TRADITIONAL
TENTED SAFARI
6 days 5 nights
Visiting Manyara / Ngorongoro / Olduvai Gorge / Serengeti
Taking
you as close to nature as you can get…
Day One
Depart
Arusha at 9.00am with a packed lunch and drive to Lake Manyara National Park for
a game drive. This park
is small - only 330 sq kms in size and more than two-thirds of it is lake.
Its charm lies in the variety of ecosystems and therefore the diversity
of wildlife that can exist in such a small area.
Along the lakeshore pelicans perch in the trees.
The open grassland supports herds of buffalo, as well as zebra, giraffe,
wildebeest, bushbuck and waterbuck. In
the early afternoon, drive to Ngorongoro Crater
which at 18 kms across & 610 meters deep is the largest unbroken
caldera in the world. Your Camp is
perched on the rim of the crater. Dinner
and overnight at Ngorongoro Wilderness Camp.
Day
Two
After breakfast in
the morning, descend into the crater and spend an extended morning tracking
animals on the crater floor. Declared
a sanctuary in 1928, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area contains within its
borders 30,000 mammals, including the last population of black rhino in northern
Tanzania. Varied habitats of forest, swamp, grassland and lake make it an
exciting area to explore. After
a morning of adventure, enjoy a picnic lunch at a scenic site and then return to the Camp. The
rest of the afternoon is at leisure. Dinner
and Overnight at Ngorongoro Wilderness Camp. (Your
Crater Permit is valid for 6 hrs this day.)
Day Three
After
breakfast drive on to Serengeti National Park, stopping en route to visit
Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakey family has excavated fossils, including Homo
habilis (handy man), the first tool user who lived 1.75 million years ago. The
area has yielded abundant specimens dating back at least two million years. Stop for a picnic lunch en route. The Serengeti is the first, largest, and most famous of
Tanzania’s national parks. An
estimated three million large animals inhabit it.
Game drive en route to your camp, arriving for dinner and overnight at Serengeti
Wilderness Camp.
Day
Four & Five
On
morning and afternoon game drives explore the vast Serengeti in depth.
The open woodland and plains are ideal places to observe large predators.
Lions are often sighted, and spotted hyenas even more so.
The wealth and diversity of birds is just as staggering as the mammal
population. Ostriches, secretary
birds and bustards wander the plains; vultures and eagles are abundant; and the
sunbirds, king fishers and colorful rollers and bee-eaters are well represented.
Return to the camp for lunch, dinner and overnight. Serengeti
Wilderness Camp.
Day Six
After
breakfast in the morning depart on your last game drive in the Serengeti en
route to the Airstrip for your scheduled flight to Arusha departing at 11.00am
and arriving by noon. Met on
arrival at the Arusha Airport and transfer to Arusha for lunch after which your
safari ends.
