Destinations:
- Tarangire National park
- Lake Manyara National park
- Serengeti wildebeest migration safari
- Ngorongoro crater
Duration: 8 Days Tented Lodge Safari.
Lodges:
- Green mountain hotel
- Africa Safari Glamping
- Thorn tree tented camp
- Serengeti heritage Mara tented camp
- Marera valley lodge
Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro (JRO) Or Arusha Airport (ARK), meet with our Safari representative, pickup and transfer to Arusha,
Accommodation at Green Mountain Hotel-B.
Day 2: Tarangire National park.
After breakfast we drive to Tarangire National park via local Masai homeland.
Tarangire National park is one of the best parks for game viewing in Tanzania.
The park has a natural hydrological regime that ensures year around permanent water. The park is known for it’s Tarangire river and valley, wetlands, rolling hills, rocky outcrops, acacia woodlands.
One of the greatest features and characteristics that sticks in the mind after a visit to Tarangire are the longest living and biggest trees of world, the Baobab trees.
During the dry season the park supports the highest density of elephants of all National parks in Tanzania. The other wildlife found here is lion, cheetah, leopard, buffalo, giraffe, water buck, grants gazelle, greater and lesser kudu, fringe eared oryx, tree climbing pythons, baboons and many wildebeest and Zebras.
Accommodation at Africa Safari Glamping with a nice swimming pool-FB.
Day 3: Drive to Serengeti National park.
After breakfast we head to the Serengeti National park, via Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We will stop at the rim of the crater for a great view of the crater, we make our drive around the crater rim to Serengeti park. Geographical Serengeti is divided into two zones: Eastern-Southern, which is covered with a vast plain made of volcanic ash which was emitted from
Ngorongoro highlands, hence the name “Siringet“ ,a Masai word for endless plain. The second zone, Western-Northern, is woodland and small hills.Accommodation at Thorn tree tented camp-No swimming pool-FB.
Day 4: Drive to Mara River.
Morning game drives en route to Mara River for wildebeest Migration tracking in the north of the Serengeti Park
Accommodation at Serengeti Heritage Mara tented camp.
Day 5: Full day game drive around Mara River for wildebeest migration.
The Serengeti National park is part of the Serengeti ecosystem which boasts the greatest wildlife concentrations of ungulates: more than 1 million wildebeests and nearly half a million zebras annually follow the rains around this eco system, from the plains to the Savannah woodlands, to the Maasai Mara and back to the plains again. This big migration has been described as the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth. We will see lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, gazelle, giraffe, hippos, and many more including birdlife.Accommodation at Serengeti Heritage Mara tented camp.
Day 6: Game drive en route to the central of the park
Today after breakfast we move slowly with game viewing back to the central of the park.
Accommodation at Thorn tree tented camp.
Day 7: Ngorongoro crater.
Early after breakfast we drive to Ngorongoro crater. Descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for game drive.
Ngorongoro is a huge caldera, a collapsed volcano, 265sqkm in size and 610m deep. The Ngorongoro crater is one of the most beautiful wildlife havens in the world. It is a real animal kingdom; here some of Africa’s last black rhinos are still well protected. The black mine lions stalk through the grass, flamingos crowd the Magadi Lake and the giant-tusked elephants are mostly seen along the permanent swamps. Open grass land covers most of the crater floor, turning yellow with wildflowers in June. The Makat soda lake is a great attraction for flamingos and other water birds, while predators hide in the mash to ambush animals that come to drink from the river which feeds the lake. Also on the crater floor are swamps, providing water and habitat for elephant and hippo as well as numerous smaller Creatures such as frogs and snakes.
Lunch in the crater, late afternoon leave the crater and drive to Karatu area outside Ngorongoro Conservation area.
Accommodation at Marera valley lodge with a nice swimming pool-FB.
Day 8: Karatu Area to Airport.
After breakfast, possible to visit a Maasai village to learn their cultures, we will have a stop for lunch, afternoon we drive to Arusha airport or to Kilimanjaro airport and fly home.
