Day 1: Kilimanjaro International airport (JRO) – Arusha
Distance: 50km
Met on arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) or Arusha Airport. Transfer to your booked hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Tarangire National Park
Distance: 130km
Non – game-viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, the tour departs. First stop is Arusha Town for any last-minute purchases before we head off on safari. Afterwards, we head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the centre of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras. Dinner and overnight at your booked lodge/tented camp.
Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park
Distance: 190km
Non – game-viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, the driver guide will pick you up and depart to the Lake Manyara national park for a game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Late afternoon transfer to your booked lodge/tented camp for dinner and overnight
Day 4: Lake Eyasi
Today it’s time to interact with the Bushmen, the Hadzabe Tribe, who live in groups hunting with bow and arrows and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits much as humankind lived in the Stone Age. We will get an in-depth look at how they continue to survive and how they adapt to their harsh environment and the challenges they face to continue this nomadic existence. The Datoga tribe are blacksmiths, a trade developed over centuries and still practised in vary much the same way today. They produce the arrowheads for the Hadzabe and brass trinkets, some of which will be for sale by the maker himself. Late afternoon transfer to your Booked lodge/tented camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Lake Eyasi- Ngorongoro crater
Distance: 190km
Non – game-viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here. Dinner and overnight at your booked lodge/tented camp
Day 6: Ngorongoro crater – Serengeti National Park
Distance: 145km
Non – game-viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs
Early morning breakfast and after depart to Serengeti National Park. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Do game drive in Serengeti and overnight at the heart of Serengeti Dinner and overnight at your booked lodge/tented camp
Day 7: Serengeti National Park
Full day Serengeti National Park game drive. Dinner and overnight at your booked lodge/tented Camp.
Day 8: Serengeti National Park – Lake Natron
Distance: 300km
Non – game-viewing time: 4 – 5 hrs
After an early breakfast, do a morning game drive then after doing a game en route towards north Serengeti. Check out of the park at Klein’s gate then transfer to Lake Natron for an early dinner and overnight. Go for an evening lake Natron walk for sunset if time permits. Dinner and overnight at your booked/tented camp.
Day 9: Lake Natron – Arusha
Distance: 250km
Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, you will depart to Arusha for Lunch, after lunch you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport to fly back home.
