First day on Safari! Tarangire National Park is Tanzania's fourth largest park offering diverse wildlife and scenery including giant baobab trees. It is home to the largest herds of elephants in East Africa!. These herds migrate along the wildlife corridor to nearby Lake Manyara National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Animal populations here rival those of the Serengeti so you will have a chance to see wildebeests, zebras, elands, hartebeests, buffalos, gerenuks, fringe-eared Oryx, and flocks of birds of various species.

After breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked by our drivers at 08:00am (with packed lunch) and drive to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara National Park offers a wilderness experience in diverse habitats, from its rift valley soda lake to dense woodlands and steep mountain sides. It is also well-known for tree climbing lions. Overnight in select lodges in Karatu.

 After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro through rural highland scenery for a stop at the viewpoint at the top of the rim, offering a first glimpse of the famous Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO world heritage site. In this massive volcanic caldera wildlife has remained largely isolated due to the steep walls, restricting wildlife moving in and out. Descend into the Crater to spend the day meandering the many game-viewing trails on the floor. The encircling age-old forested slopes of the Crater and its lakes and swampy grassland are reputed to host some 30,000 animals and varied birdlife. Overnight: Lodge options on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park. You can stop for a picnic lunch at the famed Olduvai Gorge, an important archaeological site for human evolution. Continue to the Serengeti via Nabi Gate. The drive from the crater to your lodge is the beginning of your exploration of the Serengeti. Overnight: Lodge options in Central Serengeti

After an early breakfast begin a full day of game viewing on the vast plains of the Serengeti, stopping for a picnic lunch - possibly by a hippo pool or one of the many animal watering holes. When it comes to sheer volume and variety of game, the Serengeti is extremely hard to beat. Host to the wildebeest migration, Serengeti’s varied landscapes offer much more. An early start makes for the best chance of seeing big predators such as leopard, lion and perhaps even cheetah trailing the herds of plains wildlife (wildebeest, zebra, antelope etc). Overnight: Lodge options in Serengeti

Depending on the season you will be travelling we will aim to get to as close to the Great Migration as possible. The short rains begin around early November. A little after this, in late November and December, the herds of the wildebeest migration arrive on the short-grass plains of the Serengeti. These are south and east of Seronera, around Ndutu and include the north of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.  Overnight: Lodge options in Serengeti

Staying close to where the wildlife will be when you are travelling, continue to explore Serengeti National Park. Relax and take in the changing landscapes, from vast plains, woodlands, and kopjes, to rivers and various watering holes. Enjoy a full day of game-drive wandering through this African treasure at your heart’s content before returning to the lodge by dusk. Overnight: Lodge options in southern Serengeti / Ndutu area

Ngorongoro-Arusha After an early morning game-drive in the Ndutu area, return to the lodge for breakfast. Check out and continue game driving through Ngorongoro en-route to Arusha. End of planned itinerary.