4-Day Serengeti and Ngorongoro Safari with Big Five Game Drives

• After breakfast, depart at 8:00 am from Arusha directly for Serengeti National Park with packed lunch boxes.

• Arrive in the late afternoon and enjoy an evening game drive for about two hours.

• Your driver will then take you to the Serengeti Halisi Tented Camp or a public Seronera campsite for an overnight stay.

• Enjoy another full day at this beautiful park, marking the second night of your safari tour. Rise early to make the most of the day, while your Tanzanian guides choose the best spotting locations.

• Spend time at the hippo pool, watching these majestic animals laze about in the freshwater while living happily alongside crocodiles. You may also watch a big pride of lions and, if you are lucky, witness the Great Annual Migration, surrounded by wildebeest and sometimes zebras that travel with them.

• Travel from the wide-open plains to the kopjes, where rocky volcanic outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals.

• From the top, look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and exciting landscape offers the ultimate game viewing, with chances to see elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions, and, if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as abundant birdlife, from elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich.

• Return to your special tented camp or public campsite for an overnight stay.

• Start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place because it is a Conservation Area rather than a National Park, meaning the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people, who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife.

• During the drive in Ngorongoro, catch a glimpse of the Masai way of life.

• After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, continue around the rim of the crater itself. From here, you can look down and see herds of wildebeest or buffalo. This truly world-class attraction is also known as the "8th Wonder of the World".

Dinner and overnight stay at the rustic Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge.

• After breakfast, 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 will not see here is a giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steep sides of the crater.

• In the late afternoon, travel from just outside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area back to Arusha.