8-day Tanzania Safari: Tarangire, Serengeti & Ngorongoro

Itinerary

8-day Tanzania Safari holiday itinerary:

Day 1: Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha
Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport meet driver and then drive to Arusha at Mc Elly’s Hotel or Similar for overnight, dinner, bed, and breakfast.

Day 2: Tarangire National Park
Pick up from Arusha at 08:30am drive with picnic lunch boxes to Tarangire National Park for a full day game drive. In the park, you will experience a vast wilderness that inhabits a concentration of animals that rivals the much better-known Serengeti National Park.

Tarangire National Park covers 2,600 square kilometers and at dry times, the concentration of animal’s rivals that of the much better-known Serengeti – the game numbers are staggering, 30,000 Zebras, 25,000 Wildebeests, 5,000 Buffaloes, 3,000 Elephants, 2,500 Maasai Giraffes and over 1,000 Fringe-eared Oryx’s, Predators include Lions, Cheetah and Leopards.

In the evening drive to Endoro Lodge or Similar for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Central Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, proceed to central Serengeti National Park for a full day game drive en route with picnic lunch via Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 mile) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again.

Dinner and overnight at Mgunga Serengeti Luxury Camp or Similar.

Day 4: Central Serengeti National Park
Early at 05:30am take your breakfast box and picnic lunch boxes and proceed for sunrise game drives and full day game drive in this wonderful National Park.

Your guide will choose the best spotting locations to see the thousands of wildlife’s, including wildebeest migration.

Also, you can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles. Late evening drive to Mgunga Serengeti Luxury Camp or Similar for dinner and overnight. https://mgungaportfolio.com/

Day 5: Northern Serengeti National Park
This day you will have sunrise game drive with breakfast box, and proceed to the North of Serengeti with picnic lunch boxes to have a full day game drive. Enjoy Wildebeest Migrations at Mara River. The driver guide will pick the best spotting area where you will view many animals and beautiful scenery.

Dinner and overnight at Mara Heritage Luxury Tented camp or Similar https://heritagecampsandlodges.com/heritage-mara-camp

Day 6: Northern Serengeti National Park
After breakfast enjoy full day game drive with picnic lunch in the vast of Serengeti Plains, home to a huge variety of animals and birds, Search among the trees and Kopjes for the elusive Leopards and cheetah as well as Wildebeest Migration.
After Sunset game viewing, drive to Mara Heritage Luxury Tented camp or Similar for dinner and overnight.

Day 7: Serengeti to Endoro via Ngorongoro
After early breakfast pack everything, take your picnic lunch boxes and depart with full day game drive en route to Endoro Lodge.

You are in Serengeti plains, the world natural wonder, and the first natural African icon. Explore wild predators such as lions, cheetahs, leopards kidding in the branches of trees, flamingos, and water birds on the Lake Magadi, as well as lovebirds and kingfishers across the Seronera River Valley.

Only in Serengeti, you will see millions of big wild mammals and wildebeests migration. Then you will depart with en route game watching across the Kopjes of Serengeti plains to explore the cheetahs, lions, and leopards. Hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, elephants, and small antelopes are plenty, finding their survival in this plain.

Dinner and overnight Endoro Lodge.

Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater
After early breakfast take your picnic lunch descend over 600 meters into the Ngorongoro crater floor for game viewing.

The Ngorongoro National Park 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 its dense population of predators, which include Lions, Hyenas, Jackals, Cheetahs and the ever-elusive Leopards, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot.

You 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 and animals.

In the afternoon drive to Arusha/airport