8-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari through Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• Depart from your hotel in Arusha in a safari vehicle and drive to Kilimanjaro National Park Gate at Marangu.

• After a briefing from your professional guide, have lunch and enjoy the forest atmosphere here. Listen to your guide as he explains the mountain's geology - Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while Kibo, the highest peak, is dormant and could erupt again.

• Visit coffee and banana plantations, as well as waterfalls.

• Drive back to Arusha for an overnight stay at Tourist Inn Hotel.

Pick up from your hotel in Arusha at around 08:30 am.

Drive on a tarmac road for 38 km to Arusha National Park (552 sq km) with a packed lunch. Over 400 species recorded in such a small park is quite an impressive count.

A combination of the forest reserve, the Momella Lakes, and the Ngurdoto Crater creates the magic here. A closer look at the birds can be arranged with a forest walk, safari, or canoeing.

• Go to Momella Lake to see waterbirds, flamingos, pelicans, little grebes, and a variety of herons, ducks, and waders. You may also see Hartlaub's turaco, eagles, lesser and greater flamingos, geese, hamerkop, spur-winged goose, woodpecker, secretary bird, and grey parrot.

• Other animals such as zebras, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, waterbucks, colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, baboons, and many others reside here.

Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at the Tourist Inn Hotel.

• After breakfast, start a safari from Arusha to Tarangire National Park.

• Tarangire National Park is famous for its dense wildlife population, which is most spectacular between June and September, the dry season.

• During this time, you will see thousands of animals - wildebeest, buffalo, and oryx - migrating from the dry Maasai steppe to the Tarangire River in search of water. Lions, leopards, and other predators follow the herds. Tarangire is home to over 500 varieties of birds.

• Have lunch and enjoy late afternoon game viewing.

• Drive to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay at Sun Bright Campsite.

• After breakfast, drive on a tarmac road (40 km) with a lunch box to Lake Manyara National Park for afternoon game drives.

• Proceed to the acacia woodland savanna and open land, where you will pass by a hot spring.

• Start the game drive through the underground water forest.

• Proceed to Lake Manyara, where you will have a picnic lunch.

Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at Sunbright Campsite.

• Have an early morning breakfast at the camp.

• Drive to the great Serengeti National Park with lunch and game drives en route.

• During your afternoon game drive in the park, you might see lions, leopards, elephants, cheetahs, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests, elands, wild dogs, gazelles, and crocodiles.

• Continue game viewing around Seronera or farther east, where you will see many birds, including migratory species.

Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at Seronera Campsite.

• After breakfast, start the day with morning game drives in Serengeti National Park, marvelling at the stunning scenery, ever-changing light, and always entertaining wildlife, all explained to you by your expert guide, with an optional picnic or hot lunch at 12:30 PM.

• After lunch, set off again for afternoon game drives that continue until sunset.

• Head back to camp at 6:30 PM for dinner and an overnight stay at Seronera Campsite.

• After breakfast, depart from Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Crater Rim. Wake up early for morning game drives in Serengeti.

• Head back to the campsite for breakfast.

• Check out and drive with lunch and game viewing en route to the Ngorongoro Crater Rim for dinner and an overnight stay at Ngorongoro Simba Campsite.

• After breakfast, descend to the Ngorongoro Crater for early morning game drives.

• You can spot the Big Five here, including rhino, lion, buffalo, and elephant.

• Other animals that live here include zebras, hippos, wildebeests, and hyenas.

• Birdlife includes the pink flamingos on Soda Lake, as well as geese, storks, and vultures.

• Enjoy lunch served at Ngoitoktok Swamp, a hippo pool.

• Drive back to Arusha after lunch.