An Intimate Tanzanian Safari (Mahale, Katavi, Serengeti +)
An Intimate Tanzanian Safari
14 days / Mid May - Late February

Pricing: Pricing is based on group size and seasonality, please check with us to secure the best pricing.

Highlights:
• Overnight stays bring comfort to the bush with luxurious private tents and resort hotels.

• You will have ample opportunities to see Africa’s Big Five – lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, and cape buffalo – in an intimate and unspoiled setting.

• We will visit Ngorongoro Crater, a self-contained ecosystem at the bottom of a 2000-foot-deep caldera. It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its abundance of game. 

• We will trek and boat through one of the most unspoiled parks in the country (no roads!) and sit among families of chimps on the forest floor.

• Finally we will experience the private luxury of one of the most biodiverse and private parks (estimated 250 visitors in 2005) in the country.

Day 1: ARUSHA

One of our country managers will meet you on arrival and escort you to your lodge for the evening.

 

Day 2: ARUSHA and TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK 

Your personal guide, escorts you to Tarangire National Park. On the drive to the luxury camp for dinner, you will see ancient rolling hills, stunning baobab trees, and massive elephant populations. 

 

Day 3: NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA

Transfer from Tarangire to the Ngorongoro conservation area, a huge crater and UNESCO word heritage site with its own ecosystem for game driving and an incredible panoramic view from your luxury lodge at the rim.

 

Day 4: NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA - OLDUVAI GORGRE - SERENGETI

Take a walk on the crater rim for phenomenal views and photographs where you may catch a glimpse of the endangered Black Rhino! Then it is on to the Serengeti plains through Olduvai gorge (one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world). Another luxury rim hotel with phenomenal views greets us upon our arrival.

 

Day 5: SERENGETI

The Serengeti plains are the site of the great migration, which you are most likely to see if you travel between the months of December-June. Regardless of the time of your trip, you will see incredible amounts of life.

 

Day 6: SERENGETI - ARUSHA

A flight back to Arusha and a day of craft market exploration and rest prepare us for our foray into two of the least visited parks in the country

 

Day 7: ARUSHA - KATAVI

We have arrived! There will be no roaring engines of other jeeps in this extremely biodiverse and extremely private park. There was an estimated 250 visitors total in 2005.

 

Day 8: KATAVI

Continue exploring this magical and quiet park with game drives and a walking safari.

 

Day 9: KATAVI 

Katavi Park is at it's best in the dry season, when the plains fill with thousands of zebra, topi, impala, hartebeest, giraffe and defassa waterbuck, elephants and water buffalo. It is one of the best parks in TZ to witness an lion-buffalo interaction.

 

Day 10: KATAVI - MAHALE

The Mahale Mountains reserve has one of the highest populations of chimpanzees in the country. There are no roads in this park so we will experience it by boat, floating through waterfalls and pristine lakes all the while listening to the sound of nature all around us.

 

Day 11: MAHALE

Today we will go on a hike in the mountain range area within the park and have direct contact with the chimps that flourish here due to their protected status. Chimps are comfortable with human presence and will go about their daily existence as you sit on the forest floor soaking up the experience.

 

Day 12: MAHALE

Explore the lakeshore of powder white sand, with the majesty of the mountains sloping upwards in front of you. Catch a glimpse of, not only chimps, but the largest concentration of primates including yellow baboons, red colobus, blue, red-tailed and vervet monkies in the country.

 

Day 13: MAHALE
Enjoy your last early morning game drive and after breakfast, catch a charter flight to Arusha.  Enjoy a later lunch and dinner at your lodge.  The rest of the evening is at your leisure.

 

Day 14: MAHALE - ARUSHA

Relax in your dayroom and eat lunch before a transfer to Kilimanjaro airport.

• Our team of guides speak English, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian and Swahili; as well as their own tribal languages. All members have a minimum of eight years guiding experience, with a minimum of Certificate of Wildlife & Guiding

• We pay above award wages and work together as a family, sharing good times and bad. We have a sponsorship scheme for our guides’ families, whereby one child per year, of school age, is sponsored into education. We believe this to be the key to escaping the cycle of poverty.

• We have been operating within the Tanzanian Wildlife Hunting and Safari Circuits for two generations. We support the importance of conservation of wildlife and habitats and the preservation of cultures. With this in mind, the company offers unique adventures with the essential touches that only a small family of professionals can add.
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