$1,980 to $1,997 pp (USD)
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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 some of the largest herds of elephants in Africa. Here you may see lion, leopard, cheetah, lesser kudu, buffalo, Oryx, eland, giraffe, and zebra. Post the game drive, you will head back to your camp/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-hourdrive away 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 of them 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 accommodation by 8:30 AM and finishing up a good breakfast, will head out towards the Serengeti National Park. This road trip takes you through variety of sites: towns and villages, savannah and forest, and you’ll be able to spot animals like antelope, wildebeest, and zebra. We enter 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, zebras, and gazelles or a pride of lions lounging in the shade. A picnic lunch will be done during the day-long game drive itself. The eventful day comes to an end 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 either have a relaxed breakfast and depart for full-day game drives around 9:00 AM with a packed lunch and return to lodge late afternoon around 6:00 PM. Or you can depart at 6:00 AM on an early morning game drive. Later return to accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit and depart 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 therefore attracts wildlife 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 up5.45 for an early breakfast and see the Sunrise inside Serengeti, after you finish your
breakfast you will do an early morning game drive up to 11.30 amthen you head back to the campsite
for the 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.
This time after finishing your hot lunch you will proceed with a game drive in Serengeti while
heading to Ngorongoro Crater in Simba campsite for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Ngorongor crater
Ngorongor crater
After breakfast you will descend to the Ngorongoro
crater floor where you will able to see all the big five, also you will see different types of birds,
including black rhino available inside the crater. On this day you will have your lunch inside the crater while
watching nature and high concentrations of flamingos. Animals available there are over 6,000
wildebeest at the crater, 4,000 Black spotted Hyenas, 2,000 zebras, 2,000 Elands, 3,000 Gazelles, 200
Elephants, over 30 Lions, 30 black Rhinos, and many small animals like Kobs, Antelopes, Jackals, Hippos
, and different species of birds. This highly visited African attraction is the world’s largest inactive,
unbroken, and unfilled volcanic caldera and this explosion created a caldera approximately two and a
half million years ago. Late drive to Lake Natronfor 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. We explore the dry and rugged landscape area on foot, 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; gathering roots, tubers, and wild fruits, just as humans did to survive
10,000 years ago. Another interesting communtiy in this area is the Datoga (also called the Barabaig or
Mang’ati). Initially, they were exercising 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 depart to Lake Manyara National Park and then afternoon drive back to Arusha.
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.
Afternoon drive back to Arusha.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
