3Days Ngorongoro Tarangire Experience

No matter what your arrival time at Kilimanjaro International Airport, your guide will be waiting for you with a warm welcoming smile. Kick back and relax as he takes you to the hotel in Arusha- Tanzania’s self styled safari capital. On your way to the hotel, you will get a brief impression of this bustling commercial city. Depending on your arrival time, you may have your pre-safari briefing today, if not, it will take place early tomorrow morning.

Safari briefing, if time not allowed yesterday, then this will be done after breakfast. We will provide you with all the necessary information, before we set off to our first safari destination,
In the morning our two hours journey takes us westwards from Arusha to Lake Manyara national park. You will get to know your driver-guide, amazed at his depth of knowledge as he with ease answers all your questions. Along the way your eyes will be opened to see all the colors and nature of Tanzania. Sometimes Maasai herdsmen heading their flocks of goats and cows to new pasture. Enjoy Tarangire national park doing game drives in this huge park with its incredible diversity massive baobab trees, big heads of elephant and its rolling savannah and acacia woodland.
As you stand at the park gate and look south, it stretches as far as the eyes can see. The park is also home to Buffalo, Lion, Zebras, Wildebeest, gazelle and can rival Serengeti for total animal densities. Talk to your guide to find you an Agama lizard especially a male one who changes color in front of you according to the temperature! or a pimpi known as hyrax an insignificant-looking creature of around 30cm in length, who amazingly is related to the elephant.
After time spent there in the park, we continue to the selected picnic sites where we will eat our picnic lunch which is nutritious and balanced meal.
Our afternoon journey we continue onwards to Ngorongoro conservation area taking us around 2 hours, where we will eat the dinner which is full cooked meal and spend the night.

Ngorongoro will be our final destination today.
In the morning visit the incomparable Ngorongoro crater, lunch which will be packed balanced meal, we will have a 4hours journey back to Kilimanjaro International Airport, covering the 250kms.

The stunning crater of Ngorongoro is a unique home for many species of Tanzania’s wildlife. With some luck, you may even see a black Rhinoceros here.
From our accommodation, we set off after breakfast, at 06:00am departure to reach the rim and then descend into the vast crater itself. At one side there is Lerai Forest, classic mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. This is good elephant country, so keep your eyes peeled. By the side of the nearby swampland is what is sometimes called the ‘elephant graveyard’ as the mighty male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the soft, swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.
The crater has a population of around 120 lions, with well-defined territories, up to 15,000 wildebeest and 9,000 thousand zebras, 400 hyenas, and around 50 black Rhinocerous. 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. Eland, Thomson gazelle, and Buffalo are also present in numbers. Hippos can be seen in pools and swampland, Flamingos can frequently be seen in Lake Magadi, which occupies part of the crater floor. Highland birdlife is colorful and abundant around the waters.

You will be arriving in Arusha around 16:00hrs. Drop off at Kilimanjaro International Airport for a 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 onwards OR International Flight departs at 20:00hrs onwards. If not, you will need to book a post-night accommodation for an earlier flight.