Day 1: Arusha-Tarangire National Park
Your guide will meet your at the hotel/airport and give you the safari briefing for you safari, then drive to Tarangire National Park for some amazing game viewing. The game in this beautiful national park is plentiful and the magnificent bird watching will make a devoted birder and even the most reluctant to appreciate them. It is home to up to 2500 elephants, which can be seen looking for under-groundwater in the dry riverbeds during the dry season, as well as migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, and other incredible sightings like lions, cheetah, leopard, giraffe, baboons and waterbucks. The park scenery is also one to look after, landscape dotted with huge baobab trees and the meandering life giving Tarangire River offers excellent game viewing during the dry season. (June-October) when the migratory wildebeest and zebras are around. Late in the evening leave the park and drive to Bougainvillea safari lodge for Dinner and overnight.
Main Destination: Tarangire national park
Meal plan: Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Bougainvillea safari lodge
Day 2-3: Exploring the Serengeti National Park.
After a leisurely breakfast at the lodge we set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of Serengeti National Park – a famous migration corridor and UNESCO World heritage site. Here, you’ll have a chance to witness the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. Depending on the time of the year, the migration is within the southern grass plains and the central part during the months of December-May. Within these two days we will explore the park rich habitats for the big cats who rule the plains, Serengeti is home to lion, leopard, hippos, cheetah, giraffe, elands, warthog and hyrax. The plains are dotted with mammoth rock out-crop, swamps, valleys, acacia tree lines and River-line habitats, in the central part, marking game-viewing good throughout the year. Our camp is set in the central park giving us perfect movement for game viewing. Dinner and overnight Tingitana tented camp.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park (central)
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Tingitana Tented Camp.
Day 4: Serengeti national park - Ngorongoro Crater Tour
After breakfast, we depart Serengeti and drive to Ngorongoro for a game drive in the Ngorongoro crater. Late in the afternoon, we drive back to the lodge, the jewel in Ngorongoro’s crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest un-flooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 21 km. across, 600 meters deep and 265 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, the open grass plains where grazers like zebra wildebeest and buffaloes can be seen grazing and lions laying lazily, the forest and swamps are perfect areas to look for big tusker elephants and hippos busking on the edges to warm their bodies.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Africa Gambling Camp
Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park - Arusha
Leave the lodge after an early breakfast with a nice packed picnic lunch to go with and proceed to Lake Manyara national park for game viewing we depart for a morning game drive at Lake Manyara National Park with picnic lunch. The park is home to the famous tree-climbing lions, elephants, giraffe, buffalo, big troops of baboon and more than 400 species of birds have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 50 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and giraffes sitting down.
After lunch leave the park and head to Arusha and your guide will drop you at your or Kilimanjaro international airport for your onwards connection
Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
Meal plan: Breakfast & Lunch
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