14 Days, 13 Nights – Beach Holiday Zanzibar

Experience cultural safaris in Tanzania like no other. Not only will you get to see the best that Tanzania has to offer, but you can spend a few days in Zanzibar and take a night safari drive through a national park.

Day 1: Arival/Arusha

We will pick you up from your airport of arrival and transfer you to Planet lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Arusha National park

After breakfast drive to Arusha national park for a game drive with picnic lunch. This park has lots of giraffes, antelopes, and flamingos in the Momela Lakes. You will also look for the rare black and white Colobus Monkey in this park. After lunch you will do 2 hours of canoe riding in the Momela. You will then return to Planet lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Lake Manyara

After breakfast drive to Manyara wildlife camp for lunch, then do game drive in Lake Manyara national park. This park has the largest concentration of baboons in North Tanzania, tree climbing lions and others. It is also the best place to see flamingos and other birds. In the late afternoon you will return to Manyara wildlife camp for dinner, then depart for night game drive in Lake Manyara national park with special night game drive vehicles. You will then return to Manyara wildlife camp for overnight

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

After breakfast drive to Serengeti national park for game drive with picnic lunch. In the late afternoon continue to Serengeti bush camp for dinner and overnight. Serengeti is the park with the largest concentration of big mammals in the world. Here you will see most of your animals in your trip including lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, impalas, giraffes and many more.

Day 5: Serengeti

Morning and afternoon game drives in Serengeti national park with early departures, trying to look for active cats/hunting predators. All meals and overnight will be at Serengeti bush camp.

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater

Morning game drive in Serengeti national park, then continue to Ngorongorosopa lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast depart for a game drive in the crater with picnic lunch. This is the best place to see the endangered black rhino (less than 1000 black rhinos are left in the wild in the world). The crater has also many other animals like zebras, wildebeests, hippos, gazelles, hyenas and many more. In the afternoon continue to Lake Eyasi safari lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Bushmen tour/Monduli

You will depart in the early morning and drive to the bushmen area and go hunting with them (these are the only people in Tanzania whose life fully depends on hunting and gathering. You will walk behind them and see how they shoot their animals by using bows and arrows, then see how they skin them, roast them and eat. You will continue to the lodge for lunch then drive to MonduliJuu. Upon your arrival, your village guide (who will be your translator) will welcome you and take you around their village and he will introduce you to all the family members. After you have taken shower, you will interact with the family members and see how they prepare their meals (although you can decide to eat with them, your meal will be prepared by your cook). In the evening the Moran and ladies will make a special welcoming dance for you at the fire place then you will go get your dinner.

After dinner you will seat with the chief of the village (he might be accompanied by other Maasai elders), and he will talk to you about their culture and traditions (he does not speak English so your Maasai guide will translate) and you can also share your stories with him/them. You will then go for

overnight. We will provide some bedding for you if you sleep in the Maasai hut. Alternatively you can go for overnight at a nearby lodge.

Day 9: Monduli/Arusha

Early wake up and go do cows milking with the Maasai ladies (you can try to practice the milking or observe them doing it). They will make fire by using a piece of wood and a little stick. The Maasai worriors will get blood from a cow (without slaughtering the cow) and prepare their breakfast (your cook will prepare your breakfast). After breakfast you will go with the ladies to fetch water (you will learn how they carry the water buckets on their heads). You will later go to a Maasai traditional doctor and experience how he uses plants to cure different diseases. After lunch you will drive to a local market in Arusha for shopping (we will give you some local money and guide you to buy some food that you will eat on this day). You will then continue to a home stay, where the owners will welcome you and show you your room. After shower and a little rest, you will interact with this family and work together to prepare your dinner. This will be a great opportunity for you to learn about cooking of African dishes and interacting with a typical well-to-do African family. Dinner and overnight will be at a Home Stay (we will choose a safe and clean home stay for you).

Day 10: Zanzibar

Morning spent interacting with the family. After lunch you will continue to Arusha airport for your flight to Zanzibar. In Zanzibar you will be picked up and transferred to Next Paradise resort for dinner and overnight.

Day 11: Stone town/ Prison Island

Day spent exploring Zanzibar historical Stone town and Prison Island (some of the turtle in this island are 200 years old). Dinner and overnight will be at Next Paradise resort.

Day 12 and 13: Zanzibar beach

Days spent relaxing at the beach. All meals and overnight will be at Next Paradise resort.

Day 14. Departure

After breakfast you can end off one of our cultural safaris in Tanzania with a transfer to Zanzibar airport and fly to Dar es Salaam for your flight to return home.