16 Days Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday

16 Days Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday

Tanzania

Overview

Find a breathtaking 16-day Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar Beach Holiday, combining thrilling wildlife adventures with relaxing beach time. Explore iconic parks like Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti, and the Ngorongoro Crater, home to diverse animals and the Great Migration. Enjoy a unique hot air balloon safari over the Serengeti and visit Lake Natron, a breeding ground for flamingos.

After your safari, unwind in Zanzibar, exploring Stone Town’s rich history and enjoying days of leisure on pristine beaches. This tour offers a perfect balance of adventure, culture, and relaxation in one unforgettable journey.

Itinerary Highlights

  • Explore Tarangire’s elephants and baobab trees.
  • Discover tree-climbing lions in Lake Manyara.
  • Witness the Great Wildebeest Migration.
  • Visit Ngorongoro Crater’s wildlife-rich ecosystem.
  • Experience hot air balloon safari adventure.
  • Marvel at flamingos in Lake Natron.
  • Relax on Zanzibar’s pristine white beaches.
  • Explore the historic Stone Town.
  • Enjoy diverse wildlife across multiple parks.
  • Cultural immersion with Maasai village visits.

Areas visited

  • Tarangire National Park
  • Lake Manyara National Park (Great Rift Valley)
  • Ngorongoro Crater (Africa’s Eden)
  • Serengeti National Park
  • Lake Natron
  • Zanzibar Island

Itinerary Details

  • Day 1: Touchdown in Tanzania, Arrive Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)

    African safari begins at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, safari capital of Tanzania

    African safari begins at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, safari capital of Tanzania. You will met with Matukio Adventures representative and transfer to your hotel at Arusha town for overnight stay.

    Meals: Bed and Breakfast
    Accommodation: Mount Meru Hotel

  • Day 2: Tarangire National Park

    After early breakfast in the morning pick up from Hotel at 7:00 am with picnic lunch and drive to Tarangire

    After early breakfast in the morning pick up from Hotel at 7:00 am with picnic lunch and drive to Tarangire National Park (198km- 4hrs) for game drive and later in the evening drive to Manyara at the hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Common animals found in this park are Elephants, Cheetah, Wildebeests, Elands, Zebras, Lions, Leopards, Giraffes, Tree climbing Pythons and many species of Birds. This park is also heavily dominated by huge baobab trees which are one of the longest living trees in the wilderness.

    Accommodation: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge

    Meals: Dinner

  • Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park

    After Breakfast pick up at hotel for a game viewing at Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive park

    After Breakfast pick up at hotel for a game viewing at Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

    Accommodation: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge

    Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

  • Day 4: Lake Manyara National Park to Lake Natron

    After breakfast you are heading to Lake Natron. Just past Mto wa Mbu you leave the asphalted road along the East African

    After breakfast you are heading to Lake Natron. Just past Mto wa Mbu you leave the asphalted road along the East African Rift Valley the drive continues on adventurous slopes. The drive leads past Maasai villages and the holy mountain of the Maasai, the Ol Doinyo Lengai. As soon as the Maasai village Ngare Sero comes into sight, it is not far to the lake. The outlet Lake Natron is the home of a remarkable variety of birds, in particular about 2.5 million dwarf flamingos, the lake serves them as a regular breeding ground.

    The water is strongly saline and the basis of life for unicellular algae and bacteria, which are responsible for the planar red-brown to purple-violet coloring of the lake. The area around Lake Natron is one of the most beautiful and unspoilt regions in Africa. There you have an option to make a hike to the lake and/or to visit the nearby waterfalls, a true oasis. You'll stay overnight at a campsite at Lake Natron

    Accommodation: Lake Natron Safari Lodge

    Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

  • Day 5: Lake Natron to Serengeti National Park

    After breakfast travel to central Serengeti Seronera via Lobo North of Serengeti Park crossing the Cliff of the Rift Valley with game drives

    After breakfast travel to central Serengeti Seronera via Lobo North of Serengeti Park crossing the Cliff of the Rift Valley with game drives and picnic lunch enroute. Lobo is where the trails of the Serengeti Wildebeest migration has passed on, they're coming back to Serengeti from Maasai Mara in Kenya. The Serengeti is famed for its incredible wildlife, stunning views and the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras. In this frenzied bout of territorial conquests and mating, witness an actual survival of the fittest as these animals plunge through crocodile-infested waters. The wildebeest will birth more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again. Dinner and overnight in Centre Serengeti National Park.

    Accommodation: Shuhudia Adventure Camp (Tented Camp experience) in the Serengeti

    Meals: Breakfast, Picnic Lunch & Dinner

  • Day 6: Hot Air Balloon Safari, Serengeti game drive

    Early morning picks up from your tented camp to Balloon Safari is probably the most beautiful balloon flight in the world and the ultimate Safari Experience

    Early morning picks up from your tented camp to Balloon Safari is probably the most beautiful balloon flight in the world and the ultimate Safari Experience which makes you enjoy the most beautiful migration of wildebeests through the endless plain of Serengeti. 5:00 am Serengeti Balloon Safaris will collect you from your Tented Camp and transfer you to the launching site near Masai Kopjes. Here you will meet your pilot, receive a briefing, and watch the inflation of your balloon. At dawn we take off, rising as the sun rises and float in whichever direction the winds of the morning take us.

    Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below. After Balloon breakfast, you are taken to the visitors Centre to meet with your driver guide and continue with your full day game drive in the wilderness following the Great Migration trails. Our experienced driver tour guide will provide you with interesting facts about this highly renowned event, which makes Tanzania the top safari destination in Africa. Serengeti, a UNESCO world heritage site, is home to around 200,000 zebras, and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle, which join in the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Listen to the exotic sounds of over six million hooves pounding the open plains. This is just like you imagined Africa to be!

     

    Accommodation: Shuhudia Adventure Camp (Tented Camp experience) in the Serengeti

    Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

  • Day 7: Ngorongoro Conservation Area via Masai village & Olduvai Gorge discoveries

    After Breakfast head towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with a game drive en route and on the way a stopover at Olduvai Gorge

    After Breakfast head towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with a game drive en route and on the way a stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the famous 'Nutcracker Man" and 'Handy Man', both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Optional you also have the possibility of visiting a Masai village.

     

    Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge

    Meals: Breakfast, Picnic Lunch & Dinner

  • DAY: 8: Game drive Ngorongoro Crater and then driving to Kilimanjaro Airport for a flight to Zanzibar.

    Early in the morning after breakfast driving to Ngorongoro Crater, we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a game drive.

    Early in the morning after breakfast driving to Ngorongoro Crater, we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Crater supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-exclusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater, and then we drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight to Zanzibar and upon arrival you will be transferred to the heart of Stone Town in Zanzibar where you will spend a night.

     

    Accommodation: Tembo Hotel at Stone town in Zanzibar

    Meals: Bed and Breakfast

  • Day 9 & 10: Explore Stone Town, a World Heritage site.

    Stone Town is a World Heritage site and is the most atmospheric and vibrant of all the remaining traditional Swahili settlements.

    Stone Town is a World Heritage site and is the most atmospheric and vibrant of all the remaining traditional Swahili settlements. Architecturally it’s a fusion of African and Arab influences not dissimilar to the medinas of Morocco with its narrow streets, twists and turns. Culturally, modern Stone Town is a lively melting pot that embraces visitors and manages to offer a selection of fine dining and curious attractions without compromising its old-world charm.

     

    Accommodation: Tembo Hotel at Stone town in Zanzibar

    Meals: Bed and Breakfast

  • Day 11 - 15: Relax on the beach Hotel.

    In the morning after breakfast pick up from your Hotel Stone town and transferred to the beach hotel

    In the morning after breakfast pick up from your Hotel Stone town and transferred to the beach hotel where you will spend the next five days at leisure, relaxing on one of Zanzibar's beautiful white sands beach and soaking up the sunshine.

     

    Accommodation: Villa Juliana Hotel

    Meals: Bed and Breakfast

  • Day 16: Journey Home

    After Breakfast or lunch the driver will pick you at the hotel and transferred to International Airport for your flight back home.

    After Breakfast or lunch the driver will pick you at the hotel and transferred to International Airport for your flight back home.

     

    Tour ends at Zanzibar International Airport.

     

    Meals: Breakfast / Lunch

  • Departure dates

    The departure dates for all our safaris and tours are totally flexible according to your own personal needs

    The departure dates for all our safaris and tours are totally flexible according to your own personal needs (subject to availability). Please contact us for further and more detailed info.

Include & Exclude

  • Meet and greet services with assistance
  • All transfers with assistance
  • Flight from Kilimanjaro International Airport to Zanzibar
  • Private transport in a 4-wheel drive car with pop-up roof (special design for safari)
  • All booked safaris are window seat guaranteed
  • 3 meals a day (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) on safari
  • All park entry fees for Safari
  • Complimentary bottled mineral water on safari
  • Unlimited game viewing drives per day whilst on safari
  • Services of an English-speaking safari driver/guide throughout your journey
  • All government taxes and levies where applicable
  • Lake Natron activities: visiting waterfalls and watching flamingos
  • Accommodations in Zanzibar and Arusha town booked on Bed and Breakfast
  • 3-night accommodation in Stone Town and 5-night accommodation in a beach hotel - Zanzibar
  • International airfares and airport taxes
  • Tourism entry visa to Tanzania – US$ 50 per person (US$ 100 for American citizens)
  • Travel insurance (recommended)
  • Optional excursions not mentioned in the inclusions
  • Personal expenses such as telephone calls, faxes, emails, laundry, etc.
  • All alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, wines, and spirits
  • Tips and gratuities to driver guides, lodges, hotels, and tented camp staff
  • Hot Air Balloon Safari – US$ 550 per person
  • All activities in Zanzibar (can be arranged at the hotel with extra cost)

Rates are quoted in U. S. Dollars per person sharing room

1 People 2 People 3 People 4 People and more SSR

US$ 6250

US$ 4694

US$ 4175

US$ 3916

US$ 398

SSR: Single Supplement Rate for a non-sharing person in a room

Please note all prices are subject to change if Tanzania National Park entry fees or Tanzania Government Tax and / or VAT rates change.

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