Tour Overview
If you have four days for safari, this is good itinerary for you! You will visit small-sized but beautiful Lake Manyara National Park, Endless Plains, Serengeti National Park and last Ngorongoro, there are over 25,000 large animals in the crater. You will enjoy three different landscapes and see a lot of wild life in four days.
Full Itinerary
Depart early morning from Arusha with lunch boxes and drive to Lake Manyara National Park, its about 120 Km and takes about 2 hours from Arusha town. Full day game drive and lunch in the park. You will enjoy beautiful view of the park. If we are lucky we see some tree climbing lions! We drive to the lodge around Lake Manyara or Karatu after lunch for dinner and over night. If you wish to do night game drive it is possible in Lake Manyara N.P with additional cost. Please let us know when you make a booking if you would like to do night game drive.
After breakfast we depart for Serengeti with our lunch boxes. We do a game drive while we are heading to Serengeti and we will stop if we see any interesting animals alongside the road. We drive and stop for lunch at the Naabi Hill gate to Serengeti National Park. After Lunch we open the roof of the vehicle for a game drive as we are heading to our lodge for dinner and over night.
OPTIONAL:
On the way to Serengeti there are about 4 Maasai Villages where tourists have opportunities to see. If you are interested in to visit a one with extra cost, we visit and experience the life of the Maasai people.
We have breakfast at around 7am and we leave the lodge with our lunch boxes. We check out of the lodge after breakfast. We do a morning game drive in the plains of the Serengeti, we have good chance to spot some wildlife just getting up and starting to do their daily business! We do a game drive as we are heading to the Naabi Hill gate. We have lunch at the gate and then start to head to Ngorongoro. Dinner and over night stay at the lodge in Ngorongoro.
OPTIONAL
To visit the Olduvai gorge museum at an extra cost of US$ 17 per person.
We have an early morning breakfast and then we check out of the lodge and drive around the crater rim then descend down about 650m to the famous Ngorongoro Crater, one of the 8th wonder of the world. We do a game drive in the crater floor, here we have chances to complete our BIG 5. The rare black rhino, here is the only place to see them and admire this rare species of the BIG 5. Plenty of animals to see, big herds of wildebeest and zebras, lions, cheetahs, hyenas, gazelles antelopes, flamingos at the lake. We have lunch at the picnic site in the crater and after lunch we ascend from the crater and start to head back to Arusha. We arrive in Arusha at around 5 or 6 pm.