5-Day Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Manyara Wildlife Safari

• Head towards Serengeti National Park. En route, there is an opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge.

• After lunch, drive into the Serengeti itself, and spend the rest of the afternoon game viewing in the vast plains, broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje.

• See the migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals as well, such as giraffes, buffalo, elephants, and many large predators including lion, cheetah, and leopard.

• Return to your special tented camp for the night.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp: Full board.

• Have another full day in this wonderful park, waking up early to make the most of your time.

• Spend time at the Hippo Pool, watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water, happily living alongside the crocodiles.

• Watch a big pride of lions and be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest and sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest.

• See all of the plains game: elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and lions. If you are lucky, trace out the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich.

• Return to your special tented camp for the night.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp: Full board.

• Start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

• During the drive in Ngorongoro, get glimpses of the Masai way of life. After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, drive around the rim of the crater itself and look down to see herds of wildebeest or buffalo.

• Finally, descend into the crater. The crater walls provide a natural sanctuary for the animals, which means there are plenty of opportunities to see lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino, and leopard, if you are lucky. The only animal you will not see here is a giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steep sides of the crater.

• In the late afternoon, travel back to your special tented camp.

Dinner and overnight at Kirurumo Tented Camp: Full board.

• Depart from your lodge in Karatu and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two thirds of the park. Backed by the wall of the Great Rift Valley, the landscape includes groundwater forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the soda lake.

• Enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise with more than 350 species of bird. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.

• In the late afternoon, drive back to Arusha.

Dinner and overnight at African Tulip Hotel: Half board.

• After breakfast or lunch, drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your international flight back home.