Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Arusha to Tarangire
Arusha to Tarangire
From Arusha, you depart for Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch for a full-day game drive. Tanzania’s third-largest national park is known for its majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River is the centerpiece of this park, which is famous for having some of the largest herds of elephants in Africa. Here, you may see lion, leopard, cheetah, lesser kudu, buffalo, oryx, eland, giraffe, and zebra.
After the game drive, you will return to your camp or lodge, where a delicious dinner awaits you.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Tarangire to Lake Natron
Tarangire to Lake Natron
We depart with packed lunch boxes towards Lake Natron. Located about a 3.5-hour drive from Mto Wa Mbu/Manyara, Lake Natron is a surreal destination and unique natural spectacle. Its waters are highly alkaline and are unusually shallow, averaging just one meter in depth. After checking into your lodge and a short break, put your walking shoes on as a Maasai guide takes you on a walk around the shores of Lake Natron on the lookout for birds, especially the lesser flamingos.
Lake Natron is the most important and regular breeding site for lesser flamingos in East Africa, hosting up to 2 million during the breeding season. The majority of egg-laying and hatching takes place from September to January. After the hike, you will head back to your camp.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Natron
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Serengeti
Serengeti
Your day starts early. Around 6:00, accompanied by a Maasai guide, enjoy some light hiking to the nearby Ngare Sero Waterfalls and relax in the cool spray of water cascading down the rocks of this scenic ravine. Make sure to bring your shoes!
We return to our accommodation by 8:30 AM, and after a good breakfast, we head out towards the Serengeti National Park. This road trip takes you through a variety of sites: towns and villages, savannah and forest, and you’ll be able to spot animals like antelope, wildebeest, and zebra. We enter the Serengeti in the afternoon.
The Serengeti is arguably the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world. You will have an afternoon game drive in the endless plains of the Serengeti for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle or a pride of lions lounging in the shade. We will have a picnic lunch during the day-long game drive itself. The eventful day ends with dinner and a good night’s rest in your accommodation.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Serengeti
Serengeti
You can have a relaxed breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive around 9:00 AM with a packed lunch, and return to the lodge late afternoon around 6:00 PM. Or, you can depart at 6:00 AM on an early morning game drive. Later, return to the accommodation for breakfast, relax for a bit and leave on an afternoon game drive with a packed lunch.
You will explore the central portion of the Serengeti National Park today. The legendary Serengeti National Park is the most renowned safari destination for its incredible population of lions and leopards. The central portion of the Serengeti - known as the Seronera area - is one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. It features the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and attracts wildlife that is well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. During the off-season of the migration, one must look out for the many lion pride that thrive in this region.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
You will wake up at 5:45 AM for an early breakfast and see the sunrise inside Serengeti. After breakfast, you will do an early morning game drive up to 11:30 AM. Head back to the campsite for a hot lunch and pack your stuff in the Jeep.
Serengeti National Park has the highest concentration of large mammals in the world, so you’re bound to spot giraffes, elephants, hippos, and, of course, lions. You’ll also come across more than 500 species of birds, including ostriches and flamingos. Our driver will do his best to cover the main parts inside Central Serengeti. After lunch, you will proceed with a game drive in Serengeti while heading to Simba Campsite at the Ngorongoro Crater for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, you will descend to the Ngorongoro Crater floor, where you will able to see all the Big Five. You will also see different types of birds and black rhinos inside the crater. You will have lunch inside the crater while watching nature and the high concentration of flamingos. In the crater, there are over 6,000 wildebeest, spotted hyena, 2,000 zebra, 2,000 eland, 3,000 gazelle, 200 elephant, over 30 lion, 30 black rhino, and many small animals like kob, antelope, jackal, hippo, and different species of birds. This highly visited African attraction is the world’s largest inactive, unbroken, and unfilled volcanic caldera. An explosion created a caldera approximately two and a half million years ago.
Later, drive to Lake Natron for overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Lake Eyasi to Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Eyasi to Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, we traverse the rough road to Lake Eyasi, another soda lake in the Rift Valley. We arrive in the afternoon for a cultural interaction with the Tatoga community (a very interesting community). Our Tatoga guide at the village will lead the tour. On foot, we explore the dry and rugged landscape area, which is still inhabited by a small group of Bushmen, the Hadzabe or Watindiga. These groups still live in bands, hunting with bows and arrows and gathering roots, tubers, and wild fruits, just as humans did to survive 10,000 years ago. Another interesting community in this area is the Datoga (also called the Barabaig or Mang’ati). Initially, they exercised a lot of rivalry over grazing land with the Maasai people.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha
Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha
After breakfast, you will visit Lake Manyara National Park and then drive back to Arusha in the afternoon.
In the north of Tanzania, Lake Manyara National Park centers around its eponymous alkaline lake, a key habitat for hundreds of bird species. Between November and April, thousands of greater and lesser pink flamingos gather on its shores, along with pink-backed pelicans, yellow-billed storks, grey herons, and pods of hippos.
Surrounding the lake are marshlands, grassy plains, and acacia woodlands, home to tree-climbing lions and long-tusked elephants. Giraffes strut across the grasslands, where herds of buffalo, zebra, and wildebeest graze.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
