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Arrival
Day 1
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
After an early breakfast, depart for Tarangire for a full-day game drive at Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch. Here, herds of up to 300 elephants scrape the waterless riverbed for alternative streams, while nomadic wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest, and eland mass in the decreasing lagoons. This national park serves as a refuge for migrating animals during the Dry season and is a welcoming home for elephants. Later, head to Farm of Dreams Lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Farm of Dreams Lodge
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will make your way to Serengeti National Park for a full-day game drive and picnic lunch. A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfill their instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life here. They participate in a frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests and mating, as well as a survival of the fittest as they plunge in 40-kilometre-long (25 miles) columns through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. After a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily, the 1,000-kilometre pilgrimage (600 miles) begins again.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Safari Haven Serengeti Camp
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Central Serengeti National Park
Central Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will make your way to Serengeti National Park for a full-day game drive and picnic lunch. A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfill their instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life here. They participate in a frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests and mating, as well as a survival of the fittest as they plunge in 40-kilometre-long (25 miles) columns through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. After a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily, the 1,000-kilometre pilgrimage (600 miles) begins again.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast, proceed directly to the crater floor for a 6-hour game-watching drive inside the crater to see the Big Five animals, which include lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos and maybe black rhinoceros. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater at Ngoitoktok Spring, where you will also be able to see other big mammals, including hippopotamus, giraffe, warthog, baboons, and birds. After about 6 hours, you will ascend the crater rim and head to your accommodation with an en-route game drive via Mto wa Mbu village. In the evening, you will reach your hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Farm of Dreams Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, you will depart the lodge at 8:30 am en route to Lake Manyara National Park with a hot picnic lunch in hand.
Stretching for 50 kilometres along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. The compact game-viewing circuit through Lake Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
