TG9: Luxury Safari: Arusha, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti
Programme Overview
Duration: 8 days
A chance to see all the highlights of Northern Tanzania in complete luxury
Highlights: Arusha, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti
Arusha
Meet at Kilimanjaro airport and transfer to Arusha. Arusha is fondly considered the safari capital of Tanzania, the first stop to the famous Northern safari circuit of Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire.
Overnight: Arusha Coffee Lodge
Meal Plan: D
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, transfer to Arusha airstrip for your schedule flight to Tarangire National Park. Arrive in time for a morning game drive followed by lunch in camp.
Tarangire is famous for the hundreds of baobab and marula trees that dot its landscape as far as the eye can see. It is also home to the largest herds of elephants in Northern Tanzania.
In the afternoon, enjoy game drive in the park.
Overnight: Sanctuary Swala
Meal Plan: B,L,D
Tarangire National Park
Enjoy a full day spent in the Tarangire with thrilling morning and afternoon game drives.
Overnight: Sanctuary Swala
Meal Plan: B,L,D
Ngorongoro
After breakfast short game drive en route to Ngorongoro for lunch at Gibb‟s Farm.
The Ngorongoro crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world and the first sight of it is breathtaking. The fertile slopes and steep forest covered walls are home to around 30,000 animals including the rare black rhino.
After lunch continue to the Ngorongoro Highlands.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge or Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan: B,L,D
Ngorongoro
After breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive in the crater floor with picnic lunches.
No area known can offer a natural scenic grandeur with six mountain peaks of 9,800 feet constantly in sight. Ngorongoro was an active volcano some four million years ago, whose cone collapsed leaving a crater, or caldera, 2,000 feet deep, ten miles across, and 337 square miles in area. Why and how animals found it their permanent sanctuary remains the 8th wonder of the world!
In the afternoon, visit Maasai village and learn about the culture of the local people.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge or Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan: B,L,D
Serengeti
Enjoy your breakfast this morning before embarking to Serengeti via Olduvai Gorge with picnic lunch, game drive en route.
Olduvai Gorge is the site of Dr. and Mrs. L.S.B. Leakey's discovery of Zinjanthropus bosei. The Gorge was discovered accidentally by a German butterfly collector, Professor Kattwinkle, in 1911, but it was not until 1959 that Dr. Mary Leakey unearthed the Zinj skull believed to be 1.8 million years old.
Overnight: Sanctuary Kusini
Meal Plan: B,L,D
Serengeti
Enjoy your day in the Serengeti with morning and afternoon game drives.
The principal attraction of the Serengeti is the passing of the wildebeest migration, 1.5 million wildebeest, and a retinue comprising of hundreds of thousands of zebra, gazelle and other plains game that follow close behind, stalked by the inevitable predators who make the most of the ‘feast’ close at hand.
Overnight: Sanctuary Kusini
Meal Plan: B,L,D
Arusha
After breakfast transfer to the airstrip for a schedule flight to Arusha, arriving for lunch and use of day room at Arusha Coffee Lodge. In the afternoon, transfer to Kilimanjaro airport.
Meal Plan: B,L