Safari in Tanzania
Start your epic journey on safari off at a lodge located at the foothills of Mount Meru on the outskirts of Arusha. This is the gateway to your safari in Tanzania. From here, venture off to Tarangire National Park to begin your expedition following the Great Migration. Your next stop will take you into the wildlife-rich Ngorongoro Crater before finishing your safari adventure in the vast Serengeti. Finish your journey adventure with a stop in paradise on the historic island of Zanzibar.
September 15th - 16th: Arusha
September 16th - 18th: Tarangire National Park
September 18th - 20th: Ngorongoro Crater
September 20th - 22nd: Serengeti
September 22nd - 25th: Zanzibar
Arrive on your international flight into Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO).
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After proceeding through immigration, baggage claim, and customs, meet your driver in the arrivals hall for a transfer to your hotel for check-in.
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Arusha is located at the foothills of Mount Meru on the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley. This is the gateway to the northern safari circuit, with easy access to the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Mount Meru. Its elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft) keeps temperatures relatively cool despite proximity to the equator; temperatures generally range between 10 and 30°C (50 and 86°F), with little humidity due to the altitude. Arusha is serviced by two airports, Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) on the eastern side, and Arusha Airport, which primarily services domestic travel. The two airports are connected by the main road, which is notorious for traffic. There is some good shopping available, including the impressive Cultural Heritage center, with curio shops, a jewelry boutique, a Tanzanite and precious stone counter, a bargain center, and an art gallery.
Just a stone’s throw from the ‘centre of Africa’ – being halfway between Cairo and Cape Town – Arusha’s Villa Maua (House of Flowers) could not be more ‘central’ than its prime location in the safari capital of Northern Tanzania. Ideal for pre- or post- safari stays or those visitors with historic or commercial interests in the city, the cosy warmth of Villa Maua creates an ambiance of welcome home-style hospitality complete with a fully stocked licensed bar and restaurant. All rooms are fully air conditioned and equipped with WiFi and satellite televisions.
Villa Maua
Maua Room
All the rooms at Villa Maua have private verandas overlooking the lush tropical gardens. Each of the air conditioned, en-suite double- or twin-bedded rooms feature satellite televisions and WiFi. The stylish, luxurious, modern bathrooms come supplied with Amarula amenities. All rooms have showers and some even have bath tubs as well.
Inclusions: Dinner & Breakfast
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After breakfast and check-out, meet your private driver in the hotel lobby for a road transfer to your first safari stop in Tarangire National Park. This is a drive of approximately 3-4 hours.
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Tarangire National Park covers an undulating area of 2,850 km2 (1,100 mi2) and is an easy few hours drive from Arusha. Famous for its giant baobabs, savannahs with scattered termite mounds, and large elephant herds, this underrated park is dominated by the perennial Tarangire River. In the middle of the park, the Silale swamp becomes the main source of water and attracts elephants and predators as the season gets drier. There is a healthy lion population and the other predators are often spotted trailing the plains game as they head to water, or occasionally the cats can be spotted lounging in sausage trees.
Tarangire country is big and bold: Kuro Camp is the opposite...a little gem. Full of heart and soul, and tucked into a grove of secluded riverside bush, it is so much at one with the wild that animals hardly look up as they do their thing around you. Elephants often pass right through camp, and you can be completely absorbed into their secret lives, from the sweet comfort of the sun-slatted living space. The swamps are where you will find over 550 bird species, the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world. It is a birder's dream with frequent sightings of yellow-collared lovebirds, which can be seen during a game drive alongside the river.
Nomad Kuro, Tarangire
Safari Room
There are six light and airy safari rooms, all with en-suite bathroom, beautiful bush views, and a thatch over canvas design. The rooms have been designed for minimal environmental impact with en-suite bucket showers (inside and outside), en-suite flush toilets, and hot water on demand.
Inclusions: Meals, drinks (excluding Champagne and premium wines), laundry, private game drives, night drives, walking, bush meals, sundowners and transfer to nearest airstrip
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As a special Nomad treat, game drives are possible after sunset and uncover the night creatures of the park. Often the first sign that something is out there is a pair of eyes shining in the dark; it could be anything: a porcupine, a zorilla, a hyena loping home. This is also when you learn how quietly an elephant treads.
A striking quality of the African bush is the soundtrack: a cacophony of trills, hoots, snorts and rumbles; this amplifies when walking quietly through the bush, in the hope of seeing game up close. The team has special permission to walk in this park, a total privilege for those seeking a greater connection with the wild.
Nomad Kuro, Tarangire
Safari Room
Inclusions: Meals, drinks (excluding Champagne and premium wines), laundry, private game drives, night drives, walking, bush meals, sundowners and transfer to nearest airstrip
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After one final game drive and breakfast, you will head out for a private road transfer to the Ngorongoro Crater. This is a transfer of approximately 4 hours.
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A veritable Garden of Eden, the Ngorongoro Crater is only 260 km2 (100mi2) in size yet has some of the highest densities of lion and spotted hyena found anywhere in the world. The view from the crater rim at 2,000 feet above the floor is nothing short of breathtaking. The thick mountain forests of the crater highlands strike a sharp contrast with the short grass plains of the crater floor with its yellow fever Acacia woodlands and streams. The soda lake Magadi in the center of the crater floor sometimes attracts lesser flamingos, and the area is known for very large tusked elephants, black rhino, and great predator action.
Easily accessible from Arusha, the three million year old Ngorongoro Crater was once a gigantic volcano that some suggest was even higher than Mt Kilimanjaro. It is the largest intact caldera in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Walks are available on the rim in certain areas, but game viewing on the crater floor is strictly by vehicle and on designated game drive routes. Local pastoralists and their villages surround the western side of the crater whilst the eastern side is heavily forested up to the farming town of Karatu.
Here, a camp defines their own Ngorongoro, off the beaten track, in Maasai territory. Following one of the world’s most stunning private drives, they bring you up to a dizzying edge of elemental Africa with panoramic views spinning forward into the Crater and back to the Serengeti plains. This is much more than a great vantage point for visiting the Crater, this is where they live the Ngorongoro life. There is surely no truer way to appreciate the magnitude and wonder of the Ngorongoro Crater, than from the camp where it's done entirely on your own terms and schedules.
The camp is designed to be removable; stunning cottage-style rooms sit raised on platforms that can be dismantled and taken away. Interiors are of sustainably sourced wood and everything within the camp is locally sourced and made by talented Tanzanian artisans. Extraordinary care has been taken to ensure minimal disturbance to the environment, and not so much as a bush has been removed to make way for the camp.
Nomad Entamanu Ngorongoro Camp
Cottage-Style Room
Entamanu Ngorongoro has 7 Cottage-Style Rooms elevated on wooden platforms. Each room has indoor heating and en-suite bathrooms with hot and cold running water, and flush loos. Every effort has been made to create comfort in this elemental place.
Inclusions: Meals, drinks (excluding champagne and premium wines), laundry, private safari drives, walking, Maasai boma visit, bush meals, sundowners and transfers to nearest airstrip
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Entamanu Ngorongoro (meaning ‘circle’ in Maa) is the only place in the world where you can enjoy views into both the Crater and the Serengeti. Offering an unspoiled, unparalleled experience of the Crater, and the land and culture that surrounds it. It is a place to escape to, from which to learn and understand where the Crater fits as part of the wider environment. Activities include game drives into the Crater, explorations of the surrounding highlands, guided walks, bush picnics, sundowners, and Maasai interactions with neighboring communities.
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Nomad Entamanu Ngorongoro Camp
Cottage-Style Room
Inclusions: Meals, drinks (excluding champagne and premium wines), laundry, private safari drives, walking, Maasai boma visit, bush meals, sundowners and transfers to nearest airstrip
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After one more game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater and breakfast, you will head out for a private road transfer to the Serengeti National Park. This is a transfer of approximately 3-4 hours.
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This photographer’s paradise is one of the best places in Africa to view the big cats as well as an amazing array of plains game. The northern Serengeti has the classic big open plains of the African savannah, sprawling views, and consistently delivers excellent wildlife sightings. It is one of the best places in East Africa for leopards, and the kopje strewn hillsides that are home to these elusive creatures are in themselves stunningly beautiful. A few days here can be very action packed and there’s even chances to see black rhinos in some areas.
The Serengeti is perhaps the most famous African wilderness area, its name synonymous with the notion of safari for nearly a hundred years. This UNESCO World Heritage site covers 14,750 km2 (5,700 mi2) of premiere game viewing in Acacia woodlands, open grasslands, and undulating savannahs interspersed with seasonal rivers. The park on the northern side borders the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and, together with several other smaller reserves and conservation areas, forms the larger Mara-Serengeti ecosystem.
A million and a half wildebeest and zebra can’t be wrong, and this camp never settles for less. This canvas home-from-home and its indomitable crew are on the move year-in, year-out from one sweet Serengeti site to another, guided by the mass movements of the wildebeest migration and their quest for ever greener grass. Along with it come highly trained naturalist guides and all the trimmings of a classic safari. This harmonious little canvas camp has everything you need and nothing that you don't. It offers both indoor and outdoor dining, with a well stocked library tent and a bar tent. An outdoor fireplace with seating area allows you to experience the Serengeti.
Nomad Serengeti Safari Camp
Tent
The tents provide a comfortable bed, a hot shower and a flush toilet (eco-flush loos which use very little water - 90% less than a conventional toilet). There's a spacious bedroom and dressing area, with a sink and big jugs of cold water, and hot water provided in the morning and evening or whenever you like. The safari-style bucket shower is en-suite at the rear of the tent, as is the toilet. There are chairs on the verandah where you can relax and enjoy the unfettered view of Africa before you.
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In 4x4s, surprisingly un-disturbing to the animals, you’ll join the ultimate crowd scenset. Wide shots are hard to believe, plains dotted with creatures as far as you can see. In close-up, a host of dramas of hunters and hunted will unfold, to be etched on your memory: moments of conflict, peace, excitement, even comedy. Out on the plains, there inevitably are show stealers – lions with cubs, cheetahs stretching their legs, hyenas bickering. But it’s often the cameo roles that fascinate - dung beetles, dik-diks, bee-eaters… Nomad naturalists will engage in it all, for a more complete, educated take on the whole ecosystem.
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The months of July to October see over two million animals traverse these plains as part of the Great Wildebeest Migration in their never ending search for water and nutrient dense grasses. This is one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World and what many call the “World Cup of Wildlife.” The energy of the bush is palpable as it literally hums with activity; the sheer numbers of animals boggles the mind and it is all part of being in this place during one of the most exhilarating times of the year.
If you are lucky you may witness a river crossing, when masses of wildebeest and zebra cross the nearby Mara River, taking their chances with the resident crocodiles who lie in wait. The other predators are all present as well, and days here can be very action packed.
Nomad Serengeti Safari Camp
Tent
Inclusions: Meals, drinks (except Champagne and premium wines), laundry, private safari drives, bush meals, sundowners and transfers to nearest airstrip
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Enjoy your final safari game drive of the trip before heading north in a road transfer to the Kogatende Airstrip. This is a drive of approximately 3 hours 45 minutes.
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Depart on your flight from Kogatende Airstrip to Zanzibar Island.
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Just a short flight from the Tanzania mainland lies the idyllic Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar. Famous for intoxicating aromas of spices, beautiful white sand beaches, and warm turquoise waters, the heart of the island is undoubtedly Stone Town, a fascinating step back in time with narrow winding streets, Swahili traders and local fisherman, and the daily call to prayer in this predominantly muslim town.
In addition to its fascinating Swahili and Arab history, Zanzibar offers world class scuba diving, snorkeling, fishing and, at certain times of year, kitesurfing. There is also endemic wildlife in the Johazi Forest.
Nicknamed “Spice Island,” Zanzibar was an important part of the slave and ivory trade as a connecting point between the mainland interior and the Middle East. This made some slave traders very wealthy. A walk around the Sultan's Palace is reminiscent of this dark past. More recent pop culture will undoubtedly lead to the doorway of Zanzibar's most famous son, a famous musician.
Upon arrival at Zanzibar Airport, meet your private driver in the arrivals hall for a transfer to your hotel. This is a transfer of approximately an hour and fifteen minutes.
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The Residence Zanzibar lies within a lush, forested 32-hectare estate where five-star luxuries sit harmoniously alongside nature’s untouched beauty. Feel your spirits soar amid extensive tropical gardens that meet with powder-soft white sand lapped by the crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean. Inspired by the island’s eclectic culture, this luxurious Zanzibar resort blends modern comforts with Swahili, Omani, British, and Indian influences.
The Residence Zanzibar
Luxury Ocean Front Pool Villa
Just steps from the beach, these beautifully appointed villas feature a large living room leading out to a private pool and deck, furnished with table and chairs, daybed, and sun loungers with parasols – the perfect spot for basking in the sun or enjoying a romantic dinner for two, watching the sun set on the ocean horizon.
The bedroom has a central, canopied king-size bed, and French doors leading onto the deck and pool framed by panoramic ocean views. The spacious bathroom features double basins, a freestanding bathtub and separate shower, and leads onto a private garden with an outdoor shower.
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Enjoy carefree days relaxing by your private pool, on the beach, or exploring the gardens on foot or by bicycle. Savor a taste of the Spice Island’s unique blend of cultures and cuisines, and the pleasure of sensational spa treatments.
Discover more of the island and the waters that surround it with a myriad of activities, from visiting historic sites and rare natural wonders to deep sea fishing and diving with dolphins. Whether you dream of a quiet couple’s retreat or fun in the sun for the whole family, embrace all the delights of island life at The Residence Zanzibar.
Read more about what's on offer at The Residence here.
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The Residence Zanzibar
Luxury Ocean Front Pool Villa
Inclusions: Daily breakfast and dinner
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After breakfast and check-out this morning, meet your private driver for a transfer to Zanzibar Airport. This is a transfer of approximately 1 hour 15 minutes.
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Depart on your international flight home out of Zanzibar Airport (ZNZ).
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