Day 1: Nairobi / Arusha
After breakfast, pick up from your Nairobi Hotel.
Depart for Arusha town via Namanga border town for
immigration formalities and arrive in time for lunch.
Lunch Dinner and Overnight at an Arusha Campsite
Day
2: Arusha / Ngorongoro
After breakfast, pick up from your Arusha hotel and
proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for afternoon game
drive. A good network of tracks and roads in the park
allows excellent viewing opportunities.
Animals seen include buffalo and elephant. Other animals
present that can be seen with luck are the tree climbing
lions, leopard and black rhino. Lesser flamingos and
Egyptian geese are some of the birds seen here.
Packed lunch, Dinner and Overnight at a
Ngorongoro campsite
Day 3: Ngorongoro
After breakfast, depart for the Ngorongoro
crater for a full day of tracking game with your guide
on the crater floor. You will break for your picnic
lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. All the big
five may be seen. Other species encountered are cheetah,
grant’s and Thompson’s gazelle, common zebra, wildbeest
and the spotted hyena. Flamingos may also be seen at the
Crater Lake. This day will truly be an unforgettable
encounter.
Packed lunch, Dinner and Overnight at a
Ngorongoro campsite
Day 4: Ngorongoro / Tarangire
After breakfast, leave Ngorongoro for Tarangire
National Park which serves as a dry season refuge for
animals from as far north as Serengeti and Ngorongoro as
it has Permanent River flowing across it. The park has
an atmosphere of remoteness and has fewer visitors than
the other parks in Tanzania’s northern circuit. Arrive
in time for a game drive; lunch will be taken enroute.
The park contains all the big five except leopard. Other
migratory game seen here includes Cape buffalo, hoopoes,
lovebirds, starling, rock pythons, albino giraffe, puff
adders, the fringe eared Oryx and the gerenuk.
Dinner and overnight at a Tarangire campsite.
Day 5: Tarangire / Nairobi City
After breakfast proceed on a game drive then depart
for Arusha for lunch and your onward transfer to Nairobi
via Namanga border town for immigration formalities,
arriving in the evening followed by transfer to the
airport to fly back home.
