Tour Overview
Safari Overview
Day 01: Lake Manyara
Day 02: Serengeti
Day 03: Ngorongoro
Day 04: Arusha
Day 01
Arusha – Lake Manyara
Collection from your hotel in Arusha, safari briefing by Essenia Safari representative and driver guide after which you depart for Lake Manyara. With three distinct habitats namely swampy groundwater forest, open floodplains and acacia woodlands, this park offers a lot of wildlife viewing opportunities. Plains game include; buffalos, zebras, giraffes and wildebeest herds grazing on the grassy and marshy plains among other animals. You also stand a chance to see Manyara's legendary tree-climbing lions.
Arrive in time for lunch and afternoon game drive in Lake Manyara National Park.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge / Lake Manyara Wildlife Camp / similar.
Day 02
Lake Manyara – Serengeti
After breakfast, depart Ngorongoro Crater for the Serengeti National Park. You will have a stop over at the Oldupai Gorge. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Dr. Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of 'Nutcracker Man' and 'Handy Man', both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Leaving the highlands behind, you will 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 valuable water source to this area therefore attracting most wildlife found in the Serengeti eco-system. Arrive at your lodge in time for lunch and afternoon game drive.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Lodge / Serengeti Heritage Camp / similar.
Day 03
Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater
Early breakfast and depart Serengeti with an en route morning game drive, proceed to Ngorongoro Crater rim. The Ngorongoro Crater is an amazingly incredible formation of nature. It is part of the larger Ngorongoro Conservation Area which covers more than 8,300 square kilometres. The Crater, an "eighth wonder of the natural world," not official is an International Biosphere with over 20,000 animals thriving in its near perfect conditions.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge / Endoro Lodge Ngorongoro / similar.
Day 04
Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha
After breakfast, descend to the Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive, the drive descends about 2,000 feet into this ancient collapsed volcanic crater, passing through lush rainforest and thick vegetation, on our way to the largest concentration of wildlife in Africa. The habitats here include; savannah grassland, swamps, forests and lakes resulting to a staggering variety of animals; lions, zebras, buffaloes, rhinos, elephants, gazelles and wildebeests and enormous varieties of terrestrial and water birds. After the game drive ascend to the crater rim and drive back to Arusha. Drop of at your hotel in Arusha.
Meal Plan: Picnic Lunch
END OF TANZANIA SIMBA SAFARI
