12 Days / 11 Night SHOOTING STAR

After arriving at the airport and complete the passport control you will meet you guide at the arrival gate for a short briefing and transfer to the lodge in Arusha.

 Overnight at The planet lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 55

Time: 1.5 hour.

After breakfast you will drive to Arusha National Park with packed lunch, which will be 10 km drive from you Lodge. The park covers an area 520 km2 This Park offers an impressive landscape from the slopes of Ngurdoto Crater to Mount Meru father down to Momela lakes. The black-white-colobus-monkeys are considered as mascots of the park and the endemic Hurt labs Turaco bird can be watched while swinging from branch to branch. It also offers a magnificent wild life viewing such as blue monkeys, baboons, elephants, hippos, leopards, hyenas, zebras and many other antelope species and reptiles can be observed here. In addition, the park offer over 400 species of bird watching.

Overnight again at the planet lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 145km Day distance

Time: 9 hours

This day in the morning you will continue to Tarangire National Park, which is about 140 km from your lodge. This Park offers a fantastic slow moving giants (Elephants) in northern Tanzania than any other area with its endless Baobab tress, scattered acacia woodland and open grassland with thousands of Ungulates as Zebras, Wildebeest, Impala, Giraffes, Warthog etc. with all the three big cat’s Lion, Leopard and Cheetah including more than 500 bird species can be observed here. Lunch at the picnic site.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Sopa lodge. (fb / full board:

Distance: 165km Day distance

Time: 8-9hours

This day will be another wild life viewing day, as in the Nature every minute offer a high light of a life time for sure you won’t see the same actions as the first day here. According to wild life movement and season your guide will advise weather to take packed lunch with you or to have an early morning drive then back to the Lodge for lunch and enjoy the lodge environment with its wildlife around then another drive can be done at the evening.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Sopa lodge. (fb / full board):

After breakfast the drive continues to Lake Manyara National Park, on your way passing to the local village with unique life stay compare to your home. However you might have a chance to meet with local people and have an experience different from wildlife (learning and discoveries)

The lake Manyara from its west side stretches the eastern arm of Rif valley escarpment with its amazing view the baobab hanging around the arm, the lush green watering forest and the dried acacia woodland that offers a fascinating wild life viewing such as High no of Baboon, Elephants, Giraffe without forgetting it’s tree climbing Lions and more that 400 to 500 Palearctic migratory birds. Lunch at the Picnic site. Later at afternoon you will ride to Karatu Village.

Dinner and overnight at Kitela Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 180km Day distance

Time: 9 hours

Today we enjoy a half day in the crater floor with fascinating wildlife viewing. Also called the eighth wonder of the world, you will enjoy the view over the crater landscape with its own vegetation which will take your breath away. The Ngorongoro Crater, with its 304 square kilometers and it’s up to 610 meters high crater walls, counts to the most intact, not flooded volcanic craters in the world. Before Ngorongoro Volcano exploded and collapsed 2 million years ago, it was one of the world`s tallest mountains. Now it`s home of more than 300.000 large mammals such as the rhinoceros, lions, elephants,  leopards, hyenas, gazelles, buffalo and more with one of the highest predator density in the world. This day can be done as an early morning drive with packed breakfast and come back at the lodge for lunch or drive out with lunch after breakfast in the lodge.

Overnight at: Kitela Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 135km Day activity

Time: 6 hours

In the morning around 9 am you drive to the slopes of Ngorongoro highland just 1.5 to 2km from your lodger for walking safari to the Elephant Carve. The walking may take 2 to 3 hours depending on your fitness. After the walking you may have an early lunch at the Lodge or with packed lunch you can enjoy the lunch somewhere on the way to Lake Maseki depending on your guide advice. After the walking we will take the way to our next destination where close to the Lodge there is also a chance for an evening game viewing.   Overnight at Lake Maseki Tented Lodge (fb/full board)’

Distance: 125 km Day distance

Time: 6 hours.

With game drive in root we drive today to Central Serengeti. From your lodge one can start exploring the endless wild life on the way as the Ndutu area never miss wildlife experiences though its known for just rain season, here we still have the natives high number of Giraffes, Gazelles some lion, leopard and even Cheetah can be observed. The Serengeti Plain will surprise you with its endless grass land area, granite rocks of which are the shelter for Big Cats slowly heading to the central part with more animal viewing.

Dinner and overnight at Kubukubu Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 82 km

Time: 4 hours.

It’s the time to explore more of the Serengeti with its amazing number of Big cats observed for the first ancient time in 1910 in the Serengeti plains of which the area being a favorite for foreign hunting. Today it’s estimated to be the World high populate lion area with more that 3 to 4 thousand lions and high populated Cheetah area in its open grass land area including other mammals such as Buffalo, Elephant, Hippo, leopard and antelope species. The park also offer bird watchers good chance for birding of which more than 450 species can be spotted however the Serengeti is never be bored with it scenic that one will not get chance to experience its uniqueness anywhere ales. 

Overnight at Kubukubu Tented Lodge. (fb / full board)

After breakfast we set off from Serengeti with game viewing on root to Karatu. According to wildlife movement your guide will select the best way for you to have last fascinating sites of the Serengeti big Cates while on your way to Ngorongoro then Karatu. You will have packed lunch with you where lunch stop will be selected somewhere on your way and after lunch you will keep on with the drive. Later after noon you will arrive to your Lodge.     

Overnight at Ngoroongor farm house Valle Lodge (fb /full board)

Distance: 160 km

Time: 6-7 hours

This morning we will drive back to Arusha and so, your safari is coming to an end and you have the opportunity to continue your vacation according to your preference, for example have a flight to Zanzibar/back home or any other supplement to your journey.

Distance: 149 km

Time:3 hours.