7-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• Arrive anytime at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO).

• Transfer to Arusha Safari Lodge, where the rest of the day is at leisure.

• Stay at Arusha Safari Lodge, beautifully located on the slope of Mt. Meru and a perfect place to prepare for your adventure.

• Receive a pre-safari briefing and an equipment check in the evening.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Duluti Lodge: Full board.

• Drive to Tarangire National Park for excellent game viewing. Tarangire is a small park that offers some excellent sights.

• Spend the night in a lodge beautifully set outside the park, with stunning views and a unique atmosphere.

• Make a short journey from the park to the special lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge: Full board.

• Head towards Serengeti National Park.

• Visit Olduvai Gorge on the way. It is within this steep-sided ravine that Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world's most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s.

• See evidence of our ancestors, dated back 2.5 million years, in the museum located here.

• Have lunch and drive into the Serengeti itself, then spend the rest of the afternoon game viewing in the vast plains, broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje.

• Get a chance to see the migration in December, January, and February.

• Return to our special tented camp for the night.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Acacia Tented Lodge: Full board.

• Enjoy a full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time.

• Spend time at the Hippo Pool, watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water, happily living alongside the crocodiles.

• Watch a big pride of lions.

• Journey from the wide-open plains to the kopjes. These volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals, and from the top, we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti.

• Enjoy ultimate game viewing.

• Return to the special tented camp for the night.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Acacia Tented Lodge: Full board.

• Begin the day with an early morning game drive before heading to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

• Get a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life.

• Stop at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape.

• Drive around the rim of the crater itself and look down to see herds of wildebeest or buffaloes.

• Descend into the crater. The crater walls provide a natural sanctuary for the animals, which means there is plenty to see: lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino, and leopards, if you are lucky. The only animal you won't see here is a giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steep sides of the crater.

• Travel back to our special tented camp.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Kirurumu Tented Camp: Full board.

• Descend 2,000 feet to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater for your crater tour.

• Explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, and the lake area where we may see flamingos.

• Visit the open savannah where the lions hunt.

• Have a picnic lunch in the crater.

• Make a short journey to Kirurumo Lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge: Full board.

• Depart from your lodge in Karatu and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park.

• Enjoy a picnic lunch in the area near Soda Lake, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise with more than 350 species of birds. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.

• Drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport for the evening flight.