Itinerary

1. Day 1: Lake Manyara National Park

   • After breakfast, you will be picked up from your Hotel or direct from Airport and then drive to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive, late afternoon drive to your Lodge for dinner and overnight.
   • The name Manyara is derived from the Masai word “Emanyara”, a Euphorbia species of plant found around a family homestead in the area. 
   • After an early breakfast we drive down into the valley and explore the Lake Manyara National Park. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.
   • Here, guests will be introduced to large buffalo, wildebeest, giraffes and zebra herds congregating on the grassy plains. In contrast, the narrow belt of acacia wood bordering the plains are the favoured haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants. 
   • Taking in the expansive views eastward, across the central soda lake we will be amazed by the sight of thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as storks, cormorants and pelicans. 
   • At the Southern end of the park we will visit algae-streaked Sulphur hot water springs are known as (Maji Moto) bubbling from deep within the earth.

2. Day 2: Tarangire National Park

   • You will be picked up after breakfast, drive to Tarangire national park for game drive.
   • This park is famous of having groups of elephant; 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.
   • During the rainy season, the seasonal visitors scatter over a 20,000 sq. km (12,500 sq. miles) range until they exhaust the green plains and the river calls once more. 
   • But Tarangire’s mobs of elephants are easily encountered, wet or dry. The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world. 
   • Late afternoon drive to Arusha / Kilimanjaro international airport and drop off.