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11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari
The 11 Days Tanzania self drive safari is one of the most fabulous Tanzania’s safari tour packages that takes you to most exciting Tanzania safari destination. However, self-driven game drive is the best than you can ever imagine when you choose to do it in 4×4 wheels or a Land Rover offering five door station wagons and roof top tent in order to create your own adventure as a couple, families or even small groups with multiple vehicles at your own pace and with your own objectives. More so, Tanzania self-drive can be done with armed guide right in your private car because you never know you might get challenged with the big cut of the jungle and the guides are the one to help you as well as giving historical information about the visited safari destination. Along the course of Self-drive tour offers a special tour package which can be organized by the tour operators on ground.
They can be arranged from lodge to lodge or campsite inside the Tanzanian National Park where you will be well off on the scenic plains of the Serengeti, Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Park and many. A tourist in engaging in Self-drive tour is able to enjoy an incredible self-game drive in one of your own private roof top vehicle. But you’re advise to go with ‘’GPS’’ Global Positioning System and Logged in waypoints, never know you might get lost and the ‘’GPS’’ helps to keep you on track. Facts, GPS holds tracks for African Time Systems and there is no need to waste valuable holiday time set up for this navigation system. However, printed maps are also provided. So we advise travelers on self drive safaris to always book in advance your private game drive as in order to avoid disappointments.
This 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari takes you several fabulous game parks in order to enjoy self-drive wildlife safari which is worth it to do It as a family, couple, friend or as an organization. Definitely Tanzania is one of the top world safari destination one wouldn’t miss to visit on his or next safari adventure on African continent. Tanzania Safaris takes you to most of remarkable safari destination that attracts millions of travelers from all over the world looking to adventure Tanzania on self-drive Tanzania, include; Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National park, Ngorongoro Crater, Ruaha National Park, Gombe Stream National Park, Arusha among others. More so, Self-Drive Tanzania Safari is the best way to explore Tanzania’s famous National Parks, Game Reserve, Cities, Beaches and beautiful Islands-oceans. Another option to enjoy self-Drive Tanzania is to book a car rental that deals in Long Term Car Rental, One-way car rental, Short term car rental and Car rental with a driver. You may be wondering the best time to go or visit Tanzanian Self-drive safaris it’s all year around.
The 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari is an exciting and extraordinary life adventure that starts and ends in Tanzania. This 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari will take you to the untouched African wilderness of Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, Arusha National Park all these safari destinations allow you to enjoy rewardable view of the diversity of wild animals in an open car roof while on self-drive safari adventure. Serengeti National Park is known as one of the world’s top tourist safari destination because of its various astonishing attractions of the annual animal migration event in the entire world around 1.5 million blue wildebeest and 250,000 zebras along with smaller herds of eland and Thomas Gazelle can be watched during the annual migration event and other diversity of wildlife species over 4000 lions ,1000 leopard ,550 cheetahs as well as a home to hoven of birders with over 500 bird species. Furthermore, Serengeti National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located on northern Tanzania and covering an area of about 14,763 square kilometers of its low land. Serengeti was established in 1951 to protect wide range of animals such as ; common warthogs ,aardvark ,African civet ,African stripped weasel ,Bat eared fox ,hippos ,Crested porcupine ,Carnivores species to see hear include spotted hyenas ,Black-backed mongoose ,African golden wolf ,Honey badger ,Caracal ,banded mongoose ,African wild dogs as well as savannah bird species .Go visit Lake Manyara National Park a home to unique tree climbing lions and other species to see ,Visit Tarangire National Park that sits between the meadows of Masai steppe to the south east and the lakes of the Great Rift Valley to the north and west. The park is a popular destination for its vast elephant herds and short wildlife migration that can be watched during the dry seasons, about 250,000 animals enter the park. Some of animals to see in Tarangire National Park includes Elephants, Cheetah, spotted hyenas, Leopard, Zebra, Wildebeest, Lions among others and end up a visit to Arusha National Park a home to variety of animals such as giraffe, cape buffaloes, zebras, warthogs, black and white colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, elephants, bushbuck among others. Explore the best of Tanzania on this 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari.
11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer to Serengeti National Park
Depending on your location, on day 1 of the 11 days Tanzania Self drive, after your breakfast at the hotel, you as a couple or family will then set off to the park. On the way you will have en-route lunch and after continue to drive to great views of beautiful scenery, homesteads, local people, landscape among others. Upon your arrival you will check into the lodge, do refreshment and rest. Have diner and overnight.
Day2: Full day game drive
After breakfast on day 2 of the 11 days Tanzania Self Drive safari, you will check out of the lodge for morning game drive meet up with hired park guide and then drive to the park but you will have to go with GPS to help you in time and distancing the park, because Serengeti is a biggest national park where you can get lost and you need to go with GPS which will help you to navigate the park’s location. You will get excited in searching wildlife species such as the Big Fives; elephants, lions, leopards, rhino and buffaloes and cheetah among others.
After morning game drive, you will drive back for lunch at the lodge in the national park. After having lunch, rest a while and then drive back to the park open savannah for evening game drive where you expect to see animals includes lions, leopards, rhino, kudu, hippos, zebras, buffaloes, eland, elephant’s hartebeest, impala, waterbucks, rhino among others. Dinner and Overnight.
Day 3 and 4 Full days in Serengeti National park
You will start your day of this 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari with breakfast with delicious snacks at your lodge in Serengeti National Park as you get already for amazing morning game drive in your well organized land Rover open roof car rewarding with great view of variety of active wildlife species which can be seen grazing around the plains of the park, drive back to the lodge.
After the morning game drive, drive back for lunch and refresh. Later on, drive back for another fabulous game drive and be able to lookout for the missed animal species while grazing in open savannah time and it can be exciting time of adventuring a lot of wildlife species, animals to see includes; cheetah, gazelles, zebras, antelopes, eland, impalas among others.
Day 5: Drive to Western Serengeti
After having morning coffee aroma with delicious snacks at the lodge, you will then drive to the central part of Serengeti National Park to the western part of the park with a guide and GPS to help you in locating the direction of the park. Serengeti is a largest national park where you can visit and enjoy much of its remarkable tourist’s attractions. While on game drive here you will be able to enjoy the scenic view of endless plains of the park. You will have lunches in the wild right from the lodge with good tasty as you continue to enjoy gainful view of wildlife species in Serengeti National Park. After enjoying all the beauty of Serengeti National Park drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay. This marks the end of day 5 of your 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari.
Day 6: Full day game drive in western Serengeti
On day 6 of day your 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari, after your morning breakfast, you will drive back to the western part of the park on morning and afternoon game viewing life experience in search for wildlife species and to say bye bye to Serengeti National Park as you view out what really makes it a world’s finest safari adventures that attracts tourists flock here every year. Depending on your time of safari in the park, you may have a great chance of watching the wildebeest migration in this area and the best to time view these amazing event starts from late June to August and from January to March.
Day 7: Transfer to Lake Manyara National park
On the 7th day of 11 days Tanzania Self Drive safari, have your breakfast well served at the lodge in Serengeti National Park and after breakfast, you will check out of the park and drive to Lake Manyara National Park a home to the unique tree climbing lions and other amazing features and known to be the third largest national park in Tanzania and is surround by water. You will also be able to enjoy great view of the rift valley escarpment during your safari in the national park.
Upon your arrival at the Lake Manyara National Park check in and have your delicious lunch. Later you will go for self-drive –game drive and search for wildlife species like elephants, impala, giraffe’s hippos among others. Driver back at the lodge. Have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8: Morning drive and Night game drive
After breakfast on day 8 of your 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari, you will drive to park’s open savannah grassland for morning game drive and search for the rare famous tree climbing lions of lake Manyara National Park where you will also explore the savannah plains look out for wildlife species like elephants and other animal species, drive back at the lodge for lunch.
Later after lunch, you will take part in another game drive to see more wildlife species, you missed out to see in morning game drive.
You will drive back to your lodge to refresh up and later on go for night game drive but remember to go with the armed park guide who you can hire at the park headquarters, for an experience of see the nocturnal wildlife species. Dinner and Overnight stay.
Day 9: Transfer to Tarangire National Park Safari
You will wake up, enjoy your morning breakfast at the lodge and then check out of Lake Manyara National park and drive to Tarangire National Park. Arrive at the park check in at lodge and have lunch.
After lunch, you will engage in afternoon game drive where you will be able to spot animals like Greater kudu, Fringe –Eared Oryx and Ashy Starling among others. Driver back to the lodge, dinner and overnight.
Day 10: Morning game drive and Transfer to Arusha National Park.
Wake up have early breakfast, drive through the gigantic Baobab at the park entrance where you will be able to view these unique monkeys darting about in the shade, continue to drive park’s savannah plains and expect to see animals like Elephants, Cheetah, giraffes, leopards, spotted hyenas, zebras, wildebeest, lions and among others. You will then drive back to the lodge for lunch and after check out of the lodge.
You will check out of the Tarangire National Park and drive to Arusha National Park.
Day 11: Drive to Arusha National Park & Depart back
This is the last day of your 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari. After morning breakfast at the lodge in Tarangire National Park. You will check out of the Tarangire and say bye bye and then set off to Arusha National Park for open game drive in self-driven car safaris. Upon your arrival checks in at the lodge have early lunch, rest as you wait for evening game drive.
Later on, you will go for evening game drive where you expect to explore animals like Buffaloes, Giraffes, zebras, bushbuck, waterbuck, hippos, monkeys among others. After adventuring the nature and wildlife species, check out and drive back to Arusha as starting point or your place of residence. This will mark the end of your 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari
End of 11 Days Tanzania Self Drive safari
11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari includes
All activities as per itinerary
Full board accommodation
Park entrances fees-game drive
Acknowledgeable Safari drive-guide
Bottled water
11 Days Tanzania Self Drive Safari excludes
Personal expenses like buying souvenirs, crafts, laundry service, crafts
Life insurance
Visas
