Journey Overview
One of the best safari to indulge in, traversing Tanzania’s best protected areas for Big Five viewing, from big herds of Elephants, tree climbing lions of Lake Manyara, big cats and spectacular wildebeest migration in Serengeti, to the rare rhino in Ngorongoro. If you’re a wildlife and nature enthusiast at heart, this trip is definitely one you don’t want to miss!
Highlights
Arusha
Lake Manyara National Park
Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival – Arusha/Tanzania
Karibu Tanzania - welcome to Tanzania. On arrival at the Kilimanjaro Airport will be met by one of our staff members. After greeting and meeting services he will escort you to your accommodation in Arusha (approximately 60 km) ready for the safari tomorrow.
Hotel/lodge : Green Mountain Hotel - Midrange hotel in Arusha.
Meal : Breakfast only
Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast you depart for Lake Manyara National Park (approximately 90 km) with en-route views. Nestling at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, a beautiful park, Lake Manyara contains a diverse range of habitats and topographical features ranging from the rift wall, ground water forest, acacia woodlands, and open grasslands to the shores of Lake Manyara and the lake itself.
Have an afternoon game viewing in the park searching for the diverse flora and fauna of the park. There are some 350 different bird species in the park. The park provides sanctuary to a variety of animals such as the gazelle, impala, buffalo, wildebeest, hyena, baboon, giraffe, hippo, and the famous tree-climbing lions that are unique to the lake. The park is generally recognized for its incredible beauty.
Hotel/lodge : Marera Valley Lodge - Midrange lodge located near Ngorongoro
Meal : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water
Day 3: Drive to Serengeti National Park
The legendary Serengeti Plain is your destination today (approximately 210 km), a vast rolling plain whose sparse vegetation allows for some of the best wildlife viewing in the world. The annual migration of wildebeest and zebra is one of the park’s great attractions, but throughout the year the Serengeti is excellent for seeing predators such as lion, leopard, and cheetah, along with elephant, giraffe, hyena, hippo, rhino, and many varieties of antelopes and birds. Depending on animal movement we can arrange packed lunch or go to the lodge for hot lunch. The evening is free to rest.
Hotel/lodge : Osinon Tented Camp - Midrange tented camp located in Serengeti
Meal : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water
Day 4: Serengeti National Park
If you rise early you can take a morning game drive through the park to see the nocturnal predators from their nightly hunt and very active animals waking up in the early morning light. Depending on the time of year and the migration of the herds, you can expect to see wildebeest, lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, baboons, hippos, rhinos, antelopes, birds and other species. We enjoy morning and afternoon game viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains. In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. The park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoiled by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve.
Depending on wildlife movement, we can have hot lunch at the camp or enjoy picnic lunch packets.
Hotel/lodge : Osinon Tented Camp - Midrange tented camp located in Serengeti
Meal : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Drinking water
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast we break the camp and drive south towards Ngorongoro. The drive is scenic and on arrival we descend some 640 meters into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a full day of game viewing drive with picnic lunch at a private scenic site (hippo pool). Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world, has an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, impala, Thompson gazelles, rhino, golden and black backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plans.
Unmatched for its natural variety and breathtaking beauty, there are few places on Earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also home to hundreds of bird species, refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor. Spend the night a few minutes from Ngorongoro.
Hotel/lodge : Marera Valley Lodge - Midrange lodge located near Ngorongoro
Meal : breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 6: Drive to Arusha – Fly back home
After breakfast we drive to Arusha for your flight back home.
Hotel/lodge :
Meal : Breakfast, lunch and drinking water
