4 DAYS TANZANIA ENDLESS PLAINS SAFARI

Morning pick up from your hotel in Arusha and depart after breakfast to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive with packed lunch boxes for your picnic lunch. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to a large numbers of buffalos, giraffes, elephants, impalas and a Hippo lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 different species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places where you’ll be able to see the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle. This park has become famous for the the climbing lions and the flamingos in the lake shore. The landscapes of these park are absolutely stunning, very different from the Serengeti for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground with the lake, flamingos and flat plains in the horizon. Great photo opportunities! In the late afternoon you will drive to Lodge or Tented Camp for overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast you depart to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti mean “endless plains” in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson’s gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds. Tented

Overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning game drive before breakfast, to spot the animals when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sun rise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return to the camp for late breakfast. You will then drive to Ngorongoro, the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah’s Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you’ll ever see in your life.
On the way from the Serengeti, you have option to stop at the famous Olduvai Gorge at an extra cost of 20 USD per client and pay directly, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made their discovery of the first man that walked the earth. After attending a short lecture describing the archeological digs and geology of the gorge, you’ll have time to visit the small museum. Another option is a masai Village Cultural visit at 50 USD for the group and pay directly still inside Ngorongoro Conservation area and then drive to Ngorongoro Crater Rim for overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp.

Overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

After early breakfast you descend down to the crater floor with picnic lunch for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing, you will drive up the steep road out of the crater and drive back to Arusha with overnight at your Hotel of Choice at own cost.

Meal Plan – Breakfast and Lunch

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