Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival in Arusha

   • A Jairos Adventure representative will pick you up from the airport and convey you to your accommodation in Arusha, where you will stay overnight, relax, and prepare for future adventures. Arusha Planet Lodge is an oasis of calm and aesthetic pleasure.

   Accommodation: Africa Safari Arusha

2. Day 2: Tarangire National Park

   • In the morning, our personal safari guide will collect you from your lodgings in Arusha. You'll set out for Tarangire National Park across gently rolling Masai plains with scattered acacia trees. 
   • As you zip along, you'll pass many Masai in their colourful dress walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding cattle and driving donkey carts. Tarangire National Park, well known for its large elephant herds, is also host to a multitude of other creatures. 
   • From the open roof of our safari jeep, you'll experience the seasonal swamps, savannah and life-giving Tarangire River endeavouring to encounter a multitude of creatures from zebras to wildebeest, buffalos, elephants, and giraffes, to name but a few. 
   • You may glimpse lions stalking prey or leopards relaxing in the trees above.
   • After your extensive game drive, you'll drive to one of our mid-range partner lodges for dinner in a tasteful restaurant and a most capacious room to harbour your ease and dreams of wild cats!

   Accommodation: Sumawe Suite

3. Day 3: Serengeti National Park

   • After breakfast, you'll journey on heading up towards the fertile highlands where wheat, coffee, and corn, are grown by the Iraqw people. 
   • Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will be afforded a view of the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater before travelling onwards to the Serengeti National Park, which you will reach by midday. 
   • The Serengeti National Park is the largest in Tanzania covering an astounding 15,000 km squared with diverse landscapes and habitats such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannah, and mountains. Here the great migration of wildebeest, zebras, and antelopes takes place. 
   • Depending on the season, you may have the opportunity to witness thousands of animals on their search for food and water.
   • After an extensive game drive, you'll drive to the Seronera Valley for an evening meal and overnight stay at your accommodation.

   Accommodation: Into Wild

4. Day 4: Serengeti National Park Western Corridor

   • After breakfast, you will head straight towards the western corridor on which the drive takes approximately 1.5 hours.
   • Around the end of April, May, and June, a vast army of wildebeests and its partners: zebras, elands, and gazelles mill around the Western Corridor of the Serengeti, south of the Grumeti River. 
   • You can encounter leopards and hyenas and ahead of giant Nile crocodiles, many hundreds perish as some hazard the river crossing while others detour it. 
   • But the beauty of the landscape, stretching without end beneath an infinite sky on a Serengeti West Safari, changes something within the watcher, who becomes more aware of the place of humankind within the drama of the animal world.
   • You will then head straight to your accommodation, where you will have dinner and an overnight stay.

   Accommodation: Lahia Tented Lodge

5. Day 5: Western Serengeti National Park

   • After breakfast, you will continue exploring the Western Corridor of the Serengeti. The wildebeest migration can normally be found in the Western Corridor depending on rainfall patterns.
   • After the morning game drive, You will then head to your accommodation to have a hot lunch. In the evening, you will proceed with your game drive experiencing the sunset in the western Serengeti. 
   • After that, you will have dinner and an overnight stay in the Western Corridor area at your accommodation. 
   • Alternatively, you can spend a full day exploring this area with your lunch boxes accompanied by an abundance of wildlife, and follow the great migration.

   Accommodation: Lahia Tented Lodge

6. Day 6: Central Serengeti National Park

   • This entire day is set aside for game drives upon the Serengeti. 
   • The Serengeti, the habitat of an abundance of wildlife such as impalas, buffalos, crocodiles, and hippos, is more well-known for its great migrating herds of zebras, antelopes, and wildebeest. 
   • The animals’ trek is determined by the rainfall and varies from year to year. In November and December, the animals move from the northern region, dominated by woodlands and hills, to the grassy plains of the south. 
   • During the longer rainy season from April to June, they return to the north. 
   • Apart from the migrating herds, you may have the opportunity to see the resident predators, leopards, cheetahs, and lions, fulfilling their role in the circle of life.
   • After an extensive game drive, you'll head for your tented lodge for a hearty dinner and another night by the fire of relaxation and conversation under the sweeping majesty of the star-bright African night out upon the ‘endless plain’.

   Accommodation: Into Wild Africa Serengeti

7. Day 7: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

   • After breakfast, you will head out for an en-route game drive through the Serengeti. You might be able to spot the Big Five— lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard —before embarking on your journey to Ngorongoro Crater. This UNESCO World Heritage Site formed millions of years ago, is 600 m deep and covers roughly around 260 square kilometers. 
   • Due to its dense animal population of approximately 25,000, the Crater offers the best wildlife viewing of all the parks in Tanzania. You will arrive at the Crater rim before lunch. 
   • You will descend into the crater and very quickly, you will be able to see wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, elephants, and some of the more than 500 bird species in the area. 
   • With a little bit of luck, you might catch a glimpse of the endangered black rhinos through the grass.
   • After lunch and a full afternoon inside the Crater, you will head to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.

   Accommodation: Tortilis Ngorongoro Camp

8. Day 8: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

   • After breakfast, you'll drive to your final destination on this epic safari —Lake Manyara National Park. This relatively small but diverse park, 120km west of Arusha, is so named for the shallow Salt Lake which covers a good seventy percent of the park's surface area. 
   • Flooding and drying with the seasons the soda lake is home to thousands of flamingos as well as over 500 other bird species.
   • On your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalos, elephants, and with some luck, lions lounging in the trees. 
   • The Park is known for its diverse landscapes; not only open grassy plains but also primate-filled woodlands and baobab-dotted cliffs. 
   • After another memorable game drive, with your adventure coming to an end, you will return to Arusha in the late afternoon, replete with images of the African wilds to last a lifetime.