8 Days Ngorongoro and Serengeti safari

Meet our professional guide in Arusha town, who will give you a short safari info briefing, then you will drive to Arusha National Park. This is a beautiful park, and it has an awe- inspiring blend of vegetation which includes swamp, grasslands and mountain slopes of Meru, which are swathed in tropical rainforest.
It’s a unique ecosystem that attracts thousands of animals and birds. You will be accompanied by a ranger who will guide you through the rainforest up to a sparkling waterfall, where you will be able to spot black and white colobus monkeys going about their day.

After lunch at the picnic site, you will have a game drive through a wider scope of the park, including the lake of Momella and the Ngurdoto crater, and you will most likely spot buffalo, waterbuck, giraffe, warthogs, zebra and gazelle as well as a host of different bird species. Late evening, you will drive to the hotel or lodge for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp

Breakfast at the lodge/camp, then you will depart for Tarangire National Park. This park has a lot of migratory movement with the greater Tarangire Ecosystem. The park runs along the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the great valley floor.

Breakfast at the hotel, then you will depart for Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas. Also, this park is beautiful with the main attraction of tree-climbing lions, its elephants and hippos that you can see at closer range than most other places.

Zebra’s Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake and at certain times of the year hosts thousands of flamingoes and a diversity of other birds. The lake and its environment are also home to herbivores such as hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, warthogs and giraffes. Also, the Rift Valley escarpment forms a noteworthy landmark and provides a spectacular backdrop to Lake Manyara. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp

After breakfast, you will drive to the shores of Lake Eyasi, the home of nomadic hunter-gatherer Hadzabe Bushmen. Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro conservation area.

You will be introduced to the extraordinary people tribe that inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi, as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more.

Some wildlife and a wide range of bird species can be viewed during walks around the lake, which can be arranged.

After breakfast, you will drive to Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high-laying farmland of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well-representative of most of the Serengeti’s species.

We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/ camp

You will have another day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water, happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. Afternoon drive to northern Serengeti.

After breakfast, depart to follow the great migration at the Mara River. The game drive will be along the Mara River and other interesting places in the north, where the big groups of wildebeests will be at that particular time. After the game, Afternoon drive to central Serengeti, we will drive to the camp/lodge for evening leisure and a hot dinner.

After breakfast, we descend into this magnificent crater for a half-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals, including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km and is arguably the most stunning arena.

It is frequently described as one of the wonders of the world, not only because of its geological magnificence, but also because it serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s largest populations of large mammals.

Another big draw card to this picturesque park is the dense population of predators, which includes lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You will enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater, after which we will travel back to Arusha, where we will end our African safari adventure.