Lodge Safari in Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire, & Manyara - 7 Days

DAY 1: Arusha – LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast, our tour guide/driver will meet, who will deliver a short safari briefing. You will be driving to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive with our picnic lunch. Upon your arrival at Manyara, you will be welcomed by the Great Rift Valley Escarpment view and fun makers’ baboon at the entrance of Manyara in large groups. We will travel through the agricultural and fresh produce market town of Mto Wa Mbu, situated next to the Lake Manyara National Park entrance. The town is a souvenir hunters paradise, harbouring thousands of souvenir salesmen – ready to pounce at your slightest invitation. The Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located African wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals; including one of Africa’s densely populated herd of an African elephant, famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos, attracted by the algae in the lake. We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, in search of the wildlife and birdlife that Manyara host along with a view of the famous hot spring known as “Maji Moto”. Late afternoon you will be transferred to Marera Valley Lodge for a hot shower, dinner and overnight.

DAY 2: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park passing through Olduvai Gorge, the site of Leakey’s family discovery of fossils of human and animal ancestors dating back to almost two million years. The Olduvai Gorge is a historical site of the world and has much history of the earliest human been and much more historical information that worth much to visit. You will have your picnic lunch on the way to Serengeti. Upon your arrival, you will check in to the lodge for a hot shower, dinner and overnight at Ikoma Tented Camp.

DAY 3: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK – FULL DAY

In the morning after breakfast, you will meet your tour guide for starting a game drive to Serengeti National Park for a full day game drive. Serengeti is the largest national park in Tanzania covering more than 14,000 square kilometres. The park is having numerous numbers of unique features and attractions among them include: The annual great wildebeest migration (whereby wildebeest, zebra and gazelle migrate from Serengeti National Park to Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and come back later in the year), the park is famous for its endless plains and the savannah vegetation that it owns, balloon safari and been the richest park full of wildlife and birdlife elsewhere in Africa. The park also supports many species of wildlife including Lion, African Leopard, African Elephant, cheetah, African Buffalo, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, topi, eland, waterbuck, hyenas, baboon, impala, African wild dog and giraffe. The park also boasts about 500 bird species, including ostrich, secretary bird, Kori bustard, crowned crane, marabou stork, martial eagle, lovebirds and many species of vultures. Your tour guide will therefore take you back late in the afternoon to your lodge for a hot shower, dinner and overnight in the lodge.

DAY 4: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK / NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA

In the morning after breakfast, you will have your picnic lunch and a morning game drive until in the afternoon in Serengeti National Park. You will thereafter have your picnic lunch and have short rest before starting our journey to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will see the game on the way and you can also have more photos of these wild animals. Upon arrival in Ngorongoro, you will check in to the lodge for a hot shower, dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge.

DAY 5: NGORONGORO CRATER

In the morning after breakfast, you will meet your driver-guide and been transfer to the crater gate with your picnic lunch ready for a full day crater tour, explore the crater which is famous for its great concentration of wildlife and birdlife. This is probably the most enjoyable day as you can witness how wildlife wakes up and start their daily activities. If you’re lucky enough you can see a predator hunting prey or any adventure of your lifetime that Ngorongoro crater has for you. Ngorongoro crater is famous for its different attraction which includes alkaline lakes, forest, and different vegetation, hot springs, different kinds of wildlife and birdlife and its landscape. Among the common wildlife in the crater includes; lion, leopard, zebra, elephant, African buffalo, warthog, hyena, wild dogs, the rare black rhino, wildebeest and varieties of migratory and resident birdlife whereby more than 350 different species have been recorded. In the afternoon you will ascend the crater floor and been transferred to Marera Valley Lodge.

DAY 6: NGORONGORO CRATER – TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast, our tour guide/driver will meet, who will deliver a short safari briefing. After the briefing, you will be transferred to Tarangire National Park with your picnic lunch. Tarangire derived its name from the Tarangire River which crosses along the centre of the park and which provide permanent water for the wildlife and birdlife of the park around the year. It is here where a large group of different species of animal concentrate during the dry season and the best place to take many pictures. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Also, it is in Tarangire by chance you can see the tree climbing African pythons. Tarangire National Park accommodated migratory and resident birdlife and believed to be a paradise for birdwatchers as more than 350 different species have been recorded to date. Tarangire's other wildlife includes the rare Oryx, impala, giraffe, zebra, lion, leopard, and different types of gazelles. We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, along the Tarangire River. Late afternoon you will be transferred to Marera Valley Lodge for a hot shower, dinner and overnight.

DAY 7: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK / ARUSHA TOWN / DEPARTURE

In the morning after breakfast, you will have a game drive at the park and thereafter a walking safari to the park boundary been escorted by an armed ranger. You will thereafter have hot lunch at the lodge and have a short rest before starting a journey to Arusha town and take you to your hotel or transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for a flight back home.