Day 1 Arival Arusha

Your guide will be collecting you on arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport. (1 hour drive from Kilimanjaro Airport and 30 minutes’ drive from Arusha Airport

You’ll be taken to your accommodation just outside Arusha. Standing at an altitude of 1390m, the town is surrounded by fertile land that yields Coffee, Wheat and maize to the people of the Waarusha and Wameru tribes. It is one of Tanzania’s most attractive and lively towns.

Stay overnight at Four Points Arusha Hotel with bed and breakfast (BB) – www.fourpointsthearushahotel.com

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Day 2 Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park 

This morning you are heading off in a four wheel drive safari vehicles with picnic lunch boxes. Your Tanzanian driver/guide will take you across the Great Rift Valley. Oneof the earth’s most dramatic natural features, it stretches from the Dead Sea in Jordan to Mozambique in the South. This huge depression is up to 100km wide in places and hosts an enormous diversity of animal and plant life.

Today’s route leads through the ancestrallands of the Maasai, probably the best known tribe in Africa, to the village of Mto wa Mbu. Here there may be an opportunity to browse in the bustling market before the final short drive to the National Park. During your game drives in Lake Manyara National Park you may be lucky enough to see the Park’s major attraction the tree‐climbing Lions ‐ though there’s obviously no guarantee of this! There are plenty of other things to see: Elephant, Hippo and plains game as well as a huge variety of bird life, both resident and migratory.

Dinner and overnight stay at either

1. Accommodation 1 - Bougainvillea Safari Lodge - 

2. Accommodation 1 - Bougainvillea Safari Lodge - 

3. Accommodation 3 - Lake Manyara Serena Lodge - www.serenahotels.com

Day 3 Manyara or Karatu - Serengeti National Park for game driving via Olduvai Gorge Museum

This morning you’ll continue past Ngorongoro Crater to Olduvai Gorge Museum enroute. Olduvai Gorge is made famous by the anthropological Leakey family; this anthropologist’s dream is where the origins of man are said to have emerged. This famous archaeological site is where some of the oldest humanoid skeletons have been discovered. You’ll have an opportunity tovisit the small museum that exhibits many of the fossils and relics from the area.

After your visit to the Olduvai Gorge you will continue your journey to the Serengeti. Established in 1951, the Serengeti is renowned for the annual migration that takes place across the savannah – thousands upon thousands of animals as far as the eye can see. Enjoy the afternoon game drives in the Serengeti.

Dinner and overnight stay either:

1.  Accommodation 1 – Thorn Tree Lodge – www.thorntreecamp.com within the Serengeti

2. Accommodation 2 - Serengeti Sopa Lodge –  within the Serengeti

3. Accommodation 3 - Serengeti Serena Lodge – www.serenahotels.com within the Serengeti

Day 4 Full day in the Serengeti game viewing

You will enjoy a full day game drive in the Serengeti. Exploring the sweeping grassy plains, rocky outcrops (Kopjes) and sparsely wooded river valleys of this incomparable Park where Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, Wildebeest, Zebra, Giraffe, Gazelle and perhaps even Wild Dogs can be seen. You’ll usually drive out in search of game in the early morning and return by mid or late afternoon.

Dinner and overnight stay either:

1.  Accommodation 1 – Thorn Tree Lodge – www.thorntreecamp.com within the Serengeti

2. Accommodation 2 - Serengeti Sopa Lodge – www.sopalodges.com  within the Serengeti

3. Accommodation 3 - Serengeti Serena Lodge – www.serenahotels.com within the Serengeti

Day 5 The Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Conservation Area or Karatu Area

After an early morning game drive you have the option of enjoying a brunch or go on a Balloon flight followed by a Champagne breakfast (*pre‐book at extra cost). You’ll leave the Serengeti, and retrace your route back to the Ngorongoro Crater, a vast volcanic caldera that offers tremendous game‐viewing opportunities.

Tonight you’ll sleep on the Rim of the World’s largest Crater ‐ designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site ‐ from where there’s a fabulous unimpeded view down into the Crater, or at Karatu Area

Dinner and overnight at either:

1. Accommodation 1 - Bougainvillea Safari Lodge -  at Karatu area

2. Accommodation 2 - Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge – www.sopalodges.com which overlooks the Crater

3. Accommodation 3 - Ngorongoro Serena Lodge – www.serenahotels.com which overlooks the Crater

Day 6 Ngorongoro Crater - Tarangire National Park

Today you embark on an unforgettable safari into the Crater. Ngorongoro is one of the most picturesque settings for observing wildlife. With around 30,000 resident animals, the game viewing is excellent all year round and the photographic opportunities are unrivalled! Encounters with animals are frequent in this Garden of Eden, and there is a wide variety to see. Lake Magadi, the soda lake on the floor of the Crater, is home to thousands of Flamingos.  This is also one of the best places to see the endangered Black Rhino.

You will be served your picnic lunch in the Crater before heading to Tarangire National Park, one of Tanzania's less visited places for dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight at either:

1. Accommodation 1 – Sangaiwe Tented Lodge - www.sangaiwe.com – outside the Park

2. Accommodation 2 - Tarangire Sopa Lodge – www.sopalodges.com – inside the Park

3. Accommodation 2 - Tarangire Sopa Lodge – www.sopalodges.com – inside the Park

Day 7  Full day game viewing in Tarangire National Park

Today you’ll enjoy full day game viewing in Tarangire National Park, established in 1970, it takes its name from the Tarangire River, a permanent watercourse that cuts a swathe through the middle of the Park, allowing fantastic views along the valley.  On approaching the Park however, the most eye-catching aspect is the view of baobab trees rising from the plain.  These trees are instantly recognizable by the leafless branches that protrude from their crown – almost as if they were the roots of a tree that was planted upside down.

The scars on their trunks bear witness to the presence of large herds of Elephant that Tarangire attracts.  The largely forested areas and high grasses most of the year make game viewing harder than on the short grass plains of the Serengeti, but during the dry months (Jul-Sep) large numbers of animals congregate along the banks of the river.  As well as Elephant it’s possible to see Wildebeest, Buffalo, Zebra, Thompson's Gazelle, Eland and Hartebeest, as well as Leopard - if you’re exceptionally lucky. 

Later drive back to your Lodge for dinner and overnight stay

Dinner and overnight at either:

1. Accommodation 1 – Sangaiwe Tented Lodge – www.sangaiwe.com -outside the Park

2. Accommodation 2 - Tarangire Sopa Lodge – www.sopalodges.com – inside the Park

3. Accommodation 2 - Tarangire Sopa Lodge – www.sopalodges.com – inside the Park

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Day 8 Tarangire National Park - Arusha before flying to Zanzibar

After a leisure breakfast, drive back to Arusha Airport on time to connect your flight to Zanzibar

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Day 9-12 Zanzibar

You will be spending the days at Zanzibar on your own. It is also possible to book excursions such as

• Snorkling in Nungwi or Mnemba Island

• Visit to Stone Town

• Visit to herb plantation

• Visit the Jozani Forest to see the red colobus monkey

Ask us about excursions on Zanzibar.

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

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Day 13 Journey home

3.5 hours before your flight departure, a pick up at the hotel for transfer to Zanzibar Kisauni Airport in time to catch your flight back home

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