Northern Circuit- Tanzania tours

DAY 1 Arusha -- Lake Serengeti - Ngorongoro
In the morning you will be picked up from your Hotel/Lodge in Arusha and driven 130kms with
lunch boxes and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for afternoon game drive.
Start game viewing through underground water forest, proceed to acacia woodland savannah
open land, pass by hot water spring and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park which is the
home for many flamingoes and other water birds.
The Park also hosts tree-climbing lions, hippos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, baboons,
blue and velvet monkey, warthog and more. About 350 species of birds have been recorded.
In the afternoon there will be a break to have your picnic lunch, then leave the Park and drive to
Ngorongoro to arrive on time for dinner and overnight stay in one of the lodges or campsite -
superbly perched on the rim of the Crater.

DAY 2 -- Ngorongoro - National Park
Early morning breakfast in your lodge at Ngorongoro and then drive immediately to the Great
Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch.
Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration,
when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000
Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing yet even when the migration is quiet,
the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo,
smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni,
impala and Grant's gazelle.
Therefore as you leave the Ngorongoro you will continue with game drives en-route. Before
reaching Seronera (an area located in the heart of Serengeti), you will continue to explore the vast
rich-game animal plains of Serengeti National Park.
During the afternoon stop over for picnic lunch shortly before you continue with game drive. In the
evening leave the Park and proceed to Seronera for dinner and overnight stay in one of the lodges
or campsite.

DAY 3 Serengeti -- Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha
Wake up for early morning breakfast and collect your picnic lunch. Drive across the Serengeti
plains then to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Upon arrival, you immediately descend into the
Crater base for a full day tour.
All the big five - rhino, lion, elephant, leopard and buffalo live in this wonderful caldera. Others are
zebra, hippo, wildebeest, hyena, and more can be seen. The birdlife is so abundant and it includes
many flamingoes round the Soda Lake, geese, storks and vultures.
Your lunch will be served at the picnic site in the Crater at Ngoitoktok Swamp which is a Hippo
pool. After lunch drive back to Arusha arriving after sunset.

DAY 1 -- Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park
In the morning depart from your Hotel/Lodge in Arusha with packed lunch and proceed to Lake
Manyara National Park for game drive. The most famous spectacle in the park is the tree-climbing
lions, which are occasionally seen relaxing on the branches of acacia trees.

Other animals found in this area include elephants, leopards, impalas, hippos, and millions of birds
especially pelicans and flamingos. The scenery of this park with its Alkaline Lake including its five
vegetation zones is compared to a scenic gem with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as 'the
loveliest I had seen in Africa'.
The park also has the Tanzania's highest population of elephants per square kilometer. In the
afternoon enjoy your first-bush picnic lunch. Continue with game viewing. In the evening leave the
park and drive to your lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight in Manyara.

DAY 2 -- Manyara - Serengeti National Park
Early morning breakfast then collect your lunch boxes and start a 205 kms drive, to the Great
Serengeti National Park. Drive through the Ngorongoro rainy forest then continue up to the
Ngorongoro/Serengeti plains. There you start game viewing all the way en-route before Seronera
area.
Depending on the Serengeti's animals migration season here you will begin to witness the
migration. In the afternoon stop-over for picnic lunch. The park contains an estimated three million
large animals, most of which take part in the seasonal migration that is one of wonders of nature.
Drive to Seronera arriving to your Lodge or Campsite located in the heart of Serengeti for dinner
and overnight stay.

DAY 3 -- Serengeti - Olduvai - Ngorongoro Conservation
After breakfast leave the lodge at 8:00hrs with picnic lunch. On this day, as you continue to
Olduvai Gorge, start to explore the Serengeti vast animal-rich plains where you can see all the big
five which are the elephants, lions, leopards, giraffe, buffalo including cheetah and more.
Serengeti National Park has about 35 species of plains animals from the hare to the elephant and
a wonderful selection of bird life. Drive to Olduvai Gorge to get a briefing about the discovering of
the Nut-Cracker-Man "Zinanthropus". The human fossil has been estimated to be 1.75m years old.
Here you can have your picnic lunch at the picnic site. Thereafter leave Olduvai Gorge and
proceed to Ngorongoro - arriving on time for dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.

DAY 4 -- Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha
After breakfast descent 610m/2000ft down into the Crater. Full morning Crater tour where you will
see the plain animals including the Africa's black-manned lions, elephants, buffaloes wildebeest
and hartebeest.
In the afternoon enjoy your picnic lunch at the site. Drive around the Soda Lake to watch the
flamingos and other fish birds. At 16:00hrs ascend the crater walls and return to Arusha.

DAY 1 -- Arusha - Manyara National Park
Depart from Arusha with picnic lunch boxes and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for game
drive. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the
Tanzania safari experience.

Contrasting with the intimacy of the forest is the grassy floodplain and its expansive views
eastward, across the Alkaline Lake, to the jagged blue volcanic peaks that rise from the endless
Maasai Steppes. Large buffalo, wildebeest and zebra herds congregate on these grassy plains, as
do giraffes - some so dark in colour that they appear to be black from a distance.
As you witness and enjoy all this natural beauties, drive across the acacia trees strip in search of
tree climbing lions of Lake Manyara National Park. In the afternoon break for picnic lunch and then
continue with game drive. In the evening leave the park and proceed to your lodge or campsite
booked in advance for dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara.
DAY 2 -- Lake Manyara - Serengeti
Early morning drive into Lake Manyara Park. Continue further on to visit the hot springs. Return to
the lodge for late breakfast.
Shortly after breakfast, collect your picnic lunch and proceed to Serengeti via the slope of
Ngorongoro's rainy forest and later to the vast animal-rich plains then enter into the Serengeti
National Park.
Game drive en-route the Serengeti plains - in search of the leopards and cheetahs. In the evening
proceed to Seronera for dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.
DAY 3 -- Serengeti - Game Drive
Full morning-drive to explore the vast rich game animals of Serengeti plains. In the afternoon
return to your lodge for hot lunch.
At about 16:00hrs leave your lodge and drive to watch some of the 500-plus bird species, ranging
from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that
soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
In the evening leave the park and drive back to your lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight
stay at Seronera.
DAY 4 -- Serengeti - Ngorongoro via Olduvai Gorge
After breakfast, collect your picnic lunch and proceed to Ngorongoro. Game drive en-route the
Serengeti/Ngorongoro plains. Visit Olduvai Gorge to get a briefing about the discovery of the fossil
Homo habilis dated 1.75 million years.
This were uncovered Leakey 1959. Picnic lunch at the site and thereafter, continue to Ngorongoro
arriving in time for dinner and overnight at the lodge or campsite on the rim of the Crater.
DAY 5 -- Ngorongoro Crater Tour - Arusha
In the morning collect your packed luncha and drive over the rim of the Crater descending
610m/2000ft. The Ngorongoro Crater is 2286m above sea-level. It is the largest unbroken caldera
in the world.
Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610m from the crater floor, this natural amphitheatre covers
an area of about, 100 square miles, in diameter and is home to up to 25,000 large mammals,
almost half of them zebras and wildebeests. There are also gazelles, buffaloes, elands,
hartebeests, warthogs, and others.

Such concentrated numbers attract predators, mainly lions and hyenas but also cheetahs and
leopards. More than 100 species of birds not found in the Serengeti have been spotted here.
Countless flamingoes form a pink blanket over the Soda Lakes.
Therefore during the full morning crater tour you will be able to enjoy nature's beauties in this
naturally unfenced zoo. In the afternoon stop at one of the sites to enjoy your picnic lunch. At
16:00hrs leave the crater as you ascend the wall of the Crater and drive back to Arusha.

DAY 1 -- Arusha - Tarangire National Park
Morning departure from Arusha with picnic lunch boxes and proceed to Tarangire National Park.
This park has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a
smorgasbord of predators and the one place in Tanzania where dry country antelope such as the
stately fringed eared Oryx and peculiar long necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
Drive in the park to explore some of the 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground
streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest land crowd the
shrinking lagoons.
Afternoon drive to the picnic sites for lunch, then continue with game drive in the evening proceed
to one of the Lodges or Campsites in Tarangire for dinner and overnight.

DAY 2 -- Tarangire - Ngorongoro
Early morning game-drive in Tarangire National Park, searching for leopards. Return to your lodge
for late breakfast before 11:00hrs. Leave Tarangire lodge and drive to Ngorongoro. Stop at Mto wa
Mbu to visit the local market.
Later on proceed to Highview Hotel for lunch and leisure. In the evening continue to Ngorongoro
for dinner and overnight in one of the lodges or campsites located on the rim of the Crater.

DAY 3 -- Ngorongoro - Serengeti National park
After breakfast collect your picnic lunch. Descend 610m/2000ft down into the Ngorongoro Crater
base. In the crater the Lerai Forest on the crater floor gets its name from the Maasai word for the
elegant yellow-barked acacia tree.
Elephants often graze in the forest shade during midday, emerging into the open plains during the
early hours of morning and in the evening, as the midday heat abates. The small forest patches on
the crater floor are home to leopard, monkey, baboon and antelope such as waterbuck and
bushbuck.
Afternoon picnic lunch, then leave the Crater and proceed to Seronera for a game drive en-route
the Serengeti. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.

DAY 4 -- Serengeti - Full Day Tour
After breakfast, drive into Serengeti National Park. The Seronera Area, located in the heart of
Serengeti is the place where you will be able to witness the Serengeti's animals great migration
depending on migratory seasons. Return to your lodge for afternoon lunch.

At 16:00hrs drive in the Park to watch the lovely birds of Serengeti - estimated to be 500-plus bird
species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the
black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
Then return to the lodge or campsite for dinner and overnight stay.

DAY 5 -- Serengeti - Lake Manyara National Park - via - Olduvai
Gorge
After breakfast leave the lodge or campsite at 8:00hrs with picnic lunch. On this day, as you
continue to Olduvai Gorge, start to explore the Serengeti vast where you can see all the big five
which are the elephants, lions, leopards, giraffe, buffalo including cheetah and more.
Serengeti National Park has about 35 species of animals from the hare to the elephant and a
wonderful selection of bird life. Drive to Olduvai Gorge - to get a briefing about the discovering of
the Nut-Cracker-Man "ZINJANTHROPUS".
The human-fossil homo Habilis was uncovered by Dr. Leaky and dated 1.7 million years. Here you
walk to the picnic site to have lunch. Thereafter leave Olduvai Gorge and proceed to Lake
Manyara, arriving on time for dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Campsite.

DAY 6 -- Lake Manyara National Park - Arusha
After breakfast drive into Lake Manyara for game-drive. The most famous spectacle in the park is
the tree-climbing lions, which are occasionally seen relaxing on the branches of acacia trees.
Other animals found in this area include elephants, leopards, impalas, hippos, and millions of birds
especially pelicans and flamingos. The scenery of this park with its Alkaline Lake including its five
vegetation zones is compared to a scenic gemstone glittering in the bush.
The park also has the Tanzania's highest population of elephants per square kilometer. Late
afternoon return to the lodge for hot lunch. Shortly after lunch depart from the lodge and drive back
to Arusha