After breakfast, you will leave the area around Tarangire National Park and head to the multicultural village of Mto wa Mbu. From here, you will travel on a spectacular and very bumpy gravel road along the Rift Valley Escarpment with Ol Doinyo Lengai “the holy mountain” of the Maasai in the distance. Today’s destination is a typical Maasai village of Ngare Sero in the hot and dusty Rift Valley. From a distance, you might be getting to see the pick glow of the flamingos while breeding and feeding and with the going down of the sun you will join a Maasai guide on a walk to a nearby waterfall. After enjoying the beauty of the nature here, you will return to the campsite for dinner and overnight stay.

After an early start, you will travel along adventurous dirt tracks with breath-taking views as your vehicle climbs out of the Rift Valley to reach the grassy plains of the Serengeti by mid-day. In Maasai, Serengeti means “endless plains” and truly you will find the grassland savannah stretching here to the horizon with the dotted grazing animals. Serengeti is a most sought park for anyone planning for Tanzania safari. Because, it is the park, where the greatest wonder of the world “The Annual migration of wild beasts” happens in which millions of the animals match in quest of fresh pasture and water without caring for their life and even the life of their calves. After your game viewing you will take your overnight at a lodge in the northern or central part of the park.

The entire day is dedicated to game viewing in the Serengeti National Park. You will either go on a full day game drive or join early morning and afternoon drives in the Seronera area, depending on last night’s stop. The best time to find the wild beasts here is between December and May and for the calving session January and March is the right season to visit. The Seronera area is also the best place to spot the shy and nocturnal leopard. You will spend the night at a lodge in the Seronera area.

The morning is set aside for another game drive in the Serengeti and you might spot some creatures that you haven’t seen yet. Animals tend to be more active in the morning before the temperatures soar around mid-day. After lunch, you will leave the plains of the Serengeti and travel to the highlands of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will spend the night at a lodge directly on the Ngorongoro Crater’s edge with a view over the collapsed volcano. It is a perfect spot to enjoy a sunset.

Rise and shine! It is up at daybreak, to take on the steep path leading down into the 600-m deep crater. The slopes are forested but soon the landscape changes to savannah with the occasional acacia tree here and there. The wildlife in the crater is just breath-taking and with a little luck you might see the “Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard. You should also see warthogs, wildebeests, zebras, hippos and some of more than 500 bird species of the area. After an entire morning of game viewing and a picnic lunch in the crater, you will travel to Mto wa Mbu where you will spend a night in a lodge.

After a leisurely breakfast, you will be driven to the Lake Manyara National Park. Not only is this park a bird-lover’s paradise with over 400 species of birds, but is also home to primates such as baboons and blue monkeys and many herbivores such as elephants, hippos, wildebeest, impalas and giraffes. You might even catch a glimpse of the more carnivorous inhabitants, such as leopards and lions. Through the pop-up roof of your safari vehicle you will see the landscape changing from lush acacia woodlands to grassy flood-plains, where colonies of flamingos and other water fowls can be found on the alkaline Lake Manyara shoreline. After extensive game viewing you will leave the park and you will start your return trip to Moshi/Arusha. You will be dropped off at a hotel of your choice or at the airport.