7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday. This 7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday is the best combination of safari wildlife and beach stay for that traveler after a blend of Tanzania wildlife safari experience, and a beach holiday in Zanzibar Island. This 7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday has you enjoying extensive game drives in Serengeti National Park for the big 5 animal viewing to see lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes and rhinos; as well as a diversity other animals like zebras, wildebeests, antelopes, giraffes, and so much more, as well as various birds in Serengeti National Park and the scenic wilderness of Serengeti National Park. After wild game viewing, you get to rest by the fine white sand beaches of Zanzibar Island.
This 7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday can be customized to follow the great wildebeest migration in Serengeti as per the cycle of the Serengeti National Park Great Wildebeest Migration.
Detailed Itinerary of 7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday
Day 1: Drive to Serengeti National Park
Drive Time: Approx. 7 hours. Flight Option available
Your Tanzania safari guide shall pick you from the airport or hotel of stay in Arusha, welcome you and brief you about the safari. With your packed lunch you shall transfer to Serengeti National Park for a wild game viewing experience. You will drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the Serengeti, all the while looking out for wildlife species such as wildebeests, lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, zebras, buffalos among others. Your dinner and overnight will be at the camp.
Accommodation: Tukaone Serengeti Camp for Budget, Central Serengeti Tanzania Bush Camp for Mid-range, Seronera Wildlife Lodge for Lower-Luxury.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2&3: Full Day Serengeti Game Drive
After breakfast at your lodge, you will head out with your packed lunch for a full day Serengeti National Park. Engage in a morning game drive around Serengeti national park and look out for the various wildlife in the park. You will have lunch ahead of another wildlife experience in the national park. Look out for the diverse wildlife in the Serengeti Plains, as well as migrating wildebeests as they roam the central Serengeti plains making their way to the north.
Proceed to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: As above
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Drive to Arusha, Flight to Zanzibar
Drive Time: Approx. 7 hours. Flight to Zanzibar from Serengeti is available
You will have a leisurely breakfast at your lodge, and then transfer to Arusha town from where you shall catch a flight to Zanzibar. You will be picked up from the airport and driven to your hotel for check in. Depending on your time of arrival, you shall have a Stone town tour and explore the alleyways of the town as you get to know about the history of Zanzibar and its different cultures. After your stone town tour, you will return to your hotel for an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Zanzibar Beach Resort for Budget, Nungwi Dreams Hotel by Mantis for Mid-range, Royal Zanzibar Beach Resort for Luxury
Day 5: Prison Island and spice tour and Stone town
Today, you will have breakfast at your hotel in Zanzibar Island and after this you will start your day’s activities, your Zanzibar safaris tours for the day.
You will take a private boat from Stone town to Changuu Island or Prison Island where you will enjoy seeing the Giant tortoises and during your tour of the island you will also enjoy snorkeling. You will take a boat back from Changuu Island back to Stone town. On this day you will also engage in a spice tour as you explore the plantations where you will see different exotic spices and also get to know the uses of the spices like cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg among others. After the spice tour, you will return to your hotel, relax and spend the night stay as above.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Zanzibar beach experience
have a day to relax at the white sand beaches of Zanzibar Island and enjoy views of the Indian Ocean.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 7: Departure
Enjoy your breakfast at your hotel in Zanzibar Island, as you prepare for your transfer to the airport arriving in time for your flight back home, which will bring your 7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday to an end.
End of 7 Days Serengeti Safari and Zanzibar Holiday
Price Includes
- Transportation in a 4×4 safari land cruiser
- Accommodation per itinerary
- Meals as per itinerary.
- Services of a literate English driver/guide.
- National park entrance fees as per itinerary.
- Concession fees
- Flight fare to Zanzibar from Arusha Airport
- Airport pick up and drop off in Zanzibar
- Mineral Water while on safari.
- Government taxes
Price Excludes
- International Flights
- Visas and related costs.
- Personal expenses like beverages, tips, laundry, telephone calls and other items of a personal nature.
- Optional excursions and activities not listed in the itinerary
- Anything else not included in the itinerary
