6 Days 5 Nights 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.
Day 2 : Full day in Ngorongoro:
6:00 am – Breakfast 7:00 am – Full-day Crater game drive with picnic lunch. This is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage site, also known as “the eighth wonder of the world”. Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s most popular wildlife sanctuaries. It offers a unique biosphere which has remained virtually unchanged since the beginning 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 : Ngorongoro to Serengeti:
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – En route Game drive to 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 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. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti. Travel time/distance is approximately (3½ Hrs / 140 kms)
Day 4: Full day Serengeti National Park.:
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Full-day Game drive in the Serengeti National Park. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti.
Day 5 : Drive to Tarangire National Park.
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Drive to Tarangire National Park. 1:00 pm – Lunch at Lodge/Camp 2:00 pm – Game Drive at Tarangire National Park. 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 centre, 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. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Tarangire. Travel time/distance is approximately (6 Hrs / 330 kms)
Day 6 : 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)
