8 Days 7 Nights Safari to Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Lake Manyara

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 commences. 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 Crater:

7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game drive starts at the Tarangire National Park. This Park is the sixth largest National Park in Tanzania. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire river that crosses through the park, being the only source of water for wild animals during dry seasons. The swamps are the focus of the largest selection of breeding birds anywhere in the world. The park is also famous for the termite mounds that dot the landscape. Those that have been abandoned are often seen to be home to dwarf mongoose. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Tarangire.

Day 3 : Drive to Serengeti National Park from Ngorongoro:

7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – En route Game Drive to Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch. Travel time/distance is approximately (3½ Hrs / 140 kms) 12:00 pm – Picnic lunch will be served either at Naabi Gate or Olduvai 1:00 pm – Continue with Game Drive until evening 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti

Day 4 : Full day in Serengeti National Park:

7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game Drive in Serengeti National Park with lunch/picnic lunch. 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 which 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

Day 5 : Drive in Serengeti National Park.

7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game Drive in Serengeti National Park with lunch/picnic lunch. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti

Day 6 : drive in Serengeti National Park.

7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game drive in Serengeti National Park 1:00 pm – Lunch/picnic lunch 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti

Day 7 : Drive to Lake Manyara National Park from Serengeti.

7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – En route Game Drive to Lake Manyara National Park for lunch. After lunch go for more game drive. The Park is stretched 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment. Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Famous explorer Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. Lake Manyara National Park covers 127 square miles (329 km2), The Lake’s alkaline waters (with a pH near 9.5) cover approximately 89 square miles (231 km2), though the area and pH fluctuate widely with the seasons, and dry spells expose large areas of mud flats. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzania safari experience from the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle like groundwater forest where hundreds-strong baboon troops lunge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy. Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks. Travel time/distance is approximately (5 Hrs / 230 kms) 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Manyara

Day 8 : 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)