From your hotel in Moshi we drive you to Tarangire National Park, which we will reach around noon. After having lunch we will enter the park, an extensive tree savannah with seasonal marshes along Tarangire river. It is famous for its immense elephant population and its huge baobab trees. Especially from July to October you will be able to watch enormous herds of wildebeests and buffalos, as well as giraffes.
In the late afternoon we take you to a nearby campsite where we will have dinner and spend the night.
At daybreak, after an early breakfast, we continue our journey to Ngorongoro Conservation Area with its impressive crater, 1970 ft / 600 m deep and 11,2 miles / 18 km wide. This unique scenery is home to the densest mammal population in the world.
On our leisurely drive through the spacious grasslands you will see zebras, gazelles, lions and antelopes as well as elephants, leopards and – if you are lucky – a rhinoceros.
You may also see Masaai people who live in the midst of the wildlife habitat and pasture their animals undisturbed by the predators.
We will have lunch on a picnic spot in the crater and then continue wildlife watching.
In the late afternoon we will leave the crater and again spend the night at a campsite.
Today we will have an unhurried breakfast and then head for Lake Manyara National Park.
Although this is one of Tanzania's smaller wildlife enclaves, it is home to a great variety of animals, particularly birds. The park stretches along the base of rift valley escarpment, covering most of the area of the lake, the adjacent floodplains and lush forest territories.
You may observe elephants and giraffes as well as large herds of buffalos and zebras. Baboons may linger along the road while blue monkeys scamper between the mahogany trees.
The alkaline lake with its seasonal alternating water level is home to thousands of flamingos, pelicans and storks.
Soon after lunch we will leave the park and take you back to Moshi.
Of course you can visit these parks the opposite way round. Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks are close to each other, which means there wouldn't be any significant changes in the schedule. The second day at Ngorongoro Crater will remain unaltered anyway.