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14 Days Tanzania and Zanzibar Honeymoon Safari
14 Days Tanzania and Zanzibar Honeymoon Safari
Overview
Discover Tanzania and Zanzibar Luxury Honeymoon Safari
This luxurious Tanzania Honeymoon Safari takes couples through the iconic Serengeti plains, the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater, and the scenic landscapes of Tarangire before relaxing on Zanzibar’s white-sand beaches. Enjoy private game drives, romantic sundowners, luxury lodges, and unforgettable Indian Ocean experiences designed exclusively for honeymooners.
- Serengeti Balloon Safari Above Migration Herds
- Romantic Zanzibar Sunset Dhow Cruise Experience
- Ngorongoro Crater Big Five Wildlife Adventure
- Private Beach Dinner Under Zanzibar Stars
Inclusions
What's included
- 13 nights full board accommodation as per itinerary
- All meals throughout the safari and beach stay
- All road transfers between safari destinations
- Flights from Arusha or Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar and return
- Professional English-speaking honeymoon safari guide at every destination
- All game drives in private 4x4 safari vehicles, exclusively for your couple
- All national park, conservation area, and crater entry fees
- Full day Ngorongoro Crater game drive with bush picnic lunch on the crater floor
- Guided walking safari in Tarangire National Park
- Highlands walking safari above the Ngorongoro Crater rim
- Mara River crossing vigils in the northern Serengeti
- Maasai cultural village visits at Lake Manyara
- Zanzibar Stone Town guided walking tour
- Zanzibar spice farm tour with spice lunch
- Private sunset dhow cruise on the Indian Ocean
- Reef snorkelling excursion off the Zanzibar north coast
- Private sandbank picnic on the Indian Ocean
- Private romantic beach dinner on the final Zanzibar evening
- Honeymoon room decoration on arrival at every property
- Private bush sundowner setups throughout the safari
- Bottled drinking water throughout the entire journey
Exclusions
What's Excluded
- International flights to and from Tanzania
- Tanzania visa fees
- Travel insurance
- Hot air balloon safari over the Serengeti (available at extra cost and strongly recommended)
- Alcoholic beverages unless specifically included in a particular arrangement
- Spa treatments at any lodge or resort
- Gratuities for guides, drivers, and lodge staff
- Personal items, laundry, and communications
- Optional water sports on Zanzibar beyond those listed in inclusions
- Optional water sports on Zanzibar beyond those listed in inclusions
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Day 1
Arrival and Transfer to Tarangire National Park
Morning – Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport
Your Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package begins at Kilimanjaro International Airport, the gateway to northern Tanzania’s wildlife circuit. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris guide and driver meet you on arrival with a personalised welcome and transfer you directly from the airport through Arusha and south toward the Tarangire ecosystem. The drive from the airport to the park takes approximately two and a half hours, the landscape transitioning from the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro and Meru through the Maasai steppe country toward the Tarangire basin. The first baobabs appear well before the park boundary, standing individually across the open ground, and their appearance announces that the Tanzania honeymoon safari has properly begun.
Afternoon – First Game Drive: The Tarangire River Circuit
The first afternoon drive in Tarangire follows the Tarangire River, the most productive game drive route in the park. The river in the late afternoon draws elephants in their greatest concentrations, and the first encounter with a large Tarangire herd moving to water, the family groups led by their matriarchs, the bulls ranging separately, the calves staying close to the adults, is the kind of experience that sets the standard for everything that follows on the Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package. The river circuit also covers the dry woodland above the banks, the habitat of Tarangire’s well-established lion population, and the open ground where the park’s large buffalo herds and its distinctive greater kudu are regularly found. The baobab groves in the late afternoon light deliver the Tarangire landscape at its most beautiful.
Evening – Sundowner and Romantic Bush Dinner
Tarangire’s first evening sets the tone for the entire honeymoon journey ahead. Your guide arranges sundowners at a viewpoint above the Tarangire River as the sky turns above the baobab canopy. Dinner at your lodge or tented camp follows, with the sounds of the bush night coming in from the darkness around you: elephants moving near the camp perimeter, the distant cough of a leopard on the river banks, the quiet that settles over the African wilderness when the day’s last light has gone.
Early Morning – Dawn Game Drive
The second Tarangire morning begins before sunrise, the vehicle leaving camp while the air is still cold and the eastern sky just beginning to lighten. The Tarangire dawn has a particular quality, the dust that hangs in the dry season air catching the early light above the river, the birds beginning their calls from the baobab canopy, the lions returning from the night’s hunting to rest in the long grass beside the game tracks. The dawn drive follows the known lion territories and the elephant crossing points, where the herds return from their overnight browse to water at the river before the heat of the day builds.
Late Morning – Guided Walking Safari in the Tarangire Bush
One of Tarangire’s finest offerings for honeymoon couples is the guided walking safari, which gives a perspective on the African bush that no vehicle game drive can provide. On foot, with your experienced guide leading at the pace the ground and the animals dictate, the Tarangire landscape reveals itself in a completely different register. The tracks of overnight animals are read in the dust. The birdlife that the vehicle disturbs settles back around the walking party. The scale of the baobabs, which appears enormous from a vehicle, becomes genuinely extraordinary when you are standing at the base of one looking upward. The walk covers safe terrain away from the large predators and gives your honeymoon couple the experience of Africa at ground level.
Afternoon – Silale Swamp Circuit and Baobab Sunset Drive
The afternoon covers the Silale Swamp and the open woodland above the Tarangire River’s southern reaches. The swamp holds breeding colonies of yellow-billed storks and open-bill storks whose nesting activity is visible from the vehicle, and the hippo pods in the permanent water provide the most relaxed and accessible hippo viewing on the entire Tanzania safari tour package. The evening drive returns through the baobab groves as the light turns gold and the elephant herds begin their movement to water, the great animals moving through the ancient trees in the last of the day’s light.
Tarangire Accommodation Options
Tarangire Treetops Lodge (Luxury Tree-House Lodge, above the park boundary, suites built around giant baobab trees), Tarangire Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park on the Tarangire River escarpment), Oliver’s Camp (Luxury Tented Camp, southern Tarangire, walking safari specialist), Swala Camp (Luxury Tented Camp, inside Tarangire National Park, renowned for its baobab setting). 2 nights at your chosen Tarangire accommodation. Full board throughout. Guided walking safari and private sundowner setup included. Bottled drinking water provided.
Day 2
Full Day in Tarangire - Elephant Herds, Baobab Groves and Walking Safari
Day 3
Tarangire to the Central Serengeti
Morning – Transfer to the Serengeti
The drive from Tarangire to the Serengeti heads north and then west, passing through Arusha and into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, following the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater with its extraordinary views down into the caldera before the road descends onto the Serengeti plains. The approach from the east, the landscape opening from the Ngorongoro highlands into the vast Serengeti plain, is one of the great arrival moments of the Tanzania honeymoon safari circuit. The first Serengeti game drive begins upon entry into the park, the road itself productive for wildlife, and the arrival at your camp in the late afternoon gives your couple their first evening on the world’s greatest wildlife plains.
Afternoon – First Serengeti Game Drive: The Seronera Valley
The Seronera Valley in the central Serengeti is the most reliably productive game drive area in the park at any time of year, its permanent rivers and woodland strips holding resident leopard, lion, and cheetah populations regardless of where the migration is positioned in its annual circuit. The afternoon drive through Seronera introduces your couple to the Serengeti at its most concentrated, the kopjes holding sleeping lion prides, the sausage tree canopy above the river revealing the spotted coat of a resting leopard in the late light. The afternoon light in Seronera, low and golden across the grass, makes the wildlife viewing as visually extraordinary as it is biologically rich.
Evening – Sundowner on the Serengeti Plains
Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private sundowner setup on the Serengeti plains for your first evening, a table in the open landscape with cold drinks and the sunset moving across the vast sky above the grass. The Serengeti at dusk, when the migration herds spread in every direction and the lions begin to move in the cooling air, is the Tanzania honeymoon safari moment that defines the journey.
Pre-Dawn – Hot Air Balloon Safari
The hot air balloon safari over the Serengeti at sunrise is the most romantic experience available in any Tanzania honeymoon destination and one of the defining experiences of the best Tanzania honeymoon tour package. The balloon lifts from the plains before first light, rising into the Serengeti dawn as the sky moves through its extraordinary colour progression above the grass. From the basket, the migration herds are visible spreading across the plain in every direction, the scale of the movement comprehensible from above in a way that the vehicle game drive, always inside the migration rather than above it, cannot provide. Lions on a kill. Cheetah moving in the early morning. The Seronera River catching the first light below the drift. The flight lasts approximately one hour and concludes with a champagne breakfast served in the field, white tablecloths on a folding table in the open Serengeti with the balloon deflating behind you.
Morning – Great Migration Drive
The position of the Great Migration within the Serengeti changes through the year in its great annual circuit: the calving season on the southern plains between January and March, the northward movement through the central Serengeti in April and May, the Mara River crossings in the north between July and October, and the return southward through the Western Corridor between November and December. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris positions your Tanzania honeymoon safari dates to maximise your migration experience and plans the morning drive to reach the herds at their most active. Whether the migration is crossing the Mara River or spread across the calving plains in the south, the Serengeti delivers its spectacle at a scale that makes all other wildlife experiences seem modest.
Afternoon – Big Cat Drive and Kopje Exploration
The afternoon covers the kopje country of the central Serengeti, where the resident lion prides use the warm granite outcrops as observation platforms and resting points through the midday heat. The sight of a full lion pride arranged across the warm rock, cubs playing between the sleeping adults, is one of the Serengeti experiences that no other Tanzania honeymoon destination can replicate. Cheetah use the kopjes and termite mounds as high points from which to scan the plains, and the afternoon drive positions your vehicle at the termite mounds most used by the known resident cheetah families before the light begins to fall.
Evening – Romantic Campfire Dinner
The Serengeti evening ends around the campfire at your camp, the sounds of the plains coming in from the darkness. Lions call. Hyenas work their night circuits. The sky above the Serengeti, far from any significant light pollution, is one of the finest star canopies in East Africa. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private campfire dinner for your couple, a table set beside the fire, the Serengeti night entirely around you.
Day 4
Full Day in the Central Serengeti - Migration , Big Cats and Kopje Country
Days 5 - 6
Northern Serengeti - The Mara River and the Great Crossing
Day 5 Morning – Transfer to the Northern Serengeti
The drive north from the central Serengeti to the Mara River region takes approximately two hours across the open plains, the landscape changing character as the acacia woodland gives way to the broader, more open grass country of the north. The northern Serengeti is the location of the most dramatic event in the African wildlife calendar between July and October, when the wildebeest herds mass at the Mara River and attempt the crossing from the Serengeti into Kenya’s Masai Mara and back again. Your camp in the north is positioned within reach of the established crossing points, and the arrival gives the first afternoon for a river vigil.
Day 5 Afternoon – First Mara River Vigil
The Mara River crossing vigil is the event around which the northern Serengeti section of the Tanzania honeymoon safari package is built. Your guide positions the vehicle at one of the established crossing points used by the northern wildebeest herds and the wait begins. The wildebeest mass on the far bank in their thousands, building the collective decision that the crossing requires. When they go, they go suddenly and completely, pouring over the bank into the water, the Nile crocodiles coming from both directions, the lions sometimes holding the exit bank. It is the most intensely dramatic natural event on earth and no description of it adequately prepares a first-time witness for the noise, the scale, and the complete absorption it produces in the people watching it. Outside the July to October migration window, the Mara River remains worth the vigil for its resident hippo pods, its Nile crocodile population, and the extraordinary birdlife of its forested banks.
Day 6 – Full Day in the Northern Serengeti
The full day in the northern Serengeti covers the river circuit in the morning, the kopje country of the north in the afternoon, and a private sundowner setup on the Mara River banks in the evening. The northern Serengeti holds its own resident predator population independent of the migration, with lion and leopard territories established along the river corridor year-round. Elephant herds move through the riverine forest. Giraffe browse the acacia canopy above the river bank. The afternoon game drive explores the broader northern plains, the same open country that the migration herds cross in their annual movement between Tanzania and Kenya, and the evening on the Mara River bank gives the northern chapter its proper conclusion.
Serengeti Accommodation Options
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, central Serengeti, close to the Seronera Valley), Serengeti Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, western Serengeti, good access across the central plains), Kati Kati Tented Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, central Serengeti, mobile camp repositioned with the migration), Lamai Serengeti (Mid-Range Lodge, northern Serengeti, excellent proximity to the Mara River crossings). 4 nights total across central and northern Serengeti accommodation. Full board throughout. Hot air balloon safari optional extra. Campfire dinner and private sundowner setups included. Bottled drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Northern Serengeti to Ngorongoro
The drive from the northern Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area heads south and then east across the open Serengeti plains, the landscape rising as the road climbs into the Ngorongoro highlands. The approach to the crater rim from the Serengeti side, the grass country gradually giving way to highland forest and the temperature dropping as the altitude increases, prepares your couple for the world they are about to descend into. Your vehicle arrives at the crater rim in the mid-morning, the view into the caldera from the viewpoints above revealing the full scale of the world below: the soda lake in the centre, the Lerai Forest dark against the pale grass of the floor, and the open plains on which the wildlife concentrations are immediately visible even from the rim.
Morning and Afternoon – Full Day Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive
The descent into the Ngorongoro Crater begins with the single vehicle track dropping from the rim road to the crater floor, the caldera walls rising on both sides as the landscape opens around you. The full day on the crater floor is the centrepiece of the Tanzania honeymoon safari package, and the drive covers the full range of habitat that the caldera contains. The morning covers the open grassland plains where the wildebeest and zebra herds are permanent residents and the lion prides hold their territories in the open ground. The black rhino are most often found in the Lerai Forest and the open ground to the south and west of the crater lake. A bush picnic lunch is served on the crater floor, your private table set among the greatest wildlife concentration in Africa. The afternoon covers the crater lake’s shore, the Lerai Forest, and the hippo pools in the permanent water. Elephant families move through the forest in the late afternoon and the breeding colonies of yellow-billed storks in the canopy above give the Lerai an atmosphere that is entirely its own.
Evening – Crater Rim Sundowner
The exit from the crater at the end of the day follows the road climbing the eastern wall, the caldera spreading below as the vehicle rises. At the rim, Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges sundowners at one of the viewpoints above the caldera, the early evening light moving across the crater floor far below and the wildlife still visible in the golden grass. It is one of the most extraordinary sundowner locations in Africa, and it closes the Ngorongoro day in a manner appropriate to everything the crater has delivered.
Ngorongoro Accommodation Options
Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the crater rim with direct caldera views), Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, rim position with panoramic crater view), Rhino Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, quieter position on the rim), Ngorongoro Farm House (Boutique Property, below the rim, farmhouse setting with gardens). 1 night at your chosen Ngorongoro accommodation. Full board. Bush picnic lunch on crater floor included. Crater rim sundowner included. Bottled drinking water provided.
Day 7
Transfer from Northern Serengeti to Ngorongoro - Full Crater Game Drive
Day 8
Ngorongoro Highlands to Lake Manyara - Walking Safari and Forest Drive
Morning – Ngorongoro Highlands Walking Safari
The morning begins in the highlands above the crater, a guided walk through the montane forest and open moorland with your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris guide. The walk takes your couple through the vegetation zones above the crater rim, the forest giving way to bamboo and then to the open moorland as the altitude increases, with views across the caldera to the west and the Rift Valley to the east. Buffalo are occasionally encountered on the open moorland. Elephant families move through the forest below the rim. The highland birds are entirely distinct from those of the savannah parks below, and the walk’s pace, determined by what the ground offers rather than a fixed route, gives your couple the time to experience the landscape as a place with its own character.
Afternoon – Transfer to Lake Manyara and First Park Drive
The drive from the Ngorongoro Highlands to Lake Manyara descends the Rift Valley escarpment road, the landscape dropping from highland forest to the semi-arid acacia woodland at the base of the escarpment and the lake shore beyond it. The drive takes approximately one hour. The arrival at Lake Manyara National Park gives the first opportunity to enter the groundwater forest at the escarpment’s base, the most productive habitat for the park’s tree-climbing lions, and the afternoon drive follows the forest road and the lake shore circuit in the late light.
Evening – Rift Valley Escarpment Sundowner
Lake Manyara’s position on the floor of the Great Rift Valley below the escarpment wall gives the evening a quality distinct from anything on the safari so far. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges sundowners at a viewpoint on the escarpment above the park, the lake spread below and the flamingo concentration along the shore visible in the last of the day’s light.
Early Morning – Tree-Climbing Lion Drive
The early morning drive in Lake Manyara focuses entirely on the tree-climbing lion territories, the groves of fever trees and acacias where the prides have developed the habit of resting at height to avoid the lake shore insects and to gain the breeze available in the tree canopy. The lions in Manyara are habituated to vehicles at close range, and the experience of sitting below a tree that holds a sleeping pride, the adult lionesses draped across the branches and the cubs playing between them, is one of the Tanzania honeymoon safari experiences that visitors consistently identify as the most surprising and most memorable of the entire northern circuit.
Morning – Lake Shore Drive and Flamingo Watch
The mid-morning covers the lake shore circuit, following the alkaline margin where the flamingo concentrations gather when the water level and salinity are suitable for the algae they filter. The lesser flamingos crowd the shallows in their thousands, their pink plumage reflected in the shallow alkaline water. Greater flamingos feed in slightly deeper water beyond the lesser flock. Pelicans, storks, and the resident hippo pods occupy the water margin. African fish eagles call from the fever tree canopy above the shore, their call the most immediately recognisable sound of the East African bush.
Afternoon – Maasai Cultural Village Experience
The Maasai cultural village visit in the Manyara area provides the cultural dimension that the Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari specifically includes to give depth to the wildlife experience. The Maasai community’s relationship with the Ngorongoro and Manyara landscapes is one of the most ancient human and wildlife coexistence stories in Africa, and the village visit, arranged in genuine community partnership, allows your couple to understand the landscape through the eyes of the people whose lives it has shaped. The age-set system, the beadwork traditions, the homestead structure, and the pastoral relationship with the land all provide context that transforms the safari from a series of wildlife encounters into an understanding of a place.
Ngorongoro Highlands and Lake Manyara Accommodation Options
Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the Rift Valley escarpment above the park with full lake views), Kirurumu Tented Lodge (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the escarpment above Lake Manyara, excellent views), Lake Manyara Tree Lodge (Luxury Lodge, inside the park in the groundwater forest), Ngorongoro Farm House (Boutique Property, between the Ngorongoro Highlands and Lake Manyara, farmhouse setting with gardens). 2 nights at your chosen accommodation. Full board throughout. Highlands walking safari and Maasai village visit included. Bottled drinking water provided.
Day 9
Full Day at Lake Manyara - Tree-Climbing Lions, Flamingos and Maasai Village
Day 10
Transfer to Zanzibar - Stone Town Exploration and Sunset Dhow Cruise
Morning – Transfer from Arusha to Zanzibar
The transfer from the Lake Manyara area to Zanzibar follows the road to Kilimanjaro International Airport or Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam for the short flight across the Zanzibar Channel to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport on the island. The flight takes approximately forty-five minutes from Dar es Salaam and approximately one hour from Kilimanjaro. The arrival on Zanzibar, the island visible below the plane as the channel crossing ends, delivers the first impression of the beach world that closes the Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package: white sand from the air, turquoise water, the dhow traffic on the channel below.
Afternoon – Stone Town Exploration
Stone Town, the historic quarter of Zanzibar Town on the island’s western shore, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose architecture, culture, and atmosphere make it one of the most romantically compelling urban environments in East Africa. Your couple’s afternoon in Stone Town follows the labyrinthine streets with a local guide, discovering the carved wooden doorways that are the signature architectural feature of the Omani merchant houses, the Forodhani waterfront promenade where the evening food market fills with the smoke of grilled seafood, the Old Fort, the Sultan’s Palace, and the covered market whose spice stalls fill the air with cinnamon and cloves. Stone Town is experienced most authentically on foot, at the pace the narrow streets impose, and the late afternoon light between the tall houses creates a quality of atmosphere that the daytime visitor hours diminish.
Evening – Sunset Dhow Cruise on the Indian Ocean
The Zanzibar evening begins with a sunset dhow cruise from the Stone Town waterfront, a traditional wooden sailing vessel moving out into the Indian Ocean channel as the sun drops toward the horizon. Cold drinks, the Stone Town silhouette on the shore behind the dhow, the sea calm in the channel’s evening quiet. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges the dhow cruise as a private booking for your couple, the boat and its crew for the two of you alone, the Indian Ocean evening entirely yours.
Morning – Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour
Zanzibar’s identity as the Spice Island derives from the plantation economy that the Omani sultans established in the nineteenth century, when cloves, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, turmeric, and cardamom were planted across the island’s fertile interior. The spice farm tour takes your couple through a working plantation in the rural interior, the guide identifying each plant by its leaf, bark, fruit, and aroma, and the experience of moving through a landscape that smells of cloves and vanilla and cinnamon in the morning heat is unlike anything the Tanzania safari circuit has offered. The tour concludes with a spice lunch prepared using the farm’s own produce.
Afternoon – Transfer to North Coast Beach
The drive from Stone Town to the north coast takes approximately forty-five minutes to an hour, the road passing through the island’s agricultural interior before the Indian Ocean reappears ahead and the beach settlements of Nungwi and Kendwa begin. Your couple’s beach accommodation in the north gives direct access to the finest stretch of beach on Zanzibar, where the sand is white and the water is calm at all tidal states. The arrival at the beach accommodation gives the first afternoon and evening on the Indian Ocean, and no programme is arranged for it. This is the first properly unscheduled time of the entire Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari, and it is arranged to remain that way.
Evening – Nungwi Beach Sunset
Nungwi’s north-facing beach is one of the few places on Zanzibar where the sun sets directly over the water rather than behind the island, and the evening from the beach accommodation, with the Indian Ocean turning colour in front of you, is the first of the beach sunsets that the Zanzibar chapter of the Tanzania honeymoon safari package delivers each evening. Dinner at your beach property or at one of the Nungwi beach restaurants closes the day in the proper unhurried island manner.
Day 11
Zanzibar - Spice Farm Tour and North Coast Beach
Day 12
Zanzibar - Ocean Day: Snorkelling, Sandbanks and the Indian Ocean
Morning – Snorkelling on the Zanzibar Reef
The waters around the Zanzibar Archipelago are among the clearest in the Indian Ocean, the coral reefs of the northern coastline supporting populations of fish and marine life that give snorkelling on the reef a quality entirely different from any freshwater experience on the safari circuit. Your morning boat excursion takes your couple out to the reef in a local wooden boat, the guide in the water with you, pointing out the coral formations and the fish that move through them. The water temperature throughout the year is warm enough to make the reef accessible without a wetsuit, and the visibility on the reef on a clear morning is one of the finest natural experiences Zanzibar offers.
Afternoon – Sandbank Picnic and Indian Ocean Swimming
The afternoon brings a private sandbank picnic, a low tide excursion to one of the small coral sandbanks that appear off the Zanzibar coastline when the tide withdraws, accessible only by boat and available only for the hours the tide allows. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges the sandbank as a private experience for your couple, a table on the sand surrounded entirely by the Indian Ocean, a meal prepared from the island’s own seafood tradition, and the afternoon light on the turquoise water around you. It is the Zanzibar honeymoon experience at its most distilled.
Evening – Beach Dinner at Your Resort
The evening returns to your beach accommodation for dinner on the property’s beach terrace or in the ocean-facing dining area, the Indian Ocean audible from the table and the stars beginning above the water. The north Zanzibar sky, well away from any significant light pollution, delivers the kind of star canopy that the safari plains offered on the mainland, here reflected in the dark water below the beach.
Morning – Free Time on the Beach
The final full day on Zanzibar belongs entirely to your couple. A morning with no programme, no guide, and no transfer is one of the rarest things that a Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package can offer, and it is arranged specifically for this day. Breakfast at the beach, the Indian Ocean in front of you, the day entirely open. Walk the beach. Swim. Sit. Read. Order another coffee. The beach at Nungwi in the morning, when the overnight dhow traffic has settled and the day’s tourist boats have not yet left the shore, has a quality of peace that makes it one of the finest places in East Africa to do nothing at all.
Afternoon – Optional Water Sports and Final Beach Afternoon
For couples who want a more active final afternoon on Zanzibar, kitesurfing lessons, stand-up paddleboarding, sea kayaking, and dolphin swimming excursions are all available from the north coast beach. For couples who have no interest in any of those things, the beach and the water remain exactly as they were in the morning and the afternoon sun on the Indian Ocean needs no supplementary activity to justify the time spent in it.
Evening – Private Romantic Beach Dinner
The final evening of your Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package is given exactly the attention it deserves. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private beach dinner for your couple on the sand, a table set at the water’s edge as the Indian Ocean stars appear above the beach. The seafood is the finest the island can provide. The Indian Ocean is dark and vast and quiet around the table. The candles and the stars and the sound of the water on the sand are the only things in the immediate world. It is the right way to close a Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari that has moved from the elephants of Tarangire to the plains of the Serengeti to the ancient caldera of Ngorongoro to the Rift Valley escarpment to this private table at the edge of the Indian Ocean, each destination building on the last until the journey arrives here, exactly where it should.
Zanzibar Accommodation Options
Zuri Zanzibar (Boutique Resort, Kendwa Beach, north coast, direct beach access and excellent snorkelling), Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas (Luxury Villas, Paje Beach, east coast, private pool villas), Essque Zalu Zanzibar (Luxury Resort, Nungwi, private beach with panoramic ocean views), Baraza Resort and Spa (Luxury Resort, Bwejuu, south-east coast, Swahili architecture with private beach). 4 nights at your chosen Zanzibar accommodation. Full board. Spice farm tour, sunset dhow cruise, reef snorkelling, sandbank picnic, and private beach dinner all included. Bottled drinking water provided.
Day 13
Zanzibar - Beach Day and Private Romantic Dinner
Day 14
Departure from Zanzibar
Morning – Final Beach Sunrise and Transfer to Airport
The final morning of your Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package belongs to the beach. A last sunrise over the Indian Ocean. Breakfast on the beach terrace with the water below and the dhows on the horizon. The pace of the morning is entirely your own. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges your airport transfer at a time that gives your couple the maximum possible time on the island before the departure, and the transfer to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport completes your Tanzania honeymoon safari with the same care and the same private arrangements that every day of the journey has received.
Fourteen days. Five landscapes. The ancient baobab country of Tarangire, the endless plains and crossing rivers of the Serengeti, the enclosed caldera world of Ngorongoro, the highland forest and flamingo shore of the Rift Valley, and the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. This is Tanzania’s most complete Tanzania and Zanzibar honeymoon safari package, and it has been experienced as it deserves: privately, with depth, with guides who know their landscapes and with the particular quality of attention that the best Tanzania honeymoon tour package should always provide. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris looks forward to welcoming your couple to the Tanzania honeymoon destinations that will define your experience of Africa together.
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