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You will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Arusha town; you will meet your guide who will brief you on your upcoming trek and do an equipment check to make sure you have all the necessary mountain gear. Gear which is missing can be rented on this day. Overnight at hotel.
For today, you’ll select to visit Tarangire park or Lake Manyara Park. Depending on the time of year, each of those parks offers a special safari experience. Your guide can advise you on which is best to go to during your safari.
If Tarangire park, following an early breakfast, you leave Arusha town for Tarangire National Park, approximate two-hour drive.
Along the way you’ll pass bustling Masai villages and therefore the vast, open plains that became synonymous with images of Africa.
Packed lunch picnic along the way.
Dinner and overnight at Heart & Soul Lodge Manyara.
An early breakfast, as we’ve got an enormous day of exploration and adventure before us!
We’ll begin the day with the scenic drive towards the Serengeti.
Visiting the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Serengeti is one of the best things you can do on safari.
The endless horizons of the savannah grasslands are the perfect backdrop for seeing so many animals. And there’s no better safari image than the sun setting deep red behind a silhouetted acacia tree deep in the Serengeti.
Along the way we will go through the mist-shrouded rainforests of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you would possibly be lucky enough to glimpse Cape buffalo, baboons, or maybe elephants and leopards within the dense undergrowth.
After a delicious lunch at the Serengeti Park picnic ground, it’s time to explore the Serengeti itself. Witness Africa’s iconic savannah landscape and be amazed by the sheer number of animals that roam these grassy plains.
The Maasai Boma is an important cultural symbol in East Africa’s Maasai culture. It is a traditional homestead or settlement, is the centre of Maasai social and cultural life, encapsulating centuries of traditions, values, and rituals. A Maasai Boma is a traditional village inhabited by the Maasai people, an indigenous ethnic group mostly living in Tanzania and Kenya. The Maasai are well known for their rich cultural heritage, distinctive dress, and pastoral lifestyle cantered on livestock herding. A typical Maasai Boma comprises numerous small shelters, or kraals, built out of mud, sticks, and cow dung to protect their family and cattle.
We reach the Serengeti in the afternoon in time for an afternoon game drive until late evening
Dinner and overnight within the heart of the Serengeti Park at Robin Serengeti Camp
You’ll wake before dawn to take part during a sunrise game drive. The sun sets fire to the savannah, you’ll have the simplest opportunity to ascertain predators in action, as they cash in of the low light and cooler temperatures, for an early morning meal. It’s a perfect time to ascertain sitings of lions, leopards, and cheetahs in action. Also, due to the early morning movements of the wildebeest, zebra, and other herbivores.
Alternatively, you’ll wish to rise to the skies with a sunrise hot air balloon safari and champagne breakfast. The balloon safari is an additional activity, a once during a lifetime experience to your safari. If you would like we will add it for extra cost $550$.
After your unforgettable morning, you’ll return to your lodge for a late breakfast and to shower before hitting the road again with a picnic lunch. Your driver will select the simplest possible route, based upon the time of year, and therefore, as per the animals you’d wish to see
The day will be catered to you, to ensure that your opportunities to spot all of the Serengeti’s diverse wildlife are maximized.
Today we will head towards the Mara River to see the buffalo crossing the river. The crossings typically occur from July to October when the wildebeest move north from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara, and again during October to November when they head back south. These crossings are fraught with dangers, including fast-flowing waters, steep banks, and predators such as crocodiles and lions.
Dinner and overnight within the heart of the Serengeti Park at Lobo Wildlife Lodge.
After breakfast, we get right the road back towards the Ngorongoro Crater park. Our drive takes us back through the Serengeti via a special route, offering many opportunities to identify the animals that eluded you on day two.
As far because the eye can see, you’ll spot thousands upon thousands of animals in herds in 5 days…Serengeti wildebeest’s migration tour and zebras migrating together, tall and graceful giraffes, jumping antelopes and gazelles, the powerful African elephant and therefore the most respected group of animals: the predators.
You will have the prospect to identify lean cheetahs and shy leopards, foraging hyenas, and last but not least, the king himself; the lion.
Dinner and overnight on the rim of the Ngorongoro Wild Camp. Ngorongoro Wild Camp is located inside Ngorongoro Area about 3-4 hours from Serengeti
After breakfast, you’ll depart for Ngorongoro Crater; considered by some to be the Eighth Wonder of the planet. once you get your first glimpse of this vast, verdant caldera from the panoramic viewpoint, you’ll soon understand why it’s earned such a lofty reputation.
Ngoro Ngoro crater with its 600- to 650-metre-high walls is like a natural zoo, having the highest concentration of wild animals and it is here where you can spot the Big Five in one day, if lucky enough. Home to over 120 species of mammal including the fabled Big Five, the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area is one among the foremost wanted safari destinations within the world.
It’s a very good place to ascertain the endangered Black Rhinoceros enjoying a lonely meal out on the grass plains, also as an area to ascertain large numbers of hippopotamus enjoying the cool water. The crater is home to an outsized number of predators including lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, and hyenas, also as an outsized population of wildebeest, zebras, antelope, Cape buffalo, and more. it’s truly one among Africa’s premier safari destinations.
After the thrills and excitement of the day, you’ll have a picnic lunch by the park’s famous hippo pool then you’ll be transferred to airport for your flight back home or overnight in Arusha town depend upon your flight time.
Dinner and Overnight at Gold Crest Hotel.
After breakfast, transfer to Arusha airport for your flight home leaving with your heart full of amazing memories.
Unless, you plan an extension to Zanzibar…
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Group minimum 06
Rates:
Solo Traveller – on request
01-02 pax EUR2400 per person
03-06 pax EUR2220 per person
07-10 pax EUR2060 per person
11-15 pax EUR1950 per person
Accommodation shared
Optional activities for during your stay: Hot Air Ballooning – USD599 for 2 hours, per person
30% payment required on booking
Remaining payments can be done in 2 instalments with the final payment, 2 weeks before departure.
Cancellation fees apply – for further details see:
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Arusha
View of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, lies just three degrees south of the equator and is permanently snow-capped.
The BIG 5 all in one area – The Big Five animals are the leopard, lion, elephant, rhinoceros and cape buffalos.
Ngoro Ngoro Crater – The world’s largest caldera.
Mto Wa Mbu Village
Maasai Bomas