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International Airport- Arusha When you arrive at the airport, our guide will be holding a poster with your name on it, ready to you warmly welcome and transfer you to your hotel in Arusha (45-60 minutes). You will arrive at the hotel for check-in and relaxation since no activities are scheduled for today. Dinner and overnight at Arusha Serena Hotel -BB Arusha town is Tanzania’s safari capital, famous or its well better-known neighbors, including Tarangire, Manyara, Serengeti, and Ngorongoro. The town has numerous first-class restaurants, bars, and local markets. Arusha’s rural charm is amplified by the many beautiful coffee plantations that surround the town, many of them dating back to colonial times and offering tours of graceful plantation houses.
This day begins with a refreshing breakfast at the hotel and a relaxed day, and spend some time at the hotel balcony or take a walk on its beautiful neighboring Forest. After a hot lunch you can depart for a short stroll around the Arusha City stop by different shops or visit the mall for some shopping or visit the famously known Shanga near coffee plantations. Dinner and overnight Arusha Serena Hotel- BB
After breakfast depart to Tarangire, the park is Tanzania's third-largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides only the area’s water supply. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopards, cheetahs, and up to six thousand elephants. We will spend 2 days here doing safari in the national and a cultural visit within the semi-nomadic tribes around the area. Dinner & Overnight at Maramboi Tented Lodge- FB Tarangire- This National Park enables you to experience an unrivalled landscape of open plains, dotted with thousands of baobabs. Not only does the meandering Tarangire River attract a vast number of wildlife, but the Park is also especially renowned for its huge elephant herds, enabling its visitors the spotting of entire thick-skinned families!
One of the best places on this Africa tour to spot the Big Five – elephants, leopards, lions, buffalo and the rare black rhinoceros – ancient Ngorongoro Crater, often called Africa's "Garden of Eden," is home to almost every species in Africa... except the giraffe, which can't negotiate the steep incline down into the caldera but will be seen at the rim of the crater. Game drives and a unique picnic lunch on the crater floor offer ample opportunities to spot lions, cheetahs, hippos and lots of birds. Then it's back to your lodge for the evening. Ngorongoro Serena Lodge- FB
After Breakfast, you will depart to a full day Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch, you will venture the corners of the mighty Serengeti plains for unlimited game drive with high chances of following the great migration and spotting pride of lions, cheaters, leopards and many more. This will be your area of exploration for these two days. Dinner and overnight Melia Serengeti –FB Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world and it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. Established in 1952, it is home to the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive.
• The southern/central part (Seronera Valley) with its classic savannah dotted with acacias and filled with wildlife. • The western corridor is marked by the Grumeti River, and has more forests and dense bush. The north meets up with Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve, is the least visited section. It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous – over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. During the months of July-September the herds will cross the Mara River again and again in search of fresh grass. They will have to face the mighty crocodiles in the river, who are waiting quietly in the water for their opportunity.
On this day after a warm breakfast, you’ll have a few hours morning drive as you head to Seronera airport to catch your flight to Arusha. Upon your arrival at the Arusha airport our guide will be holding a poster with your name on it, will take you to a restaurant for a hot lunch and then transfer you to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your flight to Rwanda. It has been a wonderful experience to serve you through your safari we hope the memories will make you want to retrace your visit in Tanzania. Karibu Sana Upon arrival at the airport, you will be received by our company’s representative outside customs and immigration hall, who will be holding a poster with your name on it, provide you a safari briefing followed by an introduction to your driver- guide who is ready to warmly welcome you and transfer you to your hotel (20 minutes’ drive). Upon your arrival at the hotel, you’ll check in and relax since there are no other activities scheduled for today. Dinner and overnight at Hotel des Mille Collines- HB
On this day after breakfast, you will have a Kigali City Tour which includes a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial site, art center, and local market. Kigali Genocide Memorial site in Gisozi, a place of remembrance and learning, honoring victims of genocide against the Tutsi and ensure that it never happens again. It’s the final resting place for more than 250,000 victims of the genocide against the Tutsi. Here you will be able to visit the three permanent exhibitions, the largest of which documents the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The Education Centre, Gardens, and Genocide Archive of Rwanda form part of a meaningful tribute to those who perished, and provide a powerful educational tool for visitors. Have lunch at Heaven Restaurant – Kiyovu, then have a 2hr30min drive to Musanze near Volcanoes National Park. Dinner and overnight at Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge-FB
After breakfast, you will head to the Volcanoes National Park to be allocated a gorilla tracking group. Receive a briefing by your trackers, then drive to the trailhead and start your exhilarating trek, in the footsteps of the rare and endangered Mountain Gorillas, the largest living primate on earth, starts in the cultivated foothills of the Virungas. Trekkers will be immersed in the mysterious intimacy of the rainforest. Our experienced trackers will take you up close with the family and have 1hr to watch them feed, play, rest, raise their young. Have the greatest wildlife experiences by spotting a giant silverback and make your way back down the mountainside and head back to the lodge for lunch. Later in the afternoon, visit the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. The Ellen Fund was aimed at securing a future for renowned mountain gorillas by building The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund a permanent home. The campus has a conservation gallery that builds upon Dian Fossey’s legacy and serves as a key attraction for tourists from around the globe; and Education Outreach Center to increase opportunities for capacity building for students, staff, and the community; a Research Center that will enhance their cutting-edge research on gorillas and their habitats; and Housing to enable students, staff and researchers to live on-site and build professional and personal relationships. Dinner and overnight at Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge-FB.
After breakfast, drive to the Volcanoes National Park headquarters where you will be allocated a Golden Monkeys tracking group. Receive a briefing by your trackers then drive to the trail for the tracking about 2 to 4 hours. The critically endangered Golden Monkey has a golden body, cheeks and tail with contrasting black limbs, crown, and tail end. They live in social groups of up to 30 individuals and they feed mainly of leaves and fruit. Restricted to the highland forest of the Virungas especially near bamboo, they share this habitat inhabiting a small area that overlaps the territory of one of the gorilla families together, they face the same threats like snares and human encroachment. Once you come to the habituated families, have 1 hour watch them go about their daily life; adult monkeys frolic in plain view, feeding, females carry their young, completely oblivious of on-lookers. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Tiloreza Volcanoes Ecolodge-FB.
After breakfast today, you will say goodbye to the wonderful team at the hotel. Head to Kigali International Airport, assisted bid farewell to your driverguide and proceed to check in for your outbound flight back home. This marks the end of your safari; we hope you enjoyed and welcome back again with more family and friends. Please Note: Pre and Post Extensions are available on Request
• Full board (breakfast, lunch & dinner) accommodation while on safari • All game drives viewing in a custom built 4×4 Safari Land Cruiser • All parks entrance fees • Flight from Seronera to Arusha • Transportation with a 4×4 vehicles with viewing roofs • Professional English-speaking driver-guide during the safari. • Bottled safe drinking water in safari vehicles • Ngorongoro Crater car supplement fee (if any) • Current Government taxes and levies • 24-Hour support during the safari from our office in Arusha. • Audio guide for Kigali Genocide Memorial • 1 Gorilla trekking permit • Entrance fees at the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund • 1 Golden monkey trekking permit
If you have any special wishes regarding hotels, routes, excursions etc., please let us know and contact us. Our Team would like to offer you an unforgettable trip according to your ideas. If the accommodation listed is not available, we will book an equivalent alternative for you. This does not constitute a reason for reduction. All prices are per person, subject to rate changes, exchange rate fluctuations and availability as well as reconfirmation by Excellent Guides Tours and Safaris.
• International flights • Flight to Rwanda • Balloon and/or additional excursions while you are in Tanzania or Rwanda • Out-of-full board service at the hotel including body massage, hotel excursions, bar & laundry services • All Terrain- Vehicle (bike ride) adventure. • Entry visa to Tanzania & Rwanda • Travel and health insurance • TIPS to your guide, hotel staff, and porters • Meals, drinks, and excursions not described in the itinerary
• Safari groups consist of 2 - 6 persons per vehicle. • Trekking tours groups consist of 2 – 15 persons • Please understand that we cannot give any guarantee for the described animal observations on safari. These are wild animals in their natural habitat, and their behavior can never be guaranteed. For this reason, no travel price refund is possible if some animals are not seen. Our experienced safari guides will use all their expertise and knowledge to provide you with as much adventure and wildlife observation as possible. • The opening hours of the national parks are daily from 06:00 - 18:00. The maximum length of stay (until 18:00 hrs.) cannot always be exhausted, as many sections of the route in Tanzania should not be traveled in the dark. Your stay in the national parks therefore depends on your further route. Wishes or comments can be discussed with your Safari guide.
During your round trip in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) you are covered by our local partner agency through a tourist membership with the Amref Flying Doctors. The Amref Flying Doctors membership enables you to be evacuated in a medical emergency and flown to the nearest local hospital. However, this membership does not replace (foreign)health insurance, but only covers medically necessary transport and does not include return transport to your home country.
Please read our General Terms and Conditions (GTC) carefully, as these form the basis in connection with package tours booked with Amazing Africa Adventure
We want to make your trip unforgettable and meet all your wishes and demands. However, should any inconvenience arise during your trip, please let your guide or the staff know immediately? We will leave no stone unturned to solve the problems as quickly as possible. An honest word on the spot is more effective than a subsequent letter of complaint.
