5 day birding Tanzania safari
Safari Overview
Arrival & departure: Kilimanjaro
Day 1- arrive, Kilimanjaro NP
Day 2-3- Ngorongoro NP
Day 4- l. Manyara
Day 5- departure
Detailed itinerary
Day 1
Destination: Kilimanjaro NP
On arrival you will be picked by our guide and you will head to Kilimanjaro national park anchored by Africa’s highest peak and the highest stand-alone mountain in the world; one of the easiest to hike too. The park offers several safari experience such as wild game drives, hiking, picnics and camping. You will have the best sceneries of Africa’s highest snow-capped mountain and its biodiversity that harbors numerous bird species such as; cinnamon-chested bee-eater, white-necked raven, trumpeter hornbill, malachite sunbird, Schawlow’s turaco, eastern double-collared sunbird, red-winged starling, moorland chat, hartlaub’s turaco, African emerald cuckoo, malachite kingfisher, Andaman coucal, tacazze sunbird, speckled mouse bird, hornbill, silvery-cheeked hornbill, Klaas’ cuckoo, augur buzzard, cardinal woodpecker, bronze sunbird among others and the largest herds of the African elephants along with lions, leopards, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, gazelles, kobs, waterbucks among others. the combination of both montane and savannah grassland will give you the best environmental sceneries.
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Day 2-3
Destination: Ngorongoro crater
This day will find you at the world’s largest crater and its vegetation that gets look like the “garden of Eden” will leave you amazed with the large number of wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, hippos, elands, kobs, bush bucks, waterbucks, rhinos among others and numerous bird species such as turaco, great kingfisher, abdim’s stork, white-backed vulture, augur buzzard, eater double collared sunbird, speke’s weaver, Jackson’s window bird, tawny eagle, white eyed slaty flycatcher, gull-gilled tern, whiskered tern, white-winged tern, yellow-billed stork, long tailed cormorant, great white pelican, western cattle egret, great egret, gray crowned crane, mottled swift, pied avocet, common green shank, common sandpiper, blacksmith lapwing among others; along with various features such as Ndutu plains, Gol mountain, Endoro waterfalls, Olduvai gorge, shifting sands among others. This part of the planet also holds evidence of human existence millions of years ago.
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Day 4-5
Destination: lake Manyara
Today you will be at lake Manyara national park known for its tree climbing lions a behavior not common for lions and huge elephant herds. Lake Manyara that anchors the park’s ecosystem is a soda ash lake and attracts thousands of flamingos for food and residence making it a perfect biding haven; crowned hornbill, little bee-eater, palm-nut vulture, pink backed pelican, silvery-cheecked hornbill, crowned eagle, crested guinea fowl, pied kingfisher, spur-winged goose, grey crowned crane, great white pelican, comb duck, African grey hornbill, African fish eagle among others. Other wild life in the park include leopards, cheetahs, hippos, buffaloes, giraffes, oribis, hyenas, gazelles, kobs, waterbucks, zebras, and many more numerous bird species. On the second day, you will leave the park at the timing of your departure flight.
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