Breakfast

Drive to Ngorongoro Crater arriving in time for early lunch at the lodge

After lunch descend down the Ngorongoro Crater floor for half day crater tour.

Ngorongoro Crater is the largest Caldera in the world that has its walls intact. The Ngorongoro Crater floor, a sheer drop of 610 metres below the crater rim, has an area of 304 sq. km, with a diameter of 19 km. The sight of the Ngorongoro Crater is simply stunning. “It is one of the Wonders of the World…” once wrote Professor Bernhard Grzimek. The crater floor is home to tens of thousands of plains animals, including wildebeest, zebra, gazelles, elands, and a large predator population of lions, hyena and jackal which can all be viewed at close range. The rare black rhino can be viewed here, and if you are lucky you can see cheetah and leopard. The altitude at the crater rim is about 2286 metres above sea level, and temperatures can get quite chilly in the evening

Late afternoon ascend to the rim where you will spend your night

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro

Early breakfast

With lunch boxes drive to Serengeti National Park

Afternoon enjoy game drives in Serengeti National Park en route to your lodge

The park covers 5,700 sq miles, (14,763 sq km), The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth.

The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.

It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow from the Northern hills to the Southern plains for the greener pastures. The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti

Breakfast

Full day game drives in Serengeti National Park

Meals and overnight at Serengeti

Early breakfast

Collect picnic lunch boxes and drive to Lake Manyara National Park

Afternoon game drives in Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara National Park has a total area of 330 sq km, the ground water forest, open grassland, acacia woodland and the rift wall. The most famous spectacle in the park is the tree-climbing lions, which are occasionally seen along branches of acacia trees. Other animals found in the park include buffalo, elephants, leopards, baboons, impala, giraffes, zebra, wildebeest, ostrich and hippos. Popularly referred to as an ornithologist’s paradise, Lake Manyara National Park contains over 400 recorded bird species found in most savanna and river habitats in East Africa. Common water birds to be seen here are pelicans, spoonbills, Egyptian geese, hammer kops and the migratory flamingoes, which arrive in hundreds of thousands creating one of Africa’s great natural sights over the soda lake.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara

Breakfast

Drive to Tarangire National Park

Lunch at the lodge in Tarangire

After a short siesta enjoy afternoon game drives in Tarangire Park

Tarangire National Park has an area of 2,850 sq. km. The principal features of the park are the flood plains and the grassland, mainly comprising of various types of acacia trees, and a few scattered baobabs, tamarind and the sausage trees.

The Tarangire River, after which the park is named, provides the only permanent water for wildlife in the area. The most common animals found in the park include zebras, wildebeest, lions, leopards, waterbucks, giraffe, elephants, gazelles, impala, gerenuk, lesser kudu and the beautiful fringe-eared oryx. You may be lucky to spot the tree-climbing python, for which the park is famous, or the greater kudu and the roan antelope which are rare species in Northern Tanzania. Over 550 bird species have been recorded in the Park.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire

After breakfast drive back to Arusha

Lunch at a restaurant and then transferred to the airport for your departure flight or dropped at the hotel