Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Arrival -Arusha
Arrival -Arusha
On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, have a meet and greet with our airport official team. You'll be assisted with your visa and luggage as well as some welcoming refreshments. Your driver guide will drive the hotel for dinner and your overnight stay.
Arusha is a city in northern Tanzania and the capital of the Arusha Region with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District. It is located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley. Arusha has a temperate climate. The city is close to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
Have breakfast at the lodge followed by a morning walking safari in Tarangire National Park escorted by an armed ranger. You'll then have an afternoon game drive until lunch time when your driver will set and prepare a table of a full hot meal lunch. Enjoy soup, bread rolls, main dish and fruits salad followed by a glass of wine/tea and coffee. In the evening, check into the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
Tarangire National Park covers approximately 2600 square kilometres and in the dry season, it's second only to Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area in concentrations of wildlife.
Tarangire lies to the south of the large, open grass plains of southern Maasai land. It derives its name from the Tarangire River, which provides permanent water for wildlife in the area.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- &Beyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast from the lodge, have a morning walking safari at Lake Manyara National Park escotred by an armed ranger. Then have a game drive in the park until afternoon. During lunchtime, your driver will set and prepare the table for a full hot meal lunch. Enjoy soup, bread rolls, main dish and fruits salad followed by a glass of wine/tea and coffee. After lunch, continue with a game drive until evening. Drive to the lodge for dinner and a night game drive before getting back to the lodge for your overnight stay.
Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 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 impressively tusked elephants.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- &Beyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, drive to Serengeti and try to catch and view the great migration. In the afternoon, your driver will prepare a great place where he will set the table for a full hot meal lunch. Enjoy soup, bread rolls, main dish and fruits salad followed by a glass of wine/tea and coffee. At this point, you will meet other guests from other companies but mostly with a sandwich or cold lunch while our services are 5-star. After lunch, have an afternoon game drive viewing a great migration. In the evening, check into the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
Serengeti National Park is well known for its healthy stock of other resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five", named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters. The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
-
Four Seasons Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
Today you will have a hot air balloon safari. You will be picked up from the lodge at 5:00 am for the balloon ride. After landing you may have a champagne celebration and a good breakfast. Afterwards, you may continue with the game drive in the Central Serengeti, Seronera area until lunchtime. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare the table for a full hot meal lunch. Enjoy soup, bread rolls, main dish and fruits salad followed by a glass of wine/tea and coffee. Late in the afternoon, drive back to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
Even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa. Great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle. Explore the range of different habitats that include swamps, woodland, soda lakes and the world-famous Serengeti short grass plains. See great herds of wildebeest and zebra.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Four Seasons Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast from the lodge, you will have a game drive in Central Serengeti National Park searching for big cats/Big Five. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare the table for a full hot meal lunch. Enjoy soup, bread rolls, main dish and fruits salad followed by a glass of wine/tea and coffee. Late in the afternoon, drive to Ngorongoro to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
Magnificent Wildlife
The only living things that look as if they really belonged to it are the wild animals. Between the animals and Africa, there is an understanding that human beings have not yet earned.
Laurens van der Post, Venture to the Interior, 1963
Today, the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Masai Mara National Reserve across the border in Kenya protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth, and one of the last great migratory systems still intact.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast from the lodge, have a morning game drive in Ngorongoro Crater for the full day crater tour at the crater. Your driver will set and prepare the table under our car shade with a full hot meal lunch. Enjoy soup, bread rolls, main dish and fruits salad followed by a glass of wine/tea and coffee. After lunch, proceed with a game drive until late afternoon. Drive back to Arusha and be dropped off at the airport.
The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20km across, 600m deep and 300sq km area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the south western corner which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
