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Arrival
Day 1
Arusha to Lake Manyara
Arusha to Lake Manyara
After an early breakfast, you will travel to Lake Manyara National Park for game viewing with a packed picnic lunch. Lake Manyara is one of the national parks with its unique attractions like tree-climbing lions and hot springs. You will then drive to Kankari Lodge for an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Kankari Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Karatu to Serengeti
Karatu to Serengeti
Drive to Serengeti National Park via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will enjoy an en-route game drive. We then head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. It features the Seronera River which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. We'll arrive in time for lunch and enjoy a game drive in the Serengeti National Park between 15:00 and 17:00 after which we return for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Tukaone Serengeti Camps
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Serengeti
Serengeti
After breakfast, we continue with the game drive in Serengeti. The park has an area of 18,000 km² and for the most part, the plains stretch to the horizon, playing tricks on our senses and making faraway things appear much closer. The Serengeti is the site of a breathtaking spectacle; the world-famous great migration of the wildebeest. More than 2 million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of zebras, and all kinds of antelopes, including the abundant impala and Thomson’s gazelle, search for food following the rains. These large herds naturally attract predators such as lions, cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas. Many spectacular animal documentaries were filmed in this park. The Serengeti is also home to countless smaller, interesting animals such as mongooses, monkeys, baboons, jackals, foxes, honey badgers, stone hyrax, and African hares, as well as more than 500 species of birds.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Highlands
- Accommodation:
- Tukaone Serengeti Camps
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Ngorongoro Crater to Karatu
Ngorongoro Crater to Karatu
After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephant. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopards (which sometimes require a trained eye to spot). You will return to the campsite where you will enjoy lunch and later drive to Karatu for overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Kankari Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Karatu to Lake Eyasi
Karatu to Lake Eyasi
After breakfast, you will traverse the rough road to Lake Eyasi, another soda lake in the Rift Valley. You will arrive in the afternoon for a cultural interaction with the Tatoga people (a very interesting community). Our Tatoga guide at the village will lead the tour. You will explore the dry and rugged landscape area on foot, which is still inhabited by a small group of Bushmen; the Hadzabe or Watindiga. These people still live in bands, hunting with bows and arrows and gather roots, tubers, and wild fruits, just as humans did to survive 10,000 years ago. Another interesting ethnicity in this area is the Datoga (also called the Barabaig or Mang’ati). Initially, they were exercising a lot of rivalry over grazing land with the Maasai.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- Marera Valley Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Tarangire to Arusha
Tarangire to Arusha
You will 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 the game drive, you will head back to Arusha.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
