Longleat Family African Safari

This morning is dedicated to nature walks around the lodge or mafui creek canoe. This afternoon, learn about the Green Turtle project in Madete Marine Park. During the peak season period of July to September you will get 50% chance of witnessing turtles hatching. If so, you might be required to assist with turtles reaching the sea if our experts feel that there is a real threat to the path of the turtles. This is a sensitive topic that is monitored strictly. In the event that yous miss an actual hatching, they will still get to visit the breeding beach and be shown the nest and signs of turtle activity.

Whether turtles or not, drive to our Saadani Tower for fantastic night on the animal-filled salt flats. Pax will do night drive after sundowner drinks watching wildlife from the tower and then dinner (BLD).

Today you transfer back to Dar Es Salaam to depart for Zanzibar by light aircraft. You will disembark and transfer to your hotel on arrival (15 minutes). As a result of its trade in slaves and spices, Zanzibar was for many years the most important town on the East African coast. The Sultans of Oman, who introduced the clove tree to its fertile soil at the start of the last century, moved their court here from Muscat in the Gulf and ruled until independence in the early 1960s. As a major trading centre, the 'Spice Island' is also reputed to be the birthplace of Swahili, the simple lingua franca that developed to allow trade between people of different languages. In the heart of the original merchant city the baleful cry of the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer resonates though the narrow stone streets.

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