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Splendour of Tanzania - Your Itinerary
9 days
From: £2675
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What's included:
- Scheduled flights, including all U.K. and overseas airport taxes and applicable fuel surcharges
- Guides English-speaking naturalist driver/guides on safari,exclusive to Bales clients
- Transportation Private 4-wheel-drive vehicles throughout,exclusive to Bales clients
- Game viewing As detailed, including Park Entrance Fees.
- Guaranteed window seat on safari
- Accommodation and meals First class hotels and game lodges throughout.
- 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches and 6 dinners
- Minimum participation 2 passengers
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Day 1
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 Day 1
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Morning departure from London Heathrow by KLM via Amsterdam (1 hour 35 minutes) to Kilimanjaro (8 hours 25 minutes). Private transfer on arrival to Arusha for an overnight stay at the Arusha Coffee Lodge.
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Day 2
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 Day 2
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Your safari begins with a drive to Tarangire National Park (150 KM/approximately 2 hours 30 minutes), a remote and wild region traversed by the life giving waters of the Tarangire River and well known for its huge herds of elephant and buffalo, as well as lion, cheetah and leopard. Your driver/guide is an experienced wildlife expert whose knowledge and ability to spot the animals and birds will astound you. Proceed to your lodge game viewing en route. Arrive at Tarangire Treetops in time for lunch. Later, enjoy an afternoons game drive. Stay at Tarangire Treetops for 2 nights.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 3
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 Day 3
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Today will be spent exploring this remarkable landscape in search of its extensive animal and birdlife. Littered with majestic old baobab trees, Tarangire is home to magnificent kudu and rare oryx, as well as over 500 species of birds, including the kori bustard, the world’s heaviest bird.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 4
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 Day 4
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Today you head for the western escarpment of the Great Rift Valley and the dramatic Lake Manyara (135 KM/approximately 1 hour 30 minutes), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that boasts a staggering diversity of game and birdlife. Game viewing should hopefully afford you the chance of catching a glimpse of Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions. From here continue to Gibbs Farm for a delicious farmhouse lunch.After lunch continue to Ngorongoro Crater for a stay at the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (80 KM/approximately 2 hours), located on the edge of the crater rim.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 5
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 Day 5
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Entering the spectacular setting of Ngorongoro’s volcanic caldera (collapsed volcano), you enjoy the magnificent vistas of one of Africa’s most magnificent natural wonders. The open plains of this incredible amphitheatre present us with some of the finest game viewing on the planet, where elephant, lion, rhino and zebra abound, whilst its perennial marshes echo to the calls of a vast array of birdlife. You will have a full day’s game viewing with picnic lunch.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 6
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 Day 6
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Leaving Ngorongoro Crater this morning a visit to Olduvai Gorge introduces us to the 1.75 million year old ‘Nutcracker Man’, one of the most important discoveries ever made in the continual search for man’s origin. Continue to the Serengeti National Park (275 KM/approximately 5 hours), where you will stay 2 nights at the Serengeti Migration Camp.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 7
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 Day 7
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The oldest and largest of Tanzania’s national parks, the Serengeti, whose name is derived from the Masai word for ‘endless plains’, presents us with the very essence of Africa. Its open savannahs thunder beneath the hooves of countless wildebeest and zebra, a tempting target for the ever-present predators. Spend the day in search of the Serengeti’s big game and so much more.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 8
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 Day 8
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This morning after breakfast transfer to Lobo airstrip for your flight to Arusha (1 hour 20 minutes). On arrival transfer to the Arusha Coffee Lodge where you will have use of a day room. In the evening depart by KLM via Amsterdam (touching down en route to Amsterdam in Dar es Salaam) to London.
Meals: B
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Day 9
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 Day 9
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Arrive in Amsterdam this morning and connect with an onward flight to London Heathrow.
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