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Serengeti Safari - Your Itinerary
10 days
From: £1995
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What's included:
- Scheduled flights, including all UK and overseas airport taxes and applicable fuel surcharges
- English-speaking naturalist driver/guides on safari, exclusive to Bales clients
- Private 4-wheel-drive vehicles throughout, exclusive to Bales clients
- Game viewing as detailed, including Park Entrance Fees.
- Guaranteed window seat on safari
- Superior hotels and game lodges
- 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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Evening departure from London Heathrow by Kenya Airways to Nairobi (7 hour 25 minutes).
Meals: Inflight
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Day 2
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 Day 2
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Upon your arrival in Nairobi connect onto your Kenya Airway flight (operated by Precision Air) to Kilimanjaro (1 hour). Private transfer on arrival to Arusha for a relaxing overnight stay at the Serena Mountain Village Lodge (standard room).
Meals:
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Day 3
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 Day 3
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Your safari begins with a drive to Tarangire National Park (150 km/approximately 2 hours 30 minutes), 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. Afternoon game drive and overnight at the Tarangire Sopa Lodge (standard room).
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 4
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 Day 4
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Enjoying a morning’s game viewing, you then continue to Gibbs Farm, nestling in the shadow of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where you enjoy lunch. In the afternoon continue to Ngorongoro Crater (185 km/approximately 3 hours 30 minutes) for your stay at the Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge (standard room).
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 5
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 Day 5
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The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact caldera (collapsed volcano). Today we descend the 600 metres into the crater by 4-wheel-drive vehicles for a full day safari. Over 30,000 animals live within this enormous natural bowl, the most densely packed concentration of wildlife in Africa. You should see wildebeest, elephant, lion, dik-dik, and warthog, whilst on the lakeside there are pelican, ibis and flamingo.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 6
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 Day 6
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Visit Olduvai Gorge, commonly referred to as “The Cradle of Mankind”, where Professor Louis Leakey discovered some of the earliest evidence of human existence in the 1950s. Continue to the Serengeti National Park (165 km/approximately 4 hours), where you will stay at the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge (standard room).
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 7
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 Day 7
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Serengeti is the Masai word for ‘endless plains’, a somewhat apt description of this magnificent setting. The endless plains are matched by the seemingly endless wildlife that sweeps across these timeless vistas. On your game drive today you have every chance of seeing the Serengeti’s big game, including lion, leopard, buffalo and elephant, as well as huge herds of zebra and wildebeest.
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 8
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 Day 8
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Morning drive to Lake Manyara (225 km/approximately 5 hours 30 minutes) in the Great Rift Valley. In the afternoon there will be a game drive, when you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions. Overnight at the Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge (standard room).
Meals: B, L & D
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Day 9
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 Day 9
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A final early morning game drive before you return to Arusha (150 km/approximately 2 hours 30 minutes) for lunch (optional day room available on request). In the evening depart by Kenya Airways (operated by Precision Air) to Nairobi. Upon your arrival in Nairobi connect onto Kenya Airway flight to London.
Meals: B & L
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Day 10
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 Day 10
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Arrive at London Heathrow in the morning.
Meals: None
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