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
f
lamingos 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 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. After lunch 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 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 valuble 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 arrive in time for lunch
at the lodge and after lunch we will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half
day’s safari tour. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park
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
f
lamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here.
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Non game-viewing.
Travel time: 1½ hours
Distance: 155 km
After breakfast we depart for the Tarangire National Park. 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. After a picnic lunch we do an afternoon game drive.
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Non game-viewing
Travel time: 2 hours
Distance: 120 kms.
We enjoy breakfast at the lodge, depart for a half day game drive or transfer to Arusha Airport
depending on your flight schedule.
End our African safari adventure.