8-Day Luxury Tanzania Safari with Serengeti Flight and Ngorongoro

• Our driver will pick you up on arrival at the airport and drive you to your hotel in Arusha town for overnight stay and refreshment. As local Tanzanians, your guides know the country well, so you will be in good hands from the moment you land to the moment you depart.
• A short briefing will be provided with all the necessary safari information before travel.
• The evening is free at the lodge for dinner and relaxation at Arusha Coffee Lodge. Arusha is the ideal starting point for safari lovers, within reach of Tarangire, Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti. After a long flight, you will be pleased to arrive in Arusha, the acknowledged safari capital of East Africa, perched at 1,400 meters above sea level, which keeps temperatures and humidity quite low. Mount Meru overlooks Arusha, and distant Kilimanjaro can be seen on a clear day.

Meal(s): Bed and breakfast

Accommodation: ARUSHA COFFEE LODGE

• After breakfast, you will head to Arusha Airport, where you will catch a mid-morning flight to Serengeti-Seronera Airstrip, where you will meet your driver-guide.
• On arrival, you will be transferred to your lodge to enjoy a hot meal before beginning your safari adventure across the endless plains of Serengeti.
• You will embark on an afternoon game drive in the area until sunset. With the assistance of our skilled driver-guide, you will soon discover the excitement of the western area of the iconic Serengeti National Park.
• In the evening, drive back to your hotel or camp for dinner and some much-needed rest and recovery.

Meal(s): Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: KUBUKUBE TENTED CAMP

• Drive from western Serengeti to central Serengeti, a journey of about 2-4 hours.
• See elephant migration, buffaloes, giraffe, zebra, hippo, blue monkeys, warthog, waterbuck, lion, impala, baboons, jackal, snakes, unique bird species, and different types of trees. West of Seronera, the waters of the Grumeti and Mbalageti rivers ensure that the Western Corridor is wetter and thicker in plant life than the south plains of the Serengeti. Envision a mix of woodland and open grassland. In this area, visitors can expect good game viewing throughout the year, while from the end of May through June it is common for the Great Migration to cross the Western Corridor, depending on the timing of the rains. In any season, there are giraffes, lions, and elephants, as well as resident populations of wildebeest and zebras in the area south of the Grumeti. Your driver-guide will help you spot these animals.
• Your accommodation awaits you at day's end while the sights and sounds are still fresh in your mind. It is time for dinner and then a good night's sleep.

Meal(s): Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation(s): KUBUKUBU TENTED CAMP

• Start by discovering the famous Serengeti National Park. After breakfast, begin your morning game drive in Serengeti. The beautiful scenery, ever-changing light, and always entertaining animals will all be explained to you by your expert driver-guide.
• After a picnic lunch, set off again in search of wildlife in this awe-inspiring park. Serengeti's wonders evolve delicately as the day progresses. The countless birds and animals are the stars of the show, and life dramas can unfold at any time. Of course, the animals do not work on any schedule, so we may find lion or leopard, elephant and zebra, cheetah and antelope at any time during our drives.
• At the end of the afternoon, return to the camp.

Meal(s) : Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation(s) : KUBUKUBU TENTED CAMP

• The stunning Ngorongoro Crater is a unique home to many species of Tanzania's wildlife. With some luck, you may even see a black rhinoceros here. Besides the stunning scenery, one of the main attractions of this area is the variety of flora and fauna found in this remarkably compact area throughout the year. On one side lies Lerai Forest, a classic mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. It is good elephant country, so keep your eyes open.
• Visit a nearby marshland to see an elephant graveyard, where male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the soft swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.
• Breakfast will be served at the camp, and you will then drive straight to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive inside the crater.
• Enjoy a packed lunch served at a selected picnic site. Continue with more game drives in the crater until evening, then drive to the crater rim for your overnight stay. The crater is one of the best places to spot black rhinoceros, while wildebeest, zebra, and gazelles are among more than 25 wild animal species found here. It has the densest known population of lions, with around 120 well-defined territories, and it is also a place where you can find the maned black lion. There are up to 15,000 wildebeest, 9,000 zebras, 400 hyenas, and around 50 black rhinoceroses. Many wildebeest and other herd animals are resident, benefiting from year-round water sources and seasonal migrants. Eland, Thomson's gazelle, and buffalo are also present in good numbers. Hippos can be seen in pools and swampland. Flamingos can frequently be seen at Lake Magadi, which occupies part of the crater floor, and birdlife is colourful and abundant around the waters.

Meal(s) : Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation(s) : Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

• After an early morning breakfast, check out from the lodge and drive to the rim of the Great African Rift Valley for a day of relaxation at the luxurious Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge.
• You may go for a cultural tour or visit an orphanage centre or school.

Meal(s): Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation(s): Kilimamoja Luxury lodge

• Breakfast at the lodge at the agreed time with your driver-guide, then continue to the vast Tarangire National Park, taking around 2 hours to reach for game drives.
• After time spent in the park, continue to the selected picnic site where you will enjoy your picnic lunch, a nutritious and balanced meal.
• Then continue with game drives until sunset, after which you will drive to the lodge for your overnight stay. The park is noted for its incredible diversity of massive baobab trees, big herds of elephants, rolling savannah, and acacia woodland, along with a good variety of wildlife and rich birdlife, flora, and fauna. The park is named after the life-giving river that provides the only permanent water source for wildlife in this area. During the dry season from June to November, the park has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem. Its wetland in the southern area of the park supports more than 300 bird species and receives fewer tourists than other parks. Many animals migrate to its river for drinking water. The park is home to buffalo, lions, wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle, while gerenuk and fringe-eared oryx are local specialities and can rival Serengeti for total animal densities. Lake Burungi's swampy shoreline attracts these mammals, while the water draws a beautiful variety of birds. Look out for hoopoes, giant kingfishers, and the charmingly named white-bellied go-away bird.
• Talk to your guide about finding an Agama lizard, especially a male, which changes colour according to the temperature.
• You may find a solitary male lion stretched out under a tree or a male cheetah enjoying a little lazy bonding time in the sun. Perhaps you will also see graceful Grant's gazelle and zebra bounding away from the road, or a couple of giraffes munching happily from acacia branches. Keep an eye out for kudu and oryx as well.

Meal(s) : Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation(s) : Maramboi Tented camp

• Enjoy a relaxed morning at your camp, with a hot lunch served before you depart for Arusha for an overnight stay or transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight back home or onward to Zanzibar.
• You can depart on this day only if you have booked domestic flights departing JRO from 19:00 hrs onwards or an international flight departing from 20:00 hrs onwards. If not, you will need to book post-night accommodation for an earlier flight.