Photographic Tanzania Safari

This 12 Days Photographic Tanzania Safari will take you to famous destinations like Arusha, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti. Open this tour.

12 Days Tanzania Photographic Safari to Arusha, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti National Park.

Day 1: Arrival Kilimanjaro – Arusha

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will warmly be met by our representative and transfer to your place of stay in Arusha for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Wildlife Photography in Arusha National Park

In the morning after breakfast, with a picnic lunch, you will pay a visit to Arusha National Park for game viewing and your first experience on African Wildlife Photography.  Arusha National Park is one of the best parks in Tanzania with extremely unbeatable scenic beauties from each angle and a lot of opportunities for game viewing and hiking across the African Wilderness! Here you have a great chance to see both Mt. Kilimanjaro and Meru at the same time, in addition to the breathtaking Momela Lakes and the Ngurdoto Crater. The aerial acrobatics of the rare Black and White Colobus Monkeys will surely leave you agape! Dinner and an overnight stay in Arusha.

Day 3: Arusha – Tarangire, Wildlife Photography in Tarangire

Drive to Tarangire National Park for lunch, in the afternoon game viewing in the Park. Tarangire is the third-largest national park in Tanzania and best known for its largest herds of elephants in Africa and one of the most remaining ancient trees in the world with full of amazing stories, the gigantic Baobab Trees! Here you will be able to observe a diversity of wildlife magnetized by the Tarangire River that allows animals to play and lounge around. Dinner and overnight stay in Tarangire.

Day 4: Wildlife Photography in Tarangire National Park

Embark on a full-day game drive in Tarangire National Park. The Park is the wilderness experience in its own right! Tarangire is much more wooded than Serengeti with Acacia Trees and mixed woodland dotting the African Savannah of the Park. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while the migratory Wildebeests, Zebras, Buffalos, Impalas, Gazelles, Hartebeests, and Elands crowd the shrinking lagoons. It is also the one place in Tanzania where dry–country antelopes such as the stately Fringe–eared Oryx and peculiar spiral–horned Lesser Kudus can readily be observed. Dinner and an overnight stay in Tarangire.

Day 5: Tarangire – Manyara, Wildlife Photography in Lake Manyara

After breakfast, drive to the foothills of the Ngorongoro Crater Highlands, en route visit Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara NP is a lovely scenic park that offers another unique experience of a Tanzania Safari! The park is also famous for its elephants; a huge number of baboons and due to its varied landscape, the park has an impressive range of other game animals including wildebeest, buffalo, hippo, flamingo, zebra, warthog, waterbuck, dik-dik, and impala.  Bird – Watching here is very good, especially raptors. Along the way, you will stop and discover the local village of Mto wa Mbu to experience real African life, the local market, and enjoy the exceptional hospitality of the local people. After a home-hosted local lunch, you will drive up across the Great East African Rift Valley to your other beautiful place of stay on the foothills of Ngorongoro at Karatu.

Day 6: Karatu – Ngorongoro Crater

After a leisurely breakfast, you will have a chance to visit Iraq People in the area. These are ancient Cushitic people who moved here from the “Horn of Africa” nearly 1’000 years ago and they practice farming in the area.  Later during the day, drive up to Ngorongoro Conservation Area for lunch, followed by an afternoon game viewing in the famous Ngorongoro Crater. Afterward, you ascend on the most breathtaking walls of the caldera to your place of stay on the rim of the Crater.

Day 7: Wildlife Photography in Ngorongoro Crater

Rise up early with the sun and descend down into the famous Ngorongoro Crater for game viewing. Ngorongoro Crater is such a unique safari destination, a veritable “Garden of Eden”. With a large concentration of animals and short grasslands, game viewing in the crater, or more appropriately a caldera is excellent as animals are everywhere! The caldera is reputed to contain the highest density of carnivores in the world and the only place in East Africa where one can easily observe the last remaining populations of Black Rhinos in the real natural world. Dinner and overnight stay in Ngorongoro.

Day 8: Ngorongoro – Serengeti

Today you drive to Serengeti National Park for lunch and an afternoon game drive. Serengeti is Tanzania’s most renowned national park and home to the greatest concentrations of large mammals on the planet. The name Serengeti is derived from a Maasai word ‘Siringet’ to mean ‘endless plains’, and these rolling distances of short grass plains provide an exceptional landscape for African Wildlife Photography; your ultimate safari country– this is the highlight of your safari, you are in the total wilderness of Africa with game viewing around you to give you, your very own ‘Out of Africa’ experience! Dinner and overnight stay in Serengeti.

Day 9: Wildlife Photography in the Serengeti

The following day you will have game drives at your leisure and track wildlife in the Mighty Serengeti. Serengeti National Park never disappoints! The location of your accommodation is chosen to ensure you get the best for your African Wildlife Photography. Dinner and overnight stay in the Serengeti.

Day 10: Wildlife Photography in Serengeti National Park

With picnic lunch, game drives in the Serengeti to view and photograph the great migration of animals. In this Park, you will be so amazed by the endless plains of the Serengeti dotted with thousands and thousands of game animals decorating the plains and the woodland pockets in the area! In the wake of all these, follow the predators- Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, Hyenas, and Jackals, while vultures circle overhead to clean up. It is this migration that many people envisage when they think of the “Wild Africa”. The timing is so perfect to enable you to enjoy the magic of real African wilderness and the beautiful African Sunset at the horizon! Dinner and an overnight stay in the Serengeti.

Day 11: Full day photography in Serengeti National Park

Morning and Afternoon game drive in the Serengeti, exploring more on the last great migration of mammals on the planet. The area is also so rich in terms of the large Carnivore populations this time as these predators celebrate the coming through of the migratory prey animals in their areas! For part of the day, you will be looking for the Big Cats. Incidences of a Cheetah chasing a Gazelle or Lions making a kill and the Great Migration of animals that involves thousands and thousands of Wildebeests and Zebras are just some of the unique sightings you may encounter on safari in Africa. Serengeti National Park has all these for you on your African Photo Safari during your visit! Dinner and an overnight stay in the Serengeti.

Day 12: Fly from Serengeti – Arusha

Today is another wonderful experience, boarding your plane and fly low over the remote wilderness and the scenic volcanic mountains back to Arusha for lunch and a day room. Late afternoon, you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro Airport for your International Flight connections

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