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.
On our northwestbound journey, we traverse the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and visit impressive Olduvai Gorge, a 330 ft / 100 m deep canyon, where relicts from the stone ages have been found.
We have a picnic lunch and in the afternoon we reach Serengeti National Park, the oldest and most popular Park in Tanzania.
We take you to a camp to have dinner and stay over night.
We start very early as morning hours offer the best opportunities for animal watching. On the spacious plains of Serengeti, the annual migration of wildebeests can be tracked, when they roam for long distances, looking for water. The highest density of wildlife in the park can be experienced from December to June.
Apart from enormous herds of hoofed animals you will see big numbers of predators as well as various birds along the rivers. We spend the whole day exploring this wonderful landscape.
For dinner and to stay over night, we take you to a camp again.
After breakfast we leave Serengeti and drive eastwards again to visit the marvellous Ngorongoro Crater. This unique caldera with its depth of 1970 ft /600 m and diameter of 11,2 miles /18 km 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.
In the afternoon we visit a Maasai village. These pastoral people live in this area and graze their animals next to lions and other predators.
In the late afternoon we leave the crater and take you to another camp for your last overnight stay on this safari.
Today, we head for Lake Manyara National Park. Although this is one of Tanzania's smaller wildlife enclaves, it offers 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 alternating water level gives home to thousands of flamingos, pelicans and storks.
Soon after lunch we will leave the park and take you back to Moshi.