In these 6 days, you will take an exceptional trip to Tarangire, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti National Park. You’ll experience some of East Africa’s highlights. You’ll begin in the Tarangire and explore the baobab-dotted plains and elephants marching to the river. You’ll search for the larger tusker elephants in Ngorongoro and the Serengeti Mara ecosystem and explore the great migration looking for water and good grazing areas as African stealthy predators are on the prowl.
You will be picked up from the airport by our representative and conveyed to your accommodation in Arusha where you will stay overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come. Your accommodation Gran Melia Arusha is an oasis of calm and aesthetic pleasure.
After breakfast, your safari will continue to Tarangire National Park. The park consists of natural vegetation mainly of Acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa.
Other animals that might be seen include zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, dik-diks, impalas, eland, Grant gazelles, olive baboons and some predators including lions, caracal and African wild dogs. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals—the greater kudu, the fringed-eared oryx, as well as a few ashy starlings.
You will have lunch inside Tarangire National Park then continue enjoying the wildlife diversity till evening and start a journey to your hotel for relaxation, dinner and your overnight stay.
Today is the day you will set off to Serengeti National Park! You will reach Serengeti National Park by crossing the Ngorongoro Conservation Area after breakfast.
The Serengeti National Park is the most famous park in Tanzania which is known all over the world. It is renowned for its boundless lowlands with great wildlife diversity including the migration of the wildebeests, the pride of lions and the other raiders, such as hyenas, cheetahs, leopards, jackals and crocodiles.
You will stop for lunch inside Serengeti National Park, have little refreshments then continue with animal watching till evening. You'll then go to your hotel for relaxation, dinner and your overnight stay.
The entire day is dedicated to game viewing in the Serengeti National Park. The areas that you visit will depend upon where the migrating herds are. Predators usually follow closely behind the trekking animals and include lions, leopards (in the acacia trees) and cheetahs. During the short rainy season in November and December, the herds move from the hills in the north to the plains in the south. During the longer rainy season from April to June, they return up north. As the migration is completely dependent on the yearly rainfalls, the location of the herds may vary from year to year but your guide will know where to locate the animals and where to see them best. You will spend another night at the lodge.
Rise and shine! After breakfast at daybreak, you will travel back to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area before you drive down into the crater. The massive collapsed volcano is home to over 25,000 mammals ranging from the Big Five (lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard) to spotted hyenas, rare wild dogs and some of the more than 500 bird species of the area. After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch, you will leave the caldera in the afternoon and return to Arusha for an overnight stay.