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Discover three of northern Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife destinations on this 4-day group joining lodge safari. Designed for travellers who want a budget-friendly safari without camping, this experience combines shared game drives with overnight stays in proper lodge-style rooms, while exploring Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Manyara National Park.
Travel with a professional guide/driver in a Landcruiser Jeep, with a maximum of 6 people to help keep every guest comfortable with a window seat. Along the way, look out for the Big Five, vast herds on the Serengeti plains, rich birdlife, and the dramatic scenery of the Ngorongoro Crater, before finishing with a game drive in Lake Manyara on the return to Arusha.
Discover three of northern Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife destinations on this 4-day group joining lodge safari.
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Pick up from Arusha at 0800am and drive to the Great Serengeti National Park (14,763 sq km or 5,700 sq mile’s) with your Picnic Lunch. Game drive enroute to the campsite.
Serengeti National Park is a home to lion, leopard, Elephant, Cheetah, Buffalo, Zebra, Wildebeest, Eland, Wild dog, Gazelles, Crocs and more. Lot of birds includes the Eurasia migrants.
Overnight at Serengeti wild camp
After breakfast, continues with both morning and afternoon game drives in Serengeti national Park.
Remember this is the migration safari, so as Serengeti is very large as your game drives will depend on the move of the migrants, your guide knows very well how to locate the herds.
The Serengeti means endless plains in Maasai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like leopard, lion, hyena and cheetah.
This park is normally the scene of the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra that occurs between the Kenyan Mara and the Serengeti.
Varied bird species can be seen here including eagles, ducks, geese, egrets, vultures, secretary birds, ibis, stork, herons, kites, pelicans, cranes and guinea fowl.
Overnight at Serengeti wild camp
Early breakfast and depart with packed lunch and game drive.
Arrive and descend to the crater floor with game drive. Ngorongoro Crater-
All the Big five Rhino Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Elephant live in this wonderful caldera, others are Zebra, Hippo, Wildebeest, Hyena and more…
Birds includes flamingos on the Soda lake, Geese, Storks, Vultures and more.. Break for lunch at Ngoitoktok spring Picnic sites it will be an unforgettable experience.
The largest unbroken caldera in the world, Ngorongoro has an area of 260 kilometers and a depth of 610 meters.
The crater provides a protected habitat for thousands of mammals and birds. The entire day is spent on the crater floor viewing lion, hyena, wildebeest, zebra, black rhinoceros, and many species of small antelopes.
The Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area is located between the Serengeti and Lake Manyara. It is home to the famous Ngorongoro Crater which is the largest unbroken caldera in the world.
The Crater is a spectacular setting in which to experience your African safari. Some scientists maintain that before it erupted, Ngorongoro Crater- the largest intact caldera in the world would have been higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa.
It is one of the few places in Africa where you stand a very good chance of seeing the Big Five (lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and elephant) in the course of a game- drive.
The local Maasai have permission to graze their cattle on the Crater floor, and it is not unusual to see Maasai cattle and buffalo grazing together with lion mere meters away.
There are around 1000 lions in the Crater, approximately 20 black rhino, and the spectacular Lerai Forest is one of the best places in Africa to spot leopard.
OPTION: Visit the Olduvai Gorge at extra fee for the museum.
Overnight at High View Hotel
Breakfast, then depart for Lake Manyara National Park for game drive with packed lunch. After lunch proceed to Arusha with drop off at your hotel/ airport. END OF YOUR SAFARI
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