cheetahs, and leopards along the way.

• Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Accommodations: Lake Masek Tented Camp

Days 5-6: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

This morning, enjoy a cup of hot coffee or tea overlooking the Serengeti plains before heading out on a morning safari drive. Alternatively, enjoy an early-morning hot-air balloon safari for a bird’s-eye view of the landscape, followed by breakfast under the shade of an acacia tree in the midst of the vast Serengeti. The next day, embark on an off-track safari in the Ndutu area, in search of resident lion prides, cheetahs, giraffes, and bountiful herds of wildebeest, elephants, and zebras. Watch the Serengeti’s legendary wildlife interact with each other on an afternoon game drive.

• Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Daily
• Accommodations: Lake Masek Tented Camp

Days 7-8: Serengeti National Park

Rise early for a morning game drive before flying to the northern Serengeti. With luck, capture the dramatic river crossings of the wildebeest migration. Settle into our accommodation at AndBeyond Grumeti Serengeti Tented Camp, situated in an area known for exceptional year-round resident wildlife and near one of the most famous fording points used by wildebeest crossing the Grumeti River. On morning and afternoon game drives, look out for crocodiles, hippos, and martial eagles. On our last evening, gather for a farewell dinner.

• Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Daily
• Accommodations: andBeyond Grumeti Serengeti Tented Camp

Day 9: Serengeti – Arusha – Depart

After a final early morning safari, fly back to Arusha. Relax at our hotel before connecting with your flight home.

• Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch
• Accommodations: Lake Duluti Serena Hotel

SAFARI INCLUDES:

• Extensive Game drives
• Use of 4×4 Land Cruiser with only 3 passengers per vehicle fitted with pop-up roof
• First Class accommodations at hotels, lodges and tented camps
• All meals included while on safari
• Full board Accommodation
• All applicable Game Park entrance fees
• Safari vehicles carry mineral water
• Guaranteed window seating with open top for easy photography
• Guaranteed departures for two or more passengers booking this safari
• Professional Photographic Safari guide
• Round trip transport from Nairobi to and Back

PRICES EXCLUDE;

• International Airfare
• A visit to a Masai Village
• Cost of obtaining passport and visas
• Gratuity for your professional driver guide, Porterage/ waiters at hotels
• Sun downer bush cocktails and bush dinner
• Membership in Flying Doctors Society – Emergency air rescue
• Optional Hot Air Ballooning (cost per person is 470 US Dollars), Nature walks etc
• Personal expenses such traveling insurance, excess baggage fee, communication charges that include, laundry, emails, faxes and phone calls beverages including luxury champagne, luxury spirits, beer, wines during meals or meals not indicated in the itinerary