8-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari through Serengeti's Western Corridor

• A Jairos Adventure representative will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your accommodation in Arusha, where you will stay overnight, relax, and prepare for the adventures ahead. Arusha Planet Lodge is an oasis of calm and aesthetic pleasure.

Accommodation: Africa Safari Arusha

• In the morning, our personal safari guide will collect you from your lodgings in Arusha. You will set out for Tarangire National Park across gently rolling Masai plains dotted with scattered acacia trees.
• As you travel, you will pass many Masai in their colourful dress walking along the roadside, riding bicycles, herding cattle, and driving donkey carts. Tarangire National Park, well known for its large elephant herds, is also home to a multitude of other creatures.
• From the open roof of our safari jeep, you will experience the seasonal swamps, savannah, and life-giving Tarangire River while seeking out a wide variety of wildlife, from zebras, wildebeest, buffalos, elephants, and giraffes to many more species.
• You may also glimpse lions stalking prey or leopards relaxing in the trees above.
• After your extensive game drive, you will drive to one of our mid-range partner lodges for dinner in a tasteful restaurant and a spacious room for your comfort and dreams of wild cats.

Accommodation: Sumawe Suite

• After breakfast, you will journey toward the fertile highlands where wheat, coffee, and corn are grown by the Iraqw people.
• Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will be afforded a view of the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater before travelling onward to Serengeti National Park, which you will reach by midday.
• Serengeti National Park is the largest in Tanzania, covering an astounding 15,000 square kilometres, with diverse landscapes and habitats such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannah, and mountains. Here, the great migration of wildebeest, zebras, and antelopes takes place.
• Depending on the season, you may have the opportunity to witness thousands of animals on their search for food and water.
• After an extensive game drive, you will drive to the Seronera Valley for an evening meal and an overnight stay at your accommodation.

Accommodation: Into Wild

• After breakfast, you will head straight toward the Western Corridor, a drive of approximately 1.5 hours.
• Around the end of April, May, and June, a vast army of wildebeests and their companions - zebras, elands, and gazelles - mill around the Western Corridor of the Serengeti, south of the Grumeti River.
• You can encounter leopards and hyenas, and ahead lie giant Nile crocodiles. Many hundreds perish as some hazard the river crossing while others detour it.
• But the beauty of the landscape, stretching without end beneath an infinite sky on a Serengeti West safari, changes something within the watcher, who becomes more aware of the place of humankind within the drama of the animal world.
• You will then head straight to your accommodation, where you will have dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Lahia Tented Lodge

• After breakfast, you will continue exploring the Western Corridor of the Serengeti. The wildebeest migration can normally be found in the Western Corridor depending on rainfall patterns.
• After the morning game drive, you will then head to your accommodation for a hot lunch. In the evening, you will continue with your game drive and experience the sunset in the western Serengeti.
• After that, you will have dinner and an overnight stay in the Western Corridor area at your accommodation.
• Alternatively, you can spend a full day exploring this area with your lunch boxes, surrounded by an abundance of wildlife, while following the great migration.

Accommodation: Lahia Tented Lodge

• This entire day is set aside for game drives in the Serengeti.
• The Serengeti, home to an abundance of wildlife such as impalas, buffalos, crocodiles, and hippos, is even more famous for its great migrating herds of zebras, antelopes, and wildebeest.
• The animals' trek is determined by the rainfall and varies from year to year. In November and December, the animals move from the northern region, dominated by woodlands and hills, to the grassy plains of the south.
• During the longer rainy season from April to June, they return to the north.
• Apart from the migrating herds, you may also have the opportunity to see resident predators such as leopards, cheetahs, and lions fulfilling their role in the circle of life.
• After an extensive game drive, you will head to your tented lodge for a hearty dinner and another night by the fire, relaxing and conversing under the sweeping majesty of the star-bright African night on the 'endless plain'.

Accommodation: Into Wild Africa Serengeti

• After breakfast, you will head out for an en-route game drive through the Serengeti. You might be able to spot the Big Five - lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard - before continuing your journey to Ngorongoro Crater. This UNESCO World Heritage Site was formed millions of years ago, is 600 m deep, and covers roughly 260 square kilometres.
• Due to its dense animal population of approximately 25,000, the crater offers some of the best wildlife viewing of all the parks in Tanzania. You will arrive at the crater rim before lunch.
• You will descend into the crater, and very quickly you may see wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, elephants, and some of the more than 500 bird species found in the area.
• With a little luck, you might also catch a glimpse of the endangered black rhino through the grass.
• After lunch and a full afternoon inside the crater, you will head to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Tortilis Ngorongoro Camp

• After breakfast, you will drive to your final destination on this epic safari - Lake Manyara National Park. This relatively small but diverse park, 120 km west of Arusha, is named after the shallow salt lake that covers about seventy percent of the park's surface area.
• Flooding and drying with the seasons, the soda lake is home to thousands of flamingos as well as more than 500 other bird species.
• During your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalos, elephants, and, with some luck, lions lounging in the trees.
• The park is known for its diverse landscapes, including open grassy plains, primate-filled woodlands, and baobab-dotted cliffs.
• After another memorable game drive, and with your adventure coming to an end, you will return to Arusha in the late afternoon, filled with images of the African wilds to last a lifetime.