Safari Itinerary 2

After breakfast, you drive to Tarangire National Park where your safari starts. This lovely park has large concentrations of elephants and the highest number of breeding bird species. Especially during the dry season, Tarangire National park is packed with wildlife. Big cats like lions, cheetahs, and leopards, but also the seldom seen Kudu, Oryx, and Gerenuk. The Tarangire River draws huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, as well as predators who prey upon them. Later in the afternoon, you drive for dinner and overnight to the tented lodge for dinner and overnight.

In the morning you drive to the farming town Mto wa Mbu for a bike ride to Lake Manyara. Cycle to the lakeshore where there are stunning vistas of the lake, the Rift Valley, and small herds of wildlife. After 2 to 3 hours you hop in the safari vehicle to continue for a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. This park is known for its huge soda lake filled with pink-hued flamingos, a large population of baboons, incredible birdlife, and breathtaking views. You can see giraffes, elephants, hippos, buffaloes, zebras, flamingos, and if you are lucky you spot a tree-climbing lion. In the late afternoon, you drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Early after breakfast, our safari guide will take you to Serengeti National Park, you will arrive in the afternoon and have your lunch at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge. You will spend two days in the park, with one full day Game Drive. Serengeti is the best-known wildlife reserve in the world. Covering 5,700 sq miles, (14,763 sq km), it’s larger than Connecticut. In the southeast portion of the park it contains Ngorongoro Neogene-aged volcanic, and Oldoinyo Lengai “Mountain of God” as it’s known by Maasai indigenous its the only active volcano in the region. Its ecosystem is one of the oldest on the planet, home to the early man who appeared in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. The patterns of life, death, evolution, adaptation, and migration are as old as the hills themselves. The Park is most famous for wildebeest migration. The wildebeest migration is the movement of vast numbers of the Serengeti’s wildebeests (Around a million), accompanied by large numbers of zebra (about 200,000), and smaller numbers of Grant’s gazelle, eland, Thomson’s gazelle, and impala. These move in an annual predictable pattern.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will have a half-game drive at Serengeti, before starting your journey to Ngorongoro. The journey takes 2:30 min (113.0 km) driving.

After an early breakfast, depart with a picnic lunch and drive to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive. Animals in the Ngorongoro crater include pride of lions, clans of hyenas, packs of jackals, crashes of hippos, dazzles of zebras, herds wildebeests, bulls of elephants often with incredibly long tusks because of the highly nutritious grass rich in minerals, and many more animals. It is also the best place to spot the rare black rhino. In the late afternoon, you will depart from Ngorongoro to Arusha for your flight back home arrangement.