7-Day Tanzania Safari with Mto wa Mbu and Ngorongoro Crater

• Pick up from your hotel in Arusha and travel to Tarangire National Park, known for its large elephant herds.

• Drive through the seasonal swamps, savannah, and along the Tarangire River in search of zebras, wildebeests, lions, buffaloes, hartebeest, elephants, giraffes, waterbuck, and reedbucks.

Dinner and overnight stay at Maramboi Tented Camp.

• Travel to the lively village of Mto wa Mbu, home to people from diverse ethnic groups and backgrounds.

• Walk through the streets and explore the surrounding rural area for deeper insight into the lives of the local people and their culture.

• Visit the plantations around the village, including banana and rice fields, as well as the local painting and woodcraft workshop.

• Meet the medicine man of the village, explore the local brewery, and see the village school.

• Enjoy a traditional lunch prepared by a communal women's group.

• Continue to Lake Manyara National Park, best known for its tree-climbing lions, large seasonal flamingo flocks, and other water birds.

• Look for elephants, hippos, buffaloes, mongoose, antelopes, and other animals that can be sighted along the lakeshore.

• Your lodge is set on the edge of the Rift Valley, overlooking Lake Manyara and the floor of the Great Rift Valley.

Dinner and overnight stay at Kirurumu Manyara Lodge.

• Set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of Serengeti National Park.

• Embark on a scenic four-hour drive.

• Look for the "Big Five" - lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo - with help from your driver-guide.

Dinner and overnight at Seronera campsite.

• Set out early in the morning and begin your game-viewing tour.

• Look for the "Big Five" - lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo - with help from your driver-guide.

Dinner and overnight at Seronera campsite.

• Rise early in the morning and hike in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to see the elephant cave and waterfall.

• Visit the Iraqw tribe cultural centre in Karatu to learn how the tribe protected their cattle from Masai incursions using underground settlements.

• Have a picnic lunch and head for the crater's edge, where the caldera is located.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House.

• Descend 2,000 feet to the floor of Ngorongoro Crater with your Tanzanian safari guide.

• Explore the forest area inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area inhabited by flamingos, and the open savannah grasslands where lions hunt for food.

• Stop for lunch at the lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House.

• Check out from the lodge and depart for Arusha.

End of the tour.