Day 1- ARRIVAL 

Pickup from  Kilimanjaro airport and transferred to a Hotel in Arusha  for overnight on Bed and breakfast.

Meal Plan – Bed and Breakfast

Day 2 –  TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast in your Arusha Hotel you will depart  for Tarangire National Park with packed lunch boxes for  full day game drives. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes to a variety of colorful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance of quietly observing many families of elephants interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to view animals drinking water in the river, continue game viewing and finally drive  to Camp/ Lodge  for dinner.

Meal Plan –  Breakfast lunch  and Dinner

Day  3 – Lake Manyara National Park

Depart after breakfast  to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive with packed lunch boxes for your picnic lunch. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to a large numbers of buffalos, giraffes, elephants, impalas and a Hippo lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 different species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places where you’ll be able to see the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle. This park has become famous for the climbing lions and the flamingos in the lake shore. The landscapes of these park are absolutely stunning, very different from the Serengeti for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground with the lake, flamingos and flat plains in the horizon. In the late afternoon you drive to Camp/ Lodge  for overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan –  Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day  4  –  SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast you depart to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti mean “endless plains” in Kiswahili and this (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson’s gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds. You will spend two nights in a  Camp/Lodge  in Central  Serengeti.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day 5  –  SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast you will go for morning game drives exploring more of Central  Serengeti  Region with a visit to moru  Kopje  to watch the big cats with fresh lunch in your Camp/Lodge  with afternoon game drives with overnight  at a Camp/Lodge   on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day  6 – SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK  &  NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA

Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning game drive  before breakfast, to spot the animals when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sun rise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return to the Camp/Lodge for late breakfast. You will then drive  to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and then to Ngorongoro crater rim the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah’s Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you’ll ever see in your life.

On the way from the Serengeti, optional to stop at the famous Olduvai Gorge or a Maasai Cultural visit and pay directly.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day  7–  NGORONGORO CRATER AND LAKE EYASI 

After early breakfast you descend down to the crater floor with picnic lunch for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing, you will drive up the steep road out of the crater and drive to Lake Eyasi for overnight on at a Camp/ Lodge on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Day  8–  Lake Eyasi & Hadzabe

After your  breakfast  you will drive to Lake Eyasi and  join the Hadzabe tribe, one of the last true nomadic tribes of Africa, in a fascinating hunting or fruit gathering session. This is something absolutely unique and out of the beaten track which is a great cultural experience and authentic while providing incredible opportunities for world class photography. After staying a while with the tribe, visit the beautiful Lake Eyasi, a seasonal shallow salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau. You can go for some hunting expedition with this tribesmen, share a Local lunch with them and learn how they make their herbal medicine  and then drive in the mid afternoon back to Arusha. On arrival in Arusha you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Aiport for your flight to your next destination.

Meal Plan – Breakfast and Lunch

End of Safari