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  • A transfer from the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.
  • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1

Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara National Park

Meet your professional driver-guide at your hotel in Arusha town at 8:30 am and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive with picnic lunches. Later, you will proceed to Migombani Camp for dinner and an overnight stay. 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”.

The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundreds of baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.

Dinner and overnight at Migombani campsite.

Main Destination:
Lake Manyara National Park
Best Time To Visit June to October (Easier to spot animals)
High Season July to March (The northern section gets crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP

ElephantCommon
GiraffeCommon
BuffaloCommon
ZebraCommon
HippoCommon
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LionOccasional
HyenaOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Budget camping
  • Just outside Lake Manyara NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
  • Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 2

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, proceed to Serengeti National Park for a full day game drive en route with picnic lunches and dinner. Your overnight stay will be at the Pimbi campsite.

The great migration is the scene of a million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life. It is a frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests, and mating and survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. They replenish the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily, before the 1,000km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park
Best Time To Visit January to February and June to October (Different areas are best at different times)
High Season July to March (The Seronera area is crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Serengeti NP

ElephantCommon
LionCommon
CheetahCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
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GiraffeCommon
HippoCommon
HyenaCommon
LeopardOccasional
Black RhinoVery Rare
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Budget camping
  • Inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 3

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

Early, at 5:30 am, take your breakfast box and proceed for a sunrise game drive until 11:00 am. We drive back to the camp to collect your picnic lunch box and proceed for a full-day game drive in this wonderful national park.

Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year. We can spend time at the hippo pool, watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water and happily living alongside the crocodiles. You can also see a big pride of lions in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest and zebras.

This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing. We will hopefully see all of the plains game like elephant, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and lions, and if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting birdlife. Dinner and overnight will be at the Pimbi campsite.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Budget camping
  • Inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 4

Serengeti National Park to the Ngorongoro Crater rim

Serengeti National Park to the Ngorongoro Crater rim

After breakfast, have a full-day game drive en-route to the Simba campsite at the crater rim with a picnic lunch. We drive via the Olduvai Gorge Historic Site, boasting a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here that the anthropologists, Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey, discovered the skulls of "Nutcracker Man" and "Handy Man", both very significant links in the chain of human evolution

We will have dinner and overnight at Simba campsite at Ngorongoro crater rim.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Budget camping
  • On the crater rim of Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 5

Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater

At 06:00 am, have breakfast and take your picnic lunch before descending over 600m into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a 6-hour game viewing.

The Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephant. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopards (which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot).

We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of hippos, flamingos, and other waterbirds can usually be seen here. In the late evening, we drive to Migombani Campsite.

Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Crater
Best Time To Visit June to October (Wildlife viewing is best)
High Season Most of the year – July to March (Expect crowds)
Best Weather June to October (Rainfall is little to none)

Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater

LionCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
HyenaAbundant
Show more
ElephantCommon
HippoCommon
LeopardOccasional
Accommodation:
Budget camping
  • Just outside Ngorongoro Crater
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Non-alcoholic drinks

Day 6

Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park

After an early breakfast, we proceed to Tarangire National Park for a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch.

The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa.

This African national park is also home to 3 rare species of animals; the greater kudu, the fringe-eared oryx, as well as the ashy starling. In the late evening, we drive back to Arusha.

Main Destination:
Tarangire National Park
Best Time To Visit July to November (Animals come to the Tarangire River)
High Season June to October (The park is full of visitors)
Best Weather June to October (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Tarangire NP

ElephantAbundant
GiraffeCommon
LionCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
Show more
HippoCommon
HyenaOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
  • Non-alcoholic drinks

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End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

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  • A transfer back to the airport can be arranged for an extra cost.

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