Tour Code: BET08M Tour Duration: 5 Days/4 nights Group Size: 1 person and above Destination: Tanzania Northern parks Special Category: Balloon Safari Season: All year round except rain season April & May. This tour can be customized
Tanzania Balloon Safari – A Lifetime Experience
A balloon safari in Tanzania is an incredible ideal encounter, especially reasonable for a superior view to understand game viewing along with us at Betheli Expedition (T) Ltd on our Tanzania Balloon Safari. Sightseeing balloon rides leave from three sites in the reputed national park at Serengeti.
Conditions are ideal early every morning; you are encouraged to pre-book this mainstream action for your safari occasion to East Africa due to its constrained seating accessibility. The balloons are huge. The baskets have all means to offer safety and comfort, obliging 16 individuals for every one-hour journey.
Each flight is interesting, some sufficiently high to see the all-encompassing scene for a significant distance ahead, others sufficiently low to see singular creatures distinctly. It is anything but a modest outing; however, it will make your northern Tanzania excursion one of the most important of your entire life.
Serengeti creatures on the perpetual yard beneath appear small from your new point of view. As your shadow lingers behind them, they bound ahead, backsides entirely conspicuous. The warthog raises his dainty, flag tail like a radio antenna. The zebra parades its wonderful striped back ends. The elephant lumbers like an elderly person in loose pants. Groups of thousands of regular moving herbivores stream out for a significant distance behind and ahead to the extent the eye can see.
DAY 0:ARRIVE AT KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT/JRO TRANSFER TO ARUSHA (1 HR.)
Meet and greet upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International airport, transfer to Kibo Palace Hotel in Arusha town overnight on half board basis.
Accommodation: Kibo Palace Hotel or similar hotel
Meal Plan: Dinner and breakfast
DAY 1: ARUSHA TO LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK. (2- 2 ½ HRS.)
After breakfast, follows a comprehensive brief of the safari, and then depart with a picnic lunch for a full day game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, which is 120km from Arusha. This Park is one of the most diverse of Tanzania’s national parks; it is only 330km², a combination of Rift Valley Lake, dense woodlands, and steep mountainside. Manyara is a bird paradise with more than 400 species, especially waterfowl, the pink-hued flamingos, spoonbills, stilts, egrets, pelicans, cormorants, and yellow-billed storks, and many migrant’s birds. It is rightly famous for its tree-climbing lions, but also its boisterous baboons! You could easily find elephants, hippo, wildebeests, buffalo, and giraffes, plus many other species. Later in the day drive to Karatu village for dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Accommodation: Acacia Farm lodge
Meals plan: dinner, breakfast, and lunch
DAY 2:KARATU TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK (4-5 HRS WITH GAME DRIVE EN-ROUTE)
Breakfast at the lodge, then depart with picnic lunch and drive to Serengeti national park. Picnic lunch will be served at the entry gate of the Serengeti Naabi gate. After the meal, you can trek on top of the kopje (Naabi hill and see typical plants and animals of a granite boulder. Later proceed further into the park and go on a game drive in the afternoon. Depending on the season of the year, you can expect to see wildebeest Migration on Southern Serengeti.Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp on a full board basis.
Accommodation: Serengeti Sound of silence
Meals plan: dinner, breakfast, and lunch
Day3: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK- BALLON HOT AIR SAFARI
“Serengeti is the greatest sanctuary in the world, fantastic in its natural beauty and unequaled”.
A hot air balloon safari is an unforgettable experience, enjoy the spectacular scenery of Serengeti from the air. The view of the sunrise, the great wildebeest migration on a hot-air balloon flight over the Serengeti is unquestionable to be one of the highlights of your safari. Flights last approximately an hour and are followed by a Champagne bush breakfast. You must depart very early to enjoy the calm morning sky, a quick grab-and-go breakfast is provided for maximum enjoyment. Your balloon pilot will guide the balloon low over the Serengeti plains, providing you with the chance to see the different wildlife at their early morning activities: hippos returning to the water after wandering for food in the dark, elephants coming out for their morning feeding, lions returning from the hunt. If there is a special activity going on like Lion hunting, mating, the pilot will bring the balloon down close to the treetops for a better view.
After a lush bush breakfast, your driver-guide takes you back to the lodge for full breakfast, then depart for another day of game drive in the park. Exploring the beauty of Serengeti while it is dew having the best time of your life around this beautiful area which is rich in Wildlife. Picnic lunch will be provided to maximize your time for game view. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp on a full board basis.
DAY 4: SERENGETI TO NGORONGORO CRATER
After breakfast, depart from the Camp with a picnic lunch, and drive to the Ngorongoro conservation, descend into the crater, which is one of most scenic beauty, as you pass through lush forest, the home of various animals such as elephants, buffalo, as you approach inside the crater, marveling and the magnificent landscape around you. Your driver-guide will take you through Elerai forest, through grassy crater floor, the bank of Lake Magadi where you can see flamingo scrambling for food here you can see a spectacular concentration of wildlife, including the big five. Enjoy your lunch at the picnic site area, later exit the crater and drive to the lodge at Karatu for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Acacia Farma Lodge
Meal Plan: Dinner and breakfast
Day 5 - NGORONGORO TO ARUSHA TOWN
Today after breakfast drive to Arusha town arrive for lunch at your own cost, thereafter proceeding to the airport for your onwards flight.
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Inclusions:
Transfer to and from Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)
4x4 vehicles for the safari sector (pop-up roof jeep).
Services of English -speaking driver-guide for Safari.
Accommodations and meals as indicated on the itinerary during safari
Mineral water on a game drive,
All National Parks entry fee, Crater tour
4 nights at the Lodge - stay includes accommodation, daily meals, selection of house beverages, soft drinks, and water.
1-night Kibo palace Hotel.
Concession fees
Return airport transfer
Government taxes.
AMREF-FLYING DOCTORS for evacuation only.
Exclusions:
International Flights, Visas
Travel/medical/baggage insurance, Medical expenses
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