After lunch in Arusha, travel towards Lake Manyara National Park. The park offers a rich variety of habitats, from forests to open floodplains, and is especially famous for large flocks of flamingos and diverse birdlife. Enjoy an afternoon game drive before settling in at your lodge near Manyara for dinner and overnight stay.

Spend the morning exploring Lake Manyara, where you might spot elephants, giraffes, hippos, and the park’s unique tree-climbing lions. After lunch, journey through the scenic highlands and into the vast Serengeti National Park. As you enter, watch the landscape open up with wildlife scattered across the plains. Dinner and overnight in a luxury tented camp in Serengeti.

Enjoy a full day of game drives across the endless Serengeti plains. This is the heart of predator country, where lions, leopards, and cheetahs thrive among the millions of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. With a picnic lunch in the wild, you’ll spend the entire day immersed in one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on earth. Overnight at your Serengeti camp.

After a morning game drive in Serengeti, continue your journey toward Ngorongoro. En route, stop at Olduvai Gorge, the famous archaeological site where fossils of early human ancestors were discovered. By evening, arrive at your luxury lodge perched on the crater rim, offering panoramic views of the Ngorongoro Crater below. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Descend 2,000 feet into the Ngorongoro Crater for a full-day safari with picnic lunch. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to a dense concentration of wildlife, including elephants, lions, buffalo, rhinos, and countless birds near the soda lake. The crater’s unique ecosystem makes it one of the best places in Africa to see the Big Five in a single day. Ascend back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, enjoy a scenic drive back to Arusha, arriving in time for lunch. Your safari concludes here, with options to connect to onward flights or extend your stay in Tanzania.