Ngorongoro zebra

TARANGIRE - LAKE MANYARA - NGORONGORO - SERENGETI - 7 Days / 6 Nights

TANZANIA CLASSIC SAFARI - ARUSHA / GOMBE STREAM NATIONAL PARK - 6 Days / 5 Nights

SERENGETI - OLDUVAI GORGE - NGORONGORO - MANYARA - TARANGIRE - 7 Days / 6 Nights

TARANGIRE - LAKE MANYARA - NGORONGORO - OLDUVAI GORGE - SERENGETI - 7 Days / 6 Nights

 

Tarangire / Lake Manyara / Ngorongoro / Serengeti - 7 Days / 6 Nights

Day 1: Your trip begins today with an evening arrival into Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania. You will meet our representative at the airport who will transfer you to the designated hotel or lodge in Arusha for an overnight stay.

Day 2: In the morning after breakfast you will receive a total briefing about the entire tour to Tanzania from your tour guide. From your hotel or lodge you will start your safari to Ngorongoro Crater. (Optional for those who are interested we will stop by Meserani Snake Park for a view of African popular snakes stored indoor and a view on the glass window). After a picnic lunch you will go ahead with the safari to Ngorongoro Crater.

Ngorongoro isn't a home to wildlife and birdlife only, we have indigenous warriors Maasai community who by nature are the pastoralists in a fashion of nomadic.

Visiting their home stay is a common popular cultural tour whereby you will have a chance to interact with them and learn their culture. Some of the interesting activities will include the famous dancing as well as milking the cows. Experience shows that kids like much this kind of activities as well as elders.
From Maasai boma you will be transferred to you lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: In the morning after having your breakfast you will descend to the Ngorongoro Crater floor with your picnic lunch. This day will be set for your enjoyment of the wildlife safari in Tanzania - Africa. Ngorongoro crater boost large sanctuary of wildlife (including the big 5 - elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and buffalo), others includes zebra, wildebeest, hippo, crocodile and much more. Birdlife is in abundant and both residential and migratory birds can be seen easily.

The landscape of Ngorongoro Crater is also a breathtaking scenario let alone the lakes and springs which are found in the crater floor. The Elerai forest is however the most popular place to view the elephants. Late in the afternoon you will ascend from the crater for dinner and overnight at the lodge or campsite.

Day 4: Upon your wake up in the morning you will be welcomed for your breakfast and after that a safari to Serengeti National Park will start. On our way to the Serengeti we make a stop at Olduvai Gorge, commonly referred to as the cradle of mankind.  This is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world and has been instrumental in furthering understanding of early human evolution. 

Serengeti is most certainly a reference to the constant movement of the huge numbers of animals that live in the vast plains and savannah of the park.  It is one of the largest and last remaining wildlife sanctuaries in the world.  Dinner and overnight at the designated lodge or campsite.

Day 5: An early morning game drive and thereafter back to the lodge or campsite for breakfast. Today we have a full day to enjoy the splendor of the Serengeti. Depending upon the season and your luck, you might have the opportunity to witness the largest migration of mammals on earth. Regardless, you most certainly will see hundreds of animals including zebra, wildebeest, hartebeest, topi, hyena, eland, warthogs, giraffe and various predators such as lion, cheetah, hyena and the elusive leopard and jackal. Lunch at the picnic point before an afternoon game drive and then retire to the lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight at the designated lodge or campsite. (For viewing migration please see the migration link on our website as well as allowance of at least two days in Serengeti National Park).

Day 4: In the morning after having our breakfast we will drive to Lake Manyara National Park with our picnic lunch. Arriving in Lake Manyara national park in the afternoon and check in into our lodge or campsite. If time allows us we will visit the famous village of Mto Wa Mbu and exchange some ideas with villages after a long day driving on a safari vehicle. Dinner and overnight at the designated lodge or campsite.

Day 5: In the morning after breakfast you will spend the whole day in Lake Manyara National Park. The game drive will start after breakfast and later afternoon you will be back to the lodge or campsite for hot lunch and a rest before having an afternoon game drive until late afternoon when you will be back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

The Great Rift Valley escarpment is well established upon your arrival to the park. The park is popular for its birdlife and wildlife in Tanzania. It's more tropical than other parks we visit, and it supports a huge birdlife population as well as larger animals such as elephant, lion, giraffe, zebra, hippo and antelope. The birdlife has a record of more than 350 species found in the park. The safari end up this day by been transferred to the lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 6 : Morning after breakfast you will optionally (continue with the game drive, canoe at Lake Manyara National Park or Biking along the escarpment of Manyara). Soon after lunch you will be transferred to Tarangire National Park.

This lovely park is famous for its legendary elephant herds (some of the largest population in Africa) and its unusual palm and baobab groves. There are other numerous numbers of wildlife and birdlife makes Tarangire their home stay. Tarangire River is famous for its permanent water and herbs of wildlife and flocks of birds are generally found here seeking for fresh drinking water. You will have an afternoon game drive before you retire for dinner and overnight at the lodge or campsite in Tarangire National Park.

Day 7: In the morning after breakfast you will spend half day in Tarangire National Park. A game drive to the rest of the park were you didn't manage to visit the day before with your picnic lunch. After having your lunch at the picnic point you will go ahead with the game drive until 3:00 p.m before starting a journey back to Arusha town.

In the dry season Tarangire is second only to Ngorongoro Crater in concentrations of wildlife.  There's no doubt we'll see elephants and many, many other large mammals such as wildebeests, buffalo, zebra, gazelle, impala and baboons.

Upon arriving in Arusha you will have some few hours of resting as well as having an Africa dish well prepared in one of the restaurants in Arusha. In the evening you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport to connect with your flight back home.

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