9-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Luxury Tented Camps

• Get picked up at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transfer to the Arusha Coffee Lodge for your first night in Tanzania.

Accommodation & Dinner: Arusha Coffee Lodge or Similar.

• After breakfast, you'll leave Arusha with your guide and drive to the endless plains of Serengeti via Ngorongoro Crater, where you will enjoy a half-day of wildlife and migration viewing.

• Serengeti is the oldest and most popular national park, particularly for its annual migration of wildebeest, though zebra and Thomson gazelle also join the trek in search of fresh grazing. Some of the animals found in Serengeti are buffalo, giraffe, eland, topi, kongoni, impala, Grant's gazelle, lion, cheetah, leopard, and African jackal.

• Take a packed lunch today to maximize game-viewing time.

Accommodation & Meals: Kati Kati Tented Camp or Similar.

• Spend a full day exploring the Serengeti, creating unforgettable memories of your safari adventure. The Great Migration in the Serengeti is world-renowned, and you will be ideally placed to watch more than two million animals, mainly wildebeest, move across the plains in search of fresh grass and water.

Accommodation & Meals: Lemala Mara Camp or Similar.

• Spend another day exploring Serengeti National Park and enjoy your full-day game drive.

Accommodation & Meals: Lemala Mara Camp or Similar.

• After breakfast, you will bid adieu to the Serengeti and begin the long drive to the Ngorongoro Crater.

• En route, you will stop for a packed lunch at Olduvai Gorge, an archaeological site made famous by Louis and Mary Leakey when they uncovered the remains of Zinjathropus, an early hominid species that roamed the planet some 2.7 million years ago.

• After lunch, you'll be taken to the Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Accommodation & Meals: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge or Similar.

• After breakfast, descend into the famed Ngorongoro Crater for wildlife viewing. A large caldera, the crater formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago. It is 610 m (2,000 ft) deep, and its floor covers 260 km² (100 miles²). Estimates of the height of the original volcano range from fifteen to nineteen thousand feet (4,500 to 5,800 meters).

• The crater has some of the highest densities of wildlife on the planet, including lions, elephants, zebra, rhino, leopards, buffalo, gazelle, wildebeest, hippo, and many different bird species.

• The Ngorongoro Crater is well deserving of its UN World Heritage Site status, and this experience will be a highlight of your tour.

Accommodation & Meals: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.

• After breakfast, leave for Lake Manyara National Park. The great American writer and adventurer Ernest Hemingway once described Manyara as one of his favourites.

• Some 231 km² out of the park's total 329 km² is covered by the water of Lake Manyara, an alkaline water body that attracts flamingos and many migratory birds.

• Giant fig and mahogany trees tower above the trails near the park's entrance, where baboons and blue monkeys often gather.

• Out on the plains and near the lake, you might see buffalo, elephants, warthogs, and giraffes.

• Although small, Lake Manyara has much to offer in terms of different habitats and wildlife.

• You will stay and have dinner at the nearby Lake Manyara Wildlife Safari Camp, which has fabulous views of the lake and national park.

• Leaving Lake Manyara behind, travel to the nearby Tarangire National Park, known for its large population of elephants.

• Large herds of wildlife often congregate around the Tarangire River, which also attracts a great diversity of birdlife, but the elephants usually steal the show.

Accommodation & Meals: Roika Tented Lodge or Similar.

• Enjoy one final morning of wildlife viewing and the stunning African landscapes as you make your return to Arusha town.

• Have lunch in a nice restaurant in Arusha and go souvenir shopping before heading to the airport for your flight.