7-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• Your private guide will be waiting with a welcoming smile to pick you up at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO).
• Relax in your comfortable safari vehicle as you are transferred to your hotel in Arusha for an overnight stay.
• You may have your pre-safari briefing today. If not, it will take place early tomorrow morning, depending on your arrival time.

• Early in the morning, your guide will pick you up at your hotel.
• You will be picked up at 07:00 hrs and begin your fantastic journey to Tarangire National Park.
• This park's game-viewing experience is magnificent. It is famous for its extensive collection of baobab trees, spectacular large mammal population, and variety of bird species, not to mention one of the largest concentrations of elephants in East Africa.

• Lake Manyara is a highly scenic park, rimmed on one side by the tall cliffs of the Rift escarpment and ringed with various habitats, including its namesake, Lake Manyara.
• The game seen in Manyara includes hippos, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, impala, dwarf mongooses, hyraxes, wildebeest, zebra, and, on rare occasions, tree-climbing lions and leopards.
• Today, you will also have time to enjoy a Maasai Cultural Tour at Mto Mbu village in Manyara.
• You will experience the best cultural dance of the Maasai and learn about their way of life.

• Drive 3-4 hours to the Serengeti. Once through the park gate, begin your afternoon game drive.
• Enjoy a picnic lunch at the Visitor's Center.
• See all the plentiful wildlife that makes the Serengeti so understandably famous, then arrive at your safari lodge in time to freshen up, relax a little, and have dinner.

Arguably Africa's most fabulous national park, the Serengeti, meaning "endless plains," is a massive park and home to a yearly migration of more than a million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle undertaking their long trek to new grazing grounds. In return, a wealth of predators, including lions, leopards, cheetah, and hyena, also inhabit the region.

• Today, enjoy a full-day game drive in the Serengeti, or choose a morning and afternoon game drive with a break and rest between them back at your safari lodge.
• You also have the option of a scenic hot air balloon safari early this morning at extra cost.
• The fabulous Serengeti is a singular safari destination in Africa. The oldest and largest intact land-based ecosystem in the world, the Serengeti is celebrated for its wealth of leopard and lion.

Serengeti, meaning "endless plains," is home to the most significant annual overland migration of mammals in the world, with over a million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, and 300,000 Thomson's gazelles, along with a range of other antelope species, gradually undertaking an over 800-km trek in search of new grazing grounds.

• This morning, drive from the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Highlands, enjoying wildlife viewing within Serengeti National Park as you gradually exit.
• Departing the park, you have several optional visits available at extra cost, either to Olduvai Gorge or a Maasai village, or both.
• Continue onwards to your lodge for tonight, situated near the Crater or on the Crater rim itself.
• Olduvai Gorge provides substantial evidence of the earliest signs of humankind, with rare hominid footprints preserved in solid rock from 3,600,000 years ago.
• There are many authentic Maasai villages in the area to visit. Here, you have a chance to get to know authentic Maasai families and see what real life is like for the locals. You can visit homes, watch traditional dances, and purchase homemade jewellery.

• This morning, you will have a half-day game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater.
• The Ngorongoro Crater is the world's largest caldera, measuring nearly 2,000 feet in depth and covering 250 square kilometres in area.
• The Crater is a spectacular setting and contains an abundance of wildlife, with over 20,000 large animals, including Tanzania's remaining black rhino.
• The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is unique in that it allows over 40,000 Maasai pastoralists with their cattle, goats, and sheep to live alongside the abundant wildlife in a natural setting.
• After the game drive, you will be on your way back to Arusha and then to Kilimanjaro International Airport.