Day 1 19th June 2024: Arrive Kilimanjaro airport| Transfer Arusha Upon arrival at the Kilimanjaro airport, you will be met by our representative for a transfer to your hotel at Arusha where you are booked for dinner and overnight.
| Destination | Arusha, Tanzania |
| Activities | Arrival| Road Transfer |
| Meal Plan | Half Board (Dinner & Breakfast) |
| Accommodation options | Arusha Serena Hotel |
Day 2 20th June 2024: Arusha| Tarangire National Park Early morning breakfast at your hotel and meet with your safari guide for briefing then with packed lunches depart for Tarangire National Park. Arrive Tarangire for mid-morning game drive of Tarangire National Park. Famed for its large number of elephants and the huge Baobab trees Tarangire also is a home to other cats i.e., the Leopard, the cheetah and the Lion or other wild game 13h00: Lunch at a picnic site at the Tarangire National Park Afternoon game drives as you transfer to the camp or lodge where you are booked
| Destination | Tarangire National Park |
| Activities | Game drives |
| Meal Plan | Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) |
| Accommodation options | Tarangire Safari Lodge |
Day 3 21st June 2024: Tarangire National Park| Lake Manyara Breakfast at the lodge and have a brief morning game drive as you exit Tarangire and transfer to Lake Manyara. Ascend the Great Rift Valley arriving at your lodge overlooking the Lake Manyara for a hot lunch. Afternoon at leisure by the swimming pool or lodges terrace overlooking the lake. Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Serena
| Tarangire National Park measures 1,600 squares miles and is Tanzania’s fifth largest park. The park is named after the Tarangire River that provides the only permanent water for wildlife in the area. The river is a lure for wildlife during the dry season when very big concentrations of elephant, buffalo, wildebeest and zebra flock along its banks. The Tarangire River runs up the center of the park while the gentle rolling hills interspersed with giant baobab trees, open acacia woodlands and seasonal swamps provide a spectacular and picturesque setting. Tarangire National Park is particularly well known for its large population of elephants. In addition to the migrating herbivores including elephant, buffalo, wildebeest and zebra, there are numerous resident animals that remain in the park all year round. Resident herbivores that you will likely encounter are banded mongoose, giraffe, bushbuck, rock hyrax, hartebeest, dik dike, impala, waterbuck, warthog and reedbuck. |
| Destination | Tarangire National Park |
| Activities | Game drives & Road Transfer |
| Meal Plan | Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) |
| Accommodation options | Lake Manyara Serena Lodge |
Day 4 22nd June 2024: Ngorongoro Conservancy| Northern Serengeti National Park Early morning breakfast at the lodge and with packed lunches depart for central Serengeti National Park with optional Masai village or stops at the Oldupai George-an important archaeological site where fossils of mankind are stored (at an extra cost), a further drive with views of the savannah grassland and game drives en-route. 13h00: Lunch at a picnic site on the way to Serengeti. Afternoon transfer to Serengeti National Park, access the park with game drives en-route to the camp or lodge located at central Serengeti for dinner and overnight.
| Destination | Central Serengeti National Park |
| Activities | Game drives |
| Meal Plan | Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) |
| Accommodation options | Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge |
Day 5, 6 and 7 23rd, 24th and 25th June 2024: Central Serengeti National Park (Full Days) These 3 days will be best planned between yourselves and your safari guide, this being herds season you might have the opportunity to see cats hunting while at central Serengeti. Either choosing to do a half or full day game drives in search of more wildlife and depending on what you had seen the previous. 12h30: Lunch either at a picnic site in the park or at the Camp| lodge. Afternoon and evening game drives in search of more herds and later on return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
| Serengeti National Park is an immense park and with its unsurpassed concentrations of wildlife and its vast endless grasslands offers the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth and the annual wildlife migration, largest mass movement of land mammals on planet earth, is perhaps what makes it famous. Over a million wildebeest and zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then go west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. Serengeti, characterized by the endless plains, acacia trees and punctuated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife. Animals present include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs, Serengeti’s essential features of climate, flora and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. |
| Destination | Central Serengeti National Park |
| Activities | Game drives |
| Meal Plan | Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) |
| Accommodation options | Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge |
NB-You can choose to do a balloon safari on any of these 3 mornings while at central Serengeti. For more details on balloon safari visitwww.balloonsafaris.com
Day 8 26th June 2024: Serengeti National Park| Ngorongoro Crater| Lake Manyara Breakfast at the camp or lodge and with packed lunches depart for Ngorongoro Crater. Descend into the crater floor for an extensive game drive of this natural zoo where animals roam freely and are easily spotted while on game drive at the comfort of your car. 12h30: Lunch at a picnic site at the crater rim Afternoon game drive as you ascend the crater and transfer to the lodge located outside the conservancy for dinner and overnight.
| Ngorongoro Crater Area: 8,300 square kilometers / 5,175 square Miles This area covers the world’s largest unbroken caldera namely Ngorongoro crater and the Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Louis Leaky discovered the origin of early man by unearthing jaws of the Zinjanthropus man. This protected area also includes huge expanses of highlands plains and volcanoes, scrub bush, and forests where the indigenous pastoralists – Maasai people are allowed to live within its boundaries. The Ngorongoro Crater is a world heritage site and the world’s largest unbroken volcanic caldera which is often referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. The crater is 610 meters deep and 260km2. Breathtaking views of scenery and game can be witnessed from both the crater rim and within the crater floor. It is estimated that over 25,000 larger mammals, mainly Zebra and Wildebeest, exist within the crater itself. Others include Elephant, Warthog, Impala and Buffalo. A Rhino sighting is a rare possibility but Ngorongoro is your best chance in Tanzania to see the endangered black rhino. Flamingoes and over 100 species of water birds are found at the soda lake on the crater floor. |
| Destination | Ngorongoro Crater |
| Activities | Game drives |
| Meal Plan | Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) |
| Accommodation options | Manyara Serena Safari Lodge |
Day 9 27th June 2024: Optional Cultural Tours| Kilimanjaro airport Breakfast at the lodge and have an optional cultural tour of Mto mbu which gives you the opportunity to interact with the villagers as you learn about the culture either by foot or using a bicycle. This tour gives you the opportunity to visit the banana plantation, rice fields as well the fisherman’s village where you get to see them come from fishing with their catch. Later on, depart for a transfer to Kilimanjaro airport where you will catch your flight home or further holiday destination
| Destination | Lake Manyara & Kilimanjaro |
| Activities | Optional Cultural tours |
| Meal Plan | Half Board (Breakfast & Lunch) |
| Accommodation options | N|A |