5-Day Tanzania Safari through Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

• Pick up from Moshi/Arusha and drive to Tarangire National Park in the morning. Tarangire is traversed by the Tarangire River, which never dries up completely. As the only water source during the dry season, it draws hundreds of animals to the park, making wildlife and bird viewing spectacular among the baobabs. Enjoy a full day in the park with game viewing.

Overnight: Highview Coffee Lodge (with lunch, dinner & breakfast) or similar.

• Head out after breakfast for the drive to Serengeti National Park. "Serengeti" is derived from the Maasai language, meaning "endless plain".

• Opt en route to the Serengeti to visit a Maasai village, a perfect place to explore Maasai culture and even participate in some tribal activities.

• Choose to visit Olduvai Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humanity. The museum is a testament to the long journey that humanity has made from its humble roots in East Africa to its current state as the dominant species on earth.

• Enjoy a game drive en route to your camp.

Overnight at Serengeti Safari Lodge (with lunch, dinner & breakfast).

• Relax with a full day in the Serengeti with game drives - unequalled for its beauty and home to the Great Wildebeest Migration. The huge herds of plains game, such as wildebeest, zebra, and antelope, dominate the park, while attendant predators such as lion and cheetah are found among the many kopjes scattered across the plain. Its landscape varies from open grass plains in the south, savanna with scattered acacia trees in the center, and hilly wooded grassland in the north, to extensive woodland and black clay plains in the west.

Overnight at Serengeti Safari Lodge (with lunch, dinner & breakfast).

• Enjoy a morning game drive en route to Ngorongoro Crater. Descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for game driving and exploration. The crater is 600 m deep, 16 km across, and 265 sq km in area. Enjoy the spectacular scenery and game viewing in what has been described as the world's eighth wonder.

• Many of Tanzania's last remaining black rhino can be seen grazing on the open grassland of the crater floor, surrounded by some of the 20,000 large animals that occupy the crater, including lion, cheetah, eland, zebra, and gazelle. Flamingos, among other bird species, can often be seen feeding at Makat Soda Lake.

Afternoon drive to your lodge for your overnight stay.

Overnight: Highview Coffee Lodge (with lunch, dinner & breakfast).

• Drive to Lake Manyara National Park in the morning. Set against the steep escarpment of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park features evergreen groundwater forest and various ecosystems, including acacia woodland, grass plains, and a swampy fan delta. This diversity attracts a wide variety of mammal, bird, and wildlife species.

• Manyara is also home to rare tree-climbing lions. The park offers excellent game viewing, with buffalo, impala, giraffe, bushbuck, waterbuck, hippos, and many elephants roaming near the lake. Also look out for blue monkeys, vervet monkeys, and very active olive baboons.

In the mid-afternoon, drive back to Arusha/Moshi.