Serengeti Splendors: 5-Day Wildlife Safari Adventure
Day 1: Moshi/Arusha Tarangire National Park
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A short briefing will be held in the morning before setting out to Tarangire National Park which is known for its large elephant population in Northern Tanzania. The park features endless tree savannah, including impressive baobab trees and seasonal marshes. Besides elephants, you're likely to spot giraffes, buffaloes, lions, zebras, gnus, and other types of antelopes and gazelles. Upon arrival, your guide will open the roof of the vehicle for extensive wildlife viewing. Have lunch at a picnic spot and continue exploring the park in the afternoon. In the late afternoon, you will arrive at Karatu for your overnight stay.
Lodge in Karatu.
lunch
Day 2: Tarangire National Park to Serengeti National Park
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Depart for Serengeti through Karatu, passing through the cooler regions of the crater highlands. Soon enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and stop for a short look into the crater from a viewing point. You'll continue around the crater, descending the other side and passing Maasai villages on the way to Serengeti National Park. At the Naabi Hill entrance gate, you can walk to a viewpoint with spectacular views across the plains of the Serengeti savannah. Continue towards the Seronera Area in the central part of the Serengeti, which offers a multitude of wildlife including the Big Five lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard. Late in the afternoon, you will arrive at the Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp.
Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
Dinner
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
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Spend the whole day on a game drive in the Serengeti National Park and have lunch at a picnic spot en-route. Depending on the time of year, you might even have the chance to witness the great migration with hundreds of thousands of wildebeests, zebras, and Thompson gazelles. During the small rainy season in October and November, you will typically see these herds moving from the Kenyan Masai Mara through the Northwest of the Serengeti to the plains in the south. Our guide will try their utmost to find the animals and ensure that you can see them from the best spot in the national park. Naturally, the migration also attracts predators, and with luck, you might see a kill in action. You will spend another night at central Serengeti.
Central Serengeti
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Serengeti National Park-Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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At daybreak, start on your outward journey from the Serengeti back to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, leaving behind the beautiful Seronera Valley. As predators are livelier in the cooler hours of the day, you might even see them in action. Stopover at Olduvai Gorge, where the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of '\Nutcracker Man\' and '\Handy Man,\' both significant links in the chain of human evolution. Late in the afternoon, transfer to Ngorongoro Tortilis for dinner and overnight.
NgoroNgoro Tortils
Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive and Departure
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Descend over 600 meters into the Ngorongoro Crater to view wildlife after an early morning breakfast. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area boasts of a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, and hippo. Return to Moshi for dinner and overnight after the game drive. Transportation arrangements to the airport for departure the following day are made in advance.
Lodge in Moshi.
Breakfast and Dinner