When you land at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be met by your guide and given a short briefing. Thereafter, you will head to Tarangire National Park, where you will do a game drive before carrying on to Mandhari Lodge, where you will spend the first 3 nights of your safari. Depending on your arrival time, enjoy a first private afternoon game drive.
Driving time: ~4 hours
Meet & Greet
Private afternoon game drive
Today you will go on a full-day game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Look out for the big flocks of flamingos in the lake. Afterwards, you will climb back up to the Rift Valley escarpment for dinner and overnight.
Private full-day game drive in Lake Manyara National Park
Today, you will drive to Ngorongoro Crater, where you will descend into the base of the crater for a game drive and exploration, before you return to Mandhari Lodge for your last night there.
Driving time: ~3 hours return
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the local airstrip where you will catch your light aircraft flight to the Serengeti. When you land, you will be picked up by the camp and taken for check-in. In the afternoon you will enjoy your first shared game drive in the Serengeti, in a open-sided vehicle.
Shared afternoon game drive
The Serengeti is famously home to the great wildebeest migration, and has one of the densest populations of large mammals in Africa. You will spend your days game driving around trying to find the migration and see as many animals as possible.
Shared full-day game drive
Sadly it is the last day of your African safari. After breakfast, you will game drive to the airstrip, where you will catch a light aircraft flight back to Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Shared morning game drive en-route to airstrip
