7-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

• On arrival at the airport, meet one of the staff members.
• After the meet-and-greet service, transfer to your accommodation in Arusha (approximately 60 km). The lodge is perched on the slopes of Mount Meru and offers a magnificent view of the mountain.

Ilboru Safari Lodge - Dinner

• After breakfast, set off for Tarangire National Park (approximately 120 km), which, of all Tanzania's parks, boasts the largest number of savannah elephants.
• Check in, followed by lunch at the game lodge.
• Depart on a game-viewing drive in this vast, wildlife-rich park. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry Tarangire riverbed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest, and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It is the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators - and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.

Whistling Thorns Tented Camp or similar: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

• After breakfast, depart for Lake Manyara National Park (approximately 90 km) with en-route views. Nestling at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, this beautiful park contains a diverse range of habitats and topographical features, from the rift wall, groundwater forest, acacia woodlands, and open grasslands to the shores of Lake Manyara and the lake itself.
• Enjoy afternoon game viewing in the park as you search for its diverse flora and fauna. There are some 350 different bird species in the park. It also provides sanctuary to a variety of animals such as gazelle, impala, buffalo, wildebeest, hyena, baboon, giraffe, hippo, and the famous tree-climbing lions that are unique to the lake. The park is generally recognized for its incredible beauty.
• In the evening, ascend the Manyara Highlands and spend the night in the Karatu area.

Country Lodge Karatu: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

• Early in the morning, drive to Serengeti via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (approximately 210 km).
• Picnic lunch packets will be served on the way.
• Arrive in Serengeti in time for an exciting game-viewing drive in one of the best game parks in Tanzania. Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometres, the world-famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. It stretches as far as Lake Victoria to the west. Its name comes from the Masai word Siringet, meaning endless plains.
• Enjoy the game drive and then continue to the camp for an overnight stay.

Kati Kati Tented Camp: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• Rise early and take a morning game drive through the park to see the nocturnal predators returning from their nightly hunt and the very active animals waking up in the early morning light.
• Depending on the time of year and the migration of the herds, expect to see wildebeest, lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, baboons, hippos, rhinos, antelopes, birds, and other species.
• Enjoy morning and afternoon game-viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains. In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The Serengeti ecosystem supports Africa's greatest remaining concentration of plains game, including more than three million large mammals. The park never disappoints, and visitors are spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve.
• Depending on the wildlife movement, have a hot lunch at the camp or enjoy picnic lunch packets.

Kati Kati Tented Camp: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro (approximately 145 km).
• Stop at Oldupai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world, to learn about human evolution.
• Enjoy an on-site interpretive talk about the gorge by the resident guide.
• Arrive at the crater rim lodge for a warm welcome, check-in, and lunch.
• In the afternoon, relax and enjoy the breathtaking and spectacular views of the crater below, the largest unbroken caldera in the world. It has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano, but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 metres deep, 20 kilometres in diameter, and covers an area of 311 square kilometres. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds.

Note: A warm jacket or cardigan is highly recommended at night.

Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• After breakfast, descend some 610 metres into the crater, a photogenic paradise that is home to an abundance of wildlife, for a full-day game-viewing drive with a picnic lunch at a private scenic site by the hippo pool. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world, teems with an abundance of wildlife that is permanently resident on the crater floor.
• In the afternoon, depart for Arusha in time for the evening flight back home.
• Relaxing in Zanzibar is an optional extension, and we are happy to arrange the tour.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch