Tanzania Royal Safari - 10 Days

ARUSHA - LAKE MANYARA - NGORONGORO CRATER - SERENGETI - WESTERN SERENGETI

This deluxe safari provides you with an opportunity to explore the best of Tanzania in comfort and style, with stays at the Serena Lodges—the finest in Tanzania—and the luxurious Kirawira Tented camp in the Western Serengeti. Visit Lake Manyara with its tree-climbing lions, the Ngorongoro Crater, which offers year-round game viewing, and the Serengeti, a world heritage site that translates to “endless plains” in the Masai language. Two nights at Kirawira in the western corridor of the Serengeti make this safari memorable.

Somak Advantages

• 24/7 travel assistance available through three
   Somak offices in East Africa

• First class accommodation

• Domestic flight between Serengeti -Arusha

• 21 meals in Tanzania as indicated
   7 Breakfast(B) - 7 Lunches (L) - 7 Dinners (D)

• Airport transfers

• Safari briefing with a Somak tour director

• Visit at Masai Village

• Guaranteed window seating in Somak safari
Cruise

• 3 nights in the famous Serengeti Plains.

• Game drives in 4 major national Parks .

• Somak Travel Pack including personalized
   itinerary with essential information and travel
   bag

Itinerary

Day 1: Friday Depart USA
Let the adventure begin when you board your overnight flight to Amsterdam with meals and a movie on board.

Day 2: Saturday Amsterdam/Kilimanjaro
Arrive in Amsterdam in the morning and connect to your flight to Kilimanjaro. ‘Jambo’! Welcome to Tanzania. On arrival, meet a Somak Safaris Tour Director who will escort you to your hotel. Serena Mountain Village Lodge

Day 3: Sunday Lake Manyara
Safari briefing at breakfast time prepares you for an exciting adventure. Depart to Lake Manyara National Park, home to numerous birds, elephants, tree-climbing lions, hippos and buffaloes. Arrive in time for lunch and an afternoon game drive. In the evening relax with a sundowner in your peaceful surroundings. Dinner and overnight. (BLD) Lake Manyara Serena Lodge

Day 4: Monday Ngorongoro Crater
You will have an early morning start to the Ngorongoro Conservation area, host to the “birthplace of man.” It is also home to a unique intact caldera, the Ngorongoro Crater. Arrive in time for lunch and half day game drive at the floor of the crater. Return to the lodge for overnight. (BLD) Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

Day 5: Tuesday Ngorongoro Crater
Enjoy breathtaking views of the crater as the sun rises, and descend 2000 feet below the rim for a half day of spectacular game viewing. The crater is home to abundant game, including the “Big Five,” along with the black rhino, jackal and cape buffalo. Return to the lodge for lunch and an afternoon visit to Masai Village. (BLD) Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

Day 6: Wednesday Serengeti
This morning travel to Olduvai Gorge, the site of the discovery of the remains of prehistoric man by Dr. Leakey. Continue your drive to the world-famous Serengeti Game Reserve with lunch en-route, arriving at Serengeti Serena Lodge in the late afternoon. An afternoon game drive through this magnificent wildlife haven is followed by a bush barbeque dinner (weather permitting) and overnight at the lodge. (BLD) Serengeti Serena Lodge

Day 7: Thursday Western Serengeti
Early morning game drive and return to the lodge for breakfast at the lodge; or you may opt for an optional early morning balloon safari (extra cost: $400 per person) over the Serengeti plains, which includes a bubbly breakfast in the bush. After breakfast depart by road to the luxurious Kirawira Tented Camp with a game drive en route. Spend the remainder of the day relaxing in your picturesque surroundings. The views from the camp are breathtaking and on a clear day Lake Victoria can be seen from the tented lounge. Enjoy a late afternoon game drive before dinner and overnight. (BLD) Serena Kirawira Tented camp

Day 8: Friday Western Serengeti
Enjoy a full day in Serengeti with morning and afternoon game drives. (BLD) Serena Kirawira Tented Camp

Day 9: Saturday Kilimanjaro
After breakfast, transfer to Grumeti airstrip for your flight to Kilimanjaro, where you are met on arrival and transferred to the lodge or extend your safari to zanzibar. The rest of the afternoon is at leisure. Early dinner, transfer to the airport for your overnight flight to Amsterdam (BLD) Dayroom/Serena Mountain Village Lodge

Day 10: Sunday Amsterdam/ Arrive USA
Arrive in Amsterdam and connect to your homebound flight to the United States.

Accommodation

	The only ‘tree hotel’ ever to be built on the slopes of Kenya’s legendary Mount Kenya, Mountain Lodge offers a matchless game viewing opportunity whilst combining a glorious panorama of mountain vistas with the primordial splendours of an ancient rainforest. Floating 2,195 m high on the flanks of Kenya’s highest mountain and secreted deep within her largest forest reserve, the lodge offers not only the champagne-clarity of mountain air, the tranquility of the forest and a colourful cavalcade of wildlife but also the chance of scaling the icy peaks of Africa’s second-highest mountain.
Serena Mountain Village Lodge

	Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge is perched on the edge of the Mto Wa Mbu escarpment with one of the greatest views over the Great Rift Valley and its soda lake. It is difficult to imagine a more spectacular setting. The lake is renowned among ornithologists for its birds of prey and the famous tree-climbing lions that inhabit the woodland that nestles between the lake and the Rift Valley.s The lodge glows with tranquillity and peace. The design was inspired by the area’s abundant bird life.
Lake Manyara Serena

	Often described as the ‘Eighth’ Wonder of the World, the Ngorongoro crater is so spectacular that it touches all the senses. A volcanic crater of over 259 square kilometres with surrounding walls rising 609 metres above it, the crater is a natural sanctuary for over 25,000 animals, including the black rhino. It is also a conservation area inhabited by the Masai tribe. The Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge is built onto the rim of this amazing natural phenomenon, a stunning plant and local creeper covered stone lodge where guests co-exist in perfect harmony with the surrounding natural environment and wildlife. Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, close to some of the earliest dwellings of man in Olduvai Gorge, has taken their cave paintings as inspiration.
Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

	Set high on a hill with 360 degree views out over the Serengeti savannah, the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge combines luxury with simplicity and is Africa at its very best. Inspired by the traditional African village, the lodge is rich in local atmosphere and the bedrooms are housed in individual thatched huts. These huts are furnished with authentic African furniture and handicrafts, with balconies overlooking the awesome expanse of the Serengeti. Communal areas of the lodge are created out of thatch and indigenous wood and give guests a true ‘out of Africa’ experience. Great attention has been paid to both architectural and decorative detailing and the lodge is a photographer’s joy.
Serengeti Serena Lodge

	Standing high on the bluff of a bush-cloaked ridge, commanding panoramic views over the endlessly rolling reaches and volcanic reefs of the Serengeti National Park, Kirawira Camp is the epitome of colonially-styled safari luxury. Designed in typically Edwardian style, it features an elegant central meeting tent evocatively furnished with a tasteful selection of chintz-covered chaises longues, jewel-hued Persian rugs, antique escritoires, wind-up phonograms, leather-bound travelling cases, brass shooting sticks, carved rocking chairs, and stud-backed smoking chairs
Serena Kirawira Tented camp

Dates and Prices

Tanzania Royal Safari Tour Code TRS

2008 Guaranteed departures: Fridays

Departure Dates Per Person Single
Supplement Round Trip
Airfare from

Jan 11, 25 $5315 $1095 $1685

Feb 08, 22 $5315 $1095 $1685

Mar 12, 26 $4955 $1095 $1685

Apr 11, 25 $4390 $890 $1685

May 09, 23, 30 $4390 $890 $1685

Jun 13, 20, 27 $5315 $1095 $2185

Jul 04, 11, 25 $5315 $1095 $2285

Aug 08, 22, 29 $5315 $1095 $2185

Sep 05, 19, 26 $5315 $1095 $2185

Oct 10, 21 $5315 $1095 $1685

Nov 07, 21 $4955 $1095 $1685

Dec 12, 19 $5315 $1095 $2185

International airfare from New York in Economy Class

Add-on fares available from other cities

2009 Guaranteed Departures: Fridays

Departure Dates	Per Person	Single Supplement	Round Trip Airfare from
Jan 16, 30	$5615	$1140	$1785
Feb 06, 20	$5615	$1140	$1785
Mar 06, 20	$5255	$1140	$1785
Apr 10, 24	$4690	$935	$1785
May 08, 15, 29	$4690	$935	$1785
Jun 05, 19, 26	Call
Jul 03, 17, 31	Call
Aug 07, 14, 21	Call
Sep 04, 18, 25	Call
Oct 02, 16, 30	Call
Nov 06, 13, 20	Call
Dec 07, 14, 21	Call
**Prices from June 2009 onwards will be available after May 31, 2008

Notes:

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Prices are per person double occupancy

• Airfares are based on departures from New York, departures not included

• Airfares are subject to airlines penalties and seasonal surcharges

• Airfares are subject to availability at the time of reservations

• Easter, Christmas and New Year Holiday supplements: $285.00 per person

• Discounts available for children, families and groups

Land only prices include:

• Meet and greet and all airport transfers in Arusha, Tanzania

• 21 Meals as indicated (B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner)

• Game drives as per above Itinerary.
• Park entrance fees, hotel taxes and service charges
• Accommodation in standard rooms
• Services of a professional English-speaking Somak guide/driver
• Guaranteed window seat for best game viewing

• Time saving flight from Serengeti to Arusha.
• Visit to Masai village

• Hotel dayroom on you last day of safari

• Somak travel Pack with personalized itinerary with essential information and travel

bag

Not included in land only price:

International airfares and departure taxes, Visa fees and associated costs, items of personal nature such as phones calls, faxes, meals not specified, laundry, beverages, bottled water, tips to driver/guides, waiters and porters, medical and trip cancellation insurance, excess baggage or shipping charges, optional excursions and any airport departure taxes in Tanzania.

ZANZIBAR Extension from $990

Zanzibar is a perfect and delightful way to end your East African Safari. Somak offers a choice of the two best hotels on the island. The package includes:

3 nights hotel accommodation, breakfast and dinner daily, airport transfers and round-trip flights from Nairobi.

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