12-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, connect with your tour guide and transfer to First Point Hostel for dinner and an overnight stay on a full-board basis. (40 km, 30 minutes)

Meals: Dinner and overnight on full board

Accommodation: First Point Hostel, full board

• After breakfast at your hotel, we will meet 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. Backed by the wall of the Great Rift Valley, the area features groundwater forest, open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake.
• We will enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy plains, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise with more than 350 species of birds. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.

Dinner and overnight at Pamoja Tented Camp on a full-board basis.

• After breakfast, depart in the morning for a half-day game drive in the park with a packed lunch box, followed by time enjoying the Maasai bomas at Manyara.
• There will be storytelling sessions within the Maasai tribe, followed by dinner featuring Maasai foods such as Makande and Loshoro.

Overnight near the Maasai bomas at Manyara.

• After breakfast, depart at 07:30 am for Serengeti, passing through Olduvai Gorge, the site of the Leakey family's fossil discoveries. The gorge is 50 km long and in some places 90 metres deep. It drains the slopes of the nearby mountains and contains remains 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 that it has yielded.

Meals and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp.

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

Meals and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp.

• Today we start very early at 07:00 am with a packed picnic lunch box for a game drive inside the Ngorongoro Crater. Because very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000-ft.-high walls, a population of 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. It is also known for the Big Five: rhino, lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo.
• Your driver-guide will be in contact with other safari drivers and will amaze you with skill in locating hidden animals. The birdlife is prolific here, and up to 100 species can be seen in one day. In the middle of the crater there is a large lake inhabited by hundreds of flamingos, which from a distance appears as a pink border around the lake.
• With late afternoon approaching, the East African sunset colours will take your breath away.

Dinner and overnight at Pamoja Campsite.

• After breakfast today, we will have a half-day game drive in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
• Have a picnic lunch, swim near the Manyara area, and have fun for at least 3 hours.

Dinner and overnight at Ecoboma Camp.

• In the morning, after breakfast, we will move from Ngorongoro to the market for shopping in supermarkets.
• Then, continue to Tarangire for a noon game drive.

Dinner will be a roast and barbecue meat with funny stories shared by a professional guide, followed by an overnight stay.

• After breakfast at the lodge, dedicate this day to Tarangire Park for morning and afternoon game drives. This park is known as the park of elephants and baobabs, as both are scattered everywhere in the park. The permanent Tarangire River is the source of life for the animals here, attracting many animals from nearby protected areas, especially during the dry season when they gather along the river for water and greenery.

You will stay overnight at Maromboi Tented Camp.

Meals plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

• On this day, we will start very early and move from Tarangire to Arusha National Park. Enjoy a game drive until noon, looking around Lake Momela and seeing wonderful birds such as the hamerkop.
• In the afternoon, we will either go to the nightclub or learn how to cook Tanzanian-style food.

Overnight stay in Arusha.

• After breakfast, we will take a walk to different areas, for example Arusha Waterfalls, with a packed lunch box for a half-day, and have a game drive around Arusha town at noon.
• You will take a tutorial on how to cook Tanzanian food.

Overnight stay in Arusha.

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

Note: The group may tip the guide as you wish, depending on the enjoyment you get during the safari.