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Arrival
Day 1
Arusha
Arusha
Your safari driver-guide will meet you at the airport and transfer you to a nearby lodge for meals and your overnight stay. This lodge is located on the foothills of Mount Meru, a roughly 45-minute drive from Kilimanjaro International Airport. If you arrive during the day, you can arrange a nature walk in the forest or horseback riding around the village at an extra cost. Other activities like a body massage can also be booked while you are there. Enjoy drinks with a view of Mount Kilimanjaro from the lodge terrace before your romantic dinner for just the two of you.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Ngare Sero Mountain Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Arusha - Tarangire National Park
Arusha - Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you’ll depart for Tarangire National Park in a pop-roof 4WD Land Cruiser with picnic lunches in hand and a professional driver-guide. It takes about 2.5 hours to reach the park. Begin with a game drive, then arrive at the lodge for dinner. You will have the chance to enjoy an evening game drive in the park.
Tarangire is famous for its high density of elephants and baobab trees. From June to November, visitors can expect to see large herds of thousands of zebras, wildebeest, and Cape buffalo. Other common animals include waterbuck, giraffe, dik-dik, impala, eland, Grant’s gazelle, vervet monkey, banded mongoose, and olive baboon. Predators include lion, leopard, cheetah, caracal, honey badger, and African wild dog.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
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Tarangire Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you will have a full-day game drive in the park. You can decide with your driver-guide whether to pack picnic lunches or return to the lodge for a hot lunch before continuing with afternoon game viewing. Meals and your overnight stay will be at the lodge.
Home to more than 550 bird species, the park is a haven for bird enthusiasts. It is also known for the termite mounds that dot the landscape, many of which, once abandoned, become homes to dwarf mongoose. In 2015, a white giraffe caused by leucism was spotted in the park. Wildlife research in the area focuses on the African bush elephant and Masai giraffe.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Tarangire Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Tarangire National Park - Ngorongoro Crater
Tarangire National Park - Ngorongoro Crater
Depart on an early morning game drive, then return to the lodge for a late breakfast before departing to Ngorongoro, stopping for a hot lunch along the way.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is unique because it is the only conservation area in Tanzania that protects wildlife while allowing human habitation. Land use by the pastoral Maasai people is controlled to prevent negative effects on wildlife populations. For example, cultivation is allowed only at subsistence levels.
Dinner and your overnight stay will be at a lodge on the crater's rim.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
You will descend into the crater very early in the morning with a packed breakfast in hand. You can decide with your guide whether to spend the full day in the crater or leave in the afternoon.
The main feature of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera. It formed two to three million years ago when a large volcano erupted and collapsed on itself. The crater is 610 meters (2,000 feet) deep, and its floor covers 260 square kilometers (100 square miles).
Large mammals in the crater include African buffalo (Cape buffalo) and hippopotamus. There are many other ungulates as well: blue wildebeest (about 7,000 estimated in 1994), Grant’s zebra (about 4,000), eland, and Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles (about 3,000). Waterbucks are also present.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Ngorongoro Crater - Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro Crater - Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunches in hand for Serengeti National Park, enjoying game viewing along the way. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at a camp near the park.
The Serengeti is well known for the largest annual animal migration in the world—over 1.5 million western white-bearded wildebeest and 250,000 Grant’s zebra, along with 400,000–500,000 Thomson’s gazelle and smaller herds of common eland. The national park is also home to the largest lion population in Africa. It is under threat from deforestation, population growth, poaching, and ranching.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Nyikani Camp Central Serengeti
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunches in hand for a full day of game driving around central Serengeti National Park. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.
Mammal carnivores found here include the cheetah, about 3,500 spotted hyena, black-backed jackal, East African golden wolf, honey badger, striped hyena, caracal, serval, banded mongoose, and two species of otters. Hippopotamus, common warthog, aardvark, aardwolf, African wildcat, African civet, common genet, African striped weasel, bat-eared fox, ground pangolin, crested porcupine, three species of hyraxes, and Cape hare can also be found.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Nyikani Camp Central Serengeti
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you’ll depart from the camp with a picnic lunchs in hand for game viewing as you head to the north.
The landscape of the Serengeti Plain is extremely varied, ranging from savannah to hilly woodlands and open grasslands. The region’s geographic diversity is influenced by extreme weather conditions, particularly the combination of heat and wind. The diverse habitats may have originated from volcanic activity, which shaped the basic geographic features of the plain by creating mountains and craters in the landscape.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Nyikani Migration Camp Kogatende
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
You will spend the full day game driving around the Northern Serengeti.
The Great Migration is the world’s second-longest overland migration, with a complete route of around 800 km (500 miles). The southern part of the route passes through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where around half a million wildebeest are born between January and March. By March, at the beginning of the dry season, roughly 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras start migrating north toward the Masai Mara in Kenya, joined by common eland and Thomson’s gazelles. In April and May, the herds pass through the Western Corridor. To reach the Masai Mara, they must cross the Grumeti and Mara Rivers, where thousands of crocodiles wait. For every wildebeest captured by the crocodiles, 50 drown.. When the dry season ends in late October, the migrating herds begin heading back south.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Nyikani Migration Camp Kogatende
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Serengeti National Park - Arusha
Serengeti National Park - Arusha
After breakfast, you will transfer to the airstrip with lunch boxes in hand to catch your flight to Arusha. You will be picked up from the airport and transferred to a nearby lodge for a shower and an early dinner. Later you will be transferred to the airport to catch your flight home or to Zanzibar.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
