7 DAYS TANZANIA TANGO SAFARI

Highlights:
On this trip, you will visit Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park, two of the
Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife areas. View the incredible Ngorongoro Crater – traverse the
length of Serengeti, staying in two of the very best mid-range wildlife locations in the park.
Look for big cats, elephants, wild buffalo, rhino, wildebeest and much more on game drives with an outstanding guide. Stay at comfortable Safari lodges.

ITINERARY

DAY 1
Welcome to Kilimanjaro Int’l Airport Tanzania! Clear the customs and retrieve your baggage. Upon arrival, be greeted by our tour guide at the airport. You will be transferred to for dinner and overnight stay.

Meals: D Accommodation: Arusha Planet Lodge

DAY 2
Arusha – Ngorongoro Crater
We will pick you up from the lodge at 7:30 AM after the breakfast and depart for Ngorongoro Crater for game viewing activities. The Ngorongoro Crater is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the largest un-flooded and unbroken caldera on earth, formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself two to three million years ago. Now it’s a home to over 30,000 animals, including all members of the Big Five. You will enjoy a half day game drive in the crater along with picnic lunches served at the Hippo Pool site. Dinner and overnight at the lodge located on the rim of the crater.

Approx transit time: 3 hrs
Meals: B, L, D Accommodation: Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge

DAY 3
Ngorongoro – Serengeti (Central)
After breakfast, check out from the lodge (Ngorongoro) with packed lunch and descend into the crater for morning game viewing. Later ascend and proceed to Serengeti National Park with- a brief stop at Olduvai Gorge Museum on the way. It is within this steep sided ravine that Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world’s most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s. Here in a small museum we are able to see evidence of our ancestors that have been dated back 2.5 million years. After a picnic lunch you will drive into the Serengeti and the rest of the afternoon is spent for game viewing in the vast plains that are broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje. These volcanic rocky outcrops (Kopje) provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide you with the ultimate in game viewing. You will hopefully see all of the wild animals – elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetahs, as well as wide variety of interesting bird life. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Approx transit time: 3 hrs
Meals: B, L, D Accommodation: Seronera Wildlife lodge

DAYS 4-6
Serengeti (North)
After breakfast, drive to Serengeti North with picnic lunches en route. You have the mighty Serengeti National Park at your leisure for three days; you can choose to be as active as you feel. Activities include traditional 4×4 game drives tracking the Big 5, visit the Moru Kopje, Retina Hippo pool, witness the wildebeest migration, and bird watching. Watch the plains over which a
million wildebeest and a quarter million zebra migrate annually borne by natural instinct and thundering hooves. All meals and overnights at the lodge.

Meals: B, L, D Accommodation: Lobo Wildlife lodge

DAY 7
Serengeti – Departure (Fly out)
After a leisurely breakfast, you will have more game drive in northern area. After an early lunch transfer to Lobo or Kogatende Airstrip for a schedule flight to Kilimanjaro Int’l Airport (Optional- Pre-breakfast game drive and return for a brunch) Meet upon arrival for assistance where will connect your outward flight back home or other destinations

Approx transit time: Flight 2 hrs
Meals: B, L Accommodation: No accommodation
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