5 Days Northern Tanzania Safari

	Tarangire national park
	Non game-viewing travel time:	| 4 hours
	Distance:	| 240 km
	Meals:	| Breakfast
		| Lunch
		| Dinner

After breakfast you will be picked up Moshi by our professional safari guide and driver, then explain a short briefing info about safari. From there you will be driven to the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor.

Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season.

The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of:-

• The largest elephant herds in Africa.
• Keep your eyes trained for hartebeests, gazelles and exotic birds like the bateleur and martial eagle
• where open grasslands, acacia trees and the Tarangire River paint the wild landscape
• Along the Tarangire River that is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season.

This is the time of enjoy our nice lunch inside the park. After enjoying lunch time, the safari will continue. In the evening you will be transferred to the hotel.

	Serengeti national park
	Non game-viewing travel time:	| 4.5 hours
	Distance:	| 233 km
	Meals:	| Breakfast
		| Lunch
		| Dinner

Early wake up, after breakfast you will be picked up from hotel and driven through towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa the Serengeti National Park with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see.

We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species.

We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park. 

In the evening you will be transferred to the hotel as per standard of your accommodation requested. 

	Serengeti Plains
	Meals:	| Breakfast
		| Lunch
		| Dinner

The best adventure that you will never regret in Serengeti national park is to be one of among few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at additional cost by pre-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small villages.

After breakfast game viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, and which is good for possible lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings. The visitor’s centre not far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a visit after the morning’s game drive. This nicely designed centre, offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The centre also has a shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased, as well as a picnic area and information trail up and around a nearby kopje. We will enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch at the centre in the shade of the giant acacia trees.

In the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes, which usually attract a number of lion and some formidably large cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops, scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry seasons including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink water.

Dinner and overnight in the Seronera area, as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

	Ngorongoro Crater
	Non game-viewing travel time:	| 4 hours
	Distance:	| 145 km
	Meals:	| Breakfast
		| Lunch
		| Dinner

After breakfast at the lodge do we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the’Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. 

We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge/camp and spend the afternoon at leisure. 

Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested on the crater rim, no accommodation available inside the crater.

	Ngorongoro Crater
	Non game-viewing travel time:	| 5 hours
	Distance:	| 258 km
	Meals:	| Breakfast
		| Lunch

After breakfast we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a morning, half-day game drive.

The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder,

Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most famous and interesting of Tanzania’s national parks because here you can find the greatest number of different animal species:-

• Include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.
• Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is the dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard

After lunch we will start ascending from the crater and return back to Moshi.