8 Days / 7 Nights, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti & Ngorongoro

DAY 1: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

DAY 1: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast depart for Tarangire National Park. Full day game drive in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, and antelopes to a variety of colourful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance to quietly observe many families of elephants interacting.

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DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

Pick up from your hotel at 8 am and start a beautiful journey across the Great Rift Valley until Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive. Although small in dimension (205 sq. miles), the park has breathtaking scenery and is well famous for its lush acacia forest, giant figs and mahogany trees, as well as a growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Permanent residents of this park also include giraffes, elephants, impalas and a huge amount of buffaloes. The lake is also home to a large number of hippos. Some unique facts about this park include the tree climbing lions, flamingos in the lakeshore, as well as the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle.

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DAY 3 & 4: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK (CENTRAL)

DAY 3 & 4: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK (CENTRAL)

After an early breakfast, depart towards the most famous National park in the World, the Serengeti. The driving itself, although long, is spectacular. You will drive up the crater highlands, making a quick stop at the rim for an out of this world view of Ngorongoro Crater. This will be an unforgettable moment for anyone seeing it for the first time. As you progress well into the Serengeti, you will see why the name means, in the local language, "endless plains". The park has 6,900 sq. miles (18,000 sq. km) and for most of it, the plains will stretch to the horizon defying your senses and perception of distances. Dinner and overnight.

On this second day, you could do a morning game drive, return to the camp for lunch and relaxation and finish with an afternoon game drive, or you could do a full day game drive with a picnic lunch.

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DAY 5 & 6: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK (NORTH SERENGETI)

DAY 5 & 6: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK (NORTH SERENGETI)

Day 5: On these two incredible days, you will be driven across remote locations within the vast Serengeti plains in pursue of the Great Migration. The areas you visit depend on the time of the year and could be as far as the remote North of the Serengeti near the border with Kenya, or could be in the South (Ndutu Area) or even in the Western part of the park.

Day 6: Full day game driver, you will be driven across remote locations within the vast Serengeti plains in pursue of the Great Migration.

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DAY 7 & 8: SERENGETI TO NGORONGORO

DAY 7 & 8: SERENGETI TO NGORONGORO

Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning safari before breakfast, to spot the animals when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sunrise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return to the camp for brunch, followed by a transfer to Ngorongoro, the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls, 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wildlife on the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open. Arrival in Ngorongoro in the late afternoon Dinner and overnight

DAY 8: NGORONGORO CRATER Very early in the morning, descend down to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, drive up the steep road out of the crater and return to Arusha.

INCLUDES

* 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser with pop-up roof
* Accommodation as detailed (Full Board)
* All National Park entrances
* Unlimited Water and Unlimited mileage during game drives.
* Donations/payments to local community projects.

EXCLUDES

* Visas
* Items of Personal Interest
* Souvenirs
* Tips for the driver/guide (we suggest 10 USD per day)
* Tips for the cook (we suggest 5 USD per day. The cook will only be present on public camping safaris)

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