Luxury Safari to Serengeti-8Days/7Nights

Our driver will pick you upon arrival at the Airport and drive you to the Hotel in Arusha town booked for overnight stay and refreshment. As local Tanzanian your guides know the country with perfect knowledge, so you will be in good hands from the moment you land to the moment you depart. A short briefing will be provided with all the necessary safari information before travel. Evening free at the lodge with dinner and relaxation at Arusha Coffee Lodge
Arusha is the ideal starting point for safari lovers. Within reach of Tarangire, Manyara, Ngorongoro crater and Serengeti. After a long flight, you will be thrilled to see Arusha the acknowledged Safari Capital of East Africa, is perched at 1400 meters above sea level- keeping the temperatures and humidity quite low. All about this significant city are some of Tanzania’s most pleasure. Mount Meru overlooks Arusha and the distant Kilimanjaro can be seen on a clear day.

Relaxed breakfast served, you will head for Arusha Airport where you will catch mid morning Flight to Serengeti-Seronera Airstrip, where you will meet your driver guide. On arrival you will be transferred to your lodge to enjoy a hot meal before you begin safari adventure exploring the endless plains of Serengeti. You will embarking on an afternoon game drive in the area till sunset. With the assist of our skilled driver guide, you will shortly find out the enjoyment of the western area of the iconic Serengeti national park. Evening drive back to your hotel/camp for dinner and some much needed rest and recovery.

Distance from western Serengeti to Central-80kms-about 2-4hours drive.
What to see: Elephant Migration, Buffaloes, Giraffe, Zebra, Hippo, Blue Monkeys-Warthog-Water buck-Lion-Impala-Baboons-Jackal-Dik dik-Snakes, unique bird species and different types of trees.

West of Seronera, the waters of the Grumeti and Mbalageti rivers ensure that Western Corridor is damper and more thick in plant life than you will find on the south plains of the Serengeti. Envision a mix of woodland and open grassland! In this area visitors expecting good game viewing right through the year round, while end May throughout June is common for the Great Migration to cross the Western Corridor but depends on the timing of the rains. But in any experience there are giraffe, Lion and Elephant as well as the populations of Wildebeest and Zebras resident in the area south of the Grumeti. Your driver guide will help you to sport these. Your accommodation awaits you at day’s end while sights and sounds still fresh in your mind! It is time to eat dinner and then snooze.

What to see: Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Giraffe, Buffalo, Elephant, Thomson Gazelles-Eland, different types of birds, Serengeti savanna and Acacia trees.

Wake up in the Serengeti is somehow amazing. Smells of Africa, observe sound and sight all this around you. Start by discovering famous Serengeti national park.
Breakfast, then we start our morning section for game drive in Serengeti. Wandering at the beautiful scenery and ever changing light which always entertaining animals, all explained to you by your expert driver-guide. After picnic lunch, we set off again, searching for wildlife in this awe-inspiring park. Serengeti’s wonders evolve delicately as the day progresses. The countless birds and animals are the stars of the show and life dramas can open out at any time. Of course, the animals don’t work on any schedule, so we may find a lion or leopard, elephant, and zebra, cheetah, and antelope at any time on our drives. At the end of the afternoon, we return to the camp.

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. Besides the stunning scenery, one of the main attractions of this area is the variety of flora and fauna found in remarkably compact area all around the year. At one side there is Lerai Forest, a classic mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. It is a good elephant country so make your eyes open. Go to nearby marshland, where they an elephant graveyard where Male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the soft, swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.
Breakfast will be served at the camp, you will drive straight to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive in the Crater. Followed by packed lunch served at the selected picnic site. More game drive in the Crater till evening where you will drive to the rim of the Crater for your overnight stay.
The Crater is best to sport black rhinoceros, wildebeest, zebra, and gazelles, has more than 25 wild animals. It has the densest known population of lions around 120, well defined territories and it’s the place you can find the black manned lion, 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. Birdlife is colorful and abundant around the waters.

After early morning breakfast, Check out from the lodge and drive to the rim of the Great African Rift Valley for a day of relaxation at the luxurious hotel under the name of Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge. You may go for a cultural tour, or visit an orphanage centre or school.

Breakfast at the lodge at the agreed time with your driver/guide then continue to this huge park – Tarangire National park taking us around 2 hours where we will do game drives. After time spent there in the park, we continue to the selected picnic sites where we will eat our picnic lunch which is a nutritious and balanced meal. Then continue with game drives till sunset where you will drive to the lodge for an overnight stay. The park is noted for its incredible diversity of massive baobab trees, big heard of elephant and rolling savannah and acacia woodland, a good variety of wildlife, rich of birdlife, flora, and fauna, The park is named after this life-giving river that provides the only permanent water for wildlife in this area. During the dry season-June to November, the park has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem and its wetland in the south area of the park supports more than 300 hundred bird species. With fewer tourists than other parks. Many animals migrate to its river for drinking water. The park is home to buffalo, lion, wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle while gerenuk and fringe-eared Oryx are ‘local specialties and can rival Serengeti for total animal densities. Lake Burungi swampy shoreline are the attract for these Mammals while the water attract beautiful stunning bird variety too. Find out Hoopoes, a giant kingfishers, and the charmingly named white bellied go away bird. 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. You can find a solitary Male lion stretched out under a tree, a Male cheetah have a little lazy bonding time in the sun. Perhaps graceful Grant’s gazelle and zebra bounding away from the road or a couple of giraffe munching happily from acacia branches, look out for kudu and oryx.

Morning relaxation at your camp. Followed by hot lunch served before you depart to Arusha for overnight stay transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for a flight back home or go 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 from 20:00hrs onwards. If not, you will need to book post-night accommodation for an earlier flight.