4-Day Tanzania Safari through Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• After breakfast, you will be picked up by your guide from Arusha at 08:30 pm. Start driving towards Lake Manyara National Park, famous for a large number of flamingoes in the lake and its tree-climbing lions, though they are rarely seen.

• Enjoy a game drive while viewing plenty of birds, visiting the hippo pool for a close look at hippos, and seeing the hot spring. Along the way, spot animals such as buffaloes, wildebeest, warthogs, vultures, eagles, and monkeys.

• Head to your accommodation at Mto Wa Mbu and have dinner at the farm of a dream lodge.

Meals: Lunch box

• After breakfast, drive from Mto Wa Mbu to Serengeti, which takes six hours including all stops, as you transit through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Briefly stop at the gate and viewpoint to admire the breathtaking view of the crater for 20 minutes.

• Visit a Maasai village, which is optional, and explore the culture of the great Maasai tribe, known in the past for chasing lions from their kill, hunting lions to be considered warriors, and drinking raw animal blood. However, these traditions are now largely a thing of the past except for drinking blood, and you can surely learn something from the visit. The duration of the visit ranges from 20 to 45 minutes.

• Enter Serengeti National Park, which is enormous, covering 14,750 square kilometres (5,700 sq. mi). The park is famous for the wildebeest and zebra migration, with over 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras moving together in a strategic partnership for their survival. Your focus will be the Seronera area in the centre of Serengeti.

• Arrive in the late afternoon and, after lunch, enjoy a game drive in Seronera until late evening. See the sunset in Serengeti while having a close view of wild animals. You may be lucky enough to come across a predator hunting or feeding on a kill.

• Later, head to Katikati Tented Camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

• After an early breakfast, go on an early game drive and see many animals until the afternoon, after which you will head to the camp for lunch and packing.

• Exit Serengeti and head to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, which will take 2 hours to reach.

• After an early breakfast, descend into the crater at 6:15 am on a journey to find the black rhino. Rhinos are the hardest animals to spot in this beautiful crater, while most other animals are easier to see because it is a floor crater.

• After lunch, continue with a game drive and then ascend the crater. Pack for the trip back to your hotel in Arusha or to the airport in case you have a late flight.

• If you do not have a late flight, you will be taken to the airport the next day(s).