Tanzania Crossing 10 Nights

Welcome at Kilimanjaro airport upon international flight arrival. Meet & greet by driver and transfer to your lodge

After your breakfast meal, departure to Tarangire National Park.

The drive is approximatively 2;30 hours on a good paved road before reaching the entrance of the park.

Game drive in the morning: Superb landscapes with the baobabs emblem of the park, huge concentration of elephants, it is possible to observe more than one thousand in a single day.



Picnic lunch in Tarangire National Park and the safari continues in the afternoon

The light is better on the second half of the afternoon.

Arrival at the Maweninga camp in the end of the afternoon.

Beautiful sunset from the rocks terrace of the camp, facing the West (Lake Burunge, lake Manyara and the Ngorongoro crater)

Complete day of safari in Tarangire.

Back to the camp in the end afternoon

Manyara National Park is the smallest park in Northern Tanzania (330 km² with 230 km² of lake). It is advisable to visit early in the safari. The park makes a big appearance with the seasons, but keeps a constant interest throughout the year.



The cliffs of the Rift Valley bordering the lake and give the park a beautiful setting. In this space come those fabulous flights of thousands of pelicans, ibis or flamingos. All around the lake, it's a carousel of colors and cries, a paradise through collective gusts whipping air stun you and brush the surface of the water during the flight groups.



Lake plains but also lush forest of acacia: landscape diversity goes hand in hand with an equally varied fauna. Wildebeests, zebras, hippos, elephants, antelopes ... If you're lucky, maybe you can surprise a lion resting in the heights of an acacia!

World Heritage of UNESCO, the site is certainly the most famous wildlife reserve in the world.



This caldera, 20 km in diameter, and the ramparts reaching 600m high is the refuge of a fauna and flora exceptionally rich.



The Big Five may be observed here : buffalo, elephants, leopards, lions and rhinos.



A safari in Tanzania is difficult to overlook the Ngorongoro Crater. This is a "Must".



Ngorongoro Crater (second largest crater in the world by its diameter) is only a small part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a vast region of 8.500Km².



Wildlife inside the crater is extraordinarily rich for such a small biotope (over 30 species of mammals), the last black rhinos.



The best season is undoubtedly the months of April and May when the crater was covered with flowers, fauna is very dense while tourists are scarce

his day is the opportunity to learn more about the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.



Find out more about the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) : as opposed to a traditional National Park, men are allowed to live there and Maasai villages can be found in this area. Other interests in this area are the Olduvai site and its museum, the Shifting Sands, Olduvai & Olkarien gorges, Nassera Rock.

Plans for the day include a visit to Olduvai Museum where the Museum director will be honoured to tell you a bit more about the site of Olduvai and the works of various anthropologists as well as a visit to a nearby Maasai village to learn more about this great people’s way of life.



Great walks can also be organized in the NCA (easy walks to day trekkings with local Masai guides)

Drive northwards through the great plains of the Serengeti National Park.



A picnic lunch in the heart of the park will be provided

In the afternoon, the game drive will take you along the rivers at the Serengeti central area (Seronera, Banagi ...)

There is a large concentration of big cats (lions, leopards, cheetahs) in this part of the park.

Then head to Grumeti zone.

Full day game drive

Early dinner at lodge.

You will attend to a night safari between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm.

During a night safari, we may observe some of the nocturnal species as galagos, genette, civets, spring hares, bat ear foxes, ... And others such as hyenas, leopards, lions or elephants.

Last game drive in Grumeti Zone, then head towards northern Serengeti for a Game Drive.



Picnic lunch and the game drive continues in the afternoon heading towards Mara zone.



Arrival in the end of afternoon and visit of the camp.

New day game drive in Mara zone and around Kogatende.



The Mara River is particularly famous for its dramatic and sometimes dramatic scenes, where millions of wildebeest set off to cross the river trying to survive the crocodile attacks.



Picnic lunch or at lodge, then the safari continues in the afternoon.

After Break Fast head to Kogatende Airstrip and Board for regular flight to Arusha

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Lunch at Shanga Restaurant



Transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport and assist for boarding on your return flight.