7 Days Tarangire, Serengeti, Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro crater & Lake Manyara

Overview

Duration: 7 Days

This program is designed for a full 6-day game of which during this safari you will visit four of the most well – know reserves on Tanzania’s on “northern circuit” the Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti Park the Olduvai Gorge and the Lake Manyara National Park. With all the diverse landscapes and a crater full of animals, this safari has something for everyone. A professional Safari guide with much experience in the African bush will lead your tour and provide deeper insight to the wildlife animals and scenery around you.

At a Glance

This tour starts and ends in Moshi/Arusha at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport.
This tour offers Mid-range Lodge accommodation with upgrades available
This tour is a private safari and runs exclusively for you and can depart any day.
However, the package can still be customized to meet your budget and ideas.
This tour accepts children of all ages and discounts apply for children 2-15 years old with further discounts available for families sharing triple and quad rooms.

Highlights:

Tarangire National park – Game drive
Travel the endless plains of the world-famous Serengeti –Game Drive
Visit to the Olduvai Gorge
Ngorongoro crater – Game Drive
Lake Manyara National park – Game drive
1- night Arusha, 1-night Tarangire, 2-nights Serengeti, 2-nights Ngorongoro
Enjoy the Adventure tented camps in the heart of the Tanzania bush

Optional Safari Activities:

Night Game Drive Tarangire or Lake Manyara
Empakai crater hike
Maasai Village Visit
Hadzabe & Datoga Tribe Visit
Mto wa Ambu Village tour
Ngorongoro crater Rim Walking safari
Visit to the Olduvai Gorge
Balloon Safari Tarangire or Serengeti

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival – Arusha

Arrive at Kilimanjaro airport, you will be picked up from the airport by a Kilele Climb representative and conveyed to your accommodation in Moshi/Arusha where you will overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come, restore and enjoy your first taste of Africa. Depending on your arrival time, you may have your pre-safari briefing today; if not, it will take place early tomorrow morning.

Meals Plan: Dinner included

Accommodation

Budget Hotel: Arusha Green Mountain| Venus Premier Hotel| Outpost Lodge| Mc-Elly’s Hotel
Mid-range: Ilboru Safari Lodge| Arusha Planet Lodge| Pazuri Inn| Masailand Safari Lodge
Luxury: River Tree Lodge | Mount Meru Hotel| Four Point by Sheraton Arusha| The African Tulip Luxury Boutique Hotel
Luxury Plus: Grand Melia Lodge| Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa| Arusha Coffee Lodge| Kili Villa

Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)

Pick up at 7:00 AM from your hotel in Arusha and 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. After a full day in the park, we will drive to the camp/Lodge where a delicious dinner awaits you, and spend the night.

Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included

Accommodation:

Budget Camping: Tarangire Public Campsite
Mid-range outside the Park: Lake Burunge Tented Lodge| Kirurumu Tarangire Lodge| Eileen’s Tree Lodge| Sangaiwe Tented Lodge
Mid-range inside the Park: Tarangire Safari Lodge| Tarangire Kati Kati Tented Camp| Ang’ata Tarangire Camp
Luxury outside the Park: Maramboi Tented lodge | Kitela Lodge| Tarangire Simba Lodge| Ngorongoro Coffee Lodge
Luxury inside the Park: Tarangire Sopa Lodge| Acacia Tarangire Luxury Camp
Luxury Plus Inside the Park: Tarangire Kuro Treetops Lodge| Tarangire Lemala Mpingo Ridge Lodge| Tarangire Treetops

Day 3: Tarangire to Serengeti National Park

Distance & Drive Time: Tarangire to Central Serengeti takes about 5.5 to 6 hours (197km/122mi)

After breakfast, you will travel via the cooler highlands towards the southern Serengeti and at midday you will reach the plains of the Serengeti National Park. This park is the largest in Tanzania and has a diversity of habitats and landscapes – short grass plains, savannah, thick bush, swamps, and lakes. Bizarre rock formations called kopjes dot the grassy landscape where predators are often seen. The Serengeti is famous for the yearly migration when hundreds of thousands of wildebeests and zebras trek to find fresh grass and water. You will overnight at lodge/Campsite located central Serengeti (Seronera Area).

Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included

Accommodation:

Budget Camping: Seronera Public Campsites
Mid-range: Serengeti Heritage luxury Tented Camps | Embalakai Camp Serengeti | Serengeti Kuhama tented Lodge| Mbugani Migration Camp| Acacia Central Camp
Luxury: Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge| Serengeti Serena lodge| Lemala Ewanjani Tented Camps| Lemala Nanyukie| Serengeti Sametu Camp| Acacia Seronera Luxury Camp
Luxury Plus: Four Season Lodge| Ole Serai Luxury Camp| Serengeti Lake Magadi Lodge

Day 4: Serengeti National Park.

Distance & Drive Time: Full day game viewing.

After breakfast enter into the corners of plains Serengeti for a full day to explore the Serengeti with both morning and afternoon game drives. The Serengeti National Park is the jewel in the crown of Tanzania’s game parks and offers arguably the best game viewing in Africa. The setting is perfect –a sea of endless plains that stretches to the horizon, dotted with the occasional acacia tree and termite mound. This Savanna is home to huge herds of Wildebeest that every year make the mass migration North, through crocodile infested rivers, in a frenzied mixture of mating and galloping that is driven by instinct. Prides of lion rule here, their hungry gaze sweeping the Savannah for a chance to attack the thousands of eland, impala and gazelle. Solitary leopard stakes out their place in the high branches of the acacia tree and herds of elephant’s roam at will. This is the Africa that you have always dreamed about. You will overnight at lodge/Campsite located central Serengeti.

Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Accommodation:

Budget Camping: Seronera Public Campsites
Mid-range: Serengeti Heritage luxury Tented Camps | Embalakai Camp Serengeti | Serengeti Kuhama tented Lodge| Mbugani Migration Camp| Acacia Central Camp
Luxury: Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge| Serengeti Serena lodge| Lemala Ewanjani Tented Camps| Lemala Nanyukie| Serengeti Sametu Camp| Acacia Seronera Luxury Camp
Luxury Plus: Four Season Lodge| Ole Serai Luxury Camp| Serengeti Lake Magadi Lodge

Day 5: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater via Olduvai Gorge.

Distance & Drive time: central Serengeti to NCA takes about 3 to 3.5 hours (153 km/95mi)

After breakfast, morning game drives at Serengeti National Park. On your outward journey to the park gate, you will enjoy some more game viewing before you leave the Serengeti National Park in the early afternoon to continue your journey to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Proceed to the famous archaeological site of Olduvai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered Homo habilis, regarded as one of the earliest members of the human genus. Walk around the excavation sites and learn more about this wonderful place on Earth. Later after visiting the Gorge we will drive to our lodge for dinner and overnight located on the ridge of Ngorongoro rim and prepare ourselves for the Ngorongoro Crater the next day.

Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included

Accommodation:

Budget Camping: Simba A Public Campsite
Mid-range inside the Park: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge| Angata tented Lodge
Luxury: Sopa Ngorongoro| Serena Ngorongoro| Ngorongoro Lions Paw Camp
Luxury Plus: Ngorongoro Lodge Meliá Collection

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater Tour

Distance & Drive Time: Full Day game drive

Starting early, you have half day to explore the Ngorongoro Crater, The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260 sq.km/161 sq. mi

With a depth of over 200 feet. The 5- hours game drive on the crater floor will show you a lot of animal action. Keeping the camera ready is definitely recommended. The African elephant, buffalo, Black rhino, hippos, Hyenas, Cheetahs and Lions are found in plenty. Post the picnic lunch at the beautiful Hippo pool, continue with game viewing before earlier evening, you will begin a steep ascend to the top exit of the crater. With a 2 hrs. drive left to your accommodation in Lake Manyara, the day will come to a close, freshly made delicious dinner is kept ready for you at your Campsite/Lodge. All these days of the safari, will have you quite tired and a good rest is essential. The next day you will begin the last leg of your safari.

Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included

Accommodation:

Budget Camping: Haven nature Safari Camp and Lodge| Fanaka Safaris Campsite & Lodges| Migombani Camp
Mid-range: Marera Valley Lodge| Eileen’s Tree Lodge| Migunga Tented Camp
Luxury: Ngorongoro Coffee lodge | Kitela Lodge| Lake Manyara serena Lodge
Luxury Plus: Escarpment Luxury Lodge| Mawemawe Manyara Lodge| Lake Manyara Kilima Moja lodge

Day 7: Ngorongoro to Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

Distance & Time: NCA to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5hour (59 km/36.6mi) Lake Manyara to Arusha takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (113 km/70 mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start you will depart the Lodge at around 0730hrs and head to Lake Manyara National Park for your final game drive. The park is renowned for its elusive tree-climbing lions and diverse bird life. The shallow and alkaline Lake Manyara covers a large area of the park and it is the seasonal home to thousands of flamingos- an awesome(pink) sight. However, more than 400 other bird species are also found here as well as some wonderful mammals. Troops of monkeys like in the forests, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, and wildebeests on grassy plains and elephants.

After your tour around the beautiful lake and the amazing ground water forest you will be transferred back to Arusha/Airport in the afternoon via curio shops where you can grab some souvenirs to take back home with you. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch.

Departure Instructions

Please note that the Tarangire| Serengeti| Ngorongoro crater| Lake Manyara Tour – 7 Days ends at Kilimanjaro International Airport at 17.00 hours. Your departure can only take place today if you have pre-booked a domestic flight which leaves from Kilimanjaro International Airport at 19.00 hours or after, or an international flight which leaves at 21.00 hours or after. Otherwise, you will need to book an extra night’s accommodation (not included in the tour price) and take a flight the following day

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Included

1 night of hotel Accommodation before safari
Professional and experienced English-speaking safari driver/guide.
Park entrance fees.
Concession/ Camping Fees.
4×4 Toyota land cruiser with a pop-up roof.
All sightseeing and excursions as mentioned in the itinerary (unless labeled as optional).
All accommodation as stated in the itinerary.
Food/Meals as outlined in the itinerary.
Drinking water while on safari (1.5 litres per person per day).
Government Taxes & VAT.
Roundtrip Airport Transfer (Unless mentioned otherwise).