Day-1-Tarangire National Park

You will be picked up from your hotel at 08.00, drive south of Arusha City and on to Tarangire National Park arriving in time for lunch. Afternoon your first encounter with wildlife, you will have a game viewing drive in the Tarangire famous for its high concentration of Elephants and giant baobab trees. The Tarangire National Park is located between the meadows of Masai Steppe to the south east and the lakes of the Great Rift Valley to the north and west. It occupies an area of 2,600 square kilometers. The Tarangire River takes over the northern part of Tarangire. The River flows upwards up to when it leaves the corner of the park, in the North West flowing into Lake Burunge. There are a number of wide swamps which dry into green plains during the dry season in the south.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire View Camp or Similar.

Day-2-Exploring Tarangire National Park.

Full day game viewing drive in the Park. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while  migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It’s 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. During the rainy season, the seasonal visitors scatter over a 20,000 sq km range until they exhaust the green plains and the river calls once more. But Tarangire’s mobs of elephant are easily encountered, wet or dry.
The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world.

Meals and overnight at Tarangire View Camp or Similar.

Day-3-Lake Manyara National Park – Ngorongoro Crater.

You may have an option for early morning game drive thereafter return to your Camp for breakfast  OR breakfast and continue drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands colourfull specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Even reluctant bird-watchers will find something to watch and marvel at within the national park.  You will have picnic lunch and afternoon drive to the Ngorongoro highland.

Dinner and overnight at Angata Tented Camp or Similar.

Day-4- Exploring Ngorongoro Crater.

You will have an early breakfast or an option to carry picnic breakfast and lunch Descent into the Crater for full game viewing drive. The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest un flooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20kms across, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder.
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera.  Forming a spectacular bowl of about 265 square kilometres, with sides up to 600 metres deep; it is home to approximately 30,000 animals at any one time.  The Crater rim is over 2,200 metres high and experiences its own climate.  From this high vantage point it is possible to make out the tiny shapes of animals making their way around the crater floor far below.  Swathes of cloud hang around the rocky rim most days of the year and it’s one of the few places in Tanzania where it can get chilly at night.

Dinner and overnight at Angata Tented Camp or Similar.

Day-5 and 6- Central Serengeti National Park

After breakfast drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and on to Serengeti National Park with game viewing drive en-route. Options visit to a Maasai Village or the Olduvai Godge  . Olduvai Gorge is a site in Tanzania that holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors. Paleoanthropologists have found hundreds of fossilized bones and stone tools in the area dating back millions of years, leading them to conclude that humans evolved in Africa.. A packed lunch will be served en-route to the Serengeti.

 Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. You will arrive at your Camp late afternoon.

 It is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth - the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive. There’s a wide variety of accommodation available, from luxury lodges to mobile camps. The park covers 9226 sq miles, (14,763 sq km), it’s larger than Connecticut, with at most a couple hundred vehicles driving around. You will arrive at your camp late afternoon.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Katikati Tented Camp or Similar.

Day – 7 & 8- Western corridor

Stretching across to Lake Victoria, the Western Corridor (or West Serengeti) is a remote, little-visited area of the national park famed for the thrilling river crossings of the Grumeti River during the Great Migration between May and July. A huge valley bordered by hills that ends in Lake Victoria, the Western Corridor is made up of open savanna, woodlands, floodplains and riverine forest which are home to a great diversity of year-round wildlife, including elephant, giraffe, hippo, giant Nile crocodiles, rare Black and white Colobus monkeys and the localised kongoni antelope.

Meals and overnight at Mbalageti Lodge or similar.

Day 10 ,11  & 12 – North Serengeti and Mara River Crossing

This morning we depart from the central Serengeti, drive to north Serengeti with game viewing drive en-route, you will enjoy the next 4 days exploring the North Serengeti.

The Northern Serengeti is  located between the Central Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve to the north – is remote and relatively inaccessible, Travelers who make it to this corner of the Serengeti will be rewarded with gorgeous landscapes of green rolling hills, outcrops and acacia woodlands dotting open savanna, incredible wildlife, and most importantly, with massive herds of wildebeest and zebra making dangerous crossing of the crocodile infested Mara River during the Great Migration and the Mara River Crossing that takes place from mid July to Mid October. This sector of the park is also home to the greatest concentration of elephant in the Serengeti, as well as good numbers of lion, leopard, cheetah and hyena and diverse resident animals such as giraffe, topi, eland and hippo.

Meals and overnight at Mara River Tented Camp or Similar.

Day13- Schedule flight to Arusha.

After breakfast you will be transferred to Kogatende Airstrip for a schedule flight to Arusha. On arrival at Arusha Airport you will be met and transferred to Arusha City or you want to connect with a flight to Zanzibar.