Your Engoitoi safari guide will pick you up from your accommodation after breakfast; then, you will be driven to Tarangire National Park. The transit drive is approximately two and a half hours on good tarmac roads. The park is named after the Tarangire River, which runs through it. This ‘river of warthogs’ is the only source of water for wildlife in the region during the dry season. The park is well known for its elephant families, which can often be seen congregating by the river. You may also see giraffes, bushbucks, and hartebeests. 

These animals are closely followed by a range of predators, including lions and leopards. There are more breeding species of birds found in Tarangire than anywhere else on the planet! The huge and ancient Baobab trees can be seen here. Some of them are said to have lived for more than a thousand

years.

Picnic hot lunch

Early dinner at the lodge at Angata Camps Tarangire, a luxury camp in Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, you will wind your way toward Ngorongoro Crater, hopefully enjoying more wonder on the way. Ngorongoro Crater is concealed by the steep volcanic walls and is a pristine wilderness including sweeping savannah, pockets of acacia woodland, glistening lakes and swamps. 

The crater was created when a large volcano exploded and collapsed in on itself two to three million years ago.

The drive down into the crater is an adventure in itself. When you reach the crater floor, you’ll quickly find yourself amongst large numbers of wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, and more than 500 bird species. The crater provides you with the best chance of seeing the endangered black Rhinos, which can sometimes be spotted in the open grasslands. After a full afternoon inside the crater and a hot lunch in between game drives, you will drive to your accommodation at Mawemawe Luxury Lodge, located at the escarpment above Lake Manyara.

This morning, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This is your final destination on this epic

safari! Manyara is a small but diverse park 120km west of Arusha. Everything you’ll see here is on a different scale. It is both compact (this is one of the narrowest parks in Africa) and epic (the Great Rift Escarpment towers over Lake Manyara’s western boundary). 

The park’s namesake is a shallow salt lake. It covers a large area of the park, which is flooded and dry with the seasons, and is home

to thousands of wading birds (including flamingos and over 500 other bird species). You may see baboons and elephants in the park’s thick evergreen forest and watch for the tree-climbing lions that have become famous throughout Africa. You will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park.

After lunch, you will be driven to Mto wa Mbu for an amazing tour of Maasai culture on your way back to the lodge.

This is the last day of the tour. After breakfast at the lodge followed by a checkout and departs to KIA or Arusha Airport for departure to home or continue with the tour to visit Zanzibar

The Zanzibar Tour can be customizable on request.