8-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• Connect with your tour guide upon arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport and transfer to Tulia Lodge for dinner and your overnight stay on full board. The journey covers 40 km and takes approximately 30 minutes.

Meals: Dinner and overnight on full board

Accommodation: Mvuli Lodge, full board

• After breakfast at your hotel, meet your guide and drive to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park, and against the backdrop of the Great Rift Valley escarpment lie the groundwater forest, open grassland near the lakeshore, and the soda lake.
• Enjoy a picnic lunch in this beautiful area of open grassy plains, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise with more than 350 bird species, and it is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.

Dinner and overnight at Pamoja Lodge on full board.

• After breakfast, depart at 07:30 am for Serengeti, passing through Olduvai Gorge, the site of the Leakey family's discovery of fossils. The gorge is 50 km long and in some places 90 metres deep. It drains the slopes of the nearby mountains and has yielded fossils of human and animal ancestors dating back almost two million years. Olduvai Gorge is a canyon carved by water through the southern part of the Serengeti Plain, and its chief claim to fame is the rich treasure trove of human and animal fossils found here.

Meals and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp.

• After breakfast at 07:00 am, take your packed lunch and head out for a full day of game drives in the wilderness, tracking the Great Migration trails.
• A thorough explanation of this great world event, of which Tanzania is very proud, will be provided. In the evening, as the sun goes down, drive back to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Meals and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp.

• Today, start very early at 07:00 am with a packed picnic lunchbox for a game drive inside the Ngorongoro Crater. Because very few animals migrate in and out of the crater, which is enclosed by 2000-ft.-high walls, approximately 25,000 large animals can be seen here. This is reputedly the highest density of mammalian predators in Africa. The crater also has the highest known population of mountain reedbuck, zebra, gazelle, and wildebeest, and it is well known for the Big Five: rhino, lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo.
• Your driver-guide will stay in contact with other safari drivers and will amaze you with his skill in locating hidden animals. Birdlife is prolific here, and up to 100 species can be seen in a single day. In the middle of the crater lies a large lake inhabited by hundreds of flamingos, which from a distance appear like a pink border around the water.
• As late afternoon approaches, the East African sunset colours will take your breath away.

Dinner and overnight at Pamoja Lodge on full board.

• After breakfast at the lodge, dedicate the day to Tarangire National Park for morning and afternoon game drives. This park is known as the park of elephants and baobabs, which are scattered throughout the landscape. The permanent Tarangire River is a vital source of water for the animals in the park, attracting many species from nearby protected areas, especially during the dry season when animals gather along the river in search of water and greenery.

You will stay overnight at Maromboi Tented Camp.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

• Proceed from Tarangire to Arusha, enjoying the wonderful landscapes of the Arusha area along the way.
• At night, you may choose either to learn how to cook African-style food or to have fun at a nightclub in Arusha.

• After a good breakfast at the hotel, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight.

Safari ends.

Note: The group should tip the guide around $40 to $60 per day.