DAY 1: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK:
(2Hrs drive from Arusha town to Tarangire park.
At 7:30am meet your professional safari guide at your hotel lounge ready for safari. Load all your safari bags in the safari vehicle and depart for 2hrs journey drive to Tarangire Park, the drive takes us western circuit of Arusha town. Along the route, your eyes will be opened to all the colorful and characters of Tanzania landscape and mix of farming and local market perhaps some Maasai herdsmen driving their flocks of goats to new morning pastures.
The two hours’ drive gives opportunity to general information’s from your driver-guide with depth of knowledge as he professionally answers all your questions and you just realize Tarangire park gate is before you. Begin your game drive across a rich vista of endless golden savannah woodlands that surrounds the Tarangire River. The river itself runs throughout the year and is a vital source of water for the animals of the region for the whole season. Lined with acacia and Baobab trees, the river is regularly visited by the park’s large herds of elephant population as well as other herbivores such as zebras and antelopes. It is also the best predating sport for the predators to effortlessly get the kill.
Your guide will serve you with a picnic lunch either at the picnic site or somewhere under baobab or acacia tree, the choice is yours. After your lunch continue game driving through the park, you’ll also have the opportunity to see lions, leopards, cape buffalo, and a huge variety of antelopes. If you’re particularly lucky, you might even see endangered animals such as the Greater Kudu or the Fringe-Eared Oryx. After sunset drive to the lodge or campsite for dinner and Overnight
DAY 2: NGORONGORO CRATER
(1hrs drive to Ngorongoro Crater and 6-8hrs game drive in the Crater)
After early morning breakfast, board your safari jeep and hit the road to Ngorongoro Crater.
The drive takes us through the Great Rif Valley Escarpment offering panoramic sunrise view of Lake Manyara Park nestled with green forest and flowering pink flamingoes can be seen hovering on the sky. Before descend down the crater floor, there is an offer from your guide for a stop on the crater view point with your binocular for sport of all that can be visible. Then descend is 610mitters deep down to the Caldera floor of Ngorongoro Crater; considered by some to be the Eighth Wonder of the World. When you get your first glimpse of this vast, verdant caldera from the panoramic viewpoint, you’ll soon understand why it has earned such a lofty reputation worldly. Home to over 120 species of mammals including the fabled Big Five, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is one of the most sought-after safari destinations in the world nobody accepts to miss. It’s a particularly good place to see the endangered black rhinoceros enjoying a lonely meal out on the grass plains, as well as a place to see large numbers of hippopotamus enjoying the cool water not forgetting the pride of lions.
From the comfort of your open-roof top safari vehicle, you’ll be able to observe and photograph some of Africa’s most recognizable faces. The crater is home to a large number of predators including lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, and hyenas, as well as a large population of wildebeest, zebras, antelope, cape buffalo, and more. It is truly one of Africa’s premier safari destinations.
After the thrills and excitement of the day, you will have a picnic lunch along the shore of Lake Magadi with best view of flamingoes in the lake. Late afternoon ascends up the wall of crater and drive to the lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight.
DAY 3: LAKE MANYARA PARK GAME DRIVE
(6-8hrs for game drive and 2-3hrs drive to Arusha town or Kilimanjaro Airport)
Probably you may be anxious what this last day of game drive in Lake Manyara Park owe you. The park is truly the best photographer’s playground and offers some of the best game viewing in the world. You expect to see the unique Africa’s most well-known animals, the tree-climbing lions a particular treat in this park, these proud predators lounge in acacia trees, not forgetting the Masai and Reticulated giraffes practically begging to be photographed. The bird-watchers will find Lake Manyara the absolute delight, with a huge hundred’s variety of birds on display in the park. Even the novice can expect to be amazed by large greater and lesser flamingo flocks carpeted on the lake, circling birds of prey, and the brightly colored lilac breasted roller. The foot taste of the natural underground hot spring will wind up your game drive as you cross several hippopotamus pools before you check out of the park and drive your way back to Arusha. On a clear afternoon if the weather will permit, you will have the great view of Mt. Meru the second tallest Mountain in Tanzania before checking in at your hotel. END OF TRIP
