Day 1

Arusha

Staying at Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge

Arrive at Kilimanjaro airport and meet by our representative who will assist you with the border facilities and transfer to the hotel. Depending on your time of arrival, an optional tour can be included. Welcome to Tanzania, you will spend the night at Arusha Coffee Lodge (meals included).

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Day 2

Tarangire National Park

Staying at Elewana Tarangire Treetops

Breakfast and transfer to the airport, a few meters away. You will fly hop to the Tarangire national park for a full day game drive with a private picnic lunch in the bush. You will then be transferred to Tarangire Treetops and check in. Enjoy the sundowners and dinner in the traditional Masai Boma, weather permitting. Tarangire is a beautiful park, known for its large herds of elephants and the big baobabs.

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Day 3

Tarangire National Park

Staying at Elewana Tarangire Treetops

Tarangire is the sixth largest national park in Tanzania. The park is famous for its huge number of elephants, baobab trees and tree climbing lions. You can expect to see any number of resident zebra and wildebeest in addition to the less common animals. Other common animals include waterbuck, giraffe, and olive baboons. Home to more than 550 species, the park is a haven for bird enthusiasts who can expect so see dozens of species even in the dry season. The swamps are the focus of the largest selection of breeding birds anywhere in the world. Yellow-collared Lovebirds are a common bird sighting in the trees along the Tarangire River. Today you will experience a guided bush walk and a night game drive, as well as a Maasai village visit.

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Day 4

Central Serengeti

Staying at Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp

Breakfast and transfer to the airstrip for the flight to the Serengeti.

Depending on the time of the year/availability, you will fly to Seronera for 3x nights at Pionneers or 3x nights in the Migration Camp (Serengeti South or North).

You will then enjoy wonderful game viewing in the Serengeti Plains with a dinner under the stars. The vast plains of the Serengeti comprise 1.5 million ha of savannah. The annual migration to permanent water holes of vast herds of herbivores (wildebeest, gazelles and zebras), followed by their predators, is one of the most impressive natural events in the world.

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Day 5-6

Central Serengeti

Staying at Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp

Spend 2 full day of game viewing within the area. Chat to your guide to set up your days, as per your preferences and the game movement. It is usually best to enjoy game drives early morning and later in the afternoon, when the animals are more alert, but going on a full day safari with a picnic lunch is a great way to experience the wildlife. The biological diversity of the park is very high with at least four globally threatened or endangered animal species: black rhinoceros, elephant, wild dog, and cheetah.

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Day 7

From Ngorongoro to the Serengeti

Staying at Elewana The Manor at Ngorongoro

After breakfast, transfer to the airstrip and fly to Manyara. From there transfer to The Manor at Ngorongoro where you will enjoy lunch and an afternoon activity such as a plantation coffee tour or a horse ride. Back at the lodge for dinner and night.

Located adjacent to the famous Ngorongoro conservation area and within a 1500-acre Arabica coffee estate, The Manor is reminiscent of an elegant up-country farm home in the Cape Dutch-style of architecture.

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Day 8-9

Karatu

Staying at Elewana The Manor at Ngorongoro

The next 2 days are for a diverse game viewing experience. One one day, enjoy a morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park and on the next day a full day game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater with a picnic lunch. Back at the lodge for some time at leisure and dinners.

Lake Manyara is a shallow lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania. Said by Ernest Hemingway to be the "loveliest [lake] ... in Africa," it is also the home of a diverse set of landscapes and wildlife. Of the 127 square miles (329 km2) of Lake Manyara National Park, the lake's alkaline waters (with a pH near 9.5[4]) cover approximately 89 square miles (231 km2), though the area and pH fluctuate widely with the seasons, and dry spells expose large areas of mud flats. While most known for baboons, the lake and its environs is also home to herbivores such as hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, warthogs and giraffes.

Ngorongoro Crater is famed as being the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’, and is a ‘must see’ on anyone’s itinerary. The crater, which formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago is "a natural enclosure" for a very wide variety of wildlife, there is a resident population of Ngorongoro lions, as well as wildebeest, buffalo, zebra and rhino. Your full day safari experience would not be complete without enjoying a delicious campaign style luncheon, served under canopy at one of the picnic areas in the Crater. Surrounded by game and the crater rim beyond, this is the most dramatic and beautiful picnic lunch you ever likely to take.

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Day 10

End Of Itinerary

Breakfast at the camp and road transfer to the airstrip. Quick fly hop to Arusha airport and transfer to Arusha Coffee Lodge. Depending on your outbound flight, and availability, we will have a day room available. Time at leisure to relax in the gardens, visit the neighboring cultural and shopping center and have lunch (for your account). Transfer to JRO is included as per your flight back home, or contact us to extend your trip.