Itineraries

You will be picked up at Arusha Airport and transported to Tarangire National Park for afternoon game drive.

Tarangire National Park lies about 120 kilometers south of Arusha and is one of Africa’s unknown gems. At 2,600 square kilometres, the park has some of the greatest concentrations of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater.

Tarangire’s open plains dotted with thousands of baobab trees truly makes for an incomparable landscape. Another attractive aspect is that there are not nearly as many tourists here as in other Tanzanian parks.

Lake Manyara National Park is one of the smallest but also one of the most ecologically diverse game reserves in Tanzania.

The lake harbours abundant aquatic life ranging from pink flamingos to elegant pelicans. The hippos are commandingly noticeable in the inlets of various rivers and streams that feed the lake with fresh water. At the far southern end of the park are some hot springs, remnants of the vulcanicity the region went through, about a million years ago. The tree-climbing lions of Manyara are extremely popular and they are known to take up their positions particularly during the dry season, on the low-lying branches of the dominant umbrella acacias.

Serengeti National Park site between the Ngorongoro Highlands, Lake Victoria and Tanzania’s northern border with Kenya stretches one of the world’s last great wildlife refuges. The endless plains of the Serengeti lie 330 km North West of Arusha.

The name comes from the Maasai “siringet,” meaning “endless plains”. The Serengeti’s 14,763 km2 contains about three million large animals, most taking part in seasonal migrations, unparalleled in nature.

Twice a year, triggered by the rains, 1.4 million wildebeest, 300,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle gather to undertake the long trek to new grazing lands. The migration of the herbivores roughly defines the boundaries of Serengeti National Park, which is the central zone of the Serengeti ecosystem, an area that also takes in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Reserve, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Maswa Game Reserve in the west. Within this 25,900 km2 of varied landscape live thirty-five species of plains game and 500 bird species. 

Spanning roughly 8,300 sq kms (3,192 sq miles), the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a perfect microcosm of East Africa: it combines spectacular scenery and valuable archeological sites with mountains, forests, grassland plains, extinct volcanoes and a staggering profusion of wildlife.

Living on the floor of the crater are bull elephants, lions, hyena, zebra, wildebeest among others living on the grasslands and acacia forests. The crater also has a soda lake - Lake Magadi, the word magad translates to salt water in Maasai. The lake attracts greater and lesser flamingo and other water birds.

The crater is best known as a highly successful sanctuary for the endangered black rhino.The settings in which you watch the animals are beautiful, the crater is an outstanding place for photography as well as direct observation.

Drive to Arusha Airport for onward connections.