6-Day Fantastic Life Time Safari

Pick up from your hotel in Arusha at 0800am and drive on tarmac road 120km to Tarangire National Park (2,850 sq km or 1,005 sq mile’s) for game drives. Lunch Packed. Continue with afternoon game viewing in the park, a home to Lion, Leopard, Elephant, buffalo, Python, Zebra, Oryx, Impala and more. Tarangire is the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed. On drier ground you find the Kori bastard, the heaviest flying bird; the stocking-thigh ostrich, the world's largest bird; and small parties of ground horn bills and turkeys. More ardent bird-lovers might keep an eye open for screeching flocks of the dazzlingly colorful yellow-collared lovebird, and the somewhat drabber Rufus-tailed weaver and ashy starling. Dinner and Overnight at Tarangire Roika Tented Lodge. Meal Plan: {L, D}.

Breakfast at 0600am. Pick up from Lodge at 0700am and drive with lunch box to Lake Manyara National Park (330 sq km or 127 sq mile’s) on the base of the Great Rift Valley, for the Afternoon game drives. Lake Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s bird life. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks. More than 400 species have been recorded.

The park is home to Lion, Hippo, Elephant, Zebra, Buffalo, Giraffe, Baboon, Blue and Vervet monkey, Warthog and more. About 350 species of birds have been recorded. This small park contains also five distinct vegetation zones. Thus supporting a large variety of birds and animals. The Manyara National park is also famous for its large flocks of flamingos. This is a great way to see the park from a new perspective. Dinner and Overnight at Lake Manyara Burudika Lodge. Meal Plan: {B, L, D}.

Breakfast at 0600am. Drive with your Lunch Packed to Serengeti National Park (14,763 sq km) for a game drive via Ngorongoro Crater rim. Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa. The spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-maned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia tree lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. During the months December - April the Wildebeest and Zebra are found in southern Serengeti and the border of Ngorongoro. Dinner Overnight at Serengeti Savannah Tented Camp. Meal Plan: {B, L, D}.

Very early Morning Game drive. Breakfast at 0900am. Continues with afternoon game drives in Serengeti national Park. Remember this is the migration safari so as Serengeti is very large as your game drives will depend on the move of the migrants, your guide knows very well how to locate the herds. The Serengeti National Park is famous for the Great Migration over one million wildebeest and two hundred thousand plus zebras each year follow the rains. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games like elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and it you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting bird life, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. In October and November they travel from the mountains of the north, southwards to the plains seeking lush pastures. Dinner and Overnight at Serengeti Savannah Tented Camp. Meal Plan: {B, L, D}.

Wake up at 0600hours for early morning game drives in Serengeti National Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th world wide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. At around 0900 hours drive back to the camp for breakfast. Then check out and drive with lunch and game viewing en route to Ngorongoro Crater Rim. Optional and extra cost you can visit Olduvai Gorge, in northern Tanzania which internationally recognized for Louis and Mary Leakey’s famous discoveries of early humans and magnificent antiquities documenting the evolutionary history of our stone tool-using ancestors, vertebrate fauna, and the environments over the last two million years. Dinner and Overnight at Rhino Lodge. Meal Plan: {B, L, D}.

Breakfast at 0600am. Thereafter descend into the Ngorongoro Crater floor (19.2 km of diameter, 610m deep, 304 sq km) for game drives. All the Big five Rhino Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Elephant live in this wonderful caldera, others are Zebra, Hippo, Wildebeest, Hyena and more…Birds includes flamingos on the Soda lake, Geese, Storks, Vultures and more.. Break for lunch at Ngoitoktok spring Picnic sites it will be an unforgettable experience. A massive extinct volcano, its towering tree lined walls drop thousands of feet to a "Noah's Ark" of animals on the verdant floor below. This breathtaking oasis provides a haven for both predator and prey to live among grasslands, fresh springs and the large soda lake. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Nowhere else can such a diversity in wildlife be experienced in such a short period of time. Meal Plan: {B, L}.