After breakfast the tour departs. We will stop at Arusha town for any last minute purchases before we head off on safari. Afterwards we head towards the Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Manyara is a very good birding area with more than 450 species of birds recorded and big flocks of pink flamingoes. There is also a great sighting of Elephants, Giraffes basking on the shore of the lake, Buffaloes, Baboons, Wildebeest and tree climbing lions (don’t throw your heart on these since its rear and just see it as a bonus). After an extensive game drive you will leave the park in the afternoon and drive to the selected Lodge/Tented camp for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, We will stop for a nice view of Ngorongoro Crater before you reach the plains of the Serengeti National Park around midday. The endless plains and abundance of wildlife are unsurpassed. The annual wildebeest migration with more than a million wildebeest is probably the highlight of the Serengeti. It is a true spectacle and impressive to watch millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles thunder across the endless plains of the Serengeti. Together with your private guide you will be looking for the herds across the plains.
Dawn is a good time to watch wildlife and so you will be up early to join an early morning game drive. You will return to the camp for breakfast before heading out for another game drive in the park while heading to Ngorongoro, Our drive takes us back through the Serengeti via a different route, offering plenty of opportunities to spot the animals that eluded you on day two. As far as the eye can see, you’ll spot thousands upon thousands of animals in herds; wildebeests and zebras migrating together, tall and graceful giraffes, jumping antelopes and gazelles, the powerful African elephant and the most respected group of animals: the predators. You will have the chance to spot lean cheetahs and shy leopards, foraging hyenas, and last but not least, the king himself; the lion.
After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports avast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater.
