4 NIGHTS / 5 DAYS SERENGETI, NGORONGORO AND LAKE MANYARA

08:00 Hrs – Commence your safari driving from Arusha to Ngorongoro. Arusha is a city in northern Tanzania with a projected population of 1,288,088. Situated at the foot of Mount Meru, the City is on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, Arusha has a temperate climate.

19:30 Hrs – Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro

07:00 Hrs –Breakfast

08:00 Hrs– Half day Crater game drive with picnic lunch.

The Ngorongoro crater is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located 210 km west of Arusha. Known as ‘the eighth wonder of the world’ the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife arenas. 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.

19:30 Hrs -Dinner and overnight in Serengeti.

The travel time/distance is approximately (3Hrs / 145 kms).

07:00 Hrs – Breakfast

08:00 Hrs – Go for game drive in Serengeti National park.

The Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value. With more than two million wildebeests, half a million Thomson’s gazelles, and a quarter million zebras, 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 and appropriately 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.

Dinner and Overnight in Serengeti.

06:00 Hrs – Breakfast

07:00 Hrs – Game drive in Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch.

A unique combination of diverse habitats enables it to support more than 30 species of large herbivores and nearly 500 species of birds. Its landscape, originally formed by volcanic activity, has been sculptured by the concerted action of wind, rain and sun. It now varies from open grass plains in the south, savannah with scattered acacia trees in the center, hilly, wooded grassland in the north, to extensive woodland and black clay plains to the west. Small rivers, lakes and swamps are scattered throughout. In the south-east rise the great volcanic massifs and craters of the Ngorongoro Highlands. Each area has its own particular atmosphere and wildlife.

19:00 Hrs – Dinner and overnight in Karatu.

The travel time/distance is approximately (4.5Hrs / 205 kms)

07:00 Hrs – Breakfast

08:00 Hrs – Game drive at the Manyara National park.

Lake Manyara National Park offers a wilderness experience rich in diverse habitats, from its Rift Valley soda lake to its dense woodlands and steep mountainsides. Apart from a spectacular setting, the park is famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds it was established to protect. The shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds, many of them waterfowl or migrants. Large herds of buffalo, cheetah, Masai giraffe and impala roam the lake shores and the forested valley slopes, although in abundance, are hard to get a glimpse of, just like the other elusive carnivores – the lions – of this park.

12:00 Hrs – After lunch, return to Arusha for you flight back home.

The travel time/distance is approximately (2.5Hrs / 130 kms).