Day 1: Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park

0800hrs: Depart from Arusha town for a 2.5 hrs drive to Lake Manyara National Park for game drives.

Lake Manyara National Park is a small but scenic safari park, excellent for bird watching and a good area to find elephant, as well as the potential excitement of spotting a legendary Lake Manyara tree-climbing lion.  Lake Manyara is a good soft introduction to the Tanzania safari experience. It is a magical and pretty park that winds its way around a mainly forested driving route between the banks of Soda Water Lake and the impressive rise of the Great Rift escarpment.  Elephant, giraffe, buffalo and wildebeest can be found grazing in unexpected clearings or heading towards the water to drink or wash, and the rivers and riverbeds provide scenic vistas for possible animal spotting.  Warthog thrive here, growing notably fat and tusked, and it is a natural playground for baboons and monkeys. The tree-climbing lion of Lake Manyara inspire extensive theorizing as to the wonders of evolution, and are also notoriously rarely seen.

Dinner and overnight at Migunga Tented Camp.

 

Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park - Ngorongoro Conservancy Area

After breakfast depart Lake Manyara National Park for Ngorongoro Conservancy Area with game drives en route, Go for afternoon game drive.

Ngorongoro is a fascinating and unusual Conservation Area which includes the Ngorongoro Crater at its centre, and then extends through the Crater Highlands, in which local tribes are permitted to maintain their traditional lifestyles in as natural environment as possible.  This extraordinary volcanic landscape is rich and fertile, with stunning craters and lakes, and the high altitude creates a scenic environment for photography.

Dinner and overnight at Bougainvillea Safari Lodge.

 

Day 3: Ngorongoro crater

0630hrs: After breakfast descend into the crater with a picnic lunch with you for a full day crater tour with game drive. Return to the lodge in the evening

The crater is said to have the most-dense concentration of wildlife in Africa. As such, Ngorongoro Crater has achieved world renown, and attracts a growing number of visitors each year. Even if time is limited this natural but accessibly small caldera ensures a rewarding safari. 

• The Ngorongoro Crater is the world's largest intact caldera in an exceptional geographical position, forming a spectacular bowl of about 265 sq km with sides up to 600m deep. It is the stalking ground of 20 - 30,000 wild animals at any one time.

• The crater floor consists of a number of ecological environments that include grassland, swamps, forests and Lake Magadi, a central soda lake filled by the Munge River. All these various habitats attract various wildlife to drink and graze.

• Although animals are free to move in and out of this contained environment, the rich volcanic soil, lush forests and spring source lakes on the crater floor tend to incline both grazers and predators to remain throughout the year.

• Ngorongoro Crater is also presently one of the most likely areas in Tanzania to see the endangered Black Rhino, as a small population is thriving in this idyllic and protected environment one of the only areas where they continue to breed in the wild.

• The Crater rim, over 2,200 meters high, touches swathes of clouds for most days of the year, with cool high altitude vapors that seem to bring a clean lightness to the air, and also a chill. These highlands wake up to a misty fog in most months.

Later in the evening ascend back to the lodge for dinner and overnight atBouganvillea Safari Lodge.

Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area -Tarangire National Park

After breakfast drive to Tarangire. After noon game drive,

Attractions:

Here 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.

On drier ground you find the Kori bustard, the heaviest flying bird; the stocking-thigh ostrich, the world's largest bird; and small parties of ground hornbills blustering like turkeys.

Disused termite mounds are often frequented by colonies of dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet, which draw attention to themselves by their loud clocking.

Tarangire pythons climb trees, so do the lions and leopards, lounging in the branches where the fruit of the sausage tree disguises these predators.

 Meals and overnight at Tarangire Safari Lodge

Day 5: Tarangire – Arusha

Take an early morning game drive and after breakfast depart for Arusha arriving in time for lunch..

Cost per person sharing

Low season	01 April – 30 June /m 01 Nov - 14 Dec	US$ 1400
Peak season	01 Jul - 30 Oct	US$  1580
High season	01 Jan – 30 March / 15 Dec- 31 Dec	US$ 1490

Safari Costing include:

1.      Accommodation as specified in the itinerary

2.     Transport in a 4x4 Safari Vehicle with a pop up roof for game viewing

3.     Professional English speaking driver/guide

4.     All park entrance fees

5.     All game drives as mentioned in the itinerary

6.     Government Taxes

Price excludes:

1.      Personal Expenses

2.     Tipping to the drivers, in hotels and restaurants

3.     What is not mentioned in what is included.