Amazing Serena Safari-5Days/4Nights

Driving distance – 1hour (53kms) Your driver guide will be at the airport waiting for you, he will carry a sign board with your names on it. We will be happy to get your flight details. After meet and greet, he will drive you from the Airport to your overnight Hotel in Arusha Town which is about 1hour drive. Depend on the arrival time and if you will be tired or not but you can go out to see the town and shop around.

Depart in the morning by road to Lake Manyara National Park, 130kms out of Arusha town. About 3hours driving on paved road. On arrival at the Park gate you will complete Park registration official procedures then enjoy thrilling game drive in the park with your knowledgeable and experienced guide who will share with you information concerning wildlife you spot in the park.
Just past the gate, you will come across a wonderful green forest, home of large group of baboons, visit the Hippo pool where hippos spend their day lying in the water and enjoy listening to the nice grumbling sounds of those amazing animals.
The Park is couched between the remarkable Rift Valley escarpment and the sparkling waters of the lake. Lake Manyara National Park is a lush little lock of paradise where you can find Elephant, Zebra, Baboons, monkeys, hippos, Giraffe, flamingos, many species of antelope and exciting elusive tree lions (best chance to see a lion in a tree is late afternoon). Lake Manyara is a true paradise for bird lovers.
Venture into the open air to watch giraffe, antelope and zebra grazing against the eye-catching blue backdrop of the lake. The animals can generally be found in closeness to the road and easily observed and photographed at a very close range.
Best time to visit this park is from June to October, good time from November to February.

(Optional): Visit Mto Wa Mbu, where you will spend an two hours wandering around this busy town. Visit market stalls with local produce, Learn more about the life of Tanzania, the Maasai culture and 120 cultural tribes group living in this area some in which living in traditional huts. Visit local craftsmen, banana plantations, taste banana beer in an authentic bar. Lunch is served by a cheerful Tanzanian “mamma” who will delight you with tasty local dishes.

After breakfast, our journey takes us west and north to exciting destination being a name familiar to everyone – the Serengeti! your driver guide will help you to spot animals and birds while having en route game drives. Lunch will be picnic saved on the way. Game drive in the park until evening where you will drive to the lodge for overnight. Serengeti is Tanzania ’s oldest and most famous National Park. You will take a game drive through the massive open plains. The park is one of the parks in Africa with the highest concentration of wildlife. The park is dominated by huge herds of plains game such as zebra, wildebeest, and antelope. There are many kopjes scattered across the plain where attendant predators such as lion and cheetah are to be found Leopard can often be found draped in the trees along the Seronera River.
Serengeti has it’s own matchless and experience, marveling at the stunning scenery, ever-changing light and always entertaining wildlife.

Today you will work a bit earlier and enjoy a sunrise game drives in Serengeti National Park, you will continue with game drive in Serengeti – Seronera area before return to the lodge for Brunch-breakfast and lunch together, then you will depart Serengeti and head to Ngorongoro conservation area with game en-route arriving Ngorongoro in the evening.

Early morning after breakfast served at the Lodge, descent in the Crater the home of 270,000 Wild Animals. Game drive in Crater until afternoon where you will drive to the selected picnic site near the hippo pool for Lunch. thereafter you will have a short
Besides the stunning scenery of the Ngorongoro Crater one of the main attraction of this area is the variety of flora and fauna found a remarkably compact area all around the year. Ngorongoro crater is the best place to see black rhinoceros, wildebeest, zebra, and gazelles. The crater also has the densest known population of lions and it’s the place you can find the black-manned lion. The crater has a population of around 120 lions, with well-defined territories; 15,000 wildebeest, 9,000 zebra, 400 hyenas, and around 50 black rhino. Many wildebeest and other herd animals are resident, benefiting from the many sources of year-round waters and are boosted by some migratory in season. Buffalo, Thomson’s gazelle and eland are also present in numbers. Hippos can be found in pools and swampland and highland bird-life is colorful and plentiful around the waters. Flamingos can often be seen in Lake Magadi, which occupies part of the crater floor.

You will be arriving Arusha around 16:00hrs. Drop off at Kilimanjaro international Airport for flight back home or to Zanzibar. You can simply depart on this day only if you have booked domestic flights departing JRO from 19:00hrs on wards OR International Flight departs at 20:00hrs onwards. If not, you will need to book a post night accommodation for any earlier flight.