{"id":1144,"date":"2025-03-27T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guruadventuresafaris.com\/?page_id=1144"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:24:43","slug":"9-days-tanzania-photography-safari","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guruadventuresafaris.com\/index.php\/9-days-tanzania-photography-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Days Tanzania Photography Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Looking for a fresh and essential place to capture some nicer clicks with your camera lens? A Tanzanian photo safari might just be the place to be for you. You will have many opportunities to explore with your camera, with all the beautiful locations, ranging from national parks such as Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, to historical sites and culturally significant areas. Whether you\u2019re a hobby photographer or you\u2019re more experienced, whether you prefer photographing people, animals or art, there\u2019s plenty for you in Tanzania. Wildlife photography requires patience, preparation, dedication, and a guide that understands how to get you into the right position for that perfect capture. You also need lots of space and equipment to move in your vehicle. In short, you need to go on a dedicated African safari photography tour.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n \n \n Day 1: Arrival In Tanzania At Kilimanjaro International Airport <\/span>\n\n \n
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\n Land at Kilimanjaro International Airport today and our professional private driver guide will meet you, greet, transfer you to your first night accommodation in Arusha and it is this guide that will be with you for the rest duration of your journey. Today you will be transferred by a private car to Arusha city, the gateway to Tanzania\u2019s top national parks. Check in to your hotel and enjoy time to relax after your flight. On this day, your guide will brief you on various aspect of your next day itinerary schedules plus several other optional things to do in Arusha including but not limited to taking you to an open-air market, where the locals come to buy everything from fruits and vegetables to kitchenware and shoes. Take in the sights and sounds as you wander among the stalls, and learn from your guide how to determine the quality of the merchandise\u2014and how to barter (trade) in Swahili ways. Other options include visiting shopping centers in town, visiting nearby museums in Arusha city, coffee estate tour, visiting nearby waterfalls and several other places will be made available for those who arrive early. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n \n \n Day 2: Arusha To Tarangire National Park:<\/span>\n\n \n
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\n After an early breakfast, today you will meet your driver guide and travel by private 4x4 excellent condition safari vehicle to Tarangire National Park, enjoy a full day game driver in this national park with a vast wilderness area that is often overlooked by safari-goers. The park has so much to offer especially in dry season from June, witness large number of migratory animals along with large herds of elephants, the park is home to substantial populations of wildebeest, zebra, impala, giraffe, eland and buffalo, as well as unusual species like the gerenuk and fringe-eared oryx. The primary landscape is dry, open woodland scattered with hundreds of Africa\u2019s prehistoric \u201ctrees of life\u201d\u2014the baobab tree. Spend the day exploring the park in your private safari vehicle, observing wildlife and later in the afternoon stopping for a quick picnic lunch in a scenic spot. Continue on a game drive to explore more of what the park has in store for you and later in the evening settle into your camp or lodge for the evening leisure and rest. Optional things to do include but not limited to taking part in walking safaris and (Night) nocturnal game drives, which are often the experiences that will top up to your Tanzania safari experience with lot of unforgettable life memories. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n \n \n Day3: Full Day Game Drive In Tarangire National Park <\/span>\n\n \n
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\n Today after your delicious breakfast at the lodge restaurant, head off on safari in Tarangires\u2019 remote southern section, where wildlife is plentiful and visitors are mostly few. Travel through landscapes that vary between open plains, swamps, majestic baobab trees and riverine forest, with the dramatic backdrop of the Ol Doinyo Lengai (Mountain of God) an active volcano mountain in the distance of the lake natron area. In the afternoon you will stop at a nice picnic site for lunch and proceed on game drive and later in the evening you will be transferred to Ngorongoro area for an overnight at the Ngorongoro crater lodge or similar for an overnight and evening leisure at this wonderful lodge on the edge of the Ngorongoro volcanic crater. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n \n \n Day4: Karatu To Serengeti National Park (Game En Route)<\/span>\n\n \n
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\n Today our company driver will pick you up from Karatu in the early morning hours, after breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful landscapes of Ngorongoro conservation area Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa \u2013 the Serengeti National Park \u2013 with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Then head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti\u2019s species. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n \n \n Day5 & 6: Full Day Game Drive In Serengeti National Park:<\/span>\n\n \n
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\n In the morning After you have had breakfast, enjoy full day game drive around Serengeti national park allowing you to have unlimited views of what Serengeti can offer to you, The Central Serengeti offers superb game viewing all year round due to its abundance of resident animals. Specifically, the Seronera River Valley in the Central Serengeti is a \u2018must see\u2019 on every safari regardless of the specific month of travel. Game viewing in Central Serengeti is at its best during the dry season (June - November) as resident animals are more concentrated in the immediate area due to the lack of water on the plains. Resident herbivores include impala, buffalo, hippo, warthog, topi, hartebeest, and giraffe. Resident carnivores include lion and leopard. These months are also great to see the huge herds of Wildebeests mixed with zebra on a seasonal migratory in the Serengeti national park. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch for a final game drive in Serengeti national park. After lunch, we will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater via Oldupai gorge Museum or Visit the Maasai Boma in the Ngorongoro area (Option with extra cost). As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater rim, the crater appears half a mile below, inviting you to gaze at this jaw dropping natural wonders. \u201cOften called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed. The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometers wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands. These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals \u2013 including elephants, warthogs, flamingoes, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats. The Maasai can also be seen grazing their cattle alongside the buffalo and wildebeest\u201d. Here you will get out of the safari jeep to enjoy the view along the crater rim if time allows. Afterwards, you will proceed to the lodge for evening leisure and hot dinner <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which includes lions, zebras, flocks of flamingos, elephants, giraffes just to mention a few. Ngorongoro is often referred as the eighth natural wonder, it has been listed as a UNESCO site which is considered the most beautiful and unique place in Africa where man and wildlife stays together in one area, we will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here. We will stop at a nice picnic area for our lunch break and there after we continue with game drive while heading off ascending to the top later in the evening and transfer to Karatu or Mtowambu village for your evening leisure and relaxation until the next day when you go for a final game drive in Lake Manyara national park and transfer to Arusha or Kilimanjaro international airport for your flight back home or to other destinations. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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\n After an early breakfast, you will depart from the campsite for a half day game drive in Lake Manyara national park \u201ca park is well known for its spectacular tree climbing lions which spend most of their time spread out on the tree branches of acacias six to seven meters from the ground but also the park is well known for its tree climbing pythons. Alongside this park lies the Mto wa mbu \u201cThe river of mosquitoes\u201d a small village which hosts almost all the tribes found in Tanzania believed to be more than 120 tribes dwelling in this small town conducting different activities including woodcarving, painting, and farming. After game drive in the late afternoon, we head back to the Kilimanjaro international airport for your flight back home. <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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