4 Day Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Lake Manyara Safari

Pickup from the airport (can be from Kilimanjaro airport or Arusha airport) You will be accommodated at the Venice Hotel. Depending on your time of arrival in Arusha, you may have a city tour with the guide, and will show the Arusha city plus the Masai market Transfer straight to Lake Manyara National Park, a small but diverse park 120km west of Arusha. Everything you’ll see here is on a different scale. It is both compact (this is one of the narrowest parks in Africa) and epic (the Great Rift Escarpment towers over Lake Manyara’s western boundary). The park’s namesake is a shallow, Salt Lake. It covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons, and is home to thousands of wading birds (including flamingos and over 500 other bird species). You may see baboons and elephants in the park’s thick evergreen forest and watch for the tree-climbing lions that have become famous throughout Africa.

Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater which is considered one of the Wonders of the Natural World. The crater spreads for 102 sq miles and has 2,000 ft high walls, making it virtually Noah's ark and inhabiting almost every species of wildlife that is indigenous to East Africa. It's one of the very rare locations in the whole continent where you can witness the black rhino. The crater has a river, several swamps, a soda lake with a great concentration of flamingos, a forest, and open plains. It's also famous for its elephants which are the largest in the world and have huge tusks. Ngorongoro Crater is truly a Wonder of the Natural World. We will start the day very early with a transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We will descend into the crater floor for an incredible morning of wildlife in one of the most stunning places on Earth. After a fantastic afternoon ga

On this second last day, we eat breakfast early and descend 600 meters into the crater for an action-packed day of game viewing in this wildlife paradise. Our 4×4 game drive takes us through the crater floor’s varied ecosystems, where we meet several wild animals. We have a picnic lunch in the crater. Then we proceed to the Olduvai Gorge, a deep ravine in the East African Rift Valley. We rest for a picnic lunch and game-watching along the way. The gorge is home to one of the world’s most prominent archaeological sites, which houses some of our humanoid ancestors’ earliest fossils. We go to the Olduvai Gorge Museum to see the excavated fossils of our forefathers, including Homo erectus remains dating back 1.2 million years. After this encounter to proceed for an evening sundowner game viewing before checking in at your Serengeti lodge. Overnight: Nyikita Lodge or similar. (Budget)

After breakfast, you'll set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of the Serengeti as you have your departure Ngorongoro game drive. Enjoy an unforgettable Serengeti game drive. Afterward, we'll proceed on a transfer to Arusha, or whatever your next amazing destination might be (i.e. Zanzibar). Alternatively, instead of this early morning game drive, you may choose to stay at the camp for a bit of relaxation.