Itinerary
Day 1 :Drive from Arusha to Ngorongoro
12:30 pm – Lunch in Arusha, Tanzania’s tourist hub. Arusha is a city located in Northern Tanzania, at the foot of Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley. Arusha has a temperate climate. The city is close to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. 2:00 pm – Your Safari Departs. Drive from Arusha to Ngorongoro. Travel time/distance is approximately (4 Hrs / 210 kms) 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Ngorongoro.
Full day in Ngorongoro
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Crater Game drive and exploration of the Crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha. Known as “the eighth wonder of the world” the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife sanctuaries. It 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. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Ngorongoro.
Day 3 : Drive to Serengeti National Park from Ngorongoro
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – En route game drive to Serengeti National Park. Travel time/distance is approximately (3½ Hrs / 140 kms) 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti
Day 4: Full day in Serengeti National Park
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game Drive with picnic lunch in Serengeti National Park. Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value. With more than two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson’s gazelle, and a quarter of a million zebra, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. The wildebeest and zebra moreover form the star cast of a unique spectacular – the annual Serengeti migration. The name Serengeti comes from the Maasai language which means an ‘extended place’. The National Park, with an area of 12,950 square kilometers, is as big as Northern Ireland, but its ecosystem, which includes the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Game Reserve and the Maasai Mara Game reserve (in Kenya), is roughly the size of Kuwait. It lies between the shores of Lake Victoria in the west, Lake Eyasi in the south, and the Great Rift Valley to the east. As such, it offers the most complex and least disturbed ecosystem on earth. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti
Day 5 : Drive to Tarangire National Park
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – En route Game Drive to Tarangire National Park with picnic lunch. Travel time/distance is approximately (6 Hrs / 330 kms) 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Tarangire
Day 6 : Full day in Tarangire National Park
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game Drive with picnic lunch in the Tarangire National Park. The Park is the sixth largest National Park in Tanzania. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses through the park, being the only source of water for wild animals during dry seasons. The swamps are the focus of the largest selection of breeding birds anywhere in the world. The park is also famous for the termite mounds that dot the landscape. Those that have been abandoned are often seen to be home to dwarf mongoose. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Tarangire
Day 7 : Drive back to Arusha
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Drive back to Arusha. End of tour. Travel time/distance is approximately (2½ Hrs / 130 kms)
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