Nine-Day Photography-Led Tanzania Safari

After breakfast today, you drive from Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park, arriving in time for lunch. Once lunch is over, you head out on a game drive in the park. Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Following breakfast, you set out on an early morning game drive and may spot animals such as Leopards, Lions, hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, warthogs, giraffes, baboons, zebras, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelle and hippos, along with birds such as pelicans, cormorants, storks, Flamingos and cormorants. After lunch in the afternoon, you can take a cultural tour, go canoeing or join a community walk. Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Following breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro National Park. On arrival you have lunch, then head down into the crater for an afternoon game drive. Ngorongoro is a world heritage site in Ngorongoro District, and the largest intact volcanic caldera in the world sits inside this conservation area. It was once part of Serengeti National Park. The area is home to more than 500 bird species and 25,000 large animals, living in montane forest, grassland, bushland, open grassland, woodland, Munge Stream, Lerai Stream, Ngoitokitok Spring, and many other small springs on the crater floor. When the game drive ends, you go back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

A full day of game viewing follows breakfast. Animals you may spot include cheetah, lion, black rhinoceros, hippopotamus, wildebeest, zebra, eland, Grant’s and Thompson’s gazelles, leopards, elephants, mountain reedbuck, and buffalo, wildebeest, hartebeest, waterbuck, warthog, hyena and jackals. Baboons and vervet monkeys are the primates. On the drive you might see birds including ostrich, bizarre secretary, black eagles, secretary bird, Kori bustard, crowned crane, marabou stork, martial eagle, lovebirds, bustards and plovers; European migrants from November to May include White Storks, swallows, Yellow Wagtails among others, Stonechat, Schalow’s Wheatear, Anteater Chat, Fiscal Shrike, Augur Buzzards, Verreaux’s Eagle, and flamingoes. In the evening you head back to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, either take a community walk to visit the Masai people and enjoy their traditional performances, or go on a forest walk. After lunch, you drive on to Serengeti National Park. Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Spend a full day on game drives across the central Seronera area of the Serengeti, home to resident lion prides and, depending on the season, the migration.

Another day exploring different parts of the Serengeti, with priority given to positioning for photography rather than covering the most ground.

Following breakfast, you drive to Tarangire National Park. More than 500 bird species and many animals live here, among acacia and mixed woodland, baobab trees and old palm, black cotton grass, dense bush, and tall grasses.
Upon arrival you set out on a game drive where you may see wildebeest, elephants, zebras, hartebeest, giraffes, impala, eland, lesser kudu, waterbuck, gazelle, rhinos, leopards, giant pythons, Thompson’s gazelle, greater and lesser kudu, cheetah, oryx and gerenuk, tree-climbing lions, and birds such as Kori bustard, stocking-thighed ostrich, ground hornbills, the colourful Yellow-collared lovebird, the drabber Rufous-tailed weaver, ashy starling, dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet. Dinner and overnight at the lodge

Have breakfast, then drive back to Arusha.