8-Day Northern Tanzania Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• Pick up by our representative, who will usher you into a waiting vehicle and transfer you to the hotel in Arusha. Our representative will have a short safari briefing session with you at the Miami Rich Hotel/Miami Beach Hotel in Arusha.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

• After breakfast, a briefing to the clients will be conducted by one of the staff.
• Drive to Arusha National Park for a morning game drive.
• Set up picnic lunches and go on an afternoon walking safari.

Dinner and overnight at Miami Beach Hotel.

• Depart at 08:30 from the hotel in Arusha and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the groundwater forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and Soda Lake.
• Enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise with more than 350 species. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.
• In the evening, drive back to Panorama Campsite for dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, depart at 07:30 and drive to Tanzania's oldest and most famous national park, a World Heritage Site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder, the Serengeti National Park. The park is renowned for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, and Grant's gazelle.

Meals and overnight at Serengeti campsite.

• Start early in the morning to experience one of the ultimate game-viewing sessions. After a hot cup of tea or coffee, you will soon be wide awake as you watch wildlife in its most active time. The cat family love to make appearances in the morning, while the early morning light makes photographing herds of wildlife a photographer's dream. We can arrange an early morning balloon safari over the Serengeti for something completely different.
• View large pods of wildlife and watch the sunrise over the park's endless plains, only to finish this relaxing journey with a scrumptious champagne breakfast.

Overnight will be at Serengeti Seronera Campsite.

• Travel to the Ngorongoro Crater. This incredible formation is part of the larger Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which covers more than 8300 square kilometres. The actual crater is 260 square kilometres and 620 m deep. The original volcano was probably as high as, or higher than, Kilimanjaro.

Meals and overnight at Ngorongoro Simba Campsite.

• To experience the crater without the crowds, you will rise early for your full day's game drive.
• Reaching the crater floor as the sun rises, you will undoubtedly be amazed at this natural phenomenon before you. The Ngorongoro Crater is home to about 25,000 animals and is one of the last places in Tanzania where the Big Five can be seen. The NCA is considered one of the World Heritage Sites and also one of the International Biosphere Reserves. Additionally, the NCA is unique because it is a multi-use conservation area - where the animals and environment are protected. Still, the Masai are allowed to live and continue their pastoral lifestyle.

Dinner and overnight at Rich Hotel in Arusha.

• Breakfast at the hotel. You will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight.