Overview

Day 1:               Arrive Kilimanjaro International Airport/ Transfer Arusha

On arrival in Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be met by our representative and transferred to hotel in Arusha for relaxation after a long flight

Accommodation: Gran Melia Hotel – Deluxe City View Rooms

Day 2:               Arusha – Tarangire National Park

After breakfast you will depart in your safari vehicle to Tarangire National Park, arriving in time for lunch at Tarangire Sopa Lodge

This afternoon head out on a game drive in Tarangire National Park.

TARANGIRE: Tarangire National Park covers 2,600 square kilometers and is on the traditional migration route of several species of wildlife. At dry times, the concentration of animals in Tarangire rivals that of the much better-known Serengeti Herds of migratory wildebeest, gazelles, zebra and buffalo.

Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 3:               Tarangire National Park

Enjoy the morning at leisure. You may choose to take a balloon safari (weather dependent and optional extra – price available on request).

After lunch depart on a game drive in Tarangire National Park.

Make sure you always have your camera ready as elephants can sometimes be seen around the lodge, which means great photographic opportunities!

Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 4:               Tarangire National Park – Manyara

After breakfast at the lodge, you will depart on your drive to Manyara, by driving across the Rift Valley, arriving at the lodge in time for lunch.

In the afternoon take a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre-high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting praised by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.

The dense game viewing circuit through Manyara offers a small-scale version of the Tanzanian Safari experience. In the park the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys dart nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk noisily in the high canopy.

Return to the lodge in time to freshen up for dinner.

Accommodation: Escarpment Luxury Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 5:      Lake Manyara National Park

Enjoy a relaxing morning at leisure or you can choose to take a tour to the local community. After lunch take a game drive in Manyara National Park. Leopards, Lions, Elephants, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelle, hippo, impala, and more inhabit the park and many can be seen throughout the year. The leopards and lions are both known to lounge in the trees while not hunting for prey.

Return to the lodge in time to freshen up before dinner.

Accommodation: Escarpment Luxury Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 6:               Manyara – Serengeti National Park

The adventure continues as you set off after breakfast to the vast plains of the Serengeti arriving at the lodge in time for lunch. You will probably start spotting game well before you get into the park.

The Serengeti offers some of the most entertaining game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephants and giraffes, and thousands of elands, Topi, Impala and Grant’s gazelle. Lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers.

You will take an afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park. Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7^th worldwide wonder, the vast Serengeti is famed for its great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of elands, Topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.

Return to the lodge in time for freshen un before dinner.

Accommodation: Elewana Serengeti Explorer Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 7:               Serengeti National Park

Explore the grass plains during morning and afternoon game drives when the animals are most active. In the early morning watch hippos returning to water; giraffes foraging from trees; and lions returning from the evening hunt to relax in the shade of at tree. In the afternoon look out for cheetahs, crocodiles and leopards.

Accommodation: Elewana Serengeti Explorer Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 8                Serengeti National Park

During morning and afternoon game viewing activities you are able to observe and photograph the wildlife at your leisure. You might also choose to forfeit the morning game drive and replace it with a balloon safari.

Accommodation: Elewana Serengeti Explorer Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 9:               Serengeti ~ Ngorongoro Crater

After Breakfast depart on a drive to the Ngorongoro Crater, a remnant of an ancient volcano with one of the greatest concentrations of wildlife in Africa, arriving at Ngorongoro Melia Lodge in time for Lunch.

Ngorongoro crater is known as “the eighth wonder of the world” the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife arenas. A UNESCO World Heritage Site offers a unique biosphere, which has remained virtually unchanged since the dawn of time.

Deep within  the Crater, enclosed by towering walls, some 25,000 large mammals wander the plains, lakes and forests of “the land that time forgot”, dominated by enormous bull elephants, rhinos and lions. Optional activities today include a Crater Rim walk or a visit to Maasai Village.

Accommodation: MELIA Ngorongoro Lodge – The Rim Room (B, L, D) 

Day 10:    Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast descend through the early morning mist 2,000 feet into the crater for an awesome wildlife experience. Enjoy a picnic lunch at a scenic spot inside the crater, returning to the lodge in the late afternoon.

Approximately 25,000 large animals, mostly ungulates, live in the crater, including the black Rhino, the Cape buffalo and Hippo. There also are many other ungulates: the wildebeest, Burchell’s Zebra, the common eland and Grant’s and Thomson’s Gazelles. The crater has one of the densest known populations of lion.

NGORONGORO CRATER: Ngorongoro is quite unique as its physical protection from man natural beauty ranks it among the most pristine wilderness on earth. It is regarded as a natural wonder of the world and has been declared a World Heritage Site.

Accommodation: MELIA Ngorongoro Lodge (B, L, D)

Day 11              Ngorongoro ~ Arusha ~ Kilimanjaro – Departs

Depart after breakfast and head to Arusha for lunch followed by a transfer to the airport in time for your homebound departure flight back home

INCLUDED:

• All transport and game drives in a 7-seater 4*4 safari vehicle with an English-speaking driver/guide
• Accommodation as specified
• Meals: 10 breakfast/ 9 Lunches/ 9 Dinners
• Meet & greet upon arrival by our representatives

EXCLUDED:

• International airfares and associated fuel surcharges and taxes
• Telephone bills, Laundry and any items of a personal nature
• Drinks, dining room, tips, porterage
• Any item not specified above
• Costs of Passports and Visas
• Trip Insurance/ Medical Insurance