Arrival, Northern Circuit Safari, and Departure
Day 1: Arrive in Tanzania
You will be picked up at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Arusha town. There, you will meet your guide, who will brief you on your upcoming safari and give you all the basic information about it.
- Overnight at Comfort Eland Hotel
- Note: No meals included
Day 2: Arusha - Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel to start your safari to Tarangire National Park. Bush savannah, seasonal swamps, and giant baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve, and the park is probably one of the best places in East Africa to see elephants. Not only are they found in thousands, but they also seem to be more accustomed to the vehicles, allowing you to get closer to these gigantic animals. It is not only the elephants - a wide variety of animals such as Masai giraffes, various gazelles, antelopes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, baboons, and more than 500 types of birds make this a one-stop destination for both bird and animal lovers. After the game drive, you will leave the park in the late afternoon and drive to the lodge for your overnight stay.
- Overnight at Eileen's Trees Hotel
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
Day 3: Tarangire - Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, we head towards Serengeti National Park via the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we 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. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife representative of most of the Serengeti's species. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park.
After your tour around the park, you will be transferred to your lodge, where you will be spending the night.
- Overnight at Suenos De Africa Tented Camp
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
Day 4 & 5: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will spend the whole day on a game drive in Serengeti National Park and have lunch at a picnic spot en route. Depending upon the time of year, you might even have the chance to witness the great migration, with hundreds of thousands of wildebeests, zebras, and Thomson gazelles. During the small rainy season in October and November, you will typically see these herds moving from the Kenyan Masai Mara through the northwest of the Serengeti to the plains in the south. After the great rainy season in April, May, and June, the herds slowly travel back through the western and northwestern part of the Serengeti. With fluctuations in rainfall, this timetable can of course change, resulting in the animals migrating at different times and along different routes. Your guide will try his utmost to find the animals and will make sure that you can see them from the best spot in the national park. Naturally, the migration also attracts predators, and with luck, you might see a kill in action.
- Overnight at Suenos De Africa Tented Camp
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
Day 6: Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation - Karatu
Dawn is a good time to watch wildlife, so you will be up early to join an early morning game drive. You will return to the camp for breakfast before heading out for another game drive in the park. Here in the Seronera region, you will often see wildebeests and zebras close to lions and other predators such as leopards and cheetahs. After a picnic lunch, you will continue your journey towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and onward to Karatu for the night.
- Overnight at Eilees Trees Hotel
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater - Karatu
After breakfast at daybreak, you drive down into the crater. Inside the world's biggest caldera, you will see a diversity of wildlife ranging from black rhinos, Grant's and Thomson's gazelles, lions, and leopards, to elephants and mountain reedbucks in the forests on the slopes. You might also see buffaloes, spotted hyenas, and some of the more than 500 bird species of the area. After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch, you will leave the crater in the afternoon to travel to the lodge in Karatu.
- Overnight at Eileen's Trees Hotel
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
Day 8: Karatu - Lake Manyara National Park - Arusha-Airport
The small Lake Manyara National Park is home to over 400 bird species, primate-filled forests, and grassy plains. A large area of the park is covered by the alkaline Lake Manyara, which is home to colonies of flamingos and other water birds. Apart from giraffes, hippos, wildebeests, and impalas on the grassy plains, you might see lions lounging in the trees and elephants feeding on the acacias in the woodlands. While the forest near the lake is filled with noisy troops of blue monkeys, extended baboon families gather along the roads. After the game drive, you will return to Arusha in the late afternoon.
- Overnight at Comfort Eland Hotel
- Meals: Breakfast & Lunch Included
Day 9: Departure Day
Rest at the hotel and transfer to the airport at the agreed time.
Hotel check-out is at 11:00 am. In case you need a late check-out because of an evening flight, you have the option to extend your hotel stay until 6:00 pm for an extra fee.
