9 days Tanzania Birding expedition
Safari Overview
Arrival and departure: Dodoma- Kilimanjaro
Day 1- arrive, L. Victoria shores
Day 2- L. Victoria shores
Day 3- serengeti
Day 4- serengeti
Day 5- Ngorongoro
Day 6- Tarangire
Day 7- L. Manyara
Day 8-9 Kilimanjaro to departure
Detailed itinerary
Day 1-2
Destination: Lake Victoria shores
On arrival at the airport, you will be picked up by our guide and head to the shores of Africa’s largest Lake Victoria where you will reside at your booked accommodation. You will get glamourous marvel at the endless horizon of this great water mass, visit some landing sites and learn of the numerous fish species from the lake such as tilapia, nile perch, cat fish, lung fish, silver fish and enjoy fish delicacies. The shores of this lake are also a great birding haven having numerous bird species such as Great kingfisher, stripped kingfisher, egyptian geese, marabou storks, blue headed Coucal, white egrets, red-chested cuckoo, black cuckoo, African cuckoo, laughing dove, rock pigeon, egyptian goose, yellow-billed buck, red-billed duck, spur winged goose, white faced whistling duck, blue turaco, little egret, great cormorant, eastern plantain eater, parasitic weaver, red-chested sunbird among others.
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Day 3-4
Destination: serengeti NP
On this day, you will head out to serengeti national park, the home of the great migration. Never disappointing right from the time of entry till exit, this park is one of the largest parks in Africa and in the world and one of those with the highest concentration of wild game per square km in the world ranging from the Africa’s big 5 to the ugly 5 and more than 500 bird species such as; Hadada ibis, turaco, abdim’s stork, white- backed vulture, green wood hoopoe, mouse bird, red-billed teal, black-chested snake eagle, kori bustard, black headed heron, African sacred ibis, African green pigeon, black-winged kite, hamerkops, silver bird, gray-headed kingfisher, african rail, striped kingfisher, African hoopoe, schalow’s turaco among others. Don’t miss watching numerous lion families, elephant herds, wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, leopards, cheetahs, waterbucks, gazelles, kobs, reptiles, wild dogs, foxes, vultures, eagles, turacos, secretary birds a few but to mention this endless list. The tour around this park will leave you satisfied by its nature and habitats.
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Day 5
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 6
Destination: Tarangire national park
On this day, you will head to Tarangire national park to continue enjoying amazing discoveries of the wild and numerous bird species like; yuhina, red and yellow barbet, bushshrike, buphagidae, superb starling, yellow-billed stork, northern red-billed hornbill, cuckoo shrike, bustard, painted snipe, rufous-tailed weaver, red-necked spurfowl, wood hoopoe, helmet shrike, viduidae, sandgrouse, nicator, ashy starling, black-headed heron, yellow-necked spurfowl, spider hunter among others. The park is also enriched with Africa’s big 5 game; lions, leopards, elephants, cheetahs, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, baboons, hyenas, wildebeests, zebras, crocodiles in the Tarangire river that anchors the park’s ecosystem, gazelles, kobs, water bucks, warthogs among others. The other exceptional siting would be of the ancient baobab trees that are scattered all over the park. The park is also resident to over 550 bird species making it a worthy birding destination.
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Day 7
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.
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Day 8-9
Destination: Kilimanjaro NP
On this day, you will head out 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. On the last day you will head out of the park and prepare for your departure flight.
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