Day 1: Arusha
Arrival at Kilimanjaro airport where you will be met and assisted by our representative. Transfer to Arusha. The town of Arusha sits in lush, green countryside at the foot of Mt. Meru (4556m) and enjoys a temperate climate throughout the year. Surrounding it are many coffee, wheat and maize estates tended by the Waarusha and Wameru tribes people. Arusha is the gateway to Serengeti, Lake Manyara, Tarangire and Arusha national parks and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. As such, it's the safari capital of Tanzania.
Arrive and check into your hotel. Overnight at Arusha.
Day 2: Arusha - Tarangire/Lake Manyara
Today after breakfast, check out and drive to Lake Manyara or Tarangire.
Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. It is one of the few parks which is as much rich in flora as fauna. It is densely forested with big trees and presents a different picture to the eyes of the traveller. Home to more elephants per sq. Km. than any other park in Africa, baboons and Vervet monkeys, this national park is more famous for its tree sleeping lions. Nowhere else can you spot the lions climb trees with the dexterity of a leopard.
Tarangire is famous for the elephants and the baobab trees. hese trees grow to huge proportions and its trunk is hollow and wide enough to house a man in comfort! Apart from the pachyderms, there are lots of baboons, giraffes, herbivores and also a few lions in the park. The giraffes found in this region, known as the Masaai giraffes, are the tallest of their kind in the world.
Arrive early in time for lunch followed by an afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at Tarangire/Manyara.
Day 3: Tarangire/Lake Manyara
Today spend full day in Manyara or Tarangire with morning and afternoon game drive with all meals. Overnight at Tarangire/Manyara.
Day 4: Tarangire/Lake Manyara - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world. Its enduring charm stems from its overwhelming beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Arrive and check into your camp. Afternoon after lunch, go on a tour of the crater.
Often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ’8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the crater is a main draw card. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Masaai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.
After a beautiful descent down the crater rim, passing lush rain forest and thick vegetation, the flora opens to grassy plains throughout the crater floor. The game viewing is truly incredible, and the topography and views of the surrounding Crater Highlands out of this world.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro.
Day 5: Ngorongoro - Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, drive to the Serengeti National Park, undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere.
Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing.
The spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-maned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the south-eastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat.
Apart from the great predators, Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
Arrive for lunch at your lodge. After lunch go on a game drive. Return to your lodge for dinner. Overnight at Serengeti National Park.
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, enjoy a full day in the Serengeti. You can today opt for a hot air balloon safari, viewing the plains and the game from a different angle. Or go on a game drive to spot the animals, specially the Wildbeests, which you may have missed the previous day. Have a picnic lunch. Go on a walking safari post lunch if you feel like. Return to the lodge for dinner. Overnight at Serengeti National Park.
Day 7: Serengeti N.P. – Arusha Airport
After breakfast, check out and transfer to the local airstrip for your scheduled flight back to Arusha. Upon arrival, you will be met by the representative and transferred to Kilimanjaro Airport for your flight back home.
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