7-Day Tanzania Safari with Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Materuni

Depending on your arrival time, the driver will pick you up from the airport or from your hotel. After about 2 hours of driving, you will head to Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park gets its name from the river that threads its way through the length of the reserve.

Tarangire is famous for its dense wildlife population, which is most spectacular between June and September, the dry period. During this time, thousands of animals - wildebeest, buffalo, and oryx - migrate from the dry Maasai steppe to the Tarangire River looking for water. Lions, leopards, and other predators follow the herds. Tarangire is also home to over 500 varieties of birds.

Accommodation/Overnight: Marera Valley Lodge.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunch boxes for Ngorongoro Crater. Situated some 190 km west of Arusha between Lake Manyara and Serengeti National Parks, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area covers an area of over 8,000 sq. km. At 2,286 metres above sea level, the Ngorongoro Crater is the highest unbroken crater in the world.

Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 metres above the crater floor, this natural amphitheatre covers an area of about 260 sq. km and is home to up to 30,000 animals, almost half of them zebra and wildebeest. Such vast numbers attract plenty of predators, mainly lions and hyenas, but also cheetahs and leopards. Ngorongoro has been declared a World Heritage Site and is regarded as the eighth wonder of the world.

Descend the steep walls into the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a half-day game-viewing drive. In the afternoon, you will ascend from the crater floor and proceed to Serengeti National Park.

Accommodation/Overnight: Thorn Tree Tented Camp.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

You can have a relaxed breakfast and depart for game drives around 9:00 AM with a packed lunch, or you can depart at 6:00 AM for an early morning game drive. Later, return to the accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit before proceeding for another game drive.

Return to the camp for lunch and relax for a while. Continue with a game-viewing drive in the evening. Serengeti offers some of the most exciting game viewing - great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, as well as thousands of elands, topi, hartebeest, impala, and Grant's gazelle.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

Accommodation/Overnight: Thorn Tree.

After breakfast, depart for game drives around 9:00 AM with a packed lunch. Continue with a game-viewing drive in the evening. Serengeti offers some of the most exciting game viewing - great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, as well as thousands of elands, topi, hartebeest, impala, and Grant's gazelle.

Dinner and overnight at Tanzania Bush Camp.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

Accommodation/Overnight: Tanzania Bush Camp.

After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunch boxes from Central Serengeti National Park with a game-viewing drive en route as you return to Karatu. Serengeti National Park is arguably the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world.

Serengeti means "endless plains" in the Maasai language, and within its boundaries are more than three million large mammals. About 35 species of plains animals can be seen here, including the so-called Big Five - elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, and buffalo. From June, huge herds of wildebeest, gazelle, and zebra head west and begin their spectacular migration northward and later to the world-renowned Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

Accommodation/Overnight: Bougainvillea.

After breakfast, you will depart with box lunches and be driven to Lake Manyara National Park. The park's namesake, a shallow salt lake, expands and contracts with the seasons, attracting thousands of wading birds, including flamingos and over 500 other bird species.

You may encounter baboons and elephants in the lush evergreen forest, and keep your eyes peeled for the famous tree-climbing lions that have made this park legendary.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

Accommodation/Overnight: Chanya Lodge.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

In the morning, you will have breakfast and experience Materuni village, the home of the Chagga tribe. Visit the highest and longest waterfalls, approximately 90 m high. Come and make your own cup of coffee with us from bean to cup using local ways and tools.

Later in the afternoon, you will be driven to the airport to catch your flight back home.

This is the end of your trip.