Tour Highlights
This 6-day camping safari allows you to experience the highlights of the Northern safari circuit. Experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of some of the most diverse landscapes, monkeys in the forest, lions in trees, elephants amongst acacias and a huge variety of animals. You will also visit the world-famous Serengeti National Park and the wildebeest migration. The volume of wildlife you will see is unforgettable.
Day 01: Lake Manyara National Park
Meet your professional driver-guide at your hotel in Arusha town at 8:30 am and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive with picnic lunches. Later, you will proceed to Migombani Camp for dinner and an overnight stay. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.
The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundreds of baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.
Day 02: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, proceed to Serengeti National Park for a game drive with picnic lunches and dinner. Your overnight stay will be at the Pimbi campsite.
The great migration is the scene of a million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life. It is a frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests, and mating and survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. They replenish the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily, before the 1,000km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.
Day 03: Serengeti National Park
Early, at 5:30 am, take your breakfast box and proceed for a sunrise game drive until 11:00 am. We drive back to the camp to collect your picnic lunch box and proceed for a full-day game drive in this wonderful national park.
Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year. We can spend time at the hippo pool, watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water and happily living alongside the crocodiles. You can also see a big pride of lions in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest and zebras.
This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing. We will hopefully see all of the plains game like elephant, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and lions, and if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting birdlife. Dinner and overnight will be at the Pimbi campsite.
Day 04:Serengeti National Park to the Ngorongoro Crater rim
After breakfast, have a full-day game drive en-route to the Simba campsite at the crater rim with a picnic lunch. We drive via the Olduvai Gorge Historic Site, boasting a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here that the anthropologists, Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey, discovered the skulls of "Nutcracker Man" and "Handy Man", both very significant links in the chain of human evolution
Day 05: Ngorongoro Crater
At 06:00 am, have breakfast and take your picnic lunch before descending over 600m into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a 6-hour game viewing.
The Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephant. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopards (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. A large number of hippos, flamingos, and other waterbirds can usually be seen here. In the late evening, we drive to Migombani Camp.
Day 06: Tarangire National Park - Arusha
After an early breakfast, we proceed to Tarangire National Park for a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch.
The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa.
This African national park is also home to 3 rare species of animals; the greater kudu, the fringe-eared oryx, as well as the ashy starling. In the late evening, we drive back to Arusha.
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