$7,211 to $7,469 pp (USD)
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Arrival
Day 1
Arusha
Arusha
Upon arrival at the Kilimanjaro airport, you’ll be met and greeted by our airport office representative, who’ll assist you with any immigration formalities and then welcome you with refreshments. You’ll then meet your guide and transfer to Arusha for dinner and your overnight stay.
Arusha is a Tanzanian city located at the base of volcanic Mt. Meru. It's a gateway to safari destinations and to Africa's highest peak (5,895m), Mt. Kilimanjaro.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Arusha - Tarangire National Park
Arusha - Tarangire National Park
After breakfast at the hotel and a short safari briefing, you’ll depart for a full-game drive in Tarangire National Park. At lunch time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.
Tarangire National Park is a lovely, quiet park in northern Tanzania that is famous for its elephant migration, birding, and authentic safari atmosphere. Most travelers to the region either miss out on Tarangire altogether or venture into the park for a matter of hours, leaving parts of Tarangire virtually untouched.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Sanctuary Swala Camp
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast you’ll go on a walking safari with an armed ranger. Later you’ll go on a game drive until lunch, at which time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.
Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry riverbed in Tarangire for underground streams. This park features the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem—a smorgasbord for predators. It’s one of the few places in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Sanctuary Swala Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Lake Manyara - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Lake Manyara - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast at the camp, you’ll transfer to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day of game driving. At lunch time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the lodge.
Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded here, and even a first-time visitor to the park might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Gibb's Farm
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you’ll make your way into the Ngorongoro crater for the game drive. At lunch time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.
The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater—the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. At about 20kms across, 600m deep, and 300 sq kms in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner that is one of the crater’s main features. A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually been seen here.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Acacia Ngorongoro Luxury Camp
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Ngorongoro - Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro - Serengeti National Park
After breakfast you’ll depart for Ndutu in the southern Serengeti for a full day game drive. This will be the beginning of our time witnessing the Great Migration. At lunch time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.
You’ll explore a range of different habitats here, including swamps, woodland, soda lakes, and the world-famous Serengeti short grass plains. You’ll also see great herds of wildebeest and zebra. Over a roughly three-week period in February, most of the wildebeest calve. The sea of grass provides little cover, and the young are easy pickings for a variety of predators.
- Main Destination:
- Southern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Acacia Migration Camp
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast at the camp, you’ll go on a game drive in the Ndutu area to explore the grassy plains and woodlands in the area. You’ll track herds of wildebeest and zebra and witness the birth of new calves. Be sure to keep a lookout for predators such as lion, cheetah, and hyena on the hunt. At lunch time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.
It is the Great Migration for which the Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May, and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge, or crocodile-infested river can hold them back.
- Main Destination:
- Southern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Acacia Migration Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast at the lodge, you’ll head out on a game drive into the Serengeti in search of big cats and the “Big Five.” At lunch time your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the lodge.
Today Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Maasai Mara Game Reserve (across the border in Kenya) protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth and one of the last great intact migratory systems.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
-
Four Seasons Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
In the early morning you’ll go on a hot air balloon ride. After landing you will have a celebratory champagne and a good breakfast, followed by a game drive in search of big cats and the “Big Five.” In the afternoon your driver will set and prepare the table for a hot meal of soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad. After a glass of wine, tea, or coffee we’ll continue with a game drive until the evening. You’ll have a sundowner picnic with drinks and snacks before returning to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Four Seasons Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Serengeti - Arusha
Serengeti - Arusha
After breakfast at the lodge, you’ll go on one last game drive in the Serengeti before being transferred to the Seronera airstrip for your flight back to Arusha. You’ll be transferred to the Arusha Coffer Lodge for a day room and lunch before heading to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
