14 Days Tanzania Honeymoon Safari

We welcome you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and warmly welcome you to Tanzania. We will return to your hotel in Arusha. There we will do a briefing about your safari, which will then start the next day.

(Dinner)

Accommodation: Arusha Serena Hotel Resort & Spa

After a leisurely breakfast, visit Arusha National Park. With a size of 137 km ^{2 it} lies between Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, which also forms the boundary of the park. With heights between 1,500 m at Lake Momella and the summit of Mount Meru at 4,565 m, this mountain park includes the various levels of vegetation from tropical semi-arid to high alpine. The flora and fauna are correspondingly diverse. The wildlife consists of a variety of herbivores, predators and primates such as the black and white colobus monkey, baboons, giraffes, buffalo, hippopotamus, leopard, hyenas and a large variety of antelope species. There are no lions in the park, but with a bit of luck you will see a leopard!

After arriving at the park, you will start a 2-hour bush walk . An experienced ranger will accompany you to the beautiful Tulusia waterfall.

Arusha National Park is famous for its 400 species of birds that ornithologists can observe, especially at the Momella Lakes. On a clear day you have a fascinating view of Mount Kilimanjaro from almost everywhere in the park. You will return to your accommodation in the late afternoon. In the evening we will have an African dinner together. The food is called “nyama ya kuchoma” which means grilled meat. Different types of meat and chicken are grilled and served with french fries, grilled bananas and salad. Everyone eats from a large platter with their hands. It tastes really good, you will see. We will then bring you back to your lodge.

(Breakfast | lunch packages | dinner)

Accommodation: Arusha Serena Hotel Resort & Spa

After breakfast you start with packed lunches in the Tarangire National Park. The journey takes about 2.5 hours. As soon as you have passed the Parkgate, the game drives begin.

Tarangire offers you a wonderful, wide panorama of open acacia forests with grass savannahs and large herds of elephants. Especially in the dry season from July to October, the Tarangire River attracts many elephants to its banks, who want to quench their thirst there. Established in 1970 from former hunting grounds, Tarangire National Park is home to the largest population of wild animals outside of the Serengeti ecosystem. With around 2,600 km ²it is one of the five largest parks in Tanzania and offers a “set table” for predators all year round. One of its peculiarities is the population of mainland antelopes, such as the stately tuft-eared billy goats and the graceful giraffe gazelles, which can be found here in large numbers. During the rainy season, most of the animals migrate far beyond the boundaries of the national park until the green plains have been devoured and the pulsing heart of the park, the Tarangire River, moves to return. The approximately 4,000 elephants remain behind, however, so that the Tarangire in northern Tanzania is also widely known as the “Elephant Park”.

You will arrive at your camp in the late afternoon for dinner and overnight.

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Accommodation: Lake Burunge Tented Camp

After breakfast you will visit the national park again. Tarangire is divided into eight different vegetation zones, ranging from swamps to open grasslands to landscapes overgrown with acacias. Tarangire is home to more than 300 different species of birds. The area in the park is very spacious. The baobab trees grow in abundance and the “candles” of the candelabra trees fan out into the sky. The park has even more to offer bird lovers: screeching flocks of brightly colored blackheads and the less conspicuous red-tailed weavers and gray-and-white starlings – birds that only occur in the dry savannas of northern Tanzania. Another attraction are the large ratites with their bushy plumage, long thin necks and big googly eyes – the Maasai bouquets.

(Breakfast | packed lunches | dinner).

Accommodation: Lake Burunge Tented Camp

Today you leave the area around Tarangire National Park and continue to the neighboring Lake Manyara National Park. The national park is 330 km ²rather small. Not knowing that it is Lake Manyara, many television viewers and moviegoers have already made the acquaintance of the lake. The film scene from “Out of Africa”, in which Robert Redford and Meryl Streep flies through a flock of flamingos on a plane, was shot here. The slightly alkaline lake takes up two thirds of the entire park area, although its size varies depending on the season. During the dry season, between June and September, it is almost dry and animals can wade through it with ease. A different picture emerges during the rainy season in March or April: During this time the water level rises sharply. The brooks can become raging watercourses that are sometimes no longer passable. The Lake Manyara National Park is therefore an elephant hotspot, because huge herds flee from the rain-soaked black cotton soil of the Tarangire National Park. But it is astonishing what different living spaces can be found here. Hundreds of baboons are lounging on the side of the road, diademed monkeys do gymnastics quickly through the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbucks step cautiously out of the shadows and strange, large forest hornbills in the high canopy of leaves call out loud and jarring. In the late afternoon you will arrive at your lodge in Karatu, high up on the Great Rift Valley. dainty bushbucks step cautiously out of the shadows and strange, large forest hornbills in the high canopy of leaves call out loud and jarring. In the late afternoon you will arrive at your lodge in Karatu, high up on the Great Rift Valley. dainty bushbucks step cautiously out of the shadows and strange, large forest hornbills in the high canopy of leaves call out loud and jarring. In the late afternoon you will arrive at your lodge in Karatu, high up on the Great Rift Valley.

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Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

After breakfast you leave Karatu and continue to Serengeti National Park. While your guide pays the entrance fees at the Ngorongoro Gate, you can view the exhibition about the Great Rift Valley (= the East African Rift Valley) and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the next room:

The Great African Rift Valley is  around 6,000 km long from its northern end in Syria  to its southern end in  Mozambique . The  tectonic  activity that formed the Rift Valley weakened the  earth’s crust  along its borders. The area is therefore  volcanically  and  seismically  active. Volcanoes such as Mount Kilimanjaro,  Mount Elgon  and the  crater highlands developed . The  Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano is still active and is the only  carbonatite volcano in the world.

An important and interesting find was the Olduvai Gorge, called “Oldupai” in the local language. It is particularly considered to be the cradle of humanity. The fossilized remains of various animal species, which have been stored there for millions of years, are therefore now open in many places on the surface, including huge relatives of our today’s sheep and pigs. In 1911, the neurologist Wilhelm Krattwinkel found many fossil bones that could later be assigned to the three-toed primordial horse (Hipparion) in Berlin. Inspired by this find, Hans Reck visited the gorge in 1913 and discovered parts of a 20,000 year old skeleton of Homo sapiens. Unfortunately, the outbreak of World War I prevented further excavations.

It was not until 1959 that Mary Leakey discovered a massive skull called the “Zinjanthropus”. It was later renamed “Australopithecus boisei” after Charles Bois, who supported her work in Olduvai. These people had large skulls with massive teeth and their diet was vegetarian. The finds have been dated back over 1.75 million years.

You have lunch with you as a lunch package. Enter the Serengeti at Naabi Gate. Serengeti means “the endless land” in Kiswahili. You will get this impression when you walk on the stone cliffs at Naabi Gate and enjoy a breathtaking view of the Serengeti stretching in front of you and the “Ngorongoro Highlands” rise in the background.

You will arrive at your camp in the central Serengeti in the late afternoon.

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Accommodation: Sound of Silence Camp

After breakfast you start again with game drives.

The Serengeti is an absolute must for every Tanzania traveler, because it offers the greatest variety of wild animals in Africa. With a size of almost 15,000 km², the Serengeti National Park is the second largest park in Tanzania. It was founded in 1951 and is now a World Heritage Site, a biosphere reserve and one of the new seven wonders of the world in Africa.

The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem has likely been in operation for at least a million years, but the area was not settled by humans until the late 18th century. Since then, the Maasai nomadic people have lived here with their cattle. The name Serengeti is also derived from the Maasai language – the term “Siringet” means “the endless plains”.

And so the landscape is primarily characterized by endless expanses of grass, which are only occasionally interrupted by Kopjes – rocks around 2.5 billion years old. Herbivores such as blue wildebeest, Thomson’s gazelles, plains zebras and African buffalo find a true paradise here. But also around 3,800 lions, 350 cheetahs, 7,500 spotted hyenas, 12,000 giraffes and 11,000 elephants roam the savannas of the Serengeti.

All these animals are the epitome of the African wilderness, and yet the Serengeti National Park has an equally varied bird life to offer. And so you will be amazed what a concert of birds sounds when you start your safari in the early morning.

You will return to your camp in the late afternoon.

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Accommodation: Sound of Silence Camp

After breakfast you leave the Serengeti and visit the Ngorongoro Crater. Several million years ago a volcano rose from the height of Mount Kilimanjaro at this point. Due to the tectonic movements of the rift valley, the cone collapsed, leaving behind a fantastic caldera, today’s Ngorongoro crater. The crater floor is about 1,700 meters above sea level and the side walls are between 400 and 600 meters high, so that the crater edge is about 2,300 meters. The diameter of the crater is between 17 and 21 kilometers. The area is now considered the 8th wonder of the world. The crater and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area cover a total of 8,300 km ². Lush grazing grounds and the always available groundwater feed up to 30,000 animals at the same time. Due to the good conditions, there is hardly any migration of the animals. Mainly grass-eaters like wildebeest, eland antelopes, kongoni (hartebeest), zebras, gazelles, buffalo and warthogs live on the crater floor. But there are also lions, cheetahs and hyenas. With a lot of luck you can see one of the very rare rhinos. Hippos, elephants, baboons, waterbuck, reedbuck and bushbuck and green monkeys have their home in the moors and forests. You will have your picnic lunch on the crater floor near Lake Hippo. In the late afternoon you will arrive at your lodge in Karatu.

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Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

Return to Arusha after breakfast. We meet at the airfield in Arusha before you fly to Zanzibar.

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– end of safari –

Arrival at Kisauni Airport – Stone Town

Upon arrival in Zanzibar, you will be picked up at Kisauni Airport and taken to your city hotel. The Dhow Palace Hotel is located in the middle of Stone Town. In the evening you can visit “Forodhani Gardens” on your own. Forodhani is a night market where various Zanzibari specialties are cooked in many food stalls. A wide variety of people meet there. The market has a magical atmosphere, also because it is right on the Indian Ocean! (B&B)

Accommodation: Dhow Palace Hotel

After breakfast you start on a guided Stone Town tour. You will spend half a day exploring the old town. Stone Town is a mixture of different cultures, languages ​​and architectural styles. In 2001 the city was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

In the afternoon you start on a spice tour. In 1818 the clove was introduced to Zanzibar under Said bin Sultan. Zanzibar became the seat of government of the Omani Empire. The fertile soils on the west coast offered ideal conditions for cultivation. In the 19th century the clove experienced a worldwide boom. Zanzibar rose to become the largest producer of this spice and at the same time was a hub for the trade in coconuts, ivory and slaves. Over time, other spices were introduced and grown in Zanzibar – including cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger. Zanzibar became known as the island of spices and it is said that seafarers were greeted by the scent of cloves when they entered the port of Zanzibar. You will then be taken to your beach hotel.

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Accommodation: Next Paradise Boutique Resort 4 *

The Next Paradise Boutique Resort is located in the northeast of the island, in the immediate vicinity of the fishing village of Pwani Mchangani, on one of the most beautiful white sandy beaches, protected by the coral reef, which is about a kilometer away. Room category: Ocean front, Board: half board

At your disposal!

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Accommodation: Next Paradise Boutique Resort 4 *

According to the departure time of your international flight, you will be taken to Kisauni Airport and start your flight home.

– End of the beach stay on Zanzibar –