Wildlife & Wonders
Explore Tanzania’s wild beauty without compromising the experience. Our budget safari package is designed for adventurous travelers seeking authentic wildlife encounters at an affordable price. Enjoy game drives across iconic national parks like Tarangire, Lake manyara, Serengeti or Ngorongoro crater while staying in comfortable budget lodges, safari tents or public campsites.
Expect rustic charm, unforgettable wildlife, and a true sence of adventure. It’s an experience that proves an incredible safari doesn’t to be expensive.
Detailed Itinerary
On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK), you will be meet by Aromatic Expeditions representative who will drive you to your accommodation in Arusha. Overnight will be at your accommodation awaiting for your safari on the next day.
Accommodation: Lodge or Hotel
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast
In the morning we will collect you from our lodge in Arusha with our safari guide greeting you with a broad smile in anticipation of our coming adventures. The drive to Tarangire on a good tarmac road takes us across gently rolling Maasai plains with scattered acacia trees. As we zip along we pass many Maasai in their colourful attire walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding cattle, and driving donkey’s carts.
Tarangire National Park, well known for its large elephant herds, is a diverse landscape of seasonal swamps, savanna and the life giving Tarangire River which wends its’ way through the park. From the open roof of the vehicle we will seek out the myriad animals that here inhabit including zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant and giraffe. It is possible we will glimpse Simba stalking his prey or leopard relaxing in the trees. After an extensive game drive, we leave the park and head for our Campsite where we enjoy dinner and relaxation with in our quality Camp tents and safe.
Meals: Dinner, Breakfast & Lunch
Accommodation: Public Campsite
On this day, after breakfast, we drive to Lake Manyara National Park, a small but diverse park 120km west of Arusha. The park’s namesake, a shallow salt lake, covering some seventy percent of the parklands, floods and drys with the seasons, and is home to thousands of flamingo and over 500 other bird species. On our exploration of the park we will see monkey, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and with some luck, lions lounging in the trees. In the afternoon we will return to our Campsite for dinner, a digestive by the fire perhaps, conversation, and a reviewing in the mind’s eye the images of the wilds accrued during the day before retiring for our well-earned rest.
Meals: Dinner, Breakfast & Lunch
Accommodation: Public Campsite
After an early breakfast, we depart from our camp for a drive through the Rift Valley to the cooler regions of the Ngorongoro highlands. The Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest volcanic caldera, formed with the massive explosion of a volcano once higher than Kilimanjaro some two to three million years ago, is almost 20km wide, approximately 600 m deep and is known for its large variety of wildlife, including the “Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard. It is well recognized as one of the world’s wonders, veritably magnificent. In addition to the Big Five, the various springs attract animals such as wildebeest, gazelle, reedbuck, and more than 500 bird species. At a picnic site, we have our scrumptious lunch before enjoying further game viewing in the crater. We leave the crater in the evening driving up the steep winding track to wend our way back to Arusha, with our adventure at an end, replete with images of the African Wilds to take through our lives journey.
Meals: Dinner & Overnight
Accommodation: Hotel in Arusha
You will be picked up from your accommodation and be driven straight to the airport for your departure time which marks the end of your epic adventure.
What's Included & Excluded
Included
- All activities (unless labeled as optional).
- All accommodation as stated in the itinerary.
- A professional driver/guide.
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional).
- All park fees
- All Taxes/VAT.
- All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section).
- Drinking water on all days.
- AMREF Flying Doctor
- Tips
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.).
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees.
- Services not mentioned in the program.
Not Included
- International & Domestic Flights
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour.