8-day Tanzania wildlife adventure Safari & Zanzibar Excursions

You will depart Arusha in the morning and head to Tarangire National Park, arriving before midday. Once in the park, you will be able to enjoy both a morning and afternoon game drive with a delicious lunch in the afternoon. In the early evening, after your game drive, you will exit the park and make your way to your lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

Tarangire National Park main attractions:

Land of giants: Herds of giant elephants and massive baobab trees

Over 550 different bird species: Migratory and permanent

Abundant biodiversity

The Tarangire River.

Depart Tarangire in the morning after a hearty breakfast and make your way to the famous Serengeti National Park. En-route at Ngorongoro Conservation Area, have a chance to see some views of Ngorongoro Crater before reaching the Serengeti gate.

After lunch, you will head out on an afternoon game drive for the chance to look for some of the wild game before sunset and get some dinner at the campsite.

Serengeti National Park main attractions:

Voted the best national park in Africa (2020) by the World Travellers Award

Home to the Great Wildebeest Migration

Home to the famous grassland plains

The high number of predators: leopards, cheetahs & lions

Travellers' Most Choice.

Today you will head out early for your morning game drive for a chance to witness a magnificent African sunrise in the bush. Head out after a cup of coffee and experience the wilderness and its magnificent creatures as they wake up among the dew-covered grasses.

Later, you will head back to camp for breakfast and some relaxation. In the afternoon, you will head out once more for another chance to explore the plains in search of African wildlife you have come to see as you exit the park and make your way to your accommodation in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

After some breakfast, you will depart the campsite with a picnic lunch and descend into the amazing Ngorongoro Crater. Explore the magnificent world of diversity that lies within, surrounded by the imposing walls that encircle the reserve.

It is possible to see all of Africa's Big Five within the crater among a vast array of other wildlife including hundreds of bird species. Enjoy a full day in the crater before departing for Arusha in the late afternoon. Later you will drive back to Arusha hotel for airport transfer to Zanzibar

Ngorongoro Crater main attractions:

Visit the largest unbroken volcanic caldera on earth.

Home to Africa's Big Five.

Witness Maasai tribesmen living among wild animals.

Exceptional natural landscapes.

After breakfast at 8:00 am, you will start a city tour exploring Zanzibar with its locals at Stone Town such as the buildings, local markets, and get to know the full history of this archipelago.

You’ll explore the Old Slave Market and get a full history, then Old Fort, Fred Mercury House, the first East Africa building to have an elevator. Explore the different houses built in different styles in Stone Town such as the House of Slave Master Tip Tip and Princess Salme House.

Also, explore the doorway styles of Zanzibar (Indian style and Arab style) which were once built in early time but till now are available.

At 1:00 pm, have lunch at the picnic site/ any good restaurants in the city. Afterwards, continue with Prison Island's breathtaking tour. It’s a very quiet place to visit and is filled with giant tortoises believed to have more than 100 years and you’ll get a fully colonial history on how prisons were ruined. Later, our guide will lead you back to your hotel in town.

At 8 am, have breakfast at your hotel then soon after breakfast at around 9 am, you’ll be picked and start heading to explore and swim with dolphins in the wild. Dolphins are very friendly mammals and have “do not disturb”. Soon after arriving at the site, you’ll be briefed and offered all safety gear and board the boat and start cruising the sea. (Please adhere to whatever our boatmen will be instructing you). Take pictures for memories.

Then after some hours, you’ll head to Jozani Forest which is very near to the site to explore the red Colobus monkeys, birds, and other many.

Continue your trip with walk the Pete-Jozani Mangrove, walk through mangrove forests which provide a home for lizards, snakes, birds, and other reptiles. Actually, this is very essential in the Zanzibar ecosystem.

Later in the evening, you will be taken back to your hotel for dinner and your overnight stay.

At 8.30 am, have breakfast at your lodge. At 9: 00 am, you’ll be picked up and start heading to spice island. On the Spice tour, you’ll be taken to an organic farm where spices are planted, cultivated, harvested, packed, and processed throughout the year.

Zanzibar is a small island but one of the best spice producers. Spices and herbs such as clove, lemongrass, turmeric, vanilla, coconut, papaya, black pepper, jack fruit, chilly, cardamon, nutmeg, cinnamon, and many others all found in Zanzibar.

You will have lunch at around 1:00 pm, then after lunch, you’ll have a market trip and short window shopping to see how these fresh spices from the farm after been packed and placed, people from different parts either within or outside island go and buy spices and herbs cash only. I hope you’ll take some to your mama country.

After the spice tour, you’ll be taken to Kendwa beach for swimming and sand bathing. Late in the evening, you’ll be dropped back at your hotel.

At 8:00 am, have breakfast at your hotel. Then at 9:00 am, you'll be picked up by our guide for a snorkelling trip (approximately 3 hours). You'll depart an hour before low tide and arrive back in Michamvi 3 hours later. Your driver will drop you off at the Michamvi beach. After a walk of about 100 meters down the beach, the snorkelling boat will be waiting for you. It takes about 20 minutes on the boat to reach the snorkelling spot, where the boat will anchor while you are snorkelling.

The best snorkelling is during low tide, as there is no current and you will get a closer and better look at the fish and coral. Your guide will take you through the coral and show you the different fish.

Fish that can be seen are Moorish idol, sergeant major (zebrafish), pufferfish, lionfish, parrotfish, damsel, anemonefish (Nemo), and many more. You will be snorkelling inside the shore reef, where you are protected from the ocean waves. Late evening drop-off to the airport for taking off.