DAY 1: Airport – Arusha
Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport, your driver will be met by your driver and transferred to Tulia Lodge in Arusha for dinner and overnight. Settle into your accommodation, ready to start your safari properly in the morning. If time permits, a complimentary town tour can be arranged.
Main Destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Tulia Lodge in Arusha
DAY 2: Arusha – Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, you drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a nature walk at the edge of the Rift Valley Rim and Woodlands of Acacia with an Army Ranger. This is a great opportunity for you to learn about different plants with their medicinal uses, animal tracks, insects, and flowers, and to see flamingos in Lake Manyara and other animals. It awakens your senses, as you become part of the wilderness. After a few hours, you hop into the safari vehicle and continue with a game drive. In this small, beautiful park with a dense forest, you can spot lots of monkeys, giraffes, elephants, impalas, hippos, and flamingos, and if you are lucky you may spot the rare tree-climbing lions. In the late afternoon, you drive to Country Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Tulia Lodge in Arusha
Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
DAY 4: Karatu – Central Serengeti
Depart this morning for a game drive in the central part of the Serengeti. This part is famous for the abundance of lions and leopards that can usually be seen quite easily. Game viewing in this central area is spectacular all year round. Enjoy views of endless plains and stunning wildlife like cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, hippos, ostriches, aardvarks, pangolins, and many more. Dinner and overnight will be at Serengeti Domel Camp.
Accommodation: Serengeti Domel Camp
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
DAY 5: Central Serengeti–North Serengeti following the migration
After breakfast, you drive to the northern part of the Serengeti for a game drive along the Mara River. Depending on rainfall, the spectacular crossings of the Mara River can begin as early as June or as late as August. The wildebeest and zebras must survive the Nile crocodiles and fast-flowing water before facing the lions waiting on the other side. This time of year game viewing is sensational, impressive, and dramatic. All your meals will be at Domel Tented camp in Kogatende.
Main Destination: Central Serengeti National Park
Accommodation: Domel Tented camp
DAY 6: North Serengeti
Rise early for a morning game drive along the Mara River. It is truly an amazing experience to see all those hoofed mammals searching for water and greener pastures, followed by iconic predators. A journey full of danger where only the strongest survive. You may also see hippos, lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, and if you are lucky the endangered black rhino. After the afternoon game drive, you head back to Domel Mara River Camp for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Domel Mara River Camp
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
DAY : Serengeti to Ngorongoro Cons. Area
After breakfast, you will embark upon another incredible game drive in The Serengeti before traveling to the Ngorongoro Crater. Arriving at the edge of the crater in the afternoon, you will have your first glimpse of what awaits you the following day – glistening streams, open grassland, and an infinite number of animals. You will spend the night at a nearby lodge on the rim of the crater.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Cons. Area
Accommodation: Domel Mara River Camp
DAY 8: Ngorongoro crater –Tarangire
Today you set off towards the Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive with picnic lunch. It shelters close to 20.000 animals, including the Big Five. The crater teems with zebras, buffaloes, lions, wildebeest, warthogs, baboons, elephants, flamingos, ostriches, hippos, cheetahs, and a small population of the rare black rhino. The beautiful colors and dancing clouds make the crater almost surreal. Because of its natural beauty, the Ngorongoro Crater is chosen as one of Africa’s Seven Natural Wonders. In the late afternoon, you drive to Sangaiwe Tented Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
DAY 9: Tarangire National Park
Enjoy a game drive in Tarangire National Park with picnic breakfast. This lovely park boasts the largest concentrations of elephants in the world and the highest number of breeding bird species. Especially during the dry season, Tarangire National Park is packed with wildlife. Big cats like lions, cheetahs, and leopards, but also the seldom-seen Kudu, Oryx, and Gerenuk. If you are lucky you can even spot the tree-climbing python. Return to the lodge for dinner. In the evening you depart for a night game drive in the park. Discover nocturnal animals like porcupines, pangolins, aardvarks, and others. Overnight will be at
Sangaiwe tented lodge.
Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
DAY 10: Tarangire -Arusha
On this last day of your safari, you drive back to Arusha for lunch and then continue to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your departure.
No Accommodation