5-Day Tanzania Midrange Tour Manyara Serengeti Ngorongor

Serengeti National park Distance: 145km Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Then heard to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park. Dinner and overnight at Intimate Camp Seronera for 2 nights. Meals: Lunch, dinner, bed and breakfast Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp.   Main Destination : Serengeti National Park Accommodation   : Intimate Camp Seronera

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti

Meals & Drinks     :

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

We do an after breakfast game viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, and which is good for possible Lion, Thomson gazelle, Topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. In the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes, which usually attract a number of Lion and some formidably large Cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops, scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry seasons – including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink! Dinner and overnight in the Intimate Camp Seronera is in this day you will have a balloon flight early in the morning at 5 am.   Main Destination : Serengeti National Park Accommodation   : Intimate Camp Seronera

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti

Meals & Drinks     :

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Distance: 145km Non – game viewing time : 2 – 4 hrs Early morning game drive and after depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. We will option of stopping at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution Late afternoon transfer to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge where you will have dinner and overnight Meals: Lunch, dinner, bed and breakfast Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge.   Main Destination : Serengeti National Park Accommodation   : Rhino Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater

Meals & Drinks     :

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Distance: 210km Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs After an early breakfast, You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports avast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Late afternoon transfer to Arusha For dinner and Overnight at Njiro Legacy lodge or airport drop off.   Main Destination : Ngorongoro Crater Accommodation   : No accommodation (End of tour) Meals & Drinks     :

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)