Day 1: Arusha – Tarangire NP
Your personal driver/guide will pick you up at 08h00 from your hotel/lodge. Then you will leave Arusha and proceed to Tarangire National Park, which is about a 1,5 hour drive. In this park you will see large herds of elephants near the Tarangire river, or at the dry river beds scratching for underground streams. You will also meet large herds of migratory animals such as wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, impalas, gazelles and hartebeests. In the morning you will drive through the park searching for all kinds of wild animals.
Besides the wild animals the park hosts the largest diversity of different breeding bird species, approximately 550 varieties of birds. On drier ground you probably will meet the Kori Bustard (the heaviest flying bird) and the ostrich (the largest bird). In the afternoon you will drive to the picnic site to have lunch. After lunch you will continue your safari through the park and you will leave the park at the end of the afternoon and you will arrive at your hotel/lodge in/nearby the park to have diner and overnight stay.
Day 2: Tarangire NP – Lake Manyara NP
After breakfast your driver/guide will pick you up. Then you will leave Tarangire and proceed to Lake Manyara NP. At around 09h00 your visit to Lake Manayar NP will start. This park is famous because of its tree climbing lions as well as of its large numbers of elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras. Because of the fact that the park is very compact it is very likely that you will meet these animals from a very close distance.
On the shores of the Manyara lake you will meet large numbers of birds such as flamingos, storks, pelicans and herons. Around midday you will drive up to the picnic site to have your lunch. At about 18h00 you will leave the park and you will be driven to of the hotels/lodges near Lake Manyara NP were you will have your diner and overnight stay .
Day 3: Lake Manyara NP – Olduvai Gorge - Ngorongoro
In the early morning you will be picked up by your driver/guide and you will leave towards Olduvai Gorge where you can meet the so called Nut Cracker Man “Zinjanthropus”. These fossils were discovered by Dr. Leakey in 1995 and are approximately 1,75 million years old. You can also meet the colourful nature people, the Maasia. At the picnic site at Olduvai Gorge you can have your lunch. After lunch you will leave to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to have diner and overnight stay in your hotel/lodge.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha
Around 07h00 your driver/guide will pick you up from your hotel/lodge. Then you will leave to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Today you will be rewarded with a visit to the Ngorongoro Crater, which is often called the Eight World Wonder. Once arrived at the Crater rim, you will descend 610 meter into the Crater. Here your Crater Safari starts by watching and photographing the wild animals such as the black rhino, lions with black manes, buffaloes, elephants, wildebeest, zebras en many species of birds like flamingos who you will find on the shores of the soda lake.
In the afternoon you can have your lunch at the picnic site in the crater. After lunch you will continue your safari and about 16h00 you will proceed to Arusha where you shall arrive at your hotel/lodge at the beginning of the evening.
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