4 Days Tanzania Lodge Safari

Itinerary

• Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire

  Leave Arusha in the morning with packed lunches and drive towards Tarangire, Tanzania’s third largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, and cheetah and up to six thousand elephant. Lunch boxes will be provided to you at the picnic point. Late afternoon drive to Manyara Area arriving in time for dinner and overnight at Kilimamoja Lodge www.lakemanyaralodgetz.com.

• Day 2: Tarangire to Serengeti

  After breakfast drive to Serengeti National Park via Ngorongoro Conservation Area a designated the Unesco World Heritage. On the way you will stop at the Olduvai Gorge (optional) where anthropologists Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made significant discoveries contributing to the theory that human life originated in Africa. After stopping for your picnic lunch on a kopje (rock outcropping) in Serengeti you will continue further into the park game drive en route arriving in time for dinner and overnight at Serengeti Tortilis Tented Camp www.tortiliscamps.com.

• Day 3: Serengeti to Ngorongoro

  Early in morning after breakfast, game drive and game viewing in Serengeti national park where you expect to see lots of the animals. Serengeti which is 14763sq km big derived its name from Maasai Language meaning endless plain. Therefore is home to many animals including Lions, Elephants, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Zebra, Leopard, Cheetah, warthogs, Hyena plus a lots and lots of bird life. In many cases migration is taking place around Serengeti and at that particular time millions of wildebeest and zebra are mingling together followed by predators. Picnic lunch will be provided inside the park then drive to Ngorongoro arriving in time for dinner and overnight at Ang`ata Tented Camp www.angatacamps.com.

• Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha

  After breakfast you will descend into the crater for a wonderful crater tour with a picnic lunch inside the Ngorongoro Crater often described as one of the wonders of the world a designated Unesco World Heritage; It is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and a natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s densest animal populations. It is one of the few places where the rare black rhino can be observed in their natural setting. As very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 ft. high walls, you can expect to see lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, many birds and other species. With a bit of luck the ‘Big Five’ can be spotted during one game drive only. Then late afternoon drive back to Arusha for overnight at Kibo palace hotel (BB) www.kibopalacehotel.com

  Departure Day

  After breakfast at leisure, afterwards transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport outbound flight.