Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park Tour
You will be met after breakfast at 8:00 Am by your driver-guide and drive from the hotel to Lake Manyara National Park with your packed lunch. Driving from Arusha to Lake Manyara is approximately 2hrs20 depending on traffic covering 130km.
The park is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority and covers an area of 325 km2 including about 230 km2 lake surface. The majority of the land is a narrow strip running between the Gregory Rift wall to the west and Lake Manyara, an alkaline lake. You have a great time to enjoy seeing flocks of flamingoes, lions climbing tree and the hot spring available. Plenty of animals inhabit in this beautiful scenery including buffaloes, monkeys, elephants, zebras, giraffes as well a mixer of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores animals.
At the picnic site, enjoy your meal before proceeding with late afternoon game viewing. Later at the appropriate time, you'll have dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Africa Safari Lake Manyara (Safari Comfort)
- Meals & Drinks:
Ngorongoro Crater Tour
Wake up early in the morning for breakfast. This day demands you to descend into the crater for a game drive. All of the Big Five (rhino, lion, leopard, buffalo, and elephant) live in this wonderful caldera. Ngorongoro Crater covers 304km2 with a depth of 630m. The crater is known as the largest inactive and empty volcanic Caldera with a number of 25,000 large animals and 500 bird species. The Big Five animals have made this place their habitat but also likewise to monkeys, and black rhinos. Travel through the Lerai Forest looking for leopards and onto the plains where the wildebeest and zebra graze whilst cheetah. Other wildlife here includes zebra, hippo, wildebeest, hyena, and more. Your lunch will be served at the picnic site in the crater at Ngoitoktok swamp, a hippo pool and later proceed with the afternoon game drive.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Marera Valley Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park
After a leisure breakfast at the lodge, your driver-guide meets you with your packed lunch and drive to Serengeti National Park with a spectacular game viewing en-route. Transit time is approximately 3-4 hours drive without game viewing. Serengeti is not only famous for the great Wildebeest Migration that moves around the park from May to July each year but also for the vast number of species that reside in the park year-round. The concentration of predators in the Serengeti is high with large pride of lion, numerous hyena clans, and regular sightings of both cheetah and Leopard. Elephant, buffalo, giraffe, and antelope can be found feeding on the rich plains as well as some of the lesser-known species such as aardwolf, mongoose, caracal, servals, and hyrax.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti
- Meals & Drinks:
Full-Day Serengeti National Park Excursion
Breakfast then depart with game drive en-route back to the central Serengeti, this is another great day that you will get chance to see big five on the way, your guide will always stop in areas with attractions to keep on giving you more experience of this endless plain.
The Central Serengeti has experiences annual migration of Wildebeests and Zebra in the months of May-July then again in Between Nov and Dec on their way down to South. This is another great day that you will get chance to see big five on the way. Your guide will always stop in areas with attractions to keep on giving you more experience of this endless plain. Have time to see the Seronera River that inhabits numerous animals.
Later at the appropriate time, return back to your lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
(You have an option for a balloon ride while in Serengeti at an extra cost.).
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti
- Meals & Drinks:
Serengeti National Park to Arusha for Departure
After breakfast, your driver-guide meets you and drives you back to Arusha with a game drive on the way. Driving time is approximately 6-7 hours without game drives. On arrival in Arusha, you will be dropped off at your hotel for further arrangement.
(Alternatively on this day, you can fly from Serengeti to Arusha at an extra cost as shown separately).
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: