6 Nights | 7 Days: Tanzania Highlights Safari

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

AMKA! Wake Up! After breakfast, you will be assisted to check out and drive to the Ngorongoro arriving for check-in & 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. It 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 meters deep, 20 kilometers in diameter, and covers an area of 311 sq. km. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. 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. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal, and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

Return back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

NOTE: Warm jacket/cardigan is highly recommended.

Enjoy a sumptuous breakfast then we descend some 610 meters 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.

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 freely roam on the crater floor plains. 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 late afternoon to your lodge. Enjoy dinner and overnight.

Enjoy breakfast then we depart from Ngorongoro with a brief stop at the Olduvai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn on human evolution. We will enjoy an on-site talk on the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide before continuing onto Serengeti, one the BEST game parks in Tanzania.

Enjoy enroute game viewing drive to the lodge. Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s oldest park, and one of the world’s last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals.

Enjoy dinner & overnight.

This morning after breakfast, we depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains.

In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The Rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted & striped hyena, the rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, the Maasai giraffe among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoiled by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve with game-viewing drives.

Enjoy dinner and overnight at our lodge.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

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

Enjoy breakfast then depart with picnic lunch via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Tarangire arriving for an afternoon game viewing drive in this area dotted with majestic baobab trees, stately eland antelopes among other game. The park is home to the migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem – a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge.

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 you have had on this tour to immortalize the experience.

Begin your drive back to Arusha where you will be dropped off at the international airport for your onward flight.

ASANTE SANA NA SAFARI NJEMA!