SkySafari –Itinerary Prepared for Guest

The SkySafari Itinerary Prepared for Guest

Day 1

Arusha Coffee Lodge

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Your arrival in Tanzania Transfer to Arusha Coffee Lodge

Day 2

Tarangire Treetops

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Coffee Tour Alfresco lunch in the garden Afternoon game drive in Tarangire Arrival at Tarangire Treetops

Day 3

Tarangire Treetops

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Game drives Authentic Masai village visit Game walk Night game drive

Day 4

The Manor at Ngorongoro

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Morning game drive Arrival at The Manor

Day 5

The Manor at Ngorongoro

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Full day in the Ngorongoro Crater

Day 6

Serengeti Migration Camp

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Excursion to Lake Manyara National Park or enjoy a host of activities at the Manor Game Drive to Serengeti Migration Camp from airstrip Arrival at Serengeti Migration Camp

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Day 7

Serengeti Migration Camp

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Day 8

Departure

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Upgrade to a Plantation Suite is upon availability at time of check in. Drinks are included except premium drinks.

Full day exploring the vast Serengeti Lunch in the bush Game walk Game drive en-route to the airstrip Transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home

Day 1: Welcome to Tanzania! Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) a Zara Tours Representative will welcome you and you will be chauffeured to The Arusha Coffee Lodge. Here you will enjoy a complimentary upgrade to one of our 12 Plantation Suites. Your stay at The Arusha Coffee Lodge is on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks, laundry service and transfers).

The Arusha Coffee Lodge is a haven for calming composure before or after your Zara Tours safari. Located in Arusha, at the foot of Mt. Meru, nestled among seemingly endless acres of emerald green coffee bushes, is the idyllic Arusha Coffee Lodge. Her farmhouse styled plantation houses welcome you to experience an unexpected class of style and service. Sip champagne as you reminisce about your adventures and the bygone eras of settlers, pioneers and explorers. Indulge yourself and unwind in the hearth and home styled comfort of the Arusha Coffee Lodge.

Day 2: After breakfast and a briefing on your SkySafari you can enjoy a Coffee Tour on a nearby plantation. After an Alfresco Lunch in the gardens of the lodge you will be chauffeured to Arusha Airport for your flight to Kuro Airstrip in Tarangire National Park. On arrival at the airstrip, the Tarangire Treetops team will meet you for a game drive in Tarangire National Park ending in Treetops’ Private Reserve. You will arrive at Tarangire Treetops in time for sundowners. Your stay here at Tarangire Treetops is for 2 nights in a Tree House, and is on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks, laundry service, transfers, game drives and scheduled activities).

The Tarangire Treetops’ houses meander through the branches of thousand-year old trees. The nights are magical, as the winds seem to carry bedtime stories from the ancient branches of the mighty marula and baobabs, to calm your senses and cradle your slumber. Under these clear and sparkling African skies your dreams and fairy tales have been waiting for you! Nowhere, does fantasy come alive as it does here. Awaken to beautiful bird song, leave only your footprints, take only your memories, as you walk alongside the creatures of the African wilderness.

Day 3: After breakfast at Treetops you will enjoy a full day of activities including game drives, a visit to an authentic Masai village, a game walk, sundowners in the bush and a night game drive. Lunch and dinner will be served at Treetops.

Tarangire National Park Tarangire has a stunning baobab-studded landscape and is a bird watchers paradise, containing the highest number of breeding bird species of any habitat in the world. It is also home to thousands of resident elephants and huge herds of buffalo, a good place to see leopard and lion and a wide variety of plains game. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It's the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar longnecked gerenuk are regularly observed.

Dinner at Treetops is always a delight, whether it is in the MasaiManyatta under the stars with local Masai warriors to entertain or in the more sophisticated dhow-wood furnished restaurant overlooking the floodlit waterhole being overlooked in turn by giant baobab trees.

Day 4: After breakfast you will enjoy a morning game drive through Tarangire National Park. Stop at leisure for a picnic lunch on your way to Kuro Airstrip and connect to Manyara Airstrip. On arrival, our team from The Manor at Ngorongoro will meet you and transfer you to The Manor where you will arrive in time for high-tea. Here, your 2-night stay will be in a cottage on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks, laundry service, transfers, game drives and scheduled activities).

The Manor at Ngorongoro, located on a huge coffee estate adjacent to the Ngorongoro Conservation area, enjoys magnificent views over the coffee bushes to far-flung African horizons. Designed to celebrate the Cape Dutch settlers influence in the region, its sparkling, white painted, ornate gables are set off perfectly amongst the mature indigenous and exotic trees.

Enjoy the splendour of watching the sun go down from your private terrace before an evening of sophisticated up–country hospitality in the magnificent main house.

Day 5: After breakfast, a Zara Tours vehicle will drive you down the crater for a full day of exploration of the Ngorongoro Crater. A picnic hamper lunch will be served on the crater floor. After lunch, you will explore more of the crater before heading back to the Manor for the evening cocktails, dinner and overnight.

Ngorongoro& The Crater The Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania, once a gigantic volcano, is the largest intact caldera in the world. Some maintain that before it erupted, it would have been higher than Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Today, long since having collapsed and eroded, it is an extensive highland area with the famous 600 m deep Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. Endangered black rhino are protected within its rim, giant tusked elephants wander the forests, blackmaned lions stalk the grasslands, and flamingoes crowd the soda lakes. An estimated 25 000 large mammals are resident in this bowl of plenty, including a population of approximately 6 000 resident wildebeest, 16 highly endangered black rhino and around 70 lions. Cheetah move in and out of the Crater, while leopard are most often encountered in the spectacular Lerai Forest.

Day 6: Today, you have the option of visiting the Lake Manyara National Park or staying at the lodge to explore the estate. Choose from a host of activities including horseback riding, cycling, an estate tour or a massage treatment or you may opt to just relax. After lunch you will be driven to the Manyara airstrip for your onward flight to the Serengeti where upon arrival you will be met by the Migration Camp team. The afternoon will be spent on a game drive with arrival at Serengeti Migration Camp in time for sundowners. You will spend the next 2 nights at Serengeti Migration Camp where your stay is in a luxurious safari tent, on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks, laundry service, transfers, game drives and scheduled activities).

Serengeti Migration camp is hidden in a beautiful place where the spirit of your origins is rekindled, a place where the breeze whispers in your ear, assuring you that life has meaning beyond the “everyday”. She is a spa for your soul and nourishment for life’s numbness. At Migration Camp, silence and peace are so enchanting, that they create a private symphony whose audience is your every sensation. Discover the pleasure of raw wilderness on a level never imagined.

Day 7: After breakfast you will spend the full day exploring the vast Serengeti. Enjoy a lunch in the bush, after which the afternoon will be spent game viewing. You will return to Serengeti Migration Camp in time for sundowners and dinner.

The Serengeti It is not possible to say with any accuracy where the Great Migration of the Wildebeest will be at any one time. There are a number of determining factors depending on the rains and the grazing. However one can be assured that if there is a good chance of seeing it then this can be accomplished from Migration Camp. So today will be spent in an open safari cruiser, well stocked with a picnic hamper and cool drinks, for the great expedition to find the Migration. But it should be remembered that not all the animals in the Serengeti opt to join the wildebeest in their time-honoured circuit to find the best grazing. Zebras certainly tag along and a good number of predators who are looking for the weak and unwary. But many species are quite happy with their own territory, which makes a day’s game driving in the Serengeti an absolute delight and an experience to be treasured and remembered.

Day 8: Enjoy a game walk exploring the banks of the great Grumeti River. Lunch will be served at the lodge and thereafter a game drive en route to the Lobo airstrip for your flight back to Arusha. On arrival you will be welcomed and met by a Zara Tours representative and chauffeured to Kilimanjaro Airport. End of our services.

Today your African Safari has come to an end. We trust you will take home memories to last a lifetime and hope that we are able to say ‘Karibu Tanzania’* again soon! * Welcome to Tanzania in Kiswahili

SkySafari : Start Dates 2015 The dates highlighted below denote the first day of the SkySafari Classic itinerary which is the overnight stay at Arusha Coffee Lodge.

January

February

M

T

W 7 14 21 28

T 1 8 15 22 29

F 2 9 16 23 30

S 3 10 17 24 31

S 4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

M

T

W

T

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

F 1 8 15 22 29

S 2 9 16 23 30

S 3 10 17 24 31

4 11 18 25

W 2 9 16 23 30

T 3 10 17 24

F 4 11 18 25

S 5 12 19 26

S 6 13 20 27

May

7 14 21 28

T

W

T

F

S

S 1 8 15 22

2 9 16 23

3 10 17 24

4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

T 2 9 16 23 30

W 3 10 17 24

T 4 11 18 25

F 5 12 19 26

S 6 13 20 27

S 7 14 21 28

T 1 8 15 22 29

F 2 9 16 23 30

S 3 10 17 24 31

S 4 11 18 25

June

September M

March

M

T 1 8 15 22 29

M 1 8 15 22 29

T

W

T

F

S

2 9 16 23 30

3 10 17 24 31

4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

S 1 8 15 22 29

M

T

7 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

W 1 8 15 22 29

T 2 9 16 23 30

F 3 10 17 24 31

S 4 11 18 25

S 5 12 19 26

S 1 8 15 22 29

July

October T

W

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

Mid Season Departures

M

T

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

W 1 8 15 22 29

T 2 9 16 23 30

F 3 10 17 24

S 4 11 18 25

S 5 12 19 26

S 2 9 16 23 30

S 6 13 20 27

August

November

M

Festive Season Departures

April

M

M

T

W

T

F

3 10 17 24

4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

S 1 8 15 22 29

W 2 9 16 23 30

T 3 10 17 24 31

F 4 11 18 25

S 5 12 19 26

December

M

T

W

T

F

S

2 9 16 23 30

3 10 17 24

4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

M 7 14 21 28

Green Season Departures

T 1 8 15 22 29

High Season Departures

SkySafari Classic : Rates - 2015 SkySafari Classic & SkySafari Plus are inclusive of: full board accommodation, selected drinks, activities as outlined, all flights & transfers as per itinerary & laundry services. No. of Nights / Days

TA NZ A NI A

7 Nights / 8 Days 1 Night

2 Nights

2 Nights

Per Person in Shared Accommodation

Park & Crater Fees*

Festive Season

High Season

Mid Season

Green Season

up to 31/3/15

from 1/4/15

$7,395

$7,263

$6,796

$6,429

$395

$455

2 Nights

*Park and crater fees are per person, and are applicable to the SkySafari Classic itinerary & SkySafari Plus and are subject to change. Rates are inclusive of applicable government taxes and service charges, and are subject to change. The rates mentioned in this document are non-binding and do not constitute a contract.

SkySafari Plus : Optional Extensions & Rates 2015 Create your ideal safari by adding any of the SkySafari Plus options below to the SkySafari Classic itinerary. Prices shown below are per person, in US Dollars and are based on two people in shared accommodation. TA NZ A NI A

KEN YA

1 Night / 2 Days

2 Nights / 3 Days

2 Nights / 3 Days

4 Nights / 5 Days

3 Nights / 4 Days

4 Nights / 5 Days

1st Jan 4th Jan 2015

$320

$1,745

$1,745

N/A

$2,830

N/A

5th Jan 28th Feb 2015

$300

$1,705

$1,705

$2,650

$2,600

$1,615

1st Mar 6th Apr 2015

$263

$1,608

$1,608

$2,650

$2,600

$1,615

7th Apr 31st May 2015

$225

$1,414

$1,414

N/A

$2,330

$1,295

1st Jun 30th Jun 2015

$300

$1,608

$1,608

$2,650

$2,600

$1,615

1st July 31st Oct 2015

$300

$1,705

$1,705

$2,650

$2,775

$1,615

1st Nov 19th Dec 2015

$225

$1,414

$1,414

$2,650

$2,330

$1,485

20th Dec 2015 4th Jan 2016

$320

$1,745

$1,745

N/A

$2,830

N/A

N/A

$120

$120

N/A

$210

N/A

Park Fees

In addition:

In addition:

In addition:

In addition:

• Complimentary upgrade to a Plantation Suite (subject to availability)

• Full-day game drive from Serengeti Pioneer Camp to Serengeti Migration Camp

• Full-day game drive from Serengeti Migration Camp to Serengeti Pioneer Camp

• Scheduled flight • Scheduled flight from from the Serengeti to the Serengeti to the Zanzibar Masai Mara

• Inclusive of meals and selected drinks

• Daily game drives in the Serengeti National Park

• Daily game drives in the Serengeti National Park

• Return transfers to Zanzibar Airport

• One massage per person

• Guided walking safari

In addition:

• Bush breakfast • Scheduled flight from the Masai Mara to Nairobi Wilson Airport

Extending from Sand River Masai Mara Only In addition: • Scheduled flight from the Masai Mara to Diani Beach • Hotel transfer from airstrip

• Dinner in Nairobi on the last day

• One massage per person

• Transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi

• Transfer to Mombasa International Airport

For private guides, foreign language guides, exclusive use of game-drive vehicle, please contact us at [email protected] for applicable rates. Additional nights at any of the above lodges and camps are available on request. For any further information, please contact us at [email protected]