Depart from Arusha and proceed to Tarangire National Park for morning and afternoon game drives. This park is seasonally outstanding for wildlife, second only to the Ngorongoro Crater as a dry season home for migratory animals. Some 3,000 elephants live in the park, in addition to wildebeests, plains zebras, fringe-eared oryxes, common elands, gazelles, hartebeests, and buffaloes that congregate around the Tarangire River, the main source of in the dry season.
Enjoy both a morning and late afternoon game drive. Tarangire is a very good park for spotting lions and is also a stunning place for birds. Tarangire is a great park for birding not only because of the diversity of birds to be found here but also because of the excellent viewing conditions afforded by its sparse vegetation.
After an early morning game drive in Tarangire, proceed to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Tour the Ngorongoro crater- the most famous feature of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve. The crater is the largest unbroken caldera (collapsed volcanic cone) in the world. This area is fabulous for wildlife with some 25,000 large animals entering and leaving the crater at will, including lions, spotted hyenas, wildebeests, plains zebras, gazelles and buffaloes. This is the only place you are likely to see black rhino in Tanzania.
Drive into the Serengeti National Park, game-viewing en route. Following lunch, enjoy a late afternoon game drive.
Enjoy two game drives in the largest of Tanzania’s national parks and by the far the most famous park in Africa. The size of Northern Ireland, this park offers some of the best wildlife viewing in Africa. It is the best place in Tanzania to see cheetahs and, because of the open plains and sparse vegetation, it offers outstanding views of other predators, including lions, leopards, jackals and spotted hyenas.
Explore more of this huge park, viewing the large populations of ungulates, including giraffes, topis, and elands. This park is also famous for its migrations of wildebeests, zebras and gazelles.
After an early morning game drive, proceed to Lake Manyara National Park, arriving in time for dinner.
Enjoy a morning game drive in the Park. Though a small park, Manyara has a diverse array of habitats and supports an enormous number of bird species, including, if conditions are right, thousands of pink-backed pelicans, yellow-bird storks, and lesser numbers of marabou storks and grey herons. For the lucky ones, the flamingos will be at the lake, appearing in the hundreds of thousands and then leaving without warning. Depart for Arusha in the afternoon.
