9 Days Birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania

9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania is An African Birding Tour covering all the important birding spot in Tanzania. This country is one of the best birding destination in the African continent, this birding and wildlife takes you the world most famous sites such as the Ngorongoro Crater, the vast savanna plains of Serengeti National Park, the flamingo haven Lake Manyara National Park, the baobab filled Tarangire National Park as well as endemic boasted Pemba Island. We also have the best chances to encounter other wildlife such as the African Big Fives, Desert Warthog, Cheetah, Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeest, Gerenuk and many more. This is a private group tour for 1 to 6 Travelers with a guaranteed window seat, as well it possible for the solo travelers to experience this tour.

Tour highlights

  • Birding in Arusha National Park

  • Birding in Lark Plain

  • Birding in Tarangire National Park

  • Transfer Ngorongoro Conservation Area

  • Birding in Serengeti National Reserve

  • Birding Lake Victoria Mwanza area

Price Includes:
  • Transport with exclusive use of the safari van as from the 1st day to departure day as per itinerary.
  • Pick up and drop off on arrival and departure at the airport.
  • Accommodation in lodges as per the itinerary with all three meals a day
  • Services of a knowledgeable bird guide
  • Parks, reserve, and conservation areas entry fee
  • Emergency evacuation
  • Drinking water available from the van cool box
  • Other pre-tour information
Price Excludes:
  • Medical and travel insurance including luggage.
  • Beverages
  • Items of personal nature such as telephone, laundry, gifts among others
  • Visa, airport tax
  • Tipping of Safari driver guide, lodge porters, waiters, etc
  • Other extras such as balloon Safari, Masai Village visit

Itinary in details

  • Day1
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania, Our day one of the Tanzania Birding Tour will take us to bird Arusha National Park where we’ll encounter some common African birds among various habitats from savanna, acacia woodlands, forest, and alkaline lakes. The Ngurdoto Crater, Small and Big Momela Lakes offers a variety of bird species that may include Maccoa Duck, Great Sparrowhawk, Lesser Flamingo, African Crowned Eagle, Narina Trogon, Mountain Buzzard, White-eared Barbet, Forest Batis, Silvery- cheeked Hornbill, Black-fronted Bush Shrike, Trilling Cisticola, Taveta Golden Weaver. Other wildlife species includes waterbucks and Buffalos among others.

    Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Korona House

  • Day2
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania, day two Tanzania Birding Tour leads us to North of Arusha to trail the endemic Beesley’s Lark on the savanna plains near Kenya-Tanzania Border. Other key bird species include Pygmy Batis, Red-throated Tit, Tiny Cisticola Southern Grosbeak Canary, Mouse-Coloured Penduline-Tit among others. In the afternoon, we transfer to Tarangire National Park, this park is characterized by Acacia wooded savannahs with large concentration of Baobab Trees presents a big chances for the variety of bird species and wild animals that may include endemic Yellow-collared Lovebird and Ashy Starling. Secretary Bird, Tawny, Pigmy Falcon, Lappet-faced & White-headed Vultures, African Fish & Martial Eagles, Magpie Shrike, Southern Ground Hornbill, Grey Kestrel, Banded Parisoma, African Scops Owl, Mottled Spinetails and many more.

    Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Tarangire Safari Lodge

  • Day3
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania, Birding tour in Tarangire National Park and later transfer to Lake Manyara National Park which has the highest concentrations of waterfowl including Spur-winged & Knob-billed Ducks, Lesser Flamingo. Others may include Slate-coloured Boubou, Sulpur-breasted Bush-shrike Black-backed Puffback. Silver-cheeked Hornbill among many others.

    Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Country Lodge, Karatu

  • Day4
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania. Today, you will transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, an important birding spot in the forest part and later bird along the rim area near our lodge.

    Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge

  • Day5
    Tanzania Birding Tour in the forest before driving in to Ngorongoro Crater, with a higher density of mammals concentration s as well as bird on the crater lakes. On the bare grounds or sand tracks in the Ngorongor Crater you can see nests of Ostiches, Secretary birds, Kori bustards, Grey crowned Cranes, Rufous-napped Lark, Capped Whater, Red capped Lark the ground nestling Northern Anteater Chat, Fischer's Sparrow lark, and the Grassland Pipit. 9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania. Later in the afternoon transfer to Seronera area. Birding on our in to the lodge.

    Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge

  • Day6 & 7
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania, Two full days of Tanzania Birding Tour in the vast Serengeti National Park. The open savanna plains filled with multitudes Wildebeest, Topi, Kongoni, Impala, Common Zebra, Grant’s and Thomson’s Gazelles are trailed along with the no less than species 5 vultures (African White-headed Ruppell’s, White-backed, Lappet-faced, and Hooded) while other birds of prey may include Martial eagle, Bateleur, Long-crested Eagles, Black-chested Snake, Magpie Shrike, Brown-crowned Tchagra both Eastern and Pale Chanting Goshawk. We spend our time birding on the stake out for the Grey-crested Helmet-shrike, Karamoja Apalis, Tanzania Red-billed Hornbill, Hilderbrant’s Francolin, Black-headed Gonolek, Schallow’s Turaco, Black-backed Cisiticola, amang many others.

    Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge

  • Day8
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania, Birding tour en-route to Mwanza located on the shores of the Lake Victoria for the papyrus endemics and specialties such as Papyrus Canary & Gonolek, Carruthers’s Cisticola, Swamp Flycatcher and others.

    Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Accommodation:Speke’s Bay Resort

  • Day9
    9 Days birding and wildlife safari in Tanzania, Our last day of Tanzania Birding Tour on the shore of the Lake Victoria and after lunch we will transfer to the nearby Mwanza Airport for a domestic flight transfer to Arusha. Dinner and transfer to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight

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