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4 Nights Bush Adventure

 

Day 1    Arusha - Lake Manyara  
 Depart from Arusha in the morning and drive to Lake Manyara region which is about 130km from Arusha and takes approximately 1.5 hours from Arusha, on your way you will notice various villages and coffee plantations. You will also pass through the scenic escarpments after which you will get to your Camp. After checking in, you will be served your lunch at the camp restaurant. Afternoon depart for the game drive in the Lake Manyara National Park.

This park consists of more than 400 species of birds including the flamingos depending on their migration as well as other large water birds such as pelicans and storks. The entrance to the park is through an expanse of an abundant forest where you will view the baboons and monkeys in large numbers. With very good spotting you will also see the elegant bush bucks hidden in the forests. As you drive ahead, you will come to the Acacia woodland where the legendary tree climbing lions are spotted, there are also the elephants, mongoose and the dik-dik. Further ahead you will come across the grassy floodplain where the large buffalo, giraffe, zebra and wildebeests herds wander. Across the grassy plain is the magnificent alkaline lake, the home to the thousands migratory flamingos. Evening, return to your camp. Dinner and overnight at Migunga Forest Camp

Day 2   Lake Manyara - Serengeti
 After early morning tea and snacks, depart for your early morning game drive in the Lake Manyara National Park.
Return to your tented camp for breakfast and after the breakfast, check-out and drive to the Serengeti National Park via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Covering an area of 14,763 sq. km, Serengeti National Park is the largest National Park in Tanzania. The park is located some 320 km to the northwest of Arusha, lying in a high plateau between the Ngorongoro highlands and the Kenya/Tanzania border, and extending almost to Lake Victoria to the west. Aptly named ‘’endless plains’’ by the Maasai people, you immediately experience this vastness as you enter the southeastern plains of the park from Ngorongoro. Declared a protected area in 1921 and gazetted as a National park in 1951, Serengeti is the oldest National Park in Tanzania and undoubtedly one of the most famous wildlife sanctuaries in the world. The principal features of the Serengeti are the short and long grass plains in the south and east, the acacia Savannah in the central areas, the hilly and densely wooded areas in the north and the extensive woodland in the west. Serengeti provides sanctuary to the highest concentration of plains animals in the world. Survey estimates indicate an animal population of about 4 million. The “Big 5”, lions, buffalos, leopards, elephants and the rhinos, are rarely to be missed in this park. Serengeti also boasts to hold the largest population of lions in Africa. The park also supports many further species, including cheetah, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, topi, eland, waterbuck, hyena, baboon, impala, African wild dog and giraffe. The park also boasts about 500 bird species, including ostrich, secretary bird, Kori bustard, crowned crane and marabou stork

After entering the Serengeti National Park, you will be driven to your camp in the central Serengeti (Seronera Area), Serengeti Medium Camp. After checking in, you will be served your hot lunch at the camp restaurant. Afternoon you will go off for your game drive in the central Serengeti.

Evening, return to your camp. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Medium Camp (Kati Kati)

Day 3   Serengeti
 Enjoy early morning, morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti National Park. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and overnight at the Serengeti Medium Camp (Kati KA

Day 4 Serengeti - Ngorongoro
 After early breakfast, depart to Ngorongoro via the Olduvai Gorge. The Olduvai Gorge, popularly referred to as ‘’The Cradle of Humankind’’, is the site where in 1959 Dr Louis Leakey discovered the skull of Zinjanthropus or “Nutcracker Man” believed to have lived 1.75 million years ago.

Lunch at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. Afternoon descend into the crater for half day crater tour. Ngorongoro Crater floor, a sheer drop of 610 metres below the crater rim, has an area of 265 sq km, with a diameter of 19 km. The sight of the Ngorongoro Crater is simply stunning. “There is nothing with which to compare. It is one of the wonders of the world…” once wrote Professor Bernard Grzimek. The crater floor is covered with plains animals, including wildebeest, zebra, gazelles, elands, rhino, and a large predator population of lions, hyena and jackal which can all be viewed at close quarters. Cheetah and leopard can also be seen here. The rain season is between November and May. The altitude at the crater rim is about 2286 metres above sea level, and temperatures can get quite chilly in the evening.

Evening, drive back to the crater rim and to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge

Day 5   Ngorongoro - Arusha

After breakfast, drive to Arusha for lunch

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MIGUNGA FOREST CAMP

Nestled in a quiet corner on the northwest of the lake, Migunga Tented Camp is only 5 minutes from the entrance of Lake Manyara National Park. At Migunga you wake up in the morning with the beams of the sun finding their way through our Migunga trees. In the afternoon you can enjoy our mountain bike ride trail through Lake Manyara’s backyard or you can enjoy watching our vervet monkeys. The evenings are resonating with the typical sounds of forest creatures

It consists of:

  • 19 Semi-luxury tents with large attached bathroom set underneath canopy of acacia trees
  • Each tent on raised platform with its own private veranda
  • Bathroom: flush toilet, shower, wash hand basin, towels, soap, bottled water
  • Mosquito nets, mosquito coils & mosquito room spray, candles & matches
  • Electric lights in tent and bathroom
  • Charging possibilities for cameras, batteries, etc
  • Fairytale set-up in the evenings: traditional hurricane lamps in the grounds, along paths, tents
  • Restaurant with bar
  • Full & half board rates, lunch boxes available
  • Room service
  • Campfire
  • Year round green garden

           

SERENGETI MEDIUM CAMP (KATI KATI)

A mobile tented camp located in Central Serengeti, in a campsite known as Makoma. Strategically located to cover the vast of Serengeti Plains. Comfortable accommodation. Unique opportunity to experience a safari camp Only a two hour scenic drive from Olduvai Gorge Museum and Grumeti River. Cosy mess tent located in the centre of the camp where meals are served. Fire camp is lit every evening for appetizers and snacks before dinner.

Number of rooms – 20 tents with en suite facilities.

There are several airstrips in the National Park that receive schedule flights from Arusha as well as charter flights.

           

NGORONGORO SOPA LODGE

Edged on the rim of a collapsed volcano. It is positioned on the Eastern Rim which allows the most spectacular and un-interrupted views of the sunset. The view over the crater floor is also magnificent from this lodge

  • Number of Rooms – 91 double rooms and 6 single bed rooms

  • It has a swimming pool

  • Cosy bar, where you can sit infront of real fire and enjoy your drinks (drinks not included in the package)

  • The lodge also offers internet services at an Internet Café in the lodge. Also at extra costs