Day 1: Ngorongoro Crater

We pick you up in the morning from your hotel in Arusha and drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area arriving in time for lunch. After lunch, descend into the crater floor for an afternoon crater tour.

Overnight: Ngorongoro wildlife lodge. FB

Day 2: Olduvai Gorge & Serengeti

After breakfast, leave Ngorongoro crater heading for the endless plains of Serengeti. En-route to the Serengeti, we will visit the historic site of Olduvai Gorge (The Cradle of Mankind) where the world famous archeologist, Dr Leakey, discovered the remains of the early man. After visiting the site and the small museum there, we proceed on to central Serengeti for lunch at the lodge. Enjoy an afternoon game drive thereafter, returning to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Overnight: Seronera wildlife lodge. FB

The Serengeti covers several different eco-systems, each with its own unique combination of animals and plant-types. For example, at the centre of the park is Seronera, to the west the Grumeti River, while the south offers more remote and untouched game-viewing.

“Serengeti” is a masai tribe word meaning “endless plains” and refers to an area of 14,763 square km that host a multiplicity of ungulates as well as the annual wildebeest migration. The vegetation in the Serengeti consists of short and long grass plains in the south, the acacia savannah in the centre and the wooded grassland in the west around the Grumeti and Mara rivers. Serengeti, characterized by the endless plains, acacia trees and punctuated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife.

It is also home to a wonderful array of flora and fauna from large prides of lion, leopard and cheetah, to herds of elephant, giraffe, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs. On your safari in Serengeti, expect to see a whole world of grazing animals. On one of our private Tanzania safaris, you will get to see the African landscapes and animals at their most beautiful and evocative.

It is however one thing in particular that makes the Serengeti particularly famous. Every year it plays host, along with the neighboring Masai Mara, to the wildebeest migration. This spectacle of over 1,000,000 wildebeest migrating in search of fresh grazing is the largest such animal movement on the planet. First they move northwards, returning south after the rains have started. As they go, their hooves throw up a huge cloud of red dust, something that has come to symbolize the park. Pursued by lions and attacked by hungry crocodiles as they attempt to cross the Mara River, it is nature at its most raw and most exciting; a unique safari experience.

Day 3: Serengeti

An early morning game drive in Serengeti is followed by breakfast at your lodge and thereafter we depart the Serengeti for Lake Manyara with more game viewing en-route. Dinner and overnight at the lodge located on top of the escarpment overlooking the Lake below.Overnight: Lake Manyara hotel. FB

Lake Manyara national park is a beautiful park located 130 km from Arusha town at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment and was established as a national park in 1960.

Lake Manyara National Park is a small but beautiful reserve of some 330sq km of which 220sq km is covered by the lake while the remaining area is taken by forest, woodland and grassland.

The land area of the park is located west of the lake, hemmed in on the other side by the Great Rift wall. Three quarters of its area is the lake itself, a shallow alkaline lake and the flood plains that surround it. It also has giant fig and mahogany trees and areas of acacia forest. The area is well supplied with underground springs bringing water from the lands above the Manyara basin, giving lush grazing that attracts plenty of game.

Lake Manyara have pretty of wildlife including elephant, buffalo, hippo, giraffe, impala, zebra, waterbuck, warthog, leopard and the famous tree climbing lions. Due to its dense vegetation it’s an idle natural play ground for baboons and monkeys.

It is one of the most scenic lakes in Africa surrounded by forests and with the Rift Valley walls beyond, this small park offers a different landscape to other Tanzania parks and offers the chance to see the famous tree-climbing lions.

The park’s amazing variety of birds makes it an ornithologists’ paradise and a perfect destination for bird watching safaris. There are over 350 species which include pelicans, storks, flamingo and cormorants

Day 4: Lake Manyara

We spend the morning game viewing in the ever-green Lake Manyara National Park situated on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. Enjoy a Picnic lunch in the park before returning to Arusha Town by late afternoon. Drop-off at your hotel in Arusha town.