7 Days Safari: Central Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, and Materuni

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, our driver-guide will welcome you and transfer you to your lodge in Arusha. Nestled near the airport, Arusha is the gateway to Tanzania’s famed safari circuit, offering cultural interactions, hiking, and sightseeing opportunities. Enjoy your first night in Tanzania at Tulia Boutique & Spa Hotel.

After breakfast with picnic lunches short briefing then start a drive to Tarangire national park for a full day game drive.

During Tarangire's dry season, day after day of cloudless skies seem to suck all moisture from the landscape, turning the waving grasses to blonde like colour. The Tarangire River is a symbol of itself, just a big source of water depended with wildlife. Thirsty antelope and elephant who run from dryness to Tarangire's permanent water source.

Herds of nearly three hundred strong elephants dig in the damp earth of the riverbed in search of underground springs, while wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, and gazelles mingle with rarer species such as eland and Oryx around each shrinking lagoon.

Pythons climb into the shade of the trees that line Tarangire's massive southern swamps and hang their coils neatly arranged over the branches in a perfect sphere. Tarangire in the dry season enjoys the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem.

Tarangire' huge herds of elephant rival the park's giants, squat baobab trees as its most celebrated feature - ancient matriarchs, feisty young bulls and tiny, stumbling calves are ever present to fascinate visitors with their grace, intelligence and majesty.

The best time to visit Tarangire for wildlife viewing or walking is the dry season, June-October. Return to Arusha at Tulia Boutique & Spa hotel for dinner and overnight.Accommodation: Sangaiwe Tented Lodge.

Today you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a morning game drive. Lake Manyara National Park is the smallest park compared to other Tanzania’s parks. At only 330 km2 it fits neatly into the Great Rift Valley. This park is often overlooked and underrated by so many people who got the chance to visit it. The shallow alkaline lake is often covered by resident flamingos and whatever the park lacks in size it makes up for in diversity. Large herds of buffalos and zebras wander on the plains,

At a time, convenient to you, you will depart from the park and make your way towards your lodge.

What to do, learn and witness at Lake Manyara National Park.

• Hot Springs
• Soda Lake
• Different bird species

Accommodation: Kudu Lodge

After breakfast with picnic lunches enjoy the morning game drive in central Serengeti, in the afternoon drive back to the camp for hot lunch then continue with the game until sunset.

Serengeti is the oldest and most popular national park. Its name means ‘endless plain’ in the Masai language (Siringet). It is from here that massive concentrations of wildebeest, zebras and other animals start the annual Great Migration in search of pastures, providing one of the greatest natural spectacles to be found anywhere in the world. You can watch lions stalking the migrating herds, spot leopards at rest in trees at dusk and take a hot-air balloon tour at dawn as the sunrises.

You will be hosted at the Four Seasons Serengeti located in the Central Serengeti. On arrival you will be escorted to Reception, given a short safari briefing, before being shown your room. There is a wealth of resident game as well as the opportunity to experience the famous Migration, depending on the time of year that you are travelling. We recommend 2 game drives a day, in the morning and also as the day cools in the afternoon. Return to the hotel for meals and the opportunity to relax and really soak in the African bush then continue with the game till sunset return to the hotel for dinner and overnight at Serengeti tortilis camp.

Accommodation: Serengeti Tortilis Camp.

After breakfast with picnic lunches enjoy the morning game drive in central Serengeti then start a drive to the Ngorongoro conservation area enjoy the game drive en route and pass to Olduvai Gorge for historical site, reach Ngorongoro and check in to your accommodation for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

After breakfast and check out – depart with a packed lunch descend into the crater itself. Ngorongoro Crater is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest un-flooded and unbroken caldera in the world.  About 20 Km across, 600 meters deep and 300 square Km in area. Other important features found in the Ngorongoro crater are the archaeological site located at Olduvai Gorge and the early human foot-prints that were discovered. Because of these particular features and the harmonious co-existence between wildlife and people that has existed for many years, Ngorongoro Conservation Area was accorded the status of a World Heritage Site. The high walls of the crater itself, serve as a natural enclosure for an abundance of wildlife. There is a large resident population of varied ground game with the very real chance of you being able to see the “big five’.  Among the important birds Egyptian Vulture, which make their home in the highest of the crater wall, which appears on the plains after rains and Greater Flamingos which are spasmodic visitors to the crater lakes.

At a time, convenient to you, you will ascend the Crater and make your way to Arusha.

Accommodation: Tulia Hotel & Spa

There’s more to Tanzania than scenery and wildlife. Our country is home to more than 120 fascinating tribes. There’s more to Tanzania than spectacular scenery and amazing wildlife.

If you are interested in learning more about these tribes and cultures it’s possible to spend part of your safari visiting, learning from and interacting with Tanzanians

In Materuni you will get the chance to visit banana farms, hiking along Mountain Kilimanjaro.

After the day at Materuni ends you will be transferred to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for you next international flight back to your home country.

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