Tanzania L.Manyara, Sere, Ngoro, Tarangire
Arusha,
Tanzania
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Tour Itinerary
Day 01: Nairobi - Lake Manyara
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel.
Thereafter depart for Lake Manyara National Park for a late afternoon / early evening game drive via Namanga border town for immigration formalities and Arusha town for lunch. The park is renowned for it’s bird life, which includes flamingos and Egyptian geese as well as its tree-climbing lions. The park is small in size and the time you spend there will be sufficient to cover the park exhaustively. Dinner and overnight at a campsite.
Day 02: Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro for a full day crater tour, taking picnic lunches with you. This visit will actually give you the highest chances of spotting the rare black rhino. The crater is 670 metres deep. The rest of the big five may be seen. Other species encountered include cheetah, grant’s and Thompson’s gazelle, the common zebra, spotted hyena and wildebeest. Flamingos may also be seen on the crater lake. In between tracking game, you will have a break for lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. In the evening ascend up and out of the crater to spend the night at a campsite on the crater rim.
Day 03: Ngorongoro - Serengeti
After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for the Serengeti National Park via the pre-historic site at Olduvai Gorge. The gorge museum has great wealth of the remains of various flora and fauna from the early man era. Continue to the Serengeti for an afternoon game drive, lunch enroute. Dinner and overnight at a campsite.
Day 04: Serengeti
Morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge or camp in the mid afternoon. The term
‘Serengeti’ mean ‘endless plains’ in Masai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like lion, leopard, hyena and cheetah. This park is normally the scene off the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra, which occurs between the Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara. Eagles, flamingo, ducks, geese, egrets, vultures, secretary birds, ibis, stork, heron, kite, pelican, crane and guinea fowl are among the birds that can be seen in the park. Dinner and overnight at a campsite.
Day 05: Serengeti - Tarangire
After breakfast, depart Serengeti for Tarangire National Park, lunch enroute. The park has an atmosphere of remoteness and has fewer visitors than all the other parks in Tanzania’s entire northern circuit. Blue monkeys, hornbills, pelicans, herons can be seen as well as elephants in large herds, cheetah, jackal, fish eagle, marabou stork and hippos. Dinner and overnight at a campsite.
Day 06: Tarangire - Nairobi
After breakfast, proceed on a game drive then depart for Arusha for lunch and your onward transfer to Nairobi via Namanga border town for immigration formalities, arriving in the evening.
Package Includes:
* all game parks or national parks entrance fees
* all game drives in the various parks accompanied by our professional English-speaking driver cum guide
* transport by comfortable safari vehicles with hatch-roofs
* all campsite fees
* all camping equipment (except sleeping bags)
* use of our two person mosquito-netted tents
* jungle-stools
* foam mattresses
* three sumptuous meals per day whilst on safari, prepared and served by our cook
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