5 Nights | 6 Days: Glimpse of Serengeti & the Ngorongoro

JAMBO – KARIBU!! Twiga Tours Representatives will warmly meet you upon arrival at the Kilimanjaro International Airport with our traditional, unique & special welcome (bubbly, wet towels and presentation of authentic safari hat and a beautiful authentic canvas pouch filled with safari essentials). Afterwards, your guide driver will help you in loading your luggage in the vehicle and transfer to Arusha for an overnight stay.

After breakfast, you will be assisted to check out and have your luggage loaded in the safari vehicle and depart for Ngorongoro Conservation area. Arrive for check in, thereafter lunch. This afternoon just relax and enjoy the facilities at the property.
The Ngorongoro Area has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 metres deep, 20 kilometres in diameter, and covers an area of 311 sq. km.

With the exception of impala and topi (due to fierce competition with the wildebeest) and the giraffe (because there is not much to eat at tree level), almost every species of African plains mammal lives in the crater, including the endangered black rhino, and the densest population of predators in Africa.
Enjoy dinner and overnight at your preferred choice of accommodation.

NOTE: Warm jacket/cardigan is highly recommended.

After breakfast descend some 600 metres into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a full day of game-viewing drive with picnic lunch at a private scenic site. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world, has an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor.

Prides of lions, herds of cape buffalo, impala, Thompson gazelles, rhino, giraffes, golden & black-backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena. Unmatched for its natural variety & breath-taking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area, also a home to hundreds of bird species, refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor. Return for dinner and overnight at your preferred choice of accommodation.

Enjoy a sumptuous breakfast then depart for Serengeti via Oldupai Gorge where hominid footprints believed to be 3.6million years old were found. We will enjoy an on-site talk on the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide. Arrive at your lodge for lunch and some afternoon at rest.

Enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive. Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometres, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s oldest park, and one of the world’s last great wildlife refuges. It stretches as far as Lake Victoria to the West. Its name comes from the Maasai word Siringet, meaning ‘endless plains’. The western corridor is a region of wooded highland and extensive plains reaching the edge of Lake Victoria. In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. It is the sanctuary of an estimated four million different animals and birds.

Enjoy dinner and overnight at your preferred choice of accommodation.

Breakfast at your camp/lodge and proceed to enjoy a full day of morning and afternoon game viewing drives in the Serengeti National Park. Hundreds of predators roam the vast savannah plains. We have a high density of cheetahs in the south. Serengeti is also home to hundreds of bird species; among them the out-sized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird, the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills. Enjoy all meals and overnight at your proffered choice of accommodation.

Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast.

This morning, you will enjoy our breakfast then check-out. Unbelievable but true, our good bush moments have come to an end. With us are photographs – a capture of the special moments we have had on this tour to immortalise the experience. Our guide driver will drop you at the airstrip for your short flight to Arusha. Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight.