1. Safari Duration: 8days/7nights
2. Pick Up and Drop off: Arusha
3. Departure Dates: Daily departures

Accommodation:

This tour is based on accommodation at Ngorongoro Sopa, Tarangire Safari lodge, Serengeti Sopa lodge, Kirurumu Luxury tented camp but several other accommodation alternatives can be arranged to suit your needs.

Itinerary

Day 1
Arrive Kilimanjaro Airport and after clearing customs and immigration formalities, you will be met by our representative and transferred to Arusha.

Overnight on Bed & Breakfast at Impala Hotel

Day 2
After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park arriving in time for lunch and an afternoon of game viewing. Lesser kudu, eland, lion and gerenuk can be found in this beautiful park, noted for its multitude of baobab trees and its tree-climbing lions.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Sopa lodge

Day 3
After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Lunch at the lodge. This afternoon, you will descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the crater for a day crater tour with picnic lunches.

Explore the forest areas that are inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open savannah where the lions hunt for food.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa lodge

Day 4
Drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge, the site of Louis and Mary Leakey’s renowned archaeological discoveries. Their findings include some of the man’s earliest known ancestral remains. Lunch at the lodge in Serengeti.

You will have an afternoon game drive in the endless plains of the Serengeti for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles or a pride of lions lounging in the shade.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa lodge.

Day 5 & 6
Two full days of game viewing in the Serengeti.

The name 'Serengeti' comes from the Maasai language and appropriately means an 'endless plains'. The National Park 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). 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.

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 sculpted by the concerted action of wind, rain and sun. It now varies from open grass plains in the south, savanna 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. The Serengeti plains are host to a dramatic annual migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and numerous other species of animals indigenous to the area

Meals and overnight at Serengeti Sopa lodge

Day 7
Enjoy an early morning game drive, before breakfast. Return to the lodge for late breakfast. Enjoy a mid morning and then depart to Ngorongoro Highlands. Lunch at Gibbs Farm or similar. Afternoon visit to the waterfalls.

Dinner and overnight at Kirurumu tented camp in Manyara

Day 8
After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree climbing lions, flamingos and other varieties of birdlife. Lunch at Lake Manyara.

After lunch, drive back to Arusha and proceed to Kilimanjaro for departure flight in the evening.

End of services

Cost includes:
-Ground transportation with an English speaking driver/guide or naturalist guide
- Olduvai museum visit – where applicable
- Park entrance fees
- Full board accommodation on safari
- Service of an English speaking driver guide
- Driver allowances and park fees for vehicle and driver
- Game drives as per the Itinerary
- Government taxes

Excludes:
- Extras at the lodges i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry etc.
- International flight
- Departure tax
- Tips to porters and drivers

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