Visit Lake Manyara, home of pink-hued flamingos, pelicans, cormorants and storks. Then to Serengeti National Park for two nights. This tour can be custom made to follow the wildebeest migration depending on the month and where they will be. Wind up your safari with a tour of Ngorongoro Crater for 1night, which protects the Olduvai Gorge which was instrumental in furthering the understanding of early human evolution.

Day 1: Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast, depart to the beautiful Lake Manyara, a shallow alkaline lake that shimmers in a cleft in the Great Rift Valley. You will arrive for lunch followed by an afternoon game drive. Tucked below the majesty of the Rift Valley wall, Lake Manyara National Park consists of a thin green band of forest, flanked by the sheer 600m high red and brown cliffs of the escarpment on one side and by the white-hot shores of an ancient soda lake on the other. Acacia woodland shelters the park’s famous tree climbing lions, lying languidly among the branches in the heat of the day. Lake Manyara safaris offers many unique views including elephant, giraffe, buffalo and wildebeest can be found grazing in unexpected clearings or heading towards the water to drink or wash, and the rivers and riverbeds provide scenic vistas for possible animal spotting.

Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Day 2 - 3: Lake Manyara - Serengeti National Park

This morning departure for Serengeti National Park with a stop en-route at Olduvai Gorge. Olduvai is the famous archeological site where Leakey discovered remains of Australopithecus, Homo habilis and Homo erectus, bringing crucial understanding to the study of the evolution of the human species. From Olduvai set off to the “Great Serengeti”, likely the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world. Arrive with a game viewing drive en route to your camp. On the second day, you will have morning and afternoon game view drive with all meals and overnight at the camp. The vast Serengeti plains cover an area of over 14,763 square kilometers and during the months of the migration, is the habitat of huge numbers of wildebeest, zebra and Thomson’s gazelle with estimates of up to 1.5 million. The Serengeti “Kopjes”, massive boulder islands of granite standing in a sea of grass, provide shelter to a great variety of plants and animals, from the elusive leopard to the tiny dik dik.

Meals and overnight at the lodge.

Day 4: Serengeti - Ngorongoro Crater

We will drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area with picnic lunch provided, we will descend into the famous Ngorongoro crater for a game drive the rest of the day. Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and this crater also protects the Olduvai Gorge, a site considered to be the origin of humanity after the discovery of the earliest
specimens of the human genus, homo habilis. Serengeti Park Tanzania’s oldest and most popular park which is famous, among others, for its annual migration of over 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest.

Meals and overnight at the lodge.

Day 5: Ngorongoro -  Arusha

This morning after breakfast you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro airport for your International flight back home. Optional extensions to Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Rwanda or Maasai Mara are available on request basis.

End of tour.