ARRIVE IN TANZANIA.

Upon arrival day into Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) you will be meet with our tour guide when will help you and with your luggage and transferred to the hotel for dinner and overnight at Arusha and prepared yourself for upcoming safari. Overnight stay Arusha town.

Overnight at: Arusha Planet Lodge

Meal plan: no meal included

Day 1: ARUSHA/MOSHI – TARANGIRE NP.

After breakfast you will leave Arusha town in the morning and drive towards Tarangire national park for full day game drive and see large diverse landscapes. Tarangire national park with his huge vegetation zones, Tarangire ancient baobab trees, the largest trees in Africa, dotting the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, meandering through the park, attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, zebra, giraffe, antelope, to a myriad variety of colourful birds. The park is most famed for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania and, during a safari here, we will have the opportunity to quietly observe many families of elephant interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where we may view animals imbibing the refreshing waters of the river, with oft times lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest. We rove on on our safari til evening begins to fall when we shall return to our lodge for dinner and well deserved rest.

Overnight at: Karatu Simba Lodge

Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner

DAY 2: NGORONGORO – ARUSHA/MOSHI .

Our last morning, we descend down onto the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. One of the seven wonders of Africa, the Caldera was formed about three million years ago with the massive explosion of a volcano that rivalled Kilimanjaro in height. The Caldera, 610 m deep and covering roughly 260 square kilometres, is an enclosed ecosystem. Ngorongoro, coming from the Maasai for the bell their cows wear, onomatopoeic in its mirroring of the sound that fills the valley as their herds graze, is one of the premier places in Africa to view the big five in their element, in the wild, as well as wildebeest, gazelle, reedbuck, a plethora of others, along with about 500 bird species
After a stop for our delectable picnic lunch near the hippo lake and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, we ascend, surely sated, up the steep road out of the crater for our return to Arusha/Moshi town and end of our adventure.

Overnight at: Arusha Planet Lodge

Meal plan: breakfast and dinner.

DEPARTURE DAY.

After the safari experience and a relaxed night at hotel in base town of Arusha/Moshi, this day activity is only the drop off to airport for a flight back home or flight to Zanzibar.