• Non game-viewing
• Travel time: 2½ hours
• Distance: 130 kms.

Pick up from Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive. This national
park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow
soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western
escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest
concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of
flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.
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• Non game-viewing
• Travel time: 6 hours
• Distance: 205 kms.

After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of
Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart
of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the
eye can see. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time.
It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois
and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links
in the chain of human evolution. Then after lunch we head to the central park area, known as the
Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which
provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most
of the Serengeti’s species.!
We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park.
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Be one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at
supplementary cost by pre-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting
wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small bivoc.! We do
an after breakfast game viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of
the Seronera River, and which is good for possible Lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah
sightings. The Visitor Centre close to the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a
visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed centre offers some interesting wildlife displays
as well as a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The centre also has a shop where
cold drinks and snacks can be purchased, as well as a picnic area and information trail up and around a
nearby kopje. We will enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch at the centre in the shade of the giant acacia trees.
In the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes,
which usually attract a number of lion and some formidably large cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite
outcrops, scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and
drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for
spotting wildlife in the dry seasons – including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink!
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• Non game-viewing
• Travel time: 4 hours
• Distance: 145 kms.

After breakfast at the lodge do we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We descend over 600
meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half day’s safari tour. The Ngorongoro crater supports a vast
variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant
African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is it’s dense population of
predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, 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 flamingos,
hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here.
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• Non game-viewing
• Travel time: 1½ hours
• Distance: 85 kms.

After breakfast do we head into the Tarangire National Park for a morning game drive. 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 three rare species of animals – the Greater
Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings. We return to the lodge for lunch after
which we will depart to Arusha town or airport for your flight back.
End our African safari adventure.