We’re getting into the safari rhythm with an early rise to watch the morning sun light up the fields, hills, and marshes of the park. We’ll take a pre-breakfast game drive as the wildlife slowly emerges into the new day. Breakfast will be at our accommodation and then we’re off to Tanzania. We’ll stop for immigration at the border town of Namanga, before proceeding on to Lake Manyara Park. Our route takes us through Maasai country, and you may see some of the herders tending to their flocks.
A big, beautiful lake greets us at Manyara, and filling our field of view are the thousands of pink flamingoes feeding on its algae. The sight of so much colorful avian life is a signature souvenir of Africa.
Besides the lake, the park also offers a dreamy landscape of acacia woods in which you may find the renowned Manyara tree-climbing lions. Look for them resting above in the tree branches.

4 Hour Drive
This is the perfect place to soak up the sunrise, the soft golden light illuminating this magical reserve. We’ll enjoy an early game drive before setting out for the Serengeti. Soon we’ll come to the vast Serengeti plains, an astonishing expanse of endless land and wildlife. We’ll take an afternoon game drive over this storied savannah, admiring the great populations of wildlife filling this immense space.

Let’s rise with the Serengeti sun as the great fields come alive with spectacular herds of wildebeests and so much other wildlife. It’s here that millions of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, eland, topi and others breed and begin their Great Migration in search of taller grasses, water, and the trek for their survival. It’s a phenomenal sight not seen elsewhere. Also, on the vast Serengeti – big cats like lions, leopards, and cheetahs thrive in great numbers.

3 Hour Drive.
We’ll grab some picnic lunches as we take a final game drive through the Serengeti. But now we are on our way to the Ngorongoro Crater. On route, we’ll make a detour to the anthropological wonder of Oldupai Gorge. The site is a living fossilized record of early man’s tool-making and early development and is not to be missed. As we come to the Ngorongoro Crater’s rim, let’s pause and take in the vast thriving world below us, an area of some 264 sq km (102 sq mi). Buckle up as we head down 600 m (1,968 ft) in our 4 x 4 Jeep coming to the crater’s floor, a living ecosystem alive with wildlife.

We’ll spend the day exploring the crater’s fields, lakes, and woods looking for its dense quantities of lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos, antelope, and even monkeys and baboons. The diversity of wildlife is so great in this isolated world we may even see pink flamingoes at the crater’s Lake Magadi. Then, toward late afternoon we’ll ascend back up the crater’s wall to catch a dazzling sunset at the rim.

Let’s try to catch the sunrise at the crater’s rim – it’s certain to be dazzling. Then, after breakfast, we’ll depart for Arusha with a lunch stop along the way.