• Kick start your adventure early in the morning, heading off to the beguiling and the often overlooked Arusha National Park.

• Have the opportunity to set out on foot for a fascinating stroll – it’s a totally different sensation feeling Africa’s vibrant pulse through the soles of your shoes. At a slower pace, you can really begin to understand Africa.

• Get up close and personal to flora and fauna, but you will stay safe, accompanied by an armed ranger who will guide you through lush forest to the clear springs of a sparkling waterfall. Arusha National Park’s rangers are extremely knowledgeable, and as you walk, you’ll learn so much about the park's biodiversity. You might spot a tribe of black and white colobus monkeys famous in the park for their acrobatics.

• Head back to Arusha.

Dinner and Overnight.

Accommodations: Meru House Inn Hotel in Arusha

• Depart for Tarangire National Park early in the morning with your Tanzanian safari guide.

• Begin exploring the enormous termite mounds and the ancient baobab trees. This park is renowned for its diverse bird species and extensive population of elephants. There are regular sightings of ferocious lions, giraffes, warthogs, ostriches, impalas, cheetah, mongoose, buffaloes, and mischievous baboons.

• After viewing the wildlife in Tarangire, continue your journey to the next highlight, the Ngorongoro Crater and close to Lake Manyara.

Dinner and Overnight.

Accommodations: Panorama campsite

• After breakfast, drive from Arusha to Lake Manyara. Nestled at the Great Rift Valley escarpment base, Lake Manyara National Park provides picturesque, varying scenery.
• Relish a picnic lunch in a beautiful park. 
• Go back to Arusha in the late afternoon.