7-Day Tanzania Safari through Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Eyasi

• After breakfast, head to Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch. Tarangire contains almost the full range of animals found in East Africa, from vast herds of elephant, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, and giraffe to plentiful lions, occasional leopards, hyena, African wild dog, bushbuck, lesser and greater kudu, Thomson's and Grant gazelle, impala, gerenuk, Kirk's dik-dik, and waterbuck. Many warthogs can also be sighted.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge in Lake Manyara.

• After breakfast, head for a full-day game-viewing experience at Lake Manyara National Park. The lake shimmers below the western Great Rift wall in the heat haze. The park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, buffalo, dik-dik, giraffe, hyenas, impala, baboon, monkey, bush pig, wildebeest, hartebeest, hippos, and a fantastic profusion of birdlife species.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge in Lake Manyara.

• After breakfast, depart for a short drive to nearby Karatu town.

• Walk with a Maasai guide through farms and villages on the Rift Valley escarpment, and visit an Iraqw village.

• In the afternoon, head to Lake Eyasi, where the Hadzabe and Datoga are the indigenous inhabitants of the lake and live and hunt in the bush.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge in Karatu.

• After a hearty breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro and descend to the crater floor.

• As you drive down the descending road, the black dots below become discernible shapes, with the crater becoming ever more beautiful and irresistible. Zebra and wildebeest mix on the crater floor along with lions, hyenas, Grant's and Thomson's gazelles, cheetah, antelopes, hippos, various types of jackal, greater and lesser flamingo, and many other species.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge in Ngorongoro Crater.

• After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge, where the skull of Zinjanthropus, with the soubriquet "the Nutcracker" due to its large back molars, was found by Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey in 1959. The museum behind Olduvai's viewing platform provides further clues to these secrets, with prehistoric tools, bones of extinct animals, and exhibits that tell their own story of yesteryear. You will also see donkeys and cattle grazing with zebras around Maasai manyattas (houses) in the Malanja Depression on the left. On arrival, proceed for a game drive, spotting wildebeest, lions, elephant, giraffes, zebras, antelopes, and many more.

Dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge in the Serengeti NP.

• After breakfast, depart for a full game drive, as Serengeti offers some of the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa, including great herds of wildebeest and buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, Grant gazelle, lion prides, leopards, cheetahs, and profound bird species.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge in Serengeti.

• After your sumptuous breakfast, head for a final game drive in the Serengeti, then drive back to Arusha city and fly home.

• Or prolong your safari trip and opt for luxury and relaxation in Zanzibar Island.