6-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

• On arrival, be greeted by your professional guide.

• Embark on a 1-hour drive to your beautiful Ilboru Safari Lodge on the slopes of Mount Meru, on the outskirts of Arusha town, for dinner and overnight.

• After an early breakfast, enter Lake Manyara National Park, one of the most popular and attractive national parks. Although relatively small in size, it contains a variety of habitats and diverse animals and birds.

• Lake Manyara is also famous for its tree-climbing lions and numerous migratory birds. It is a massive but shallow soda lake, covering two-thirds of the park, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment.

• Enjoy game viewing within the northern part of the park.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Hotel, Lake Manyara Serena, or similar.

• Drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. From here, the route follows along the Great Rift Valley, the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu, and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and crater rim, passing the Malanja Depression towards Olduvai Gorge, where you will visit the museum.

• Visit the museum featuring the famous Zinj skull, the Zinjanthropus man of 1.8 million years ago, whose remains were found here by Dr Leakey.

• After a picnic lunch, enter Serengeti National Park and drive towards the Seronera River Valley, followed by an afternoon game drive.

Dinner at Seronera Wildlife Lodge, Serengeti Serena Hotel, or a luxury camp.

• After breakfast, enjoy a full-day game drive in Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch.

• Serengeti contains about 4 million different types of animals, including the Big Five: rhino, leopard, buffalo, lion, and elephant.

• In the afternoon, drive to follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes that usually attract a number of lions and some formidably large cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry season, including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink.

Dinner and overnight at Seronera Wildlife Lodge, Serengeti Serena Hotel, or a luxury camp.

• Enjoy a morning game drive in Serengeti.

• Later, with picnic lunches, head off via Simba Kopjes and Naabi Hill Gate to drive towards the conservation area.

• Stop at a Masai Village before proceeding to the crater rim to enjoy stupendous views of the crater from the top.

• Stop on the crater rim to enjoy one of the most memorable picnic lunches of your life.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge, Ngorongoro Serena Hotel, Ngorongoro Farm House, Kirurumu Ngorongoro, or a luxury camp.

• After an early morning breakfast, descend to the crater floor with picnic lunches for a full-day crater tour.

• With a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big drawcard to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which includes hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, lions, and the ever-elusive leopard.

• Visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of Ngorongoro Crater. Hippos, flamingos, and water birds can be spotted around this area.

• In the evening, drive back to Arusha town for your accommodation at Ilboru Safari Lodge.