After breakfast, start your tour at 09.00 am to Arusha National Park for a full day Safari. You will be able to get out of the vehicle, be accompanied by armed ranger to walk around and view the beautiful Ngurdoto Crater rim to the waterfalls. Lunch en-route then you will continue with afternoon game drive. The park boasts the Ngurdoto Crater, the Momela Lakes, Serengeti Ndogo (Little Serengeti) and the gorgeous Mt Meru. Animal sightings include herds of Zebra, Flamingo’s and a variety of other bird species, waterbucks, giraffes, buffaloes, hippos, elephants, hyenas, dik-dik, mongooses, warthogs, baboons and monkeys. The Arusha National park is also the only park where you will be able to view the long haired Colobus Monkey. There are no lions or rhinos due to poaching but you may see the occasional leopard Late afternoon drive back to Arusha for overnight. Lodging Accommodation: Arusha Tourist inn. Camping Accommodation: Sakina campsite. Meal Plan: none

After breakfast in your hotel, we will pick you up from Arusha and drive to the Tarangire National Park. The park, which is roughly the size of Luxemburg, covers an area of approximately 2600 km². Bush savannah, seasonal marshes and fearsome baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve. The Tarangire National Park is probably one of the best places in East Africa to watch elephants and to get very close to these animals. Lodging Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge. Camping Accommodation: Simba Public campsite. Meal Plan: Full Board.

After breakfast, you will drive to the Serengeti national park. On the way, you will visit the Oldupai Gorge where the English couple, Louis and Mary Leak, pioneered archaeological excavation work. In the sixties, some of the earliest archaeological deposits of human evolution were found here and a small museum (visit optional at extra cost) reports these discoveries. After Olduvai you will drive to Serengeti national park, the name “Serengeti” origins from the Masai word “Siringiti” meaning “endless plains”. You can see why the Masai gave this region this name as the grassland savannah stretches to the horizon in the South and is only interrupted by the so-called Kopjes (rock out crops) just like an island in the sea of grasses. In the afternoon, you will reach the destination for the day and keep driving around the Seronera Valley in the central Serengeti area until sunset. Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Osupuko Lodge. Camping Accommodation: Nyani Public campsite. Meal Plan: Full Board.

This day is only dedicated to wildlife watching in the Serengeti National Park. Depending on the migration of the herds, you will visit these specific areas to sight the animals. The fluctuation in annual rainfall can affect the animal’s location from year to year; however, your guide will know the exact location of the animals and the best vantage spots. Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Osupuko Lodge. Camping Accommodation: Nyani Public campsite. Meal Plan: Full Board.

This day will be spent in Serengeti sighting animals in different locations and time. You will start the game drives at 6 am after an early breakfast and spend the whole day inside the park. Depending on time of the year you will see migration of huge herds of wildebeest migration dotted by zebras on the Serengeti open plains. Lodging Accommodation: Serengeti Osupuko Lodge. Camping Accommodation: Nyani Public campsite. Meal Plan: Full Board

After breakfast, you will continue the game drive through the Serengeti National Park. You will sight hundreds of wildebeests and zebras and often lions and other big cats such as leopards and cheetahs in the Seronera Valley. After lunch at a picnic site, you will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro. Lodging Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Camping Accommodation: Simba Public campsite. Meal Plan: Full Board.

After an early breakfast at daybreak, you will drive down into the caldera of the Ngorongoro crater. Inside the world’s biggest caldera, you cannot fail to be captivated by the rich and diverse wildlife. Quite often you can observe the “Big Five” (lions, elephants, buffalos, rhinoceros and leopards) within a couple of hours. After an extensive wildlife tour and a picnic lunch, you will leave the caldera in the afternoon and travel to the small village of Mto wa Mbu that is situated directly at the border to the Lake Manyara National Park. Lodging Accommodation: Eileen’s Tree Lodge. Camping Accommodation: Twiga Public campsite. Meal Plan: Full Board.

After breakfast, you will do game drive inside Lake Manyara. The name Manyara comes from the Maasai word “emanyara”, which stands for euphorbia species of plant that is grown into a hedge around a family homestead (Euphorbia tirucalli). The name “is a Masai description not for the lake, but in general for a lake shore region. Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge indifferently along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper lightly between the ancient mahogany trees, graceful bushbuck tread carefully through the shadows. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favoured worry of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants and then later drive back to Arusha reaching there at approximately 4pm. Depending on your schedule we will drop you off at the airport on time for your flight back home. Lodging Accommodation: none. Camping Accommodation: none. Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch.