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Arrival
Day 1
Arrival to Arusha
Arrival to Arusha
Arusha, a bustling city in northern Tanzania, serves as a gateway to some of East Africa's most iconic landscapes and experiences. Located at the base of Mount Meru and near the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha is a popular destination for adventurers, wildlife enthusiasts, and cultural explorers. Here's what to expect and how to make the most of your arrival:.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Senator Hotel Arusha
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Arusha to Tarangire
Arusha to Tarangire
Begin your day with an early start and drive to Tarangire National Park. Enjoy a full day game drive, exploring the park’s iconic landscapes and diverse wildlife, including elephants, lions, and a variety of bird species. In the afternoon, your guide will set a beautiful table with a delicious hot lunch meal with soft drinks, tea, coffee or a glass of wine. Afterwards, proceed with a game drive until late afternoon, drive to Ngedere Lodge for an overnight stay, relaxing in the serene surroundings.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ngedere Lodges & Camps
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Mto wa Mbu Serengeti
Mto wa Mbu Serengeti
After a great breakfast from your camp, you will depart and drive to Serengeti with a game drive en-route. In the afternoon, your guide will set a beautiful table with a delicious hot lunch meal with soft drinks, tea, coffee or a glass of wine. Afterwards, proceed with a game drive and in the evening, check in to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park is also a World Heritage Site and recently proclaimed a 7th Worldwide Wonder. The Serengeti is famed for its annual migration when some six million hooves pound the open plains as more than 100,000 zebra and 200,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa. There are great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- TANAPA Serengeti Rest House (Seronera)
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Serengeti Migration
Serengeti Migration
After breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive in Northern Serengeti (Kogatende area). You can view the great migration river crossing. Your guide will serve lunch, then continue with the game drive until evening. Check in to the camp for dinner and overnight. A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life - this is the great migration. A frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests, mating, and survival of the fittest as 40km-long (25 miles) 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:
- Northern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- TANAPA Serengeti Rest House (Seronera)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti
Serengeti
After breakfast, depart from your lodge for a game drive in the Serengeti. In the afternoon, enjoy lunch prepared by your guide. Then late afternoon, drive to Ngorongoro and visit the Maasai villages. Check into the camp for dinner and an overnight stay. Serengeti National Park is well known for its healthy stock of resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five", named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters. The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa, due to the abundance of prey. More than 2,000 lions live in this ecosystem. The African leopard, a reclusive predator, is commonly seen in the Seronera region but is present throughout the park with a population of around 500.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- TANAPA Serengeti Rest House (Seronera)
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Serengeti to ngorongoro
Serengeti to ngorongoro
Enjoy breakfast at leisure at the camp, then depart for the last day's game drive in the central Serengeti National Park. In the afternoon, a hot lunch, prepared by your guide, will be served. You will then drive to Ngorongoro and check in at the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Magnificent Wildlife: "The only living things which look as if they really belonged to the continent are the wild animals. Between the animals and Africa, there is an understanding that the human beings have not yet earned" – Laurens van der Post, Venture to the Interior. Today, the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Masai Mara National Reserve across the border in Kenya, protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth, and have one of the last great migratory systems still intact.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Highlands
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Ngorongoro
Ngorongoro
After your breakfast, we'll pick you up from your hotel for an early-morning game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater, with a hot lunch served in the afternoon. Your game drive will continue until late afternoon, after which we'll commence the drive back to Arusha, where we'll drop you off at your hotel. This marks the end of your tour. The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken crater in the world. About 20 km across, 600 m deep and 300 sq km 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, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Ngedere Lodges & Camps
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Tribes
Tribes
After breakfast, depart for Lake Eyasi and visit the Datoga and Bushmen tribes. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad) followed by a glass of wine, tea, or coffee. After lunch, continue with the Bushmen's activities. In the evening, drive to the camp for check-in, dinner and overnight.
Small groups of Hadzabe Bushmen live around Lake Eyasi. Their language resembles the click languages of other Bushmen further south in the Kalahari. Their small population was seriously threatened, in particular during the period when Julius Nyerere tried to introduce.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- Ngedere Lodges & Camps
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Lake manyara
Lake manyara
After breakfast at the morning drive to Lake Manyara National Park for the full day game drive in the park. Lunch will be served at the park then have a drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. Lake Manyara is famed for its tree-climbing lions and boasts the highest concentration of pachyderms in Tanzania. Upon entering the gate, visitors are greeted by lush forests, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. Nearby, buffaloes and hippos can be observed in the Hippo Pool. The landscape transitions into flat-topped acacia woodlands, where, during the heat of the day, lions can often be spotted lounging on tree branches—a behavior unique to Manyara lions, later drive back to Ausha for drop off.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
