Arriving Arusha
Day 1
Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) where your safari guide awaits to transfer you to Tulia Boutique Hotel and Spa, your hotel in Arusha. In route to your accommodations your safari guide will brief you on your exciting itinerary including important tips before heading out to the bush the following day.
Tulia Boutique Hotel and Spa
Tarangire National Park
Day 2
After breakfast, we set off for Tarangire National Park with our picnic lunch. Explore the open wilderness with the highest concentration of elephants in North – Tanzania. Witness an unforgettable natural wonder as you observe exotic mammals such as lions, giraffes, buffaloes, wildebeests, zebras, pumbas and various types of antelopes such as gazelles. With more than 500 bird species including Maasai Ostrich, the world’s largest bird on earth, and numerous raptors, Tarangire National Park is the paradise for the bird lovers. At the end of the day we will head to our accommodations at the Baobob Tented Camp where you can freshen up, and enjoy the sunset, dinner, and evening leisure.
Baobob Tented Camp
Lake Manyara Bike Excursion & Game Drive
Day 3
Today, we proceed to Mto Wa Mbu village located 5min drive from Manyara National Park entry gate. Experience nature up close while staying active - At Mto Wa Mbu, a local guide will collect you for the biking adventure to Lake Manyara. The bike ride takes 30min one-way on a flat bumpy road.
With more than 100 tribes at this developed village, get to learn about the local life by visiting the famous Makonde tribe, the wood artist and make something for yourself. Through the bike ride in the banana plantation, you may like to know more about the banana beer and it’s fermentation process...trying it at one of the local pubs won’t harm you! After all the activities in the village, enjoy verities of our local dishes served in a buffet. The lunch will be served at a unique venue that is actually the extension of a local resident’s kitchen. It combines a form of community economic development served by a local resident who transformed her kitchen into a business After lunch, continue to the park, which is located 5min drive from the village. The park is green throughout the year because of its underground water sources. Its verdant color attracts hundreds of spectacular varieties of migratory and wetland birds flying overhead. It also attracts large troops of baboons, velvet monkeys, blue monkeys, lions, hippos, giraffes, zebras, buffalos, warthogs, impalas, and gazelles. Leopards, cheetahs, rock/tree hyrax, kudus, elands, bushbucks, waterbucks, and dik-diks also live in this park.
At sunet we will arrive at Endoro Lodge in Karatu, whre you be able to freshen up, and enjoy the sunset, dinner, and evening leisure.
Endoro Lodge
Serengeti National Park
Day 4
After breakfast, we set off for the Serengeti National Park via the lush Ngorongoro Crater Highlands whose fertile soils nurture wheat, corn, and coffee. Following a picnic lunch, there is an optional visit to the Olduvai Gorge.
The site holds a small museum that documents the Leakey’s groundbreaking archaeological work. Next we enter the UNESCO designated Serengeti National Park with its endless expanse of savanah inhabited by diverse community of wildlife. As we drive through the park to our accommodations we will be game driving, searching for the 'big five, (buffalo, lion, leopard, elephant and rhinocerous) In addition you are sure to see giraffes, raptors, hippos and numerous species of antelope.
As the sun sets we arrive at you accommodatons at the Thorn Tree Tented Camp just in time for dinner and a great nights sleep.
Thorn Tree Tented Camp
Central Serengeti
Day 5
Today is dedicated to game drives in the Central Serengeti National Park. We get an early start as we set off before sunrive for a dawn game drive to view the morning activities of central Serengeti wildlife. Upon returning to camp, enjoy a hearty breakfast and some leisure time before setting off on a full-day game drive. We descend into the heart of wild Africa with it's endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the Seronera river area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. The Seronera river provides a valuable water source to this area that attracts a diverse community of indigenous wildlife. Mid-day we will enjoy a picnic lunch in this unbelievable setting. After lunch we will continue our game drive in search of lion, cheetah, leopard, giraffe, elephant, buffalo, antelopes and birdlife.
Thrilled with a day’s exciting views, at sunset we will return to the Thorn Tree Tented Camp for dinner and evening leisure.
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
Day 6
After a filling breakfast, depart for your final Serengeti National Park game drive and yet more heart-stopping wildlife sighting opportunities! In the afternoon you’ll enjoy a picnic lunch before setting off for the natural wonder that is the Ngorongoro Crater. Upon arriving at the Crater, you will stand on the rim and gaze a spectacular half mile down to the Crater floor and out over its 100 square mile expanse.
Following a picnic lunch, there is an optional an hour’s walk along the Crater rim accompanied by an Ngorongoro Crater ranger. Following this preview to tomorrow's descent into the Crater, we proceed to our accommodations at the Ang'ata Tented Lodge for dinner and evening leisure.
Ang'ata Tented Camp
Ngorongoro to Airport
Day 7
After breakfast, you’ll travel to the Ngorongoro Crater and descend to its floor for a half-day of exciting game viewing. Waiting for you are a remarkable selection of its 25,000 wildlife inhabitants! The Crater is a unique ecosystem of grass steppe and Acacia forest inhabited by the Big Five, (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinocerous and buffalo) as well as flamingo, zebra, hippo, wildebeest, cheetah, and many more.
Following a picnic lunch, prepare to leave these otherworldly vistas. You will be taken to the airport where we will part with a heart and soul filled with memories that will last a lifetime!