Itinerary

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes about 1hour (69km/42mi)

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 Luxury Lodge where a delicious dinner awaits you, and spend the night.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera Valley Lodge
• Meals Plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade You Accommodation: Kitela Lodge

Day 2: Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro Crater

• Distance & Drive Time: Lake Manyara to NCA takes about 45 minutes to 1 hour (41km/25mi)

After an early breakfast, you will have a short of drive to the Ngorongoro entrances, and after a few minutes, you start descending to 600m down the crater for a game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is almost 600m deep, and approximately 20 km wide and the massive caldera is home to an amazing variety of animals. On your game drive, you have the possibility of seeing all different kinds of mammals ranging from the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard – to Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles and mountain reedbucks. You might also see spotted hyenas, and some of the more than 500 bird species in the area. After a picnic lunch in the crater and some more game viewing, you will leave the crater in the evening and travel back to the tented camp/lodge where you will be spending the second night.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera Valley Lodge
• Meals Plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade You Accommodation: Kitela Lodge

Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

• Distance & Time: Lake Manyara to Arusha takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (113 km/70mi)

You will depart the camp at around 0700hrs 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 species are also found here as well as some wonderful mammals. Troops of monkeys live in the forests, giraffes, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, and wildebeests on the grassy plains and elephants. After your tour around the beautiful lake and the amazing ground water forest you will be transferred back to Moshi/Arusha /Airport in the afternoon via curio shops where you can some souvenirs to take back home with you.

• Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Day 1: Arusha to South Serengeti (Ndutu Area)

• Flight Time: 50 Minutes.

After breakfast, you’ll be picked up from your Hotel in Arusha and then transferred to Arusha airport for your short flight to South Serengeti Ndutu region. Upon arrival, you will meet your professional driver-guide for a full day game drive in Ndutu Area to view Migration, where the great migration is supposed to be between December and April. 

It is where these animals (now estimated to be 2.5 million) will drop their young ones because the area is open and has highly nutritious grass. This will most likely be the highlight of your entire trip and you will expect to see lots of excitement like hunting, chasing, young ones being borne, etc. You will have 2 nights to explore this special area where off-road driving is permitted to allow you to observe these adventures up close. After the full-day game drive, you will drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

• Accommodation: Ndutu heritage Tented Camp 
• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 2: South Serengeti (Ndutu area)

• Distance: Fully Day Ndutu plain

Stunned by the previous day’s spotting of the migration, today you get another chance to view the beautiful wildlife spectacle. The Ndutu region is a part of the glorious Serengeti National park as well as the Ngorongoro conservation area (NCA). You can either have a relaxed breakfast or depart for full-day game drives around 9:00 am with packed lunch and return back to the lodge late evening around 6:00 pm. Or you can depart at 6:00 am on an early morning game drive for sunrise. Later return to the accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit and depart on an afternoon game drive with packed lunch. Today you will be following the migration depending on its location. During game drives at the right season between December and April, you will be able to see the fertile plains turn into calving grounds and nurseries for the great migration. This season attracts hordes of predators preying on vulnerable young wildebeest. Watching the circle of life take its course will be an unforgettable experience etched for life. The action-packed game drive will end late in the evening by around 6:00 pm. You will now head back to your lodge, where a freshly prepared dinner awaits you 

• Accommodation: Ndutu heritage Tented Camp
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 3: Ndutu Area to Ngorongoro crater.

• Distance & Drive time: South Serengeti to NCA takes about 2hours (80km/50mi)

After breakfast, morning game drives at south 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at the lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge/Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hr drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5hour (79km/49mi)

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.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera View Lodge
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included     
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Tarangire Safari Lodge/Tarangire National Park

Day 2: 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 the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Luxury Tented Lodge, Serengeti

Day 3: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.

• 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at a Mid-Range lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge/Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hrs drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan: Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes about 1hour (69km/42mi)

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.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera View Lodge
• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Tarangire Safari Lodge

Day 2: Karatu to south Serengeti (Ndutu Area)

• Distance & Drive time: Karatu to Ndutu Area takes about 3 to 3.5 hrs. (145km/90mi)

After breakfast, you will head to the Lake Ndutu region in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a sublime landscape of the southern Serengeti ecosystem. The drive takes approximately 3 hrs. taking you across the beautiful landscape of the Rift Valley lake Ndutu, alkaline like most of the other Rift Valley is frequently inhabited by a wide array of wildlife. With appetites sated, undertake our game drive in the Ndutu region, where the great migration is supposed to be between December and April.

It is where these animals (now estimated to be 2.5 million) will drop their young ones because the area is open and has highly nutritious grass. This will most likely be the highlight of your entire trip and you will expect to see lots of excitement like hunting, chasing, young ones being borne, etc. You will have 2 nights to explore this special area where off-road driving is permitted to allow you to observe these adventures up close. After the late afternoon game drive, you will drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

• Accommodation: Ndutu heritage Tented Camp
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 3: South Serengeti (Ndutu area)

• Distance: Fully Day Ndutu plain

Stunned by the previous day’s spotting of the migration, today you get another chance to view the beautiful wildlife spectacle. The Ndutu region is a part of the glorious Serengeti National park as well as the Ngorongoro conservation area (NCA). You can either have a relaxed breakfast or depart for full-day game drives around 9:00 am with packed lunch and return back to the lodge late evening around 6:00 pm. Or you can depart at 6:00 am on an early morning game drive for sunrise. Later return to the accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit and depart on an afternoon game drive with packed lunch. Today you will be following the migration depending on its location. During game drives at the right season between December and April, you will be able to see the fertile plains turn into calving grounds and nurseries for the great migration. This season attracts hordes of predators preying on vulnerable young wildebeest. Watching the circle of life take its course will be an unforgettable experience etched for life. The action-packed game drive will end late in the evening by around 6:00 pm. You will now head back to your lodge, where a freshly prepared dinner awaits you.

• Accommodation: Ndutu heritage Tented Camp  
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 4: Ndutu Area to Ngorongoro crater.

• Distance &Drive time: South Serengeti to NCA takes about 2hours (80km/50mi)

After breakfast, morning game drives at south 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at the lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge/Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hr drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5hour (79km/49mi)

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.

•  Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera View Lodge
• Meals Plan:  Lunch & Dinner Included     
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Tarangire Safari Lodge/Tarangire National Park

Day 2: 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 the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Luxury Tented Lodge, Serengeti

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

• Distance & Drive Time: Full-day game viewing.

After breakfast enters 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. Pride 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 elephants roam at will. This is the Africa that you have always dreamed about. You will overnight at the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Luxury Tented Lodge, Serengeti
• Day 4: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.
• 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at a Mid-range lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge/Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hrs drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Itinerary

Day 1: Isebania Border to Serengeti National Park.

Your Serengeti Migration safari will begin with pick up from the Isebania border of Tanzania and Kenya where you will be met by your Safari Guide in Tanzania who will welcome you for the Tanzania Safari. You will start your drive to your Lodge in Serengeti National Park for check-in and dinner and overnight.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented camp
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Lahia Serengeti Luxury Tented lodge

Day 2: Serengeti National Park.

• Distance & Drive Time: Full-day game viewing.

 After breakfast enters 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. Pride 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 elephants roam at will. This is the Africa that you have always dreamed about. You will overnight at the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented camp
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Lahia Serengeti Luxury Tented lodge

Day 3: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.

• 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at a Mid-Range lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa lodge/Ngorongoro crater Rim

Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Lake Manyara

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5 hours (59 km/36.6mi)

Starting early, you have a 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 of game drive on the crater floor will show you a lot of animal action. Keeping the camera ready is 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, and continue with game viewing before earlier evening, you will begin a steep ascent 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.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera Valley Lodge
• Meals Plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade You Accommodation: Kitela Lodge

Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

• Distance & Time: 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 Mosh/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. As today is the end of the safari, please note that dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Day 1: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

• Distance & Time: Arusha to Lake Manyara to Lake Eyasi takes about 4.5 to 5 hours (180 km/70mi)

Pick up at 7:00 AM from your hotel in Arusha and depart for Lake Manyara National park with a picnic lunch for a full day 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 species are also found here as well as some wonderful mammals. Troops of monkeys live in the forests, giraffes, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, and wildebeests on the grassy plains and elephants. After your tour around the beautiful lake and the amazing ground water forest, In the late afternoon you will drive to Lake Eyasi the driving is up, and across the Great East African Rift Valley, the driving to Lake Eyasi is of about 1.5 hours. Where a delicious dinner awaits you, and spend the night.

Day 2: Lake Eyasi to Serengeti National Park 

(Cultural Experience Meet the Bushmen and Datoga Tribe)

• Distance & Time: Lake Eyasi to Serengeti takes about 5 to 5.5 hours (248 km/154mi)

You’ll be up before breakfast today, as you’ll be joining the Hadzabe bushmen for the opportunity to hunt for your own food.

After the morning experience with Hadzabe, we will proceed toward Serengeti. Along the way, we’ll pass through the mist-shrouded rainforest of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you might be lucky enough to Glimpse cape buffalo, baboons, or even elephants and leopards in the dense undergrowth. It’s a nearly four-hour drive to the Serengeti park gates.

After a delicious lunch at the Serengeti National park Naabi hill picnic site, it’s time to explore the Serengeti itself Witness Africa’s iconic savannah landscape and be amazed by the sheer number of animals that roam these grassy plains. Dinner and overnight in the heart of the Serengeti National Park.

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

• Distance & Drive Time: Full-day game viewing.

After breakfast enters 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. Pride 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 elephants roam at will. This is the Africa that you have always dreamed about. You will overnight at the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

Day 4: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.

• 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at a Mid-Range lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hrs drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Itinerary

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5hour (79km/49mi)

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.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera View Lodge
• Meals Plan:  Lunch & Dinner Included                                     
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Tarangire Safari Lodge/Tarangire National Park

Day 2: 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 the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Luxury Tented Lodge, Serengeti

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

• Distance & Drive Time: Full-day game viewing.

 After breakfast enters 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. Pride 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 elephants roam at will. This is the Africa that you have always dreamed about. You will overnight at the lodge/Campsite located in central Serengeti.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Luxury Tented Lodge, Serengeti

Day 4: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.

• 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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at the Mid-range lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge/Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Lake Manyara

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5 hours (59 km/36.6mi)

Starting early, you have a 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 of 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, and continue with game viewing before earlier evening, you will begin a steep ascent 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.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera View Lodge
• Meals Plan:  Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Karatu/ Kitela Lodge

Day 6: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

• Distance & Time: 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 Mosh/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. As today is the end of the safari, please note that dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Itinerary

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Lake Manyara takes about 1.5hour (79km/49mi)

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.

• Accommodation– Tarangire Safari Lodge / Tarangire National Park
• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation-Tarangire National park-Tarangire Sopa Lodge

Day 2: Tarangire National Park to central National park

• Distance & Drive time: Tarangire to Central Serengeti takes about 5.5 to 6 hours (265 km/164mi)

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 landscape-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 Zebra trek to find fresh grass and water. you will overnight at a lodge/campsite located in central Serengeti in Seronera Area.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented camp
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation-Lahia Luxury Tented lodge Serengeti

Day 3 & 4: Serengeti Western Corridor

After breakfast, we make our way into the park’s Western Corridor area.

The Mara River crossing may be the most well-known highlight of the Wildebeest Migration, but the Grumeti River Crossing in the Western Serengeti is no less spectacular.

Drawn towards the shores of Africa’s largest lake, Lake Victoria by the promise of rain and better grazing, the herd deviates into the west.

The only things standing between the herd and the large freshwater lake? The Grumeti River.

Some of the most spectacular images of the predator-prey dynamic are captured in and around the river, with both the big cats and Nile crocodiles seizing upon this opportunity to strike at the increasingly desperate members of the region, and these opportunistic predators make the most of things. Dinner and overnight in Serengeti to the standard and the type of accommodation requested from your options.

• Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented camp
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation– Lahia Serengeti Luxury Tented lodge

Day 5: Serengeti National park to Ngorongoro Crater.

• Distance & Drive time: Central Serengeti to NCA takes about 3 to 3.5 hours (153km/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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at the lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation-Ngorongoro Sopa lodge/Ngorongoro crater Rim

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hrs drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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Itinerary

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National park.

• Distance & Drive time: Arusha to Tarangire takes about 2.5 to 3 hours (106 km/65mi)- Tarangire to Karatu takes about 1.5hour (79km/49mi)

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.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Marera View Lodge     
• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Tarangire National park

Day 2: Karatu to south Serengeti (Ndutu Area)

• Distance & Drive time: Karatu to Ndutu Area takes about 3 to 3.5 hrs. (145km/90mi)

After breakfast, you will head to the Lake Ndutu region in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a sublime landscape of the southern Serengeti ecosystem. The drive takes approximately 3 hrs. taking you across the beautiful landscape of the Rift Valley lake Ndutu, alkaline like most of the other Rift Valley is frequently inhabited by a wide array of wildlife. With appetites sated, undertake our game drive in the Ndutu region, where the great migration is supposed to be between December and April.

It is where these animals (now estimated to be 2.5 million) will drop their young ones because the area is open and has highly nutritious grass. This will most likely be the highlight of your entire trip and you will expect to see lots of excitement like hunting, chasing, young ones being borne, etc. You will have 2 nights to explore this special area where off-road driving is permitted to allow you to observe these adventures up close. After the late afternoon game drive, you will drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

• Accommodation: Ndutu heritage Tented Camp
• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 3: South Serengeti (Ndutu area)

• Distance: Fully Day Ndutu plain

Stunned by the previous day’s spotting of the migration, today you get another chance to view the beautiful wildlife spectacle. The Ndutu region is a part of the glorious Serengeti National park as well as the Ngorongoro conservation area (NCA). You can either have a relaxed breakfast or depart for full-day game drives around 9:00 am with packed lunch and return back to the lodge late evening around 6:00 pm. Or you can depart at 6:00 am on an early morning game drive for sunrise. Later return to the accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit and depart on an afternoon game drive with packed lunch. Today you will be following the migration depending on its location. During game drives at the right season between December and April, you will be able to see the fertile plains turn into calving grounds and nurseries for the great migration. This season attracts hordes of predators preying on vulnerable young wildebeest. Watching the circle of life take its course will be an unforgettable experience etched for life. The action-packed game drive will end late in the evening by around 6:00 pm. You will now head back to your lodge, where a freshly prepared dinner awaits you.

• Accommodation: Ndutu heritage Tented Camp
• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge

Day 4: Ndutu Area- Central Serengeti national park.

• Distance: Ndutu to central Serengeti takes about 2.5-3 hours (90km/56mi)

After breakfast, you will drive to central Serengeti for a game drive with a picnic lunch. In this area of the park, you will have the opportunity to see big pride of lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, giraffes, elephants, different antelopes, and other wildlife.

The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa. You must also look out for the Serengeti “Kopjes” which are massive boulders of granite standing in a sea of grass. They provide ample shelter to a large variety of Flora and Fauna. A picnic lunch will be done during the day-long game drive itself. The eventful day comes to an end with a heavy dinner and a good night’s rest in your accommodation.

•  Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
• Upgrade Your Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Luxury Tented Lodge, Serengeti

Day 5: Serengeti National park to Ngorongoro Crater.

• Distance & Drive time: Central Serengeti to NCA takes about 3 to 3.5 hours (153km/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 for dinner and overnight. You will overnight at the lodge located on the ridge of the Ngorongoro rim.

• Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
• Upgrade your Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa lodge/Ngorongoro crater Rim

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

• Distance & Drive Time: NCA To Arusha takes about 3.5 to 4hours (158km/98mi)

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260sq km/161sq mi) with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 6-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 Ngoito Hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascent to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4hr drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.

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