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Depart at 2000 from London's Heathrow Airport on the Kenya Airways flight KQ101 to Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Kenya.
Over the next four days you will be taken on a private safari in a fully equipped four wheel drive vehicle with radio and a highly experienced driver/guide across the rugged landscape of Tanzania. You will have the flexibility to go where you wish, when you wish, and can vary your activities to include walking where possible as well as unlimited safari game drives, while visiting some of Tanzania's most famous national parks and conservation areas, your guides are their to educate and advise on the marvellous wildlife in Africa (fully inclusive of meals and activities).
Arrive at 0630 connect with flight KQ6724 departing at 0800 to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. On arrival at 0850 you will be met and transferred to Ngorongoro Crater Lodge where you stay for two nights.
Perched on top of the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater and surrounded by some of the most spectacular flora and fauna, Ngorongoro Crater Lodge offers guests accommodation in a truly unique setting.
Inspired by ancient African architecture, the lodge offers modern, comfortable accommodation in keeping with the natural splendour of its surroundings and takes the form of three small villages. Each village commands awe-inspiring views of the crater floor 500 metres below. The cottages and rooms all have a private bathroom, and the open terraces and wide courtyards enhance the lodge's unique panorama.
In the early morning of Day 3 your driver will take you down into the Crater for a morning's game viewing. When the Crater becomes busy, you will leave and head off to explore the surrounding area and one of the small craters, before returning to the lodge.
Ngorongoro Crater was originally a volcano larger than Mount Kilimanjaro but approximately three million years ago a huge series of eruptions caused the centre to subside forming a vast volcanic caldera ten miles wide. The floor of the caldera is 1500ft below the rim and on this 80-mile_ area live 20,000 animals of all kinds. There are thousands of wildebeest, zebra, antelope, giraffe and other plains game, lion, leopard, hyena and bat-eared fox and seventeen rhinoceros which have been preserved from the poachers and are now beginning to flourish again. The animals in the crater are used to the presence of mankind, which makes this a good area for wildlife photography, particularly as the crater floor is so diverse with areas of swamp, woodland and dry savannah grassland, all set against the backdrop of the forested crater walls.
In the southern quarter of the crater lies Lake Magadi which is a haven for waterbirds and you can frequently see flocks of thousands of flamingos gathered in one corner making their raucous calls and presenting a mass of pink wings, necks and legs.
To the north east of Ngorongoro lie other craters, such as Empakai and Ol Moti, which provide excellent walking opportunities and if you visit Empakai you can descend into the steep-sided forest crater and admire the beautiful lake that sits in its base. From time to time you meet groups of scarlet-cloaked Maasai herding their cattle and goats, and for those clients staying a little longer in Ngorongoro it would be possible to visit a Maasai boma to see something of their way of life.
After your morning safari activity you will be taken on a game drive with a picnic lunch and transferred in an easterly direction to the Tarangire National Park. Here you will stay for two nights at Oliver's Camp.
A safari vacation in Tanzania will provide both you and your family with some fantastic safari memories. Tanzania has some of the most luxurious lodges and wonderful guides for the perfect African safari.
Oliver's safari camp is a long-established high quality tented camp located on private land just inside the Tarangire National Park. It is probably the best located of all the camps in and surrounding Tarangire with easy access to the central part of the National Park, yet also providing guests with an opportunity to enjoy fascinating walks with an armed guide. There are good numbers of animals in that area and these walks will enable you to learn the fundamentals of bushcraft, tracking skills and provide opportunities to encounter animals in places which are not accessible to vehicles.
Oliver's camp comprises ten very large luxury walk-in tents, comfortably furnished with proper beds and en-suite short drop w.c. and shower. There is a main dining/lounge area serving a good standard of cuisine and Oliver's expert guides know the area intimately and will take you game viewing by open vehicle during the day, as well as on foot with an armed ranger.
The Tarangire National Park is one of the richest and most diverse in northern Tanzania, covering 2600kms_. There are hills, vast regions of undulating grassland with acacia, tamarind, sausage and mahogany trees, huge areas of wetland and, running north to south through the National Park, is the Tarangire River - a continual source of attraction to the wildlife.
Tarangire is quite strongly seasonal and during the dry season from June to end of October, thousands of animals migrate there from Manyara. Foremost among these are big herds of elephant which can be seen in large numbers throughout the park, while giraffe, lesser kudu and a wide range of other antelope, lion and leopard are also regularly seen.
In the wetland areas you can encounter herds in excess of a thousand huge buffalo and thousands of pelicans and marabou storks, while throughout the National Park the bird life is among the best in east Africa with many eagles, brilliantly coloured kingfishers, secretary birds and bee-eaters.
Another fascinating aspect of Tarangire is the enormous number of baobabs (sometimes called 'upside-down trees' because of their strange shape) - often a favourite resting place for sleepy leopards.
Today you will depart with a picnic lunch to Arusha where you board a scheduled flight departing at 1215 to Zanzibar. On arrival at 1345 you will be met and transferred to Breezes Beach Club where you stay for six nights (full board).
Breezes Beach Club is situated along a pristine white sandy beach, edged with palm trees, perfect for the late evening strolls along the remote beach.
The luxury rooms are spacious and fully air-conditioned, with en suite bathrooms, and are all tastefully furnished in authentic Zanzibari style. There are three bars, one by the pool, and three restaurants, which serve exceptional cuisine, featuring local spices, tropical fruits and delicacies from the Indian Ocean. The Breakers Lunch Restaurant serves barbecues on the beachfront under the shade of palm trees.
You can enjoy a great variety of recreational facilities; the marine activities include windsurfing and pedal boats, and there is also a swimming pool, a floodlit tennis court, and a fitness and aerobics centre. The Bazaar shop sells a variety of beautiful African arts and crafts, that can be a wonderful reminder of your luxury safari in Africa.
In this remote beautiful setting, reflecting a sophisticated Swahili style enhanced with candlelight and spice scented aromas, you can enjoy a variety of treatments and therapies, all aimed at relieving the negative impacts of a modern lifestyle such as stress and exhaustion. The international team of professional therapists at the Frangipani Spa offers a wide variety of facial, body and hand and foot treatments, as well as specialised massage techniques. The Frangipani Spa also offers 'The Kili Foot Treatment' and 'Apres Safari Treatment' which are specially designed packages to soothe and rejuvenate after the dust and bumpy roads of the African Bush. An excellent option for those who are looking to recover after an adventure filled safari. Tanzania combines fantastically with Zanzibar for perfect safari and beach locations.
In the afternoon you will be transferred to Zanzibar Airport to board flight KQ495 departing at 1630 to Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport. Arrive at 1800 and connect with flight KQ102 departing at 2340 to London's Heathrow Airport.
Arrive at 0645 (local time)