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Tanzania in one Week

The Tanzania Safari Adventure itinerary below gives a quick taste of Tanzania most popular national parks. You will experience a short safari and wildlife, but it will be a busy week.

Day 1: Arusha National Park

Your Tanzania safari starts and ends in Arusha, it is essential to stay there the night before your Tanzania Safari departs. The busy commercial town lacks charm, but for the traveler there are a number of good souvenir shops and bustling markets where you can pick up some good-value Maasai curious. Arusha National Park offers good views of Mount Meru and is one of the few parks that permit tanzania walking safaris. Accommodation here is either in lodge/camp.

Day 2: Arusha-Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park from Arusha, tanzania safari head southwest through the coffee plantations and on to the plains, where you may see the Maasai grazing their cattle, and on to the Tarangire Nationa Park, which is less than 2 hours drive from Arusha. The floodplains, grasslands, and acacia woodlands are home to a full range of animals, and the tall sausage and baobab trees are a favorite haunt of leopards and tree-climbing lions. The lodges here are a little less crowded than in the other parks. Accommodation here is either in lodge/camp.

Day 3: Tarangire-Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater Conservation area, after breakfast tanzania adventure tours continue east where the road goes up the scenic escarpment overlooking Lake Manyara National Park. There are viewing spots to pull over and admire the lake, tinged with pink thanks to the thousands of flamingoes. From here the road steadily climbs the foothills of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the vegetation becomes increasingly green and lush until you are in dense forest on the Ngorongoro Crater where plentiful game watching is virtually guaranteed. Accommodation here is either at the Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge/camping at the crater rim.

Days 4 and 5: Ngorongoro-Serengeti

Serengeti National Park from the crater rim, the road spectacularly continues down the steep hill of the outer crater, where again Maasai can be seen stalking the open plains, before flattening out at the gate of the Serengeti National Park. Spend two nights here where game drives across the sun-baked plains, dotted with piles of giant boulders, can be richly rewarding, particularly during the migration time. Accommodation here can be either at the Serengeti Seronera Wildlife Lodge/camping.

Day 6: Serengeti-Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara National Park, back on the track after breakfast on the same road across the top of the Ngorongoro Crater and spend a final night in Lake Manyara National Park. Lying at the foot of the scenic Manyara Escarpment and surrounding the lake of the same name, this park features acacia woodland, some ancient gnarled teak and mahogany trees and grass and marshland. Its home to a number of large animals and although rarely seen, is famous for its tree climbing lions. Easily seen around the lake and on the cliffs is the diversity of birdlife.