Day 1: Arrival in Arusha
You’ll arrive in Arusha and have an overnight stay at Venice Hotel in your already-booked fresh room. Arusha is a safari city which is located under Mount Meru in the northern part of Tanzania. This city is inhabited by Meru, Maasai, Waarusha, and Barabaig people. Arusha is cool, sunny, and fantastic with daily climate variability. Arusha is surrounded by national parks from both sides. In Arusha, people grow coffee (Arabic coffee), bananas, maize, avocado, beans, green vegetables, and more. You will be warmly welcomed in Arusha.
Day 2: Arusha to Serengeti National Park
Early in the morning around 06:00, you will be picked up from your hotel in Arusha and depart with en-route game watching to Serengeti via Nabi Hill Gate where your driver-guide make confirmation of fees while you enjoy your lunch box. You’ll arrive in Serengeti in the afternoon and enjoy your afternoon game drive in the heart of Serengeti National Park. You will be able to see lion, lioness, giraffe, impala, Thomson’s gazelles, cheetah, zebra, and wildebeest in plenty. At sunset, you will approach your already-prepared Seronera Campsite for a shower, hot dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 3: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater
Serengeti is fantastic especially in the morning time when predators coming back from hunts. Do you know how animals behave in the morning? If you are lucky, today, you’ll witness hippopotamus returning into the water after whole night striving for food, leopard hanging a Thomson’s gazelle prey up to the tree, cheetahs chasing troops of impala on target for food, elephants massaging their body on the tree, and more.
When in the season, witness the part of wildebeest migration and bird life. After lunch, you’ll depart with en-route game drive in the endless plains dotted with rocky hills and the home of predators with your open roof Land Cruiser with your camera at hand. You’ll arrive in Ngorongoro Crater at sunset for a hot shower, dinner, and overnight stay at Simba Campsite.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha
After breakfast, you’ll drive to Ngorongoro Crater and descend to the crater floor for a game drive. In the afternoon, you’ll ascend to the rim and depart for Arusha. Ngorongoro Crater is an oasis for wildlife habitation. In Ngorongoro, you’ll see the volcanic caldera, which is the world's largest caldera, full of grassland, forest, and swamp, a setting of jaw-dropping beauty. The permanent water of the crater floor supports a resident population of more than 24,900 large mammals including elephants, lions, leopards, hyenas, jackals, wallowing hippos, waterbucks, baboons, and even the rare black rhinos.
Sharing this empathetic spaces with the wildlife are the Maasai people, grazing their cattle in an area which has been a separate conservation area. This harmonious cohabitation of man and beast makes Ngorongoro unique in Tanzania and your driver guide will be pleased to explain this incredible co-existence to you. After your morning game drive, you’ll have your picnic lunch in the crater before you return to Arusha. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Arusha Center Inn Tourist.
Day 5: Great farewell
After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to the place of your departure. Okoa Africa Tours is looking forward to meeting you again along with your friends and family as you recommend this safari. Good luck!
