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Overview
Itinerary
This nine-day journey is two adventures in one beginning deep in the African wilderness of Nyerere National Park with game drives, a river boat safari, and a Maasai bush walk, before returning to Zanzibar for a full island experience that takes in spice farms, dolphin snorkeling, the Safari Blue lagoon, and long evenings on the north coast. A trip that truly has it all.
Our driver will pick you up at a Scheduled time. After arrival you will be transferred straight to the hotel at Stone town [15 km] from the airport.
STONE TOWN TOUR
Later our guide will come to go for a stone town tour for a cultural and local experience. The tour takes around 2 hours whereby our guide will take you all around the narrow streets of stone town and to various museums such as the slave market, the historical old fort and later on our guide will escort you to the market for shopping if interested. Stone town is a world heritage site whereby the uniqueness of the town is majestic since it has been standing for hundreds of years.
Later to return to your for overnight.
NB: The night will be spent at STONE TOWN (WEST COAST) SEYYIDA HOTEL/TEMBO HOTEL
NYERERE NATIONAL PARK
Early pick up from your hotel at 06:00 am to Zanzibar airport for Nyerere National Park which is one of the southern national parks in Tanzania. Departure is at 07:00am. The first day you will do a game drive to various places of the park. The park is home of a huge number of wildlife animals you can find when on safari. Predators such as Lions, leopards, crocodiles and preys such as the antelopes and buffalos live in the park. You can spot endangered black rhinos and it is hard to find East African wild dogs as well as hyenas. Cape buffaloes, Maasai giraffes, wildebeests and zebras live here too, the latter two are known by the great migration, and of course it is home to impalas, large numbers of Lichtenstein’s hartebeests, waterbucks and sable antelope in addition to elands and bushbucks. It is much quieter here than in other parks, so you definitely have the chance of a unique experience during your Tanzania vacation. The park was previously home to a very large number of many African bush elephants. Unfortunately numbers have greatly reduced because of excessive poaching that has been happening in the park.
The park is also home to thousands of birds. Scientists have recorded over 445 different birds’ species that live in the various habitats within the park. The giant kingfishers, the pink backed pelican as well as the African skimmer live for instance near the lake areas. Along the sandbanks you will see the white-fronted bee-eater, fish eagle, carmine, ibises and palm nut vultures. The purple-crested turaco, yellow-billed stork, trumpeter hornbill, white-crowned spur-winged plovers, malachite kingfishers and various small waders are among other species of water birds that you can observe in the park, as well migrant species
NB: The night will be spent at AFRICA SAFARI LODGE OR NYERERE TENTED CAMP
NYERERE NATIONAL PARK + FLIGHT BACK TO ZANZIBAR
Early pick up at around 08:00 am for the second day which you will do a boat ride and a village tour and a walking safari before departing back to Zanzibar. . Departure is at around 04:00pm on the second safari day back to Zanzibar. Our Zanzibar guide will be waiting for your arrival and transfer you to the hotel.
NB: The night will be spent at STONE TOWN (WEST COAST) SEYYIDA HOTEL/TEMBO HOTEL
PRISON ISLAND
Pick up is at 10:00am to go for Prison Island and Nakupenda where you’ll start with Prison Island where we will take a boat from the beach and we will take 30 minutes to there, this Island was formerly owned by Arab merchants and was privately used as a place of keeping rebellious slaves.
The prison was built in 1893 as a central prison for Zanzibar, hence the name “PRISON ISLAND”. The island is also a sanctuary of Gigantic Tortoises, Dik diks, Peacocks, Mangrove forest and holds a prison.
NAKUPENDA SANDBANK
From 11-12 pm you will move to Nakupenda Island and sandbank (30 minutes) by boat. Nakupenda is a Swahili word that means “I love you” this is an ideal place near stone town where you can relax, swim, and snorkel. At 12-1pm you will enjoy your seafood Barbeque, soft drinks, tropical fruits under the shade of built up umbrellas, and you will have to relax by swimming and snorkel until 03:00 pm.
SPICE TOUR
Our Driver guide will later pick you up to go for a Spice Farm experience after the prison island and Nakupenda experience. The tour takes around 3 hours. In the farms one can learn about rare tropical fruits, spices and other rare species of plants that grows in Zanzibar and tropical areas. You will have a chance to eat, smell and taste different fruits and spices; hence you will understand why Zanzibar is nicknamed the spice Island. Later you’ll get a chance to see a local guy climb up a coconut tree to the top, he’ll sing local songs to entertain, and you will have a pleasure of drinking fresh coconut water from the coconut tree, after the whole experience you’ll be given our tradition made ornaments which are made by coconut leaves such as a crown, tie, necklace and bracelets as gifts to take. The trip normally takes around three hours. Then our driver will transfer you to the hotel for a sleep over.
NB: The night will be spent at STONE TOWN (WEST COAST) SEYYIDA HOTEL/TEMBO HOTEL
LOCAL SAILING + MAASAI WORLD + HIDDEN PARADISE
Our driver guide will pick you up at 10-11 am for a full day special package covering the south east of Unguja Island whereby the trips exploration starts at the east coast for local sailing activity which is advantageous to experience the east coast of Zanzibar where you’ll do snorkeling, local fishing , watch colourful star fish and even see locals doing sea weed farming then a drive to go for Maasai world and experience the culture of maasai in their own village where they’ll show you their beautiful tradition and culture when their in the wild life with the wild animals later drive to mtende beach at makunduchi, mtende is an outstanding natural beach which is a great place to swim and watch out God’s creation. After spending some time at mtende we will transfer you to the rock restaurant at michamvi later on we will drive to kae funky michamvi for a sunset view and acrobatic entertainment. Kae is a great place for entertainment and connecting with people and it is a perfect spot to take pictures as memories. The trip ends after sunset and then transfer to the hotel begins.
HIDDEN PARADISE CONSISTS
-MTENDE VILLAGE
-MTENDE BEACH
-SHANGA RESTAURANT
-THE ROCK RESTAURANT
NB: The night will be spent at STONE TOWN (WEST COAST) SEYYIDA HOTEL/TEMBO HOTEL
FREE DAY
Free day to relax and enjoy the hotel and stone town while later at 11-12 pm our driver will drive to the north coast for your new hotel.
NB: The night will be spent at MATEMWE (NORTH COAST) SUNSHINE BAY HOTEL/THE MORA HOTEL
MNEMBA ATOLL
Early morning at 7-8 am we will pick you up to Matemwe beach for Mnemba Island Dolphin tour. It’s a double snorkeling experience where You will have a chance to do snorkeling with Pods of Dolphins, Later on go for Mnemba island for snorkeling at a beautiful coral for colorful aquatic and sunbathing, the picnic involves tropical fruits before sailing back to the shores. The driver will be waiting at the parking lot for a drive to the sea turtles aquarium at around 11-12pm
SWIMMING WITH SEA TURTLES
At 12 pm we will have reached at the Sea Turtles aquarium where you’ll get a chance to swim with these beautiful creatures where by the aquarium holds a variety of different sea turtles and other marine species, you will have an opportunity to feed and swim with them. The activity will take around 2hrs later drive to Kendwa which is the best in Zanzibar where you can choose optional water sports such as Clear Kayaking, Jetski and other ones before 4 pm to go for Sunset Cruise.
SUNSET CRUISE
Later on at 4 pm we will drive to Kendwa beach for sunset cruising around the coast line on a dhow. This is another relaxing and sometimes romantic for honeymoon couples. Drinks, fruits and Zanzibar tasty snacks are offered on board, the cruise can be accompanied by Zanzibar taarab
music or Africa ngoma dance. The trip normally takes around 2 hours, from 04:00 pm to dusk.
NB: The night will be spent at MATEMWE (NORTH COAST) SUNSHINE BAY HOTEL/THE MORA HOTEL
SAFARI BLUE
After breakfast we will pick you up at 8:00 am for the Safari Blue where we will drive to Fumba village where our sailing boat will be awaiting to take you to Kwale Island for BLUE WATER SAFARI. We will sail in a beautiful traditional wooden dhow, snorkel over the reefs of Menai Bay conservation area, feast on a Swahili influenced seafood buffet that include Fish on coconut source, Rice, French Fries, Calamari, Lobster, Prawns, tropical fruits etc. We will visit a Baobab tree believed to be more than 600years old then sail to the back of the island then go through to a place called blue lagoon where the place is full of natural diversity because it’s surrounded by mangroves & coral rocks and the water is crystal clear and warm, the trip ends at 04:00pm and we will drive to the hotel for a sleep over.
NB: The night will be spent at MATEMWE (NORTH COAST) SUNSHINE BAY HOTEL/THE MORA HOTEL
FREE DAY FOR RELAXATION
Free day to relax and enjoy the beach and the hotel
DEPARTURE
At a scheduled time we will drive you to the airport.
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