Arrival at Kilimanjaro airport and receive by our guide and transferred to your hotel dinner and overnight a Green mountain hotel.
After breakfast, you will be picked up from your Hotel and then drive to Lake Manyara National Park for
game drive, late afternoon drive to your Hotel for dinner and overnight at lake Manyara
The name Manyara is derived from the Masai word “Emanyara”, which is a Euphorbia species of plant
that is found around a family homestead in the area. After an early breakfast we drive down into the
valley and explore the Lake Manyara National Park. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold
600-metre-high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest
Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.
Here guests will be introduced to large buffalo, wildebeest, giraffes and zebra herds congregating on the
grassy plains while the narrow belt of acacia wood bordering the plains are the favored haunt of
Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants. Taking in the expansive
views eastward, across the central soda lake we will be amazed by the sight of thousands of pink-hued
flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as storks, cormorants and
pelicans. At the Southern end of the park, we will visit algae-streaked Sulphur hot water
springs known as (MajiMoto) bubbling from deep within the earth.
Early in the morning we drive to Ngorongoro crater descend to the crater floor where you will be
amazed by the sheer number and diversity of animals and bird life. Seated or standing in our pop-up
safari vehicles the viewing opportunities are endless, just deciding which way to look and what to look
at, the choices are unlimited.
The sheer excitement as we spot any of the Big 5 or we get the call over the radio that a lion is perched
high atop a nearby rocky outcrop or a black rhino has been sighted and rush with our vehicle to catch a
glimpse before the moment passes. The excitement mounts again as arrive to yet another sighting,
perhaps a lioness and her cubs right next to our vehicle. The sheer excitement of the chase is
indescribable. Dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge.
You will be picked up after breakfast, drive to Tarangire National park for game drive.
This park is famous of having groups of elephants; Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed
for underground streams, while 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.
During the rainy season, the seasonal visitors scatter over a 20,000 sq. km (12,500 sq. miles) range until
they exhaust the green plains and the river calls once more. But Tarangire’s mobs of elephant are easily
encountered, wet or dry.
The swamps, tinged green year-round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the most breeding species in
one habitat anywhere in the world. Late afternoon drive to Arusha / Kilimanjaro international airport
and drop off.
Situated in the very best locations within prime game-viewing areas.
Our team welcomes you with warmth and makes you feel at home with genuine African hospitality.
Rely on us to arrange anything you may need, with a superb level of quality throughout.
