Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arusha- Tarangire National Park

   • You will depart after breakfast and drive to Tarangire National Park for a day game drive in the park. 
   • Your guide will prepare a hot meal lunch. 
   • After lunch, you'll have an afternoon game drive and in the evening drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
   • The Park is located slightly off the main safari route. 
   • Tarangire National Park is a lovely quiet park in Northern Tanzania that is most famous for its elephant migration, birding, and quiet authentic safari atmosphere. 
   • The majority of travelers to the region either miss out on Tarangire altogether or venture into the park for a matter of hours leaving parts of Tarangire virtually untouched.

   Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

2. Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park

   • After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a morning walking safari in the park and a game drive. Your guide will prepare a hot meal and lunch with soft, cold refreshments. In the evening, you will drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
   • Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. 
   • More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. 
   • Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants.

   Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

3. Day 3: Lake Natron

   • After breakfast, you'll depart and drive to Lake Natron. 
   • En route, you will visit the Engaruka Ruins lake waterfalls and the village. You'll then have a hot meal lunch. In the evening, you'll have your overnight stay at the lodge.
   • The East African Halophytics comprise two saline lakes both situated in Tanzania, along the Great Rift Valley. 
   • These lakes are inhospitable environments for most plants and animals as the water is saline, extremely hot, and subject to rapid salinity changes following rains. 
   • However, the lakes are home to huge flocks of lesser and greater flamingos that breed on the mud flats that surround the lakes.

   Accommodation: Lake Natron Tented Camp

4. Day 4: Serengeti National Park - Central Seronera

   • You will depart after breakfast and drive to Serengeti National Park. 
   • You'll have an afternoon hot meal lunch and proceed with a game drive in Central Serengeti. In the evening, you'll check into the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
   • Even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa. 
   • Great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephants and giraffes, thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni impala, and Grant’s gazelles. 
   • You'll explore the range of different habitats that include swamps, woodland, soda lakes, and the world-famous Serengeti short grass plains. 
   • During a short time around February usually lasting for about 3 weeks, the majority of the wildebeests calve. The sea of grass provides little cover and the young are easy pickings for various predators. 
   • Wildebeest calves can run minutes after they are born and within 3 days, they are normally strong enough to keep up with the herd.

   Accommodation: Serengeti Tortilis Camp

5. Day 5: Serengeti National Park - Central Seronera

   • After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive in Serengeti Central with a hot meal lunch served by your guide. In the evening, you'll get back to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
   • A million wildebeest each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life. 
   • It's a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. 
   • They replenish the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

   Accommodation: Serengeti Tortilis Camp

6. Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater

   • You will depart Serengeti after breakfast and drive to Ngorongoro for a full-day game drive in the crater. 
   • Your guide will set up a full table and serve you a delicious hot meal lunch. 
   • You will proceed with an afternoon game drive and in the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
   • The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20km across, 600m deep, and 300 km in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking Natural Wonder. 
   • You will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. 
   • A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here.

   Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

7. Day 7: Lake Eyasi

   • You will depart after breakfast and drive to Lake Eyasi for the bushmen tour with a hot meal lunch. In the evening, you'll check into the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
   • Small groups of Hadzabe bushmen live around Lake Eyasi. Their language resembles the click languages of other bushmen further south in the Kalahari. 
   • Their small population was seriously threatened, in particular during the period when Julius Nyerere tried to introduce his Ujuma policy in Tanzania.

   Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge

8. Day 8: Lake Eyasi- Arusha

   • You will wake up early in the morning, and go hunting with the bushmen. 
   • Then, you will get back to the lodge for breakfast. Afterwards, you will depart and drive back to Arusha where lunch will be served en route. You will arrive in Arusha for the drop-off.