6-Day Tanzania Safari through Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire

• Pick up in Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park.
• Arrive at the lodge in time for lunch. After lunch, head into Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania's most dramatically located wildlife areas, featuring a massive but shallow soda lake that covers two-thirds of the park at the foot of the Great Rift Valley western escarpment. The park's varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa's largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara's unique tree-climbing lions, and large flocks of flamingos drawn to the algae in the lake.

Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation booked on the trip.

• After breakfast, head towards Serengeti National Park via the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, descend into the heart of wild Africa, the Serengeti National Park, with its endless plains rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see.
• Continue to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. It features the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source and therefore attracts wildlife representative of most Serengeti species.
• Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park.

Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation booked on the trip.

• Enjoy an optional hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti Plains, available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement. Float silently above the awakening bush while spotting wildlife and taking in the fantastic scenery of Africa across rivers and over numerous small villages.
• After breakfast, enjoy a game-viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River and offers possible sightings of lions, Thomson's gazelles, topi, ostriches, and cheetahs.

• After breakfast at the lodge, depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with a stop at Olduvai Gorge, a site with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of Nutcracker Man and Handy Man, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution.
• Arrive in time for lunch at the lodge, and after lunch descend more than 600 metres into the crater for a half-day safari tour. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, Ngorongoro National Park supports a wide variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.

• After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. The river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals during Tanzania's dry season.

• Enjoy an early morning game drive in Tarangire National Park, followed by breakfast at the lodge and a transfer back to Arusha.
• Upon arrival in Arusha, have lunch and then end your African safari adventure with departure to your hotel.