On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be met and welcomed by our Nature in Spirit Travel guide and transfer to Arusha, a journey that takes approximately 1h30m. Your Tanzania Wildlife Up-Close adventure is about to begin! If the weather is good you will get to see a glimpse of Mount Kilimanjaro on the way. You will also see people alongside the road conducting their normal daily activities. Feel free to tell your driver to stop the vehicle in case you see anything interesting that you need clarity on. You will get to the hotel in good to check-in and relax as you wait for dinner.

Main destination: Arusha City

Accommodation: Arusha Coffee Lodge

After breakfast, you will depart the hotel with picnic lunch to Arusha National Park, one of the small and accessible parks in the northern part of Tanzania.

When you arrive at the park, you will get to experience variety of landscapes including Mt Meru, Fig tree arch, Momella lakes, Ngurdoto Crater with wildlife and an incredibly diverse amount of birdlife.

It is also place where you get to have a wonderful feeling of tranquillity and solitude. If the weather is good, your Guide can find a place for you to get a glimpse of Mt. Kilimanjaro. You will have lunch in one of the parks picnic sites as you enjoy the tranquil views then proceed with game drive.

In the late afternoon, at around 16:00 you will drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight as you look forward to continue with your Tanzania Wildlife Up-Close adventure tomorrow.

Main destination: Arusha National Park

Accommodation: Arusha Coffee Lodge

After breakfast, you’ll journey to Tarangire National Park, approximately two and a half hours from Arusha. You will experience a change in landscape, vegetation and culture as you drive towards Tarangire. You will see villages and locals operating along roadside shops and food vendors selling variety of food products. You can stop at any point if you’d like to visit a store or take a market tour.

You will drive straight to the lodge, check-in, have lunch and rest a bit before you go out for an afternoon game drive which end at around 17:00. After the game drive, you will enjoy the beautiful view of the sunset as you drive back to the lodge.

Main destination: Tarangire National Park

Accommodation: Maramboi Tented Lodge

Equipped with picnic lunch, after breakfast you will go for a full day game drive to Tanzania’s elephant’s headquarters, Tarangire National Park. The morning and afternoon are yours to explore the imposing National Park, host to more than 500 bird species.

You will have lunch in one of the picnic sites and proceed with game drive in other areas of the park. Big game viewing is absolutely rewarding here as you have uncountable animals to search for from giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests to lions. Tarangire River, the main source of water in the park, tends to draw a lot of wild animals. While you have an opportunity to see a variety of wildlife up-close in Tarangire, on the other hand, animals like leopards, cheetahs and hyenas are rare in the park. So, this is a game of chance.

Before sunset, you will head back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Tarangire National Park

Accommodation: Maramboi Tented Lodge

After breakfast, set off to Lake Manyara National Park, an unspoiled paradise best known for its abundance of birds and tree-climbing lions. You will see the Great Rift Valley escarpment, flowering plants, an evergreen forest and the shallow alkaline Lake Manyara. The lake covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons and is home to thousands of flamingos during the rains and that makes the park spectacular with many photographing opportunities. The Park’s vegetation is diverse, ranging from Savannah to evergreen forest. The Park is also home to thousands of herbivores and carnivores. You will have lunch in one of the park’s picnic sites.

After lunch and a successful game drive you will drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight. You will end the day listening to amazing bird sounds from trees and gardens at the lodge where you will spend your night.

Main destination: Lake Manyara National Park

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House

After an early breakfast, you will depart to Lake Eyasi, a seasonal shallow Salt Lake on the Great Rift’s floor that attracts hippos who like to calm in its high salinity water.

Your tour begins when you meet a group of Hadzabe people who are always excited to share their hunting skills with visitors. They are the only true hunter-gatherers left in East Africa. You will have the opportunity to hunt, track wildlife, make a fire, collect honey from beehives and learn a lot about their customs and way of life. Your visit will be worthwhile because you will get a glimpse of authentic African culture. You will drive back to the lodge for lunch and have 2 hours of rest.

Later in the afternoon you will head out for a breathtaking 2h30m nature walk in elephant caves and waterfalls of Ngorongoro forest.

The caves were formed many years ago when elephants used to visit the rocks to obtain some nutritious mineral as the rocks are rich in calcium. Elephants would continuously hit the rocks with their tusks and eat the resulting pieces of mineral sand which helped their bones strong. Big holes from elephant’s rock hits are still there and the local nearby community calls them elephant caves. You will then return to the lodge at around 17:00 for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Lake Eyasi

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House

You’ll begin the day with the scenic drive towards the Central Serengeti. Along the way you’ll pass through the rainforests of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you might encounter wildlife up-close like baboon, vervet monkeys, warthogs, buffalo etc. As you enter Serengeti you will be welcomed by beautiful endless plains with wildebeest, zebras, and impalas roaming the grassy plains.

You will drive to the camp to check-in, have lunch and rest before you head out for an afternoon game drive. Serengeti has a lot to offer so prepare yourself to explore this rich ecosystem full of game viewing opportunities.

As dusk draws close, you will drive to the camp whilst enjoying the views of sunset for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Kenzan Tented Camp

Today after breakfast you will head out for a full day game drive. You will journey from open plains to the kopjes, volcanic rocky outcrops that provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide you with the ultimate game viewing opportunities. Serengeti is home to the great migration over the huge flat plains, you are likely to come across predators like lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas and many other small predators. You will have lunch with the great view of the horizon in one of the designated picnic sites. After a successful day of game viewing, you will drive back to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Kenzan Tented Camp

Early in the morning have tea/ coffee at 6:00, depart at 6:30 with breakfast for a morning game drive, good opportunity to see some nocturnal animals and also explore the iconic savanna plains of Serengeti National Park, recently crowned “best National Park in Africa” by the World Travel Awards. You will have breakfast in the bush along with the beautiful golden coloured sunrise. You will relish variety of wildlife in this World Heritage site known to have the highest concentration of wildlife as you go on a game drive. Serengeti is also primed for its Great Migration of more than 2 million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of zebras and many other species of antelopes that occur every year, attracting thousands of carnivores.

You will go back to the camp for lunch and check out. At around 02:00pm, you will leave the camp heading to Ndutu with game en route. Ndutu is located in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, south of Serengeti National Park. There are almost two million wildebeest and zebra that move through the area each year. Ndutu is also home to cheetah, lion, giraffe and hundreds of bird species. On February which is the calving season, the Migration is at Ndutu, the wildebeest give birth to approximately 8,000 babies a day.

You will explore Lake Ndutu, the alkaline lake that attracts a wide range of wildlife that come around to drink and for cooling off their bodies. Continue searching for the best game viewing spots across Ndutu, which is usually heavily populated with elephants, wildebeests, Zebra, antelopes and big cats especially from December to April. As dusk draws close, you will leave the Lake behind you as you drive to the Camp for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Ndutu

Accommodation: Kenzan Mobile Camp Ndutu

After a breakfast, head out to enjoy a full day game drive in the Ndutu area, following the herds of wildebeests, Zebras and Gazelles who will be culminating the famous calving season. This is after nearly half a million of them had already been born from January, forming the sea of ungulates that attracts hungry predators, making live kill a possibility to spot.

You will have lunch in the middle of the wilderness before going on with an exploration of awesome sights of the great vibrant herds of wildebeest, zebras and antelopes.

The blanket of grass is advantageous for the herds as it provides cover from predators as well as providing much-needed nutrients to the calves who are able to run minutes after they are born and within 3 days, they are normally strong enough to keep up with the herds.

Main destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Ndutu

Accommodation: Kenzan Mobile Camp Ndutu

After breakfast you will depart the lodge at 07:00am and head out with picnic lunch to Ngorongoro Crater, a multiple land use where animals and people have managed to co-exist together in harmony. You will descend down this self-sustaining 600-meter-high caldera. Ngorongoro Crater, which is only 10 miles across, was created as a result of volcano activities. You will venture the floor of the crater in search for game viewing opportunity as this place has a variety of wildlife species to offer.

You will have lunch in one of the designated areas then continue with game drive on the self-sustaining ecosystem where you will come across a variety of wildlife species and if lucky you will be able to spot rare black rhino. High predator population can also be found in this self-sustaining ecosystem. You will also visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern, which is one of the main features of the crater where large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds are found.

During the evening you will ascend the crater and drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

After breakfast, you will drive back to Arusha. Put your cameras close to catch what you might come across as a parting memory. When you get to Arusha you will have lunch at Arusha Coffee lodge rest a bit before you transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your onward flight.

Main destination: Arusha City/Airport