Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arusha - Lake manyara

   • Depart from Arusha in the morning for Lake Manyara with your Tanzania safari guide. The Lake Manyara National Park is serene and beautiful with the main attractions of an abundant birdlife, tree-climbing lions, its elephants, and hippos that you can see at closer range than most other places. Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake and at certain times of the year hosts thousands of flamingos and a diversity of other birdlife.

   • Go on game drives in the afternoon.

   • Get dinner and stay overnight at the campsite.

2. Day 2: Lake Manyara - Serengeti National Park

   • Depart for Serengeti passing through Olduvai Gorge- the site of Leakey family discovery of fossils of human and animal ancestors dating back to almost two million years. The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is famous for the annual migration of over one and a half million white-bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebras.

   • Get dinner and stay overnight at the campsite.

3. Day 3: Serengeti full day

   • After a hearty breakfast, spend a full day in the Serengeti plains searching for wildlife. Spend the morning through afternoon enjoying game drives. Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for rains every October and November. They swirl west and north after the rains in April, May and June. The Wildebeests travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas.

   • Explore different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.

   • Relish meals and overnight stay at the campsite. 

4. Day 4: Serengeti - Ngorongoro

   • Begin a morning drive to Ngorongoro Crater where a 4-wheel drive vehicle will take you 2000 ft down to the crater. 

   • Enjoy picnic lunch at the crater. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km. It serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s largest populations of mammals. 

   • Ascend back to Ngorongoro Simba campsite for dinner and overnight stay.

5. Day 5: Ngorongoro - Arusha

   • Depart for Arusha after breakfast. 

   • Get some last-minute shopping done en-route. 

   • Have lunch and take the final drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home.