Kilimanjaro Vacation Company

4-DAY SAFARI (LAKE MANYARA / SERENGETI PLAINS / NGORONGORO CRATER)

4 DAY SAFARI OVERVIEW

Kilimanjaro Vacation’s 4-day safaris, tours and trekking packages, specifically are a package that includes the Serengeti National Park and the world famous endless plains. It is one of our most popular safari tours. You will experience the thrill of an African wildlife safari to some of the most spectacular national game parks in East Africa, all teeming with wildlife animals. This unforgettable tour will take you to the Serengeti Plains National Park, the heart of wild Africa and a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure.

Day 1 Arusha to Lake Manyara

Non game-viewing travel time: 2½ hours

Distance: 130 km

Pick up from Arusha and depart to Lake Manyara national park, arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch we head into the Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania's most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a colossal but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment. The park's varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa's largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara's unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 2 Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park

Non game-viewing travel time: 6 hours

Distance: 205 km

After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa - the Serengeti National Park - with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti's species.We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park.

Dinner and overnight in the Seronera area, as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 3 Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro

Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours

Distance: 145 km

Be one of only a few lucky people to fly in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small villages.

After breakfast at the lodge we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. We will have a stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois
and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of 'Nutcracker Man' and 'Handy Man', both very significant links in the chain of human evolution.

We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch we will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half day's safari tour. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area 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 scenic national park, is it's dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We 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 can usually been seen here.

Day 4 Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha

Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours

Distance: 190 km

Enjoy breakfast,there after  we will transfer back to Arusha. Upon arrival in Arusha will we have lunch and then we will end our safari adventure.