Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Manyara
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel. Thereafter depart for Lake Manyara National park for a late afternoon or early evening game drive via the Namanga border town for migration formalities and Arusha for Lunch.The Park is renowned for its birdlife as well as the tree climbing lions. The size and the time you spend there will be sufficient to cover the park exhaustively. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge
Day 2: Lake Manyara – Ngorongoro Crater.
An early breakfast and your final game drive, depart for Ngorongoro Crater to arrive in time for dinner and overnight at the crater rim.
Day 3: Ngorongoro
After breakfast, taking a picnic lunches with you descend down to the crater floor for a full day of tracking game with your guide. The crater is 670m deep and 260km square wide, making it the largest in the world. The crater contains all the big five, hippos, cheetah, antelopes and spotted hyena. Black rhino and leopard can be seen by luck as the two are extremely shy and elusive. The birds seen here include eagle, vulture, and flamingos in the Crater Lake, stork, bats, giant vulture, sacred ibis, kori bustard, black smith plover, long necked heron and the cattle eagle. Other game such as velvet monkey, jackal, foxes, rock and tree hyraxes, warthog, gnu, zebra and hare can be seen with relative ease. You will have a break for lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. In the evening you will ascend up and out of the narrow steep crater walls which is a thrilling exercise.
Day 4: Ngorongoro – Serengeti
After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro conservation area for Serengeti National park via the pre-historic site at Olduvai Gorge, which was discovered by the famous archeologist Dr. L.S.B Leakey. The park covers 12,944 square kms of open plains making it one of the largest in the world. The rocky out-crops referred to as Kopjes in the eastern part of the park are of scenic beauty and occasionally various cats can be seen lazing on them. The park contains very vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and other antelopes. After your game drive you will retire for the night at the Lodge
Day 5: Serengeti
Morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge in the mid afternoon. The term “Serengeti” mean endless plains in the Masai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like lion, leopard, hyena and cheetah. This park is normally the scene of the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra, which occurs between the Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara. Variety of bird species can be seen in this park. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge
Day 6: Serengeti - Tarangire
After breakfast, depart Serengeti for Tarangire National park with lunch enroute. Tarangire serves as a dry season refuge for animals from as far as north or Serengeti and Ngorongoro as it has a permanent river flowing across it. The park has an atmosphere or remoteness and has fewer visitors than the other parks in Tanzania’s northern circuit. Arrive in time for a game drive, lunch will be taken enroute. The park contains all the big five except leopard, other migratory game seen here includes cape buffalo, hoopoes, lovebirds,starling,rock pythons, albino giraffe, puff adders, the fringe eared Oryx and the gerenuk. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge
Day 7: Tarangire – Nairobi
After breakfast, proceed on a game drive then depart for Arusha for lunch and your onward transfer to Nairobi via Namanga town for immigration formalities, arriving in the evening.
