5-Day Tanzania Safari through Serengeti, Tarangire and Ngorongoro

• Have breakfast at your lodge.
• Depart for Tarangire National Park. The drive follows the Great Northern Highway across the Masai steppe and through many villages.
• Expect to spot herds of wildebeest, buffaloes, elephants, zebras, giraffes, hippos, and many antelopes. Primates such as baboons, blue monkeys, and vervet monkeys can also be found in the park, along with lions, hyenas, jackals, and the ever-elusive leopard.
• Drive across the Great East African Rift Valley to watch the sunset, then return to Marera Valley Lodge for dinner.

Overnight stay at Marera Valley Lodge.

• Depart for Serengeti National Park after breakfast. The journey passes through the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu up to the Ngorongoro gate.
• Drive around the Crater rim and then continue to Serengeti National Park through its endless rolling plains.
• Visit a Masai village, where Masai warriors will welcome you and give you a brief experience of their life in the area.
• Head to Naabi Hills Gate for check-in before continuing to the Central Serengeti area called Seronera. Seronera is Serengeti's richest wildlife habitat, nourished by the Seronera River, the area's primary water source, which attracts an abundance of wildlife representing many of the Serengeti's species.
• Picnic lunch will be served at the kopjes.
• Go for an afternoon game drive in search of the wildebeest migration.

Spend the night at Thorn Trees Camp Central Serengeti. All meals included.

• Start early at 6:30 AM with a packed breakfast box and lunch box.
• Enjoy a full-day game drive in the Serengeti. An early morning game drive gives you the chance to spot the cat family on the road as they try to avoid the morning mist. You may also see nocturnal animals returning from their long night of hunting, or a group of lionesses organizing an ambush or feeding along the road.
• Take a break for breakfast in the bush, after which you will head to the area where the wildebeest migration is concentrated.
• Spend time watching the migrating herds, the big cats, and other wildlife. Packed lunch will be served in the bush or at one of the picnic sites in the area. You can expect to witness a lot of animal behaviour, such as hunting, killing, fighting, and more.
• Drive back to the camp during or before sunset for dinner.

Overnight stay at Thorn Trees Camp Central Serengeti.

• Begin your day at 6:30 AM with an early morning game drive.
• Spend time in the Serengeti on game drives before starting your en-route game drive toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
• Watch the sunset at the Crater rim.

Stay overnight at Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge at the Crater rim or a similar lodge in Karatu Town.

• Start at 6:30 AM and descend 600 meters into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a beautiful game drive. This area is rich in wildlife, including herds of wildebeest, giant African elephants, eland, zebra, warthog, buffalo, and the rare black rhino. The so-called Big Five - lions, leopards, buffaloes, black rhinos, and African elephants - can all be spotted here in the course of a single day game drive. Packed lunch will be served on the crater floor.
• Marvel at Lake Magadi, a shallow alkaline lake among the water sources in the crater, where you can see flamingos, hippos, and other aquatic birds.

Make your way to Arusha, where you can shop. Accommodation on this day can be arranged upon request at extra cost. If you are flying on the same day, you will be taken to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) for your flight back home.