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Arrival
Day 1
Arrive at Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport
Arrive at Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport
Welcome to Tanzania!
On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha airport, meet your tour representative for the drive to the Gold Crest Hotel in Arusha, one of the most influential cities in Tanzania. It is strategically located at a base overlooking a remarkable view of Mount Meru. Thus, it represents one of Tanzania’s best views right at your doorstep. After settling into your room, take a walk around the garden or walk to the city of Arusha to explore the local people's life and daily activities.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
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Gold Crest Hotel Arusha
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
You leave Arusha after breakfast with a picnic lunch packed safely away. The Rift Valley landscape drifts past as your guide heads for Tarangire National Park, the least visited reserve on the itinerary but one that delivers fantastic game viewing. Home to Tanzania’s biggest elephant population, Tarangire supports large numbers of buffalo, giraffe, zebra, and many antelope species, most evident during the dry season when concentrations of animals at the life-giving Tarangire River are at their peak.
You will stop at a picnic site to enjoy your lunch with breathtaking views of the park’s landscape and the river below. You may also be in the company of elephants drinking and digging water from the sand river banks. After lunch, you will proceed with game viewing, and late in the evening, you will proceed to your tented camp located inside the park for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Farm of Dreams Lodge
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3-4
Karatu to Serengeti National Park
Karatu to Serengeti National Park
Have a relaxed breakfast at the lodge and depart to Serengeti with a delicious packed picnic lunch. Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a World Heritage Site and recently proclaimed one of the Seven Wonders of Africa, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some 1.5 million hooves pound the open plains. More than 300,000 zebras and Thomson’s gazelles join the wildebeests' trek for fresh grazing, even when the migration is not around.
The Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game viewing in Africa - great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, topi, impala, and Grant’s gazelle. Within these two days, we will explore the plains, waterholes, kopjes, and rivers for the big cats. The eastern plains of Namiri and the Gol-kopjes offer excellent cheetah and lion sightings. Our campsite is at the heart of it all, set on a high elevation offering an excellent view of the plains from your doorstep.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Moyo Tented Camp
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The day will start with a walking safari, which puts you closest to nature. Suddenly, your senses come to life; every sight, sound, and smell becomes intensely meaningful. Could that bush be an animal? How old are these lion tracks? I wonder what animals make these worn-out paths? Those giraffes are staring; could they have seen us? That’s the excitement that a walking safari instills in our guests. This will be followed by game viewing before returning to the camp for lunch.
After lunch, you will go on a game drive en route to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for dinner and overnight at the camp.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Lion's Paw Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Arusha
Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Arusha
Leave your camp very early in the morning and descend 610 meters down to the grasslands of the crater floor, an area of about 265 square kilometers. Despite its small size, the crater is a Big 5 country, and the openness of the terrain means easy and rewarding game viewing. You will spend the day exploring the crater floor, stopping to picnic on the grasslands amidst the grazing herds. Formed by a massive volcanic eruption, the world’s largest intact and unflooded caldera provides a year-round home to an astonishing 25,000 large mammals, including black rhino, wildebeest, and zebra, along with Africa’s densest concentrations of hyena.
The crater’s forests shelter elephants and buffalos, and its wetlands are home to hippos and flamingos. Lions, jackals, leopards, and caracals make up the full range of predators. Late in the afternoon, you leave the crater behind and drive back to Arusha. You will be dropped off at your accommodation or at Kilimanjaro International Airport.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
