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13 Days Tanzania and Zanzibar Honeymoon Safari
13 Days Tanzania and Zanzibar Honeymoon Safari
Overview
Experience Romantic Tanzania Safari With Zanzibar Beach Escape
This exclusive Tanzania Honeymoon Safari combines thrilling game drives, Serengeti balloon safaris, Ngorongoro wildlife encounters, and relaxing Zanzibar beach escapes. Enjoy private romantic dinners, luxury safari lodges, cultural tours, Mnemba Atoll snorkelling, and seamless travel across Tanzania’s most iconic safari and coastal destinations.
- Serengeti sunrise balloon safari for couples
- Romantic Zanzibar beach dinner under the stars
- Explore Ngorongoro Crater’s incredible wildlife diversity
- Discover Lake Manyara’s tree-climbing lions
Inclusions
What's included
- 12 nights accommodation as per itinerary (full board on safari, breakfast and dinners in Zanzibar)
- All meals as per itinerary
- All road transfers between safari destinations
- Flight from Arusha or Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar (one-way)
- Professional English-speaking honeymoon safari guide throughout
- All game drives in private 4x4 safari vehicles
- All national park and conservation area entry and gate fees
- Ngorongoro Crater descent and private bush lunch on crater floor
- Stone Town UNESCO heritage guided tour
- Zanzibar spice plantation guided tour
- Mnemba Atoll snorkelling and boat transfer
- Snorkelling equipment hire
- Private champagne beach dinner, final Zanzibar evening
- Private bush sundowner setups throughout safari
- Romantic welcome dinner, Arusha
- Baobab sundowner setup, Tarangire
- Rift Valley escarpment sundowners, Lake Manyara
- All private honeymoon romantic setups
- Bottled drinking water throughout
Exclusions
What's Excluded
- International flights to and from Tanzania
- Tanzania visa fees
- Travel and medical insurance
- Hot air balloon safari, Serengeti (available at extra cost)
- Spa treatments at any property
- Scuba diving in Zanzibar (available at extra cost)
- Gratuities for guides, drivers and lodge staff
- Personal items and laundry
- Any items of personal nature
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Day 1
Arrival in Arusha - The Tanzania Honeymoon Begins
Arrival and Welcome to Tanzania
Your tanzania honeymoon safari package begins at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport, where your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris representative meets you on arrival. The transfer to your Arusha accommodation takes approximately forty-five minutes to one hour depending on your arrival airport and the traffic through the town. Check in, freshen up, and take the afternoon at leisure before the welcome dinner.
The welcome dinner is the first private honeymoon setup of the tanzania holiday honeymoon package, a candlelit table at your lodge with a brief from your guide on the journey ahead. The safari begins at first light tomorrow morning. Tonight is for arrival, for each other, and for the anticipation of what thirteen days in Tanzania is about to deliver.
Accommodation Options
Arusha Coffee Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on a working coffee estate, Arusha)
Kibo Palace Hotel (Mid-Range Hotel, central Arusha, Mount Meru views)
African Tulip Hotel (Mid-Range Hotel, Arusha, highly rated for honeymooners)
Nights: 1 night at your chosen Arusha accommodation
Meals: Welcome dinner included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Arusha to Tarangire
The drive from Arusha to Tarangire National Park takes approximately two hours south through the Arusha district and into the Tarangire ecosystem. The road passes through the Maasai-managed community land that borders the park, the flat-topped acacia and the red-earth soil establishing the visual character of the northern Tanzania circuit before the park gate is reached. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris guide begins the game drive the moment the vehicle enters the park, treating the transfer as the first wildlife opportunity of the tanzania honeymoon safari package rather than simply a journey to camp.
Afternoon – Tarangire Game Drive: Elephant Herds and Baobab Country
The Tarangire afternoon game drive follows the Tarangire River, the most productive game viewing route in the park and the corridor that concentrates the elephant herds during the dry season. The river circuit in the late afternoon in the dry season is a genuinely extraordinary experience: elephant families crossing the river at the established points, the calves swimming with their trunks held above the water while the matriarchs wade through the shallows, the bulls drinking and dusting themselves on the banks while the late afternoon light catches the baobab silhouettes above them.
The predator populations follow the elephant concentration. Lion prides and leopard use the riverine corridor and the rocky outcrops that break the woodland above the bank. Cheetah are found on the open grassland sections away from the river. The afternoon drive covers the full range of the Tarangire ecosystem before the camp settles into the bush evening, the sounds of the river and the wildlife around it filling the darkness beyond the tent walls.
Evening – Romantic Bush Sundowner in Tarangire
Your guide arranges a private sundowner setup in the Tarangire bush for the first fully wild evening of the tanzania honeymoon. A table beside one of the park’s large baobab trees as the sun drops and the ancient trunk catches the orange light above you. Cold drinks, the sounds of the Tarangire evening, and the knowledge that this is the beginning of a journey through Tanzania’s finest wildlife landscape. Dinner at your camp follows, the first full night in the African bush of your tanzania holiday honeymoon package.
Accommodation Options
Tarangire Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside Tarangire, on the Tarangire River)
Tarangire Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park with river views)
Oliver’s Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, southern Tarangire, exclusive concession)
Nights: 1 night at your chosen Tarangire accommodation
Meals: Full board. Baobab sundowner setup included. Drinking water provided.
Day 2
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
Day 3
Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park
Morning – Transfer from Tarangire to Lake Manyara
The drive from Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes approximately one to two hours through the Manyara town and into the park. The road passes through the agricultural land at the base of the escarpment before arriving at the park gate, and the transition from the open baobab savannah of Tarangire to the dense groundwater forest of the Manyara entrance is immediate and striking. Arrive at your lodge for lunch and the afternoon programme.
Afternoon – Lake Manyara Full Circuit: Forest, Lions and Flamingo Shore
The Lake Manyara afternoon drive covers the full park circuit from the forest entrance to the lake shore in a single extended game drive. The groundwater forest section holds the park’s forest elephant population, the animals moving between the fig trees at distances and with a comfort around vehicles that reflects decades of habituation. Buffalo are reliable in the forest clearings and the baboon troops that work the forest edge are among the most numerous and most entertaining in Tanzania.
The tree-climbing lion territories are the afternoon’s central focus. Your guide works the known positions of the park’s resident prides with the patience and territorial knowledge of a guide who has been finding these specific lions regularly. The late afternoon is the optimal time, when the lions have descended to the lower branches for the cooling of the evening and before they move to the ground for the night’s activity. The image of a lion family in the branches of an acacia tree against the Rift Valley escarpment behind them is the defining tanzania honeymoon itinerary photograph of the Lake Manyara section.
The lake shore circuit closes the afternoon, the flamingo concentrations at the alkaline waterline turning the shoreline pink in the late afternoon light. The waterbird diversity along the lake margin, pelicans, storks, herons, and the larger waders that use the shallow alkaline flats, makes the final section of the circuit a birdwatcher’s highlight regardless of what the earlier drives have produced.
Evening – Escarpment Sundowners Above the Rift Valley
The Lake Manyara evening is the Rift Valley itself. Your guide arranges sundowners at the escarpment viewpoint above the park as the sun drops and the lake below catches the last light, the flamingo pink visible at the water’s edge and the Rift Valley walls on both sides of the basin holding the warmth of the day. It is one of the most romantically positioned sundowner moments of the entire tanzania honeymoon safari package, the ancient geology of the Rift Valley laid out below you in both directions and the lake at its centre reflecting the orange sky.
Accommodation Options
Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the Rift escarpment above the park)
Kirurumu Manyara Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, escarpment position with valley views)
Lake Manyara Wildlife Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, at the park boundary)
Nights: 1 night at your chosen Lake Manyara accommodation
Meals: Full board. Tree-climbing lion game drive and escarpment sundowner included. Drinking water provided.
Day 4 Morning – Transfer from Lake Manyara to Serengeti
The drive from Lake Manyara to the Serengeti takes approximately four to five hours through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area highlands and then down onto the Serengeti plain through the Naabi Hill gate. The approach to the Serengeti through the Ngorongoro highlands, the road climbing through forest and then opening onto the crater rim views before descending to the Serengeti plain, is one of the great drive arrivals on the tanzania honeymoon itinerary. Your guide treats the entire transfer as a game drive, stopping for every significant sighting along the route.
The moment the Serengeti plain opens fully in every direction, with no tree line visible on any horizon and the sky enormous above the flat grass, is the moment that defines the difference between the Serengeti and every other park on the tanzania honeymoon safari package route. Arrive at your central Serengeti accommodation for lunch.
Day 4 Afternoon – First Serengeti Game Drive: Seronera Valley Predators
The first Serengeti afternoon drive covers the Seronera Valley, the wildlife heart of the park. The Seronera River’s fig tree corridor is the best leopard territory in Tanzania, and your guide works the known individual territories with the patient expertise of a guide who has been finding these specific animals regularly. The lion prides of the Seronera area are large, well-habituated, and use the kopje outcrops as the elevated resting positions that the flat grassland around them cannot provide.
A private sundowner setup in the Serengeti closes the first full day of the tanzania holiday honeymoon package’s central section. The kopjes silhouetted against the orange sky, the sounds of the Serengeti evening, and the open plain stretching in every direction around your private table. It is the kind of evening that makes a couple understand why the Serengeti has been drawing honeymoon couples to Tanzania for decades.
Day 5 – Hot Air Balloon at Dawn, Migration Herds and Champagne Breakfast
The balloon morning begins before any light has arrived in the sky, the vehicle moving out to the launch site in complete darkness. The balloon lifts before first light and drifts across the Serengeti plain as the sun rises, the wildlife below moving through the early morning with complete unawareness of the balloon above them. The wildebeest herds visible from above during migration season, spreading across the grassland as far as can be seen in every direction from the balloon, represent the most complete view of the Great Migration available to any couple on a tanzania honeymoon.
The champagne breakfast served in the field after landing is a white-tablecloth meal in the middle of the Serengeti with the balloon laid out on the grass behind you and the open plain around you in every direction. It is extravagant and romantic and entirely specific to the Serengeti, and it is the experience that the tanzania honeymoon safari package balloon offering is built around. The morning game drive that follows covers the migration herds at ground level, the vehicle moving into the wildebeest and zebra concentrations with the guide positioning for the closest and most concentrated wildlife experience of the entire tanzania honeymoon itinerary.
Day 6 – Northern Serengeti: Migration River Crossings and Kopje Circuit
The third Serengeti day moves north toward the Mara River for the wildebeest crossing vigil during migration season between July and October. The northern Serengeti’s crossing points on the Tanzanian side of the Mara River are, in the opinion of many experienced guides, the most dramatically positioned in the entire ecosystem. The vehicles at these crossing points are fewer than on the Kenya side, the crossing positions are closer to the river bank, and the crocodile concentrations at the Tanzania crossings are among the largest in the ecosystem.
The vigil works on the wildebeest’s schedule rather than yours, and your guide positions the vehicle at the crossing point with the patience and the reading of herd behaviour that determines when the animals are building toward the commitment to cross. When the crossing happens, it happens with a speed and a violence that the hour of waiting before it cannot prepare you for. Outside migration season, the northern Serengeti game drive covers the outstanding predator populations of the Lamai area and the resident wildlife of the Mara River corridor. The final Serengeti evening closes with a private romantic dinner at your camp, the sounds of the plain carrying through the canvas walls.
Accommodation Options
Serengeti Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, central Serengeti, Seronera area)
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, central Serengeti)
Seronera Wildlife Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park on the Seronera kopjes)
Kogatende Serengeti Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, northern Serengeti, for migration season)
Nights: 3 nights at your chosen Serengeti accommodation
Meals: Full board throughout. Hot air balloon safari at extra cost. Private sundowner and romantic camp dinner included. Drinking water provided.
Days 4 - 6
Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park- Three Nights in the Heart of Tanzania Honeymoon Country
Days 7 - 8
Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater- Two Nights on the World's Eighth Natural Wonder
Day 7 Morning – Transfer from Serengeti to Ngorongoro
The drive from the Serengeti to Ngorongoro exits the park through the Naabi Hill gate and heads southeast toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The journey takes approximately two to three hours and the approach to the crater rim is one of the great drive arrivals on the tanzania honeymoon itinerary, the road climbing through the forested upper slopes of the Ngorongoro highlands to the rim viewpoints where the caldera suddenly reveals itself below. The first view of the crater floor from the rim, the soda lake visible at the bottom, the open grassland and the acacia forest and the swamp all distinguishable from above, the crater walls sweeping around the full circle, stops most people entirely.
Your accommodation is positioned on the crater rim with views directly into the caldera. Check in, take lunch, and spend the afternoon absorbing the scale of what is below you before the morning descent.
Day 7 Afternoon – Crater Rim Walk and Sunset Views
The first Ngorongoro afternoon is spent on the rim, walking the forest trails with your guide and taking the sunset views from the rim viewpoints as the light changes over the caldera below. The rim forest holds giant African violets, olive trees, and the black-and-white colobus monkeys that move through the upper canopy in family groups. The views from the rim as the sun drops behind the western crater wall and the shadow moves slowly across the crater floor below are among the finest landscape views on the entire tanzania honeymoon safari package route.
Day 8 – Full Day in Ngorongoro Crater: Pre-Dawn Descent, Black Rhino and Crater Circuit
The Ngorongoro crater day is the climax of the safari section of the tanzania honeymoon safari package. The vehicle begins the descent in complete darkness, the headlights picking out the steep crater wall road as the caldera opens below in the pre-dawn dark. The descent takes approximately thirty minutes and the arrival on the crater floor at the moment the dawn light reaches the soda lake, the flamingos turning pink at the water’s edge and the crater walls rising in every direction 600 metres above you, is the most dramatically beautiful arrival moment of the entire tanzania honeymoon itinerary.
The crater circuit covers the full range of the caldera’s habitats. The soda lake and its flamingo and pelican concentrations. The Lerai Forest where the elephant bulls spend the dry season in the yellow fever acacia shade. The open grassland where the lion prides are most reliably found, the crater lions shaped by the enclosed ecosystem into stocky, deep-chested animals distinct from the plains lions of the Serengeti. The black rhino territories in the southwestern section of the crater, where the ranger knowledge of individual animals gives the best chance of a sighting available anywhere in Tanzania for a tanzania honeymoon couple.
A crater floor bush lunch is served privately for your couple, a table set up in the middle of the world’s eighth natural wonder with the crater walls surrounding you in every direction and the wildlife of the caldera moving through the landscape around your table. The afternoon drive covers the remaining crater sections and the hippo pool before the ascent to the rim for the last sundowner of the safari section. The crater below in the late afternoon light, the soda lake catching the orange of the sky and the walls in full shadow, is the definitive Tanzania honeymoon landscape and the perfect close to nine days on the northern circuit.
Accommodation Options
Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the crater rim with caldera views)
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, crater rim)
Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, crater rim, inside the conservation area)
Nights: 2 nights at your chosen Ngorongoro Crater accommodation
Meals: Full board throughout. Crater descent, crater floor bush lunch, and crater rim sundowners included. Drinking water provided.
Day 9 – Transfer from Ngorongoro to Zanzibar
The journey from Ngorongoro to Zanzibar begins with the drive from the crater rim to Arusha or Kilimanjaro International Airport, taking approximately two to three hours. The flight from Kilimanjaro or Arusha to Zanzibar’s Abeid Amani Karume International Airport takes under an hour, and the transition from the highland forests of the Ngorongoro crater rim to the first view of the Zanzibar coastline from the air, the turquoise water of the Indian Ocean and the white sand of the northern beaches visible below, is the arrival moment that the Zanzibar section of the tanzania honeymoon has been building toward.
Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris representative meets you at Zanzibar Airport and transfers you to your chosen beach property. Check in, change, and walk to the beach. The Indian Ocean is in front of you. Eight days of safari are behind you. The final four days of your tanzania honeymoon safari package have begun.
Day 10 – Stone Town Heritage Tour and Zanzibar Spice Plantation
The first full Zanzibar day explores the island’s extraordinary cultural heritage before the remaining days are given to the beach and the reef. Stone Town’s UNESCO-listed old quarter rewards a full morning with a knowledgeable guide. The House of Wonders, the old Arab Fort, the Anglican Cathedral built on the site of the last slave market, the Palace Museum, and the network of narrow lanes connecting the island’s layered architectural heritage are covered with the context and the storytelling that transforms a walk through old buildings into an understanding of a civilisation.
The afternoon spice plantation tour takes your couple into the island’s agricultural interior, the clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and black pepper plantations that gave Zanzibar its historical identity as the Spice Island of the Indian Ocean. The guide identifies each species in the plantation and explains the history of the spice trade that connected Zanzibar to Oman, India, Europe, and East Africa across centuries of maritime commerce. Return to your beach property for a sunset dinner by the Indian Ocean, the first of four consecutive Zanzibar evenings that form the finale of the tanzania honeymoon itinerary.
Day 11 – Mnemba Atoll Snorkelling and Sunset Dhow Cruise
The second full Zanzibar day moves from the cultural to the marine. The boat transfer to Mnemba Atoll on the northeast coast takes approximately forty-five minutes through the Indian Ocean, with spinner dolphins frequently encountered in the open water between Zanzibar and the atoll. The snorkelling at Mnemba is among the finest available in the Indian Ocean: the coral gardens are intact, the fish diversity is exceptional, and green sea turtles are resident in the atoll waters and regularly encountered during snorkelling sessions.
The afternoon moves to the sunset dhow cruise, a traditional wooden vessel moving along the Zanzibar coast in the late afternoon as the sun drops toward the horizon. The dhow routes that connected Zanzibar to Arabia, India, and East Africa for centuries ran along this same coastline, and sailing on a wooden dhow with the Indian Ocean around you and the island on one side connects the Zanzibar section of the tanzania honeymoon safari package to the maritime history that the Stone Town morning introduced. The cruise includes a swimming stop and drinks on board, returning to shore as the last light leaves the sky.
Day 12 – Full Leisure Day and Private Champagne Beach Dinner
The last full day of the tanzania honeymoon is given entirely back to your couple. A long morning on the beach. A swim in the warm Indian Ocean inside the natural reef. A lunch at the beach bar with the water in front of you and nothing required of you at all. An afternoon spa treatment at your property. The particular quality of the last full day of a honeymoon, when the journey is complete and the ordinary world is still a night away.
Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private champagne beach dinner for your final Zanzibar evening, the crowning moment of the tanzania holiday honeymoon package. A table set on the white coral sand below the high tide line, candles, the Indian Ocean moving quietly in the darkness beyond the table’s light, and the night sky of the Zanzibar coast above you. It is the right ending to twelve nights across Tanzania’s most extraordinary destinations. The baobabs of Tarangire, the tree-climbing lions of Manyara, the Serengeti migration, the crater descent at dawn, and now the Indian Ocean with the candles and the champagne and the knowledge that you have experienced Tanzania’s finest honeymoon journey from first to last. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris will be ready when you want to come back.
Accommodation Options
Diamonds Mapenzi Beach (Mid-Range Beachfront Resort, Nungwi, Zanzibar)
Melia Zanzibar (Mid-Range Resort, Matemwe, Zanzibar)
Karafuu Beach Resort and Spa (Mid-Range Resort, Pingwe, Zanzibar)
Bluebay Beach Resort and Spa (Mid-Range Resort, Kiwengwa, Zanzibar)
Nights: 4 nights at your chosen Zanzibar beach property
Meals: Breakfast and dinners included. Stone Town tour, spice plantation visit, Mnemba Atoll snorkelling, sunset dhow cruise, and private champagne beach dinner included. Drinking water provided.
Days 9 - 12
Ngorongoro to Zanzibar- Four Nights of Indian Ocean Luxury
Day 13
Zanzibar Airport - Departure and Farewell
Morning – Final Beach Walk and Check-Out
The thirteenth and final morning of your tanzania honeymoon safari package belongs to the beach one last time. A walk along the coral sand at low tide with the reef flat exposed below the clear water. A final swim in the warm Indian Ocean. Breakfast at your property with the sea in front of you. Check-out at the pace that only the last morning of a tanzania honeymoon can allow.
Late Morning – Transfer to Zanzibar Airport and Departure
Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris representative transfers you to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport for your international departure. The view of the Zanzibar coastline from the air as you leave, the reef visible as a shift in the colour of the water and the white sand of the beaches below, is the final image of thirteen days that has moved through Tanzania’s finest destinations from the baobab savannah of Tarangire to the Indian Ocean shore.
Thirteen days. The ancient baobabs and the elephant herds of Tarangire. The tree-climbing lions of Manyara. The Serengeti at dawn and from the balloon above it. The pre-dawn descent into Ngorongoro Crater. Stone Town and Mnemba Atoll and the last champagne dinner on the Zanzibar sand. This is the tanzania honeymoon itinerary that Africa Bed of Roses Safaris builds for couples who want Tanzania fully experienced. It has been our privilege to craft it for you.
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