Breakfast is served at 7:30 AM. You’ll be picked up from your hotel in Arusha at 9:00 AM, then drive 120 kilometers on a paved road to Tarangire National Park (2,850 sq km or 1,005 sq miles) for a game drive. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the park, followed by an afternoon of wildlife viewing. The park is home to lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, pythons, zebras, oryx, impalas, and more, with over 450 bird species recorded. Dinner and overnight stay will be at the camp or lodge.

The whole day will be spent on a game drive in the Serengeti National Park. The areas you will visit depend upon the location of the herds. During the short rainy season in November and December the herds move from the hills in the north to the plains in the south while during the longer rainy season from April to June they return back up north. This circle of life is determined by the rainfalls and locations of the herds might vary from year to year but your guide will know where to find the animals and where to see them best. A visit to the Serengeti Visitor Centre is also possible. Here you can learn more about the history of the park and the research that is being done by the Frankfurter Zoological Society.

Rise and shine! After an early breakfast you will drive down the steep path into the crater just. The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest, unbroken and unflooded caldera in the world and it has an unbelievable diversity of wildlife. In addition to zebras and wildebeests, you might also spot the rare black rhino and other members of the “Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard. The crater is also home to other animals such as hyenas, waterbucks, bushbucks, eland and more than 500 bird species. After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch you will leave the caldera in the early afternoon and drive back to Arusha/Moshi, where you will arrive in the early evening.