11 Days Tanzania Great Migration Safari and Zanzibar Beach Holiday

This 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday is where you will enjoy the bush safari and Zanzibar beach with a chance to see the Big Five and other interesting animals. All this with the assistance of Deks Uganda Safaris in Arusha. This 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday provides full board while on safari, a personal English-speaking 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday guide, and private use of a 4×4 Jeep with cold drinks, snacks, power sockets, and binoculars supplied). Finally, after the safari, you will fly to Zanzibar and relax on the beach.

11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday Highlights

Detailed 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday

Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania and transfer to Arusha city

Program: Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by one of our friendly, kind, experienced, and very polite driver guides, after a short introduction about your 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday, he will transfer you to Arusha for your overnight stays on your reserved hotel/lodge, waiting for your adventures to start on the following day.

  • Main Destination: Arusha (City)
  • Accommodation: Gold Crest Hotel Arusha – Mid-range hotel located in or near Arusha

Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday Program: After breakfast early in the morning, our 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday guide driver will pick up you from the lodge or hotel and start a beautiful journey to Tarangire National Park while carrying lunch boxes.

The name of the park originated from the Tarangire River which winds its way through the parklands and is the only source of water for wildlife here during the dry season. The park is well-known for its large elephant herds, Tree-climbing African Python, and diversity of landscapes. The landscapes you will see include seasonal swamps and savanna, with the Tarangire River. You may see lions stalking their prey and/ or leopards relaxing in the trees above. Once the game drives are complete, we will drive you to the lodge to relax, have dinner and stay overnight.

  • Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
  • Accommodation: Eileen’s Trees Inn – Mid-range lodge located in or near Karatu

Day 3: Karatu to Serengeti National Park


11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday Program: After breakfast, you will depart for Serengeti National Park for a wildlife game drive, while carrying lunch boxes. Then, enjoy lunch in a suitable place inside the park. We will continue the game drive activity in the afternoon before reaching the camp. The next day we will spend the whole day inside this park for game drives.

The Serengeti National Park is among the largest park in Tanzania with diverse amazing landscapes and habitats, such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannahs, and mountains. And is well-known for its great migrating herds of zebra, antelope, and wildebeest depending on the rain season, you may have the opportunity to witness thousands of animals on their search for food and water.

However, be ready to see resident predators, such as leopards, cheetahs, and lions, fulfilling their role in the circle of life.

  • Main Destination: Central Serengeti National Park
  • Accommodation: Kon Tiki Serengeti Camp – Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday Program: Get up early and enjoy breakfast, then we drive to Northern Serengeti while carrying lunch boxes around Mara River where Great Migration is happening. Our 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday guide will find the best viewpoint for Great Migration. Here you will be possible to experience how Migration occurs and the special things you will experience the greatest battles between crocodiles on the river and wildebeest not only but also the predators like lions, leopards, and cheaters

The Great Migration is the largest herd movement of wildebeests, Zebra, and other animals crossing the Mara River to Masai Mara in Kenya. Migration crosses the Mara River which is full of Crocodiles. The best time to visit and explore Great Migration is from July to early October every year.

  • Main Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park
  • Accommodation: Heritage Mara Camp – Mid-range tented camp located inside Northern Serengeti NP

Day 5: Transfer from North to Central Serengeti National Park

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Tanzania Wildlife Safari

Program: Wake up early and enjoy breakfast, then continue with a game drive with a picnic lunch box in Northern Serengeti with a special eye on the Great Migration. Later we drive back to Central Serengeti where we stop overnight.

Serengeti National Park is well known for its great Migration. The Great Migration is the largest herd movement of wildebeests, Zebra, and other animals crossing the Mara River to Masai Mara in Kenya. Migration crosses the Mara River which is full of Crocodiles. The best time to visit is from July to early October every year.

  • Main Destination: Central Serengeti National Park
  • Accommodation: Kon Tiki Serengeti Camp – Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti

Day 6: Transfer from Serengeti to Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Program: After breakfast, then depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area with a picnic lunch box for a game drive inside the crater. Here you will get a chance to relax and spend your lifetime in a new environment, a Great photo opportunity, and explore this World Heritage site.

The Ngorongoro Crater is among of UNESCO World Heritage sites that constitute the world’s largest uninterrupted caldera and one of Africa’s natural wonders. Around 30,000 large mammals are resident all year round such as buffaloes, lions, elephants, cheetahs, and rhinos, and various birds such as flamingos, eagles, and buzzards. So be ready to see many animals in a short time and experience the nomadic society that lives together with wildlife in the crater without harming one another.

Day 7: Transfer to Arusha Airport for a flight to Zanzibar

Program: After breakfast, relax at the lodge and, if time allows, take a short 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday tour of Karatu town for shopping. From here, you will transfer to Arusha Airport for a flight to Zanzibar. Our driver in Zanzibar will be waiting for you at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (formerly known as Zanzibar International Airport) for a private transfer to your hotel in Stone Town.

  • Main Destination: Zanzibar Stone Town (Zanzibar)
  • Accommodation: Tembo House Hotel & Apartments – Mid-range hotel located in or near Stone Town

Day 8: Stone Town Tour & Transfer to beach hotel

11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday

Tanzania Beach Holidays

Program: After breakfast, you will spend the day on a tour of Zanzibar’s Stone Town with our 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday local guide. You will also visit other interesting destinations here. Finally, we will transfer you to your beach hotel.

Admire the narrow streets lined with many residential houses that preserve their original Swahili-Omani themes with exquisitely carved doorways, metal studs, overhanging balconies, and latticed windows. Due to the colonial presence and the many mosques commissioned by the olden Sultans of Zanzibar, you will see continental churches.

  • Main Destination: Nungwi (Zanzibar)
  • Accommodation: Smiles Beach Hotel – Mid-range hotel located in or near Zanzibar

Day 9-10: Relax on Zanzibar beach

Program: These Two days are spent in Zanzibar for your leisure. Use your time to relax on the beach and at the resort at Smiles beach hotel, you will really get enough chance to enjoy the beach. Discover Zanzibar’s best beaches, each offering spectacular sunsets, palm-fringed beaches, turquoise waters, white sand, and colorful coral reefs.

  • Main Destination: Nungwi (Zanzibar)
  • Accommodation: Smiles Beach Hotel – Mid-range hotel located in or near Zanzibar

Day 11: Transfer from Zanzibar beach To Zanzibar Airport

Program: After breakfast, spent the last few hours at the resort for relaxation and leisure. We will pick you up at the resort and transfer you to Zanzibar Airport, where our safari ends.

On the way back to Zanzibar International Airport, you can stop at Stone Town to buy souvenirs.

  • Main Destination: Zanzibar Airport (Zanzibar)
  • Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

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11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday

Serengeti National Park

11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday Inclusions and Exclusions

Included

  • Park fees (For non-residents)
  • All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
  • All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
  • A professional 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday driver/guide
  • All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
  • All flights during the 11 Days Tanzania Safari Holiday
  • All Taxes/VAT
  • Round trip airport transfer
  • Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)

Excluded

  • International flights (From/to home)
  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
  • Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
  • Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
  • Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
  • Some meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
  • Drinks

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