2-Days Thomson Gazelle Safari

Duration

2 days

Tour Type

Rated 5 out of 5

Overview

2-Days Thomson Gazelle Safari is designed to offer you an intense taste of what Tanzania has to offer. You will experience all the excitement of an African wildlife safari in the most spectacular of landscapes. On this safari, you’ll visit Tarangire National Park, renowned for its elephant families and iconic baobab trees. Roaming onwards you experience the jewel that is Ngorongoro Crater, breathtakingly beautiful, and the best place in Tanzania to see the Big Five.

Programme includes:

Option 1 – Gamedrive in Tarangire and Ngorongoro
Option 2 – Gamedrive in Manyara and Ngorongoro

Included/Exclude

All meals and accommodations during the entire safari
A very high-quality safari land cruiser with pop up roof
Highly experienced safari guides
Unlimited mineral water during the entire safari
All park fees for all the national parks
All government taxes
Accommodation Type: Mid-Range Lodges and Tented Camps

Flights,
Tips
Travel Insurance, Visa & Passport fees
Alcoholic drinks at the lodges

Tour Plan

Arrival

- Arrive at Kilimanimanjaro Airport transfer to Arusha town for overnight.

- Distance from Airport: 45 Km, it takes 1 hour and 30 minutes

Meal plan: Bed and breakfast

Day 1: To Tarangire or Manyara

Depart with your naturalist driver guide with picnic lunch to Tarangire National Park or Lake Manyara National Park. Tarangire National Park has high density of elephants, and during low season in June to November there is large herds of thousand of zebras, wildebeest and cape buffallo. Otheranimals include waterbuck, girraffe, dik dik, Impala, Eland, gtant's gazelle, vervet monkey, banded mongoose and olive baboon. And Lake Manyara National Park has animals such as buffallo wildebeest, giraffes, mangoose, dik dik and zebras herds congregate on the grassy plains while the acacia woodland is home to the legendary tree climbing lion and tusked elephants. At Lake Manyara there is large population of pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds, many of them water fowl or migrants, large herds of buffallo, cheetah, girraffe, an impala roam the lake shores and the forested valley slopes.

Distance from Arusha: 120 KM, it takes 2 hours drive

Meal plan: Lunch and dinner

Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha

Early in the morning have your breakfast, proceed directly to the crater flour, for a full day crater tour.After lunch have or route ascend and drive direct to Arusha or airport. Ngorongoro conservation area is in nothern Tanzania. It is a home to the vast, volcanic Ngorongoro crater and big 5 game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffallo, rhino). Huge herds of wildebeests and zebras traverse its plains during their annual migration.

Distance from Mto wa Mbu: 35 KM, almost 1 hour drive

Distance to Arusha: 180 KM, 3 hours maximum drive

Meal plan: Breakfast and lunch