Day 1: Zanzibar – Kilimanjaro / Arusha Airport 1hr
Upon arrival at Airport, clear all the airport formalities you will meet our representative for the transfer to your hotel overnight at Planet Lodge FB
https://www.google.com/search?q=planet+lodge+arusha
Note: You may arrive at anytime
Optional activities
– City tour
– Museums
– Souvenir store
– Boating
– Chemka Hot Springs
Day 2: Arusha – Tarangire National Park 2h30
After breakfast drive to Tarangire National Park for a game drive.
Tarangire is one of the best parks in Tanzania, offering some extraordinary sights. Normally, in the dry seasons, the Tarangire River becomes a reliable water solution for many animals and is a permanent source of water.
Tarangire is known and famous for its large elephant concentration, baobab trees, and beautiful landscapes, you expect to see heads of, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, hippos, baboons, many and antelopes. For bird watchers, Tarangire is the place where over 400 bird species have been recorded in this park, which includes also the rare species animals like Greater Kudu, wild dogs & fringed Eared Oryx are also among rare animal species found in this amazing park.
Predators like lions, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals, and leopards are also found in this park. Tarangire National Park forms the central annual migratory cycle within Tarangire and Lake Manyara ecosystem, including more than, 25,000 wildebeests, and about 30,000 zebras. Dinner and overnight at Lake Burunge Tented Lodge FB
https://www.google.com/search?q=burunge+tented+lodge
Optional activity,
– Night safari
– Walking safari
– Hot air balloon
Day 3: Tarangire – Lake Manyara National Park 2h30
After breakfast, collect lunch boxes then depart to Lake Manyara National Park, and perform a full-day game drive in the park.
Manyara national park is situated to the north of Tanzania, to the steep western wall of the rift valley, Manyara is home to an underground water forest which makes it green all year round, it is also part of a world biosphere reserve with an area of 325 kilometers square. The Park is renowned for its tree-climbing lions, olive baboons, herds of elephants, buffaloes, Zebras, Wildebeests, Giraffes, Hippos, and klipspringer not to mention more than 450 species of birds including flocks of flamingos and stocks that can be found in this park. Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s trees inn FB
https://www.google.com/search?q=eleens+trees+in+karatu
Optional activities
- Local market around karatu
- Treetop walkway
- Cultural tour
Day 4: Karatu – Serengeti National Park 4 hours
After breakfast, you will depart with picnic boxes from Karatu to Serengeti National Park via Ngorongoro Conservation Area with an en-route game drive, followed by an afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park.
The name Serengeti is derived from the Maasai word *Siringeti* which means endless plains due to the southern grass plains which seem to no end with the scene of the concentration of wildebeest and zebras during the great migration, this park is famous and one of the largest national parks in Tanzania with an area of 14,763 square km, Serengeti is a home for an abundance of wildlife and is one of the few parks where you can spot the big 5 and many carnivores together with birds of prey. Enjoy the day at the plains of the Serengeti national park then dinner and overnight at Pure Serengeti tented lodge FB.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pure+tented+camp&
Optional activity,
– Visit the Maasai village
– Hot air balloon safari
Day 5: Serengeti – Serengeti [Full Day]
Enjoy a day of a photo safari in the Serengeti National Park plains with packed lunch boxes. Dinner and overnight at Pure Serengeti tented lodge FB
Day 6: Serengeti – Ngorongoro Conservation Area, 3 hours
Today you will depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with picnic boxes for a crater tour. Dinner and overnight at Marera valley lodge FB
Ngorongoro is the multiple land-use areas where the Maasai who are pastoralists share the same ecosystem with wild animals, the area is part of the Serengeti ecosystem in the north and northwest of the Ndutu region were between December and April is the best time to see the calving of wildebeest and zebras. The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken and non-flooded caldera in the world, the main attraction of Ngorongoro is the crater which formed after the large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself and formed a caldera, the caldera is the best place to see many antelopes very close and the big 5 animals but depending on the season.
Day 7: Karatu – Arusha
After breakfast, depart with Karatu-packed lunch boxes to Arusha for the flight, or continue with the schedule you may have