8- DAY: TARANGIRE, SERENGETI, KOGATENDE, CENTRAL SERENGETI AND NGORONGORO

ARRIVAL IN ARUSHA.

Our representative (or your guide) will meet you at the airport, pick you up and transfer you to your lodge in Arusha. The drive from the airport to your hotel is about 45min. Your safari consultant together with your safari guide will brief you on various aspects of your itinerary including sharing all the important tips before the safari begins.

Dinner and overnight at Arusha mount Meru hotel

DAY 1 – TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK.

Soon after healthy breakfast, your guide will pick you from your hotel for a leisure ride to Tarangire for a game drive viewing. This park is known for a great number of elephants, birdlife, big cats and other fabulous wildlife. During the dry season Tarangire River, which cuts through the park, is attractor for animal life. You will have your lunch in picnic site before drive to your camp after enough game drive.

DAY 2 – CENTRAL SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.

You will start drive early in the morning after breakfast to Serengeti National Park as known as “Endless Plain” denoted from Maasai language. You will drive via Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will have few minutes of crater view. After break you will proceed to Serengeti National Park for afternoon game drive where you will have opportunities to cross the heard of mammals and other fabulous wildlife animals. Central Serengeti and Seronera River Valley is “heart” game area of wildlife through the year. This area is permanent “home” for numbers of wildlife such as “big five”.

DAY 3 – NORTHERN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.

This morning after breakfast you will drive to North Serengeti, as driving you will pass through herds of wildlife before getting Kogatende where Mara River Crossing and migration will welcome you. At evening you will have an opportunity to view great migration as wildebeest, zebras across the river. The river tends to flow all the day of august during that time you will count part of the wildebeest herds stock across the river.

DAY 4-FULL DAY AT KOGATENDE

Your second day at Kogatende (North Serengeti), apart from crossing Kogatende is full of actions, predator hunting prays, pray grazing and feed themselves in an open plains that is easy to see them. Your driver guide will know the best game route with packed lunch at one of the picnic site within a park.

Dinner and overnight at camp / lodge

DAY 5: GREAT MIGRATION AND MARA RIVER CROSSING IN NORTHERN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

Immediately after healthy breakfast you will proceed with game drive and witness the “the world greatest show” where crocodiles lick their thickset jaw in anticipation in the Grumeti river. The “big cats” such as lion hunting in the long grasses on savannah, leopard on acacia trees hang the meet on the tree, cheetah lies on rocks under the sun wait for the fresh meat from wildebeest, zebras and more. It will be an Amazing moment for you.

DAY 6 – NORTH SERENGETI – CENTRAL SERENGETI

Morning after breakfast you will start moving to central Serengeti from North (Kogatende). Memorize the final game drive in Serengeti accompanied with a lot of pictures. Always Serengeti is rich of big cats, buffalos, zebras, hippo, and a lot of species of birds-as you come out of the north Serengeti to central Serengeti.

You will reach at your camp at central Serengeti during lunch hours. You will have lunch at your camp / lodge, then after no game drive but time to refresh and enjoy the nature at your beautiful camp.

Then dinner and overnight at your camp / lodge

DAY 7 – CENTRAL SERENGETI – NGORONGORO CRATER

Is amazing and unforgettable moment for you to descend to the floor of the crater which the size is about 102 square miles/264 square km. The Ngorongoro crater is unfilled, intact and inactive volcano in the whole world. This impressive crater is over 600 meters (2000feet) deep. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area has the most 20,000 larger mammals and other small wild animals also various species of the birds. Also, the crater has forest habitat which is the home for buffalos, zebras and other herbivorous without forget nests for birds. You will spend a day in the crater accompanied with picnic lunch. Later your guide will drive you to Karatu for dinner and overnight.

DAY 8 – KARATU – ARUSHA

This will be your last day on safari, your guide will take you to Maasai boma for a short cultural tour, and also you will pass through curio shops to buy some gifts for your friends and lovers before transferred to Kilimanjaro international airport to catch your flight back home.