8 Day Tanzania Photo Safari to
- Tarangire,
- Lake Eyasi,
- Serengeti,
- Ngorongoro Crater,
- Lake Natron,
- Oldoinyo Lengai & Lake Manyara
SAFARI HIGHLIGHTS :
- Enjoy authentic interactions with the Maasai
- See the big cats
- See the greatest show on earth the wildebeests migration
- See more animals than you ever thought possible
- See the Endless plains of the Serengeti
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Tanzania Photo Safari
Itinerary for Tanzania Photo Safari
Day 1 – Arrival in Arusha
Distance: 30km /50km
Met on arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport. Transfer to planet Lodge for dinner and overnight HB. (40 km, 30 minutes) Our Tanzania Photo Safari starts.
Day 2 – Tarangire National Park
Distance: 130km
Non – game-viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, the tour departs. The first stop is Arusha Town for any last-minute purchases before we head off on safari. Afterward, we head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the center of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest, and 30,000 zebras. The Castle at Ngorongoro Lodge.
Day 3 – Lake Manyara National Park
Distance: 190km
Non – game-viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, Our driver will pick you up and depart to the Lake Manyara national park for a game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Late afternoon transfer to Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge
Day 4 – Lake Eyasi
Today on our Tanzania Safari it’s time to interact with the Bushmen, the Hadzabe Tribe, who live in groups hunting with bow and arrows and gathering roots, tubers, and wild fruits much as humankind lived in the Stone Age. We will get an in-depth look at how they continue to survive and how they adapt to their harsh environment and the challenges they face to continue this nomadic existence. The Datoga tribe are blacksmiths, a trade developed over centuries and still practiced in varying much the same way today. They produce the arrowheads for the Hadzabe and brass trinkets, some of which will be for sale by the maker himself. Late afternoon transfer to The Castle at Ngorongoro Lodge.
Day 5 – Lake Eyasi – Ngorongoro crater
Distance: 190km
Non – game-viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
Day 6 – Ngorongoro crater – Serengeti National Park
Distance: 145km
Non – game-viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs
Early morning breakfast and after depart to Serengeti National Park. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Do game drive in Serengeti and overnight at the heart of Serengeti Seronera Into Wild Luxury tented Camp.
Day 7 – Serengeti National Park
Today on our Tanzania Photo Safari we have a Full day Serengeti National Park game drive including following the wildebeest migration. Dinner and overnight at Into Wild Luxury Tented Camp.
Day 8 – Serengeti National Park – Lake Natron
Distance: 300km
Non – game-viewing time: 4 – 5 hrs
After an early breakfast, Do a morning game drive then after doing a game en route towards north Serengeti. Check out of the park at Klein’s gate then transfer to Lake Natron for an early dinner and overnight. Go for an evening lake Natron walk for sunset if time permits. Dinner and overnight at Lake Natron tented camp.
Day 9 – Lake Natron – Arusha
Distance: 250km
Non – game-viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
Night ascent & dawn summit bid, Oldoinyo Lengai (seismic conditions permitting). Optional waterfall hike and swim( Depending on what time your flight is leaving). After transfer to Arusha for airport drop off or overnight. End to our Tanzania Photo Safari.
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included:
- Transportation in 4×4 safari vehicle
- Professional, English speaking guide
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Mineral water
- Overnight stays in safari lodges / tented camps
- All national park fees
Not included:
- Alcoholic and soft drinks
- Visa fees
- International airfare from your home to Tanzania
- purchases such as souvenirs, clothing, etc.
- Tips
Getting there:
You will organize your own travel to and from Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Tanzania Photo Safari
Photography Instructor for the Tanzania Photo Safari
Tim Vollmer
Tim has devoted his life to photography. Photography has been his long-held hobby and great passion. Tim has always felt drawn to the power and beauty he finds in nature. Tim has been leading photo tours and workshops in Iceland and many different countries over the years. He has had the world as his workplace. He is Photographing everything from the dramatic landscape in Iceland, to the native people in the remote corners of the world and the culture that is unique to each country.
His journeys have taken him around the world in pursuit of memorable travel experiences and the creation of compelling images. His work has been featured in international publications. His images and stories are shared on various internet outlets. As a driven artist, professional, entrepreneur, and adventurer, Tim is eager to share his passion, knowledge in photography, and travel through the tours he designed on his own, or through his partnership with professional photographers from around the globe. Tim and his family lived 11 years in Iceland. Now they are based in the Czech Republic.