7-Day Private midrange Tour in Arusha with Airport Pickup

Day 1: Arusha - Tarangire National Park

1. Tarangire National Park
   6h
   After breakfast, the tour departs between 08:30 - 09:00.
   After breakfast your private guide will pick you up and your private safari with private 4x4 safari vehicle starts. The first park visited is Tarangire where you will arrive at the lodge for lunch and will enjoy an afternoon game drive. The park is famous for its high density of elephants and baobab trees. Visitors to the park in the June to November dry season can expect to see large herds of thousands of zebra, wildebeest and cape buffalo. Other common resident animals include waterbuck, giraffe, dik dik, impala, eland, Grant's gazelle, vervet monkey, banded mongoose, and olive baboon. Predators in Tarangire include African lion, leopard, cheetah, caracal, honey badger, and African wild dog.

Day 2: Lodge to Lake Manyara

1. Lake Manyara National Park
   6h
   After a nice breakfast in the Lodge, our drivers will pick you up at 8:30 - 9:00 am with the picnic lunch heading directly to Manyara National Park for an extended game drive.
   Lake Manyara National Park is known for the flamingos that inhabit the lake. During the wet season they inhabit the edges of the lake in flocks of thousands but they are not so present during the dry season. Leopards, East African lions, cheetahs, elephants, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelles, hippopotamus, Masai giraffe, impala, zebras and many more wild animals inhabit this park and many can be seen throughout the year. There is a hippo pond at one end of the park where visitors can get out of their cars and observe from a safe distance. The leopards and lions are both known to lounge in the trees while not hunting for prey.

Day 3: Manyara - Serengeti

1. Serengeti National Park
   3h
   After breakfast, you depart for 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. Then 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. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park.

Day 4: Full Day in Central Serengeti

1. Serengeti National Park
   8h
   Central Serengeti National park
   Game viewing: 8 - 9 hours
   Non – game viewing time: 2-3 hrs
   Full day game drive in Central Serengeti National Park.
   After breakfast, you depart for 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. Then 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.
   Today you will enjoy a hot picnic lunch, with a hot coffee or tea anytime you need it.

Day 5: Full Day in Central Serengeti

1. Serengeti National Park
   8h
   Central Serengeti National park
   Game viewing: 8 - 9 hours
   Non – game viewing time: 2-3 hrs
   Full day game drive in Central Serengeti National Park.
   Central Serengeti National park
   Game viewing: 8 - 9 hours
   Non – game viewing time: 2-3 hrs
   Full day game drive in Central Serengeti National Park.
   After breakfast, you depart for 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. Then 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.
   Today you will enjoy a hot picnic lunch, with a hot coffee or tea anytime you need it.

Day 6: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

1. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
   5h
   After a quick coffee, tea and biscuit, enjoy an early morning game drive of 5 -6 hours, then you will return to the lodge for lunch. And after you are all packed up, you will depart for Ngorongoro Conservation area. Late afternoon arrivals to Ngorongoro Serena Lodge where you will have dinner and overnight.

Day 7: Ngorongoro - Arusha

1. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
   7h
   You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here.
   Estimates of the height of the original volcano range from 4,500 to 5,800 meters (14,800 to 19,000 feet) high.
   Late afternoon transfer to Arusha for an Overnight stay or airport drop off.

Pickup details

Your guide will meet you at the hotel reception

• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels