6-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

• After your arrival at the airport, you will be transferred to your hotel by our representative.

• Attend a trip briefing at the hotel or lodge in the evening.

• The rest of the day will be free. There are no excursions planned for this day, so you may reach Arusha at any time.

Accommodation: Outpost Lodge.
Meals included: Breakfast.

• After breakfast, transfer by road to Tarangire National Park in the morning.

• Stop for a picnic lunch along the way.

• Once you reach the park, enjoy an exhilarating wildlife drive. This seldom-visited park, known as the "Baobab Capital of the World," teems with wildlife. Enormous herds of elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, and eland crowd the lagoons, and wild dogs roam the plains. Tarangire is also the only place in Tanzania where visitors regularly see dry-country antelope such as the oryx and gerenuk.

Accommodation: Fanaka Public Campsite.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• After breakfast, start a game drive at Lake Manyara National Park. This national park is one of Tanzania's most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake covering two-thirds of the park, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment. The park's varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa's largest concentrations of elephants, unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

• After lunch, we get a chance to meet people from other cultures, broadening our understanding of human experience.

• A visit to a local Maasai village and school in the afternoon will enrich your knowledge of the traditional tribal people and their distinctive heritage. During your time in the village, activities may include Maasai dancing, watching warriors demonstrate how to make fire, witnessing women craft intricate beaded jewellery and accessories, learning about medicinal plants, and possibly a chance to herd cattle, if time permits.

• Depending on your itinerary, we may also be able to arrange an opportunity for you to write to the children of the local school prior to your trip. Then, as you meet them when you arrive, you can enjoy a more personal cultural exchange with your "pen pal."

Accommodation: Fanaka Public Campsite.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• After breakfast, drive to explore the fabled Serengeti National Park, stopping en route at the remarkable Olduvai Gorge Museum that displays fossils providing significant evidence of our ancestors from almost four million years ago.

• Undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, the vast plains of the Serengeti host Africa's highest concentration of game. Millions of wildebeest, gazelle, and zebra gather here for the annual migration, attracting large predators such as lion, leopard, and cheetah. Our first game drive explores the lush Seronera Valley, renowned for its lion and leopard populations, as well as a variety of other wildlife.

Accommodation: Serengeti Public Campsite.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• This morning is set aside for another game drive in Serengeti. Animals tend to be more active in the morning before the temperatures soar around midday.

• After lunch, you will leave the plains of Serengeti and travel to the highlands of Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Public Campsite.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

• After breakfast, start exploring the Ngorongoro Crater, a World Heritage Site. With 30,000 animals in 100 square miles, game viewing is plentiful.

• Enjoy a picnic lunch.

• After lunch, return to Arusha town for departure.

• You may choose to extend your holiday by flying to Zanzibar Island beach for relaxation.