Serengeti Safari for the over 50s
| country: | Tanzania |
| location: | Serengeti National Park |
| departures: | 2008: 30 Oct |
| price: | From £1599 - £1849 (11 days) including flights from the UK, from £1199 - £1249 excluding flights |
the amazing things you'll be doing
As part of this truly unforgettable safari in Tanzania, you explore two of the world's greatest game reserves - the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater - and see the famous Olduvai Gorge and the little visited Lake Manyara National Park. This is the ultimate African trip, including game drives by 4WD vehicle, camping in both open bush and in comfortable fixed tent safari camps, and experiencing the sights and sounds of a lively market town. There is an astonishing array of wildlife to be seen including: zebra, giraffe, lion, cheetah, rhino, gazelle, leopard, elephant, wildebeest... and many more. You can round off you adventures in Tanzania with an extension to relax on the beaches of Zanzibar Island.
Lake Manyara & Serengeti
Leaving Arusha, your first destination is Manyara, a small park centred on its shallow alkaline lake. This park is renowned for elephants and tree-climbing lions; it is also a paradise for birds. The Serengeti is the classic ‘plains game’ safari destination. There is a very high probability that you will see most of Africa’s large game here – lions, elephants, buffalo…
Ngorongoro & Tarangire
The Ngorongoro Crater is a natural wonder in itself and also the scene of some of the most prolific game in Africa. The rim keeps the wildlife ‘captive’ and as a result there are good chances of seeing black rhino and leopard. The majority of Tarangire is baobab forest, a different environment, and one particularly favoured by elephant and over 550 species of bird.
Our itinerary has been designed to allow a true African safari experience by using a mix of normal camping to get you closer with tented lodges for that extra comfort. Your accommodation consists of 2 nights in a hotel, 2 nights in a tented camp and 4 nights camping. In Arusha you stay in a modern property within the municipal area of Arusha town. It has lovely gardens and a swimming pool set in five acres. The tented camps are fixed camps and the tents have shower rooms. The camping is in large canvas tents. There are ablution blocks at each campsite.
Trip price includes: 8 breakfasts, 6 lunches & 7 dinners. The hotel in Arusha will provide an evening meal on arrival and breakfast both mornings that you are there. The rest of the food will be cooked at the campsites, over open fires. The food is delicious and varied. Typically we use a Toyota Land Cruiser for every five or six passengers. There is good visibility from these vehicles for game viewing. The trip is accompanied by your expert local driver / guide.
Lake Manyara & Serengeti
Leaving Arusha, your first destination is Manyara, a small park centred on its shallow alkaline lake. This park is renowned for elephants and tree-climbing lions; it is also a paradise for birds. The Serengeti is the classic ‘plains game’ safari destination. There is a very high probability that you will see most of Africa’s large game here – lions, elephants, buffalo…
Ngorongoro & Tarangire
The Ngorongoro Crater is a natural wonder in itself and also the scene of some of the most prolific game in Africa. The rim keeps the wildlife ‘captive’ and as a result there are good chances of seeing black rhino and leopard. The majority of Tarangire is baobab forest, a different environment, and one particularly favoured by elephant and over 550 species of bird.
Our itinerary has been designed to allow a true African safari experience by using a mix of normal camping to get you closer with tented lodges for that extra comfort. Your accommodation consists of 2 nights in a hotel, 2 nights in a tented camp and 4 nights camping. In Arusha you stay in a modern property within the municipal area of Arusha town. It has lovely gardens and a swimming pool set in five acres. The tented camps are fixed camps and the tents have shower rooms. The camping is in large canvas tents. There are ablution blocks at each campsite.
Trip price includes: 8 breakfasts, 6 lunches & 7 dinners. The hotel in Arusha will provide an evening meal on arrival and breakfast both mornings that you are there. The rest of the food will be cooked at the campsites, over open fires. The food is delicious and varied. Typically we use a Toyota Land Cruiser for every five or six passengers. There is good visibility from these vehicles for game viewing. The trip is accompanied by your expert local driver / guide.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1-2: | Overnight flight to Arusha |
| Day 3: | Transfer to Manyara; game drive |
| Day 4-5: | Serengeti; game drives |
| Day 6-7: | Drive to Ngorongoro; stay on rim; game drives |
| Day 8: | Drive to Tarangire; game drives |
| Day 9: | Return to Arusha |
| Day 10-11: | Overnight flight to London |
over 50s holidays
This trip has been specially designed for, and is exclusive to, travellers over 50. On these trips, the typical group size is just 12, and we never exceed 16. This means better service for you, the chance to use smaller hotels, more freedom to reach out of the way places and more of a sense of camaraderie and fun. Over half of our travellers book independently and we do not charge an additional single supplement. Most travellers are aged between 50 and 70 and there is no upper age limit. It’s attitude and a love of travel that counts!how this holiday makes a difference
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The Arusha Children’s trust, a charity that runs projects in rural communities in the remote areas of the rift valley, seeks to improve the lives of the tribal groups that live there, without imposing western values on them. Located in a remote village outside of Arusha, a school built by our local supplier, teaches young children who would not otherwise have access to any sort of formal education, helping them develop a wider understanding of their world and provides one hot meal a day. For every traveller that books onto a selection of a Tanzania trips, we donate $5 towards the Arusha Children’s Trust.
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