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Arusha Coffee Lodge/Lake Manyara Tree Lodge/Klein’s Camp or Serengeti Under Canvas or Grumeti Serengeti Tented Camp/Ngorongoro Crater Lodge

This 9 day fly-in safari offers the opportunity to experience the treasures of Tanzania. Lake Manyara National Park offers a wilderness experience in diverse habitats, from its Rift Valley soda lake to dense woodlands and steep mountain sides, game viewing in the renowned Serengeti National park is exceptional and the beauty of the Ngorongoro Crater awe-inspiring.

Day 1: Arusha

This safari begins and ends at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania.  Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport you will be met and transferred by road to Arusha Coffee Lodge.

This attractive little town is situated beneath the towering peaks of Mt. Meru and Kilimanjaro. Arusha, renowned as the safari capital of Tanzania, offers a plethora of attractions and adventures. The town has numerous first-class restaurants, bars and markets to browse, and is the ideal place to spend a few relaxing days before embarking on a safari or attempting to scale Kili. Not-to-be-missed is the Arusha National Park (in Ngurdoto Crater), the National Natural History Museum, the Laetoli Footprints (set in volcanic ash, dating back 3 500 000 years) and the beautiful coffee plantations, which dot the landscape.

Spend one night at Arusha Coffee Lodge in a standard chalet. Your stay includes breakfast.

Day 2-3: Lake Manyara

After breakfast you will be driven to Arusha airport where you board your scheduled flight to Manyara Airstrip.  You will be met by a representative from Lake Manyara Tree Lodge for your first game drive to the lodge.

Spend two nights at Lake Manyara Tree Lodge.  Accommodation is in an elegant, stilted tree house, which is cradled in the boughs of mahogany trees.  Your room is built of timber and makuti (palm fronds) and has a spacious sitting area, viewing deck and a lovely en-suite bathroom. Your stay includes three meals daily, soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits and beers, teas and coffees, emergency medical evacuation insurance, laundry and daily lodge activities.  Activities include twice-daily game drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles

Lake Manyara National Park offers a wilderness experience in diverse habitats, from its Rift Valley soda lake to dense woodlands and steep mountainsides. Apart from a spectacular setting, the park is famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds it was established to protect. The shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds, many of them waterfowl or migrants. Large herds of buffalo, cheetah, Masai giraffe and impala roam the lake shores and the forested valley slopes. A Lake Manyara safari is a fascinating experience as the park also features a ground-water forest; acacia tortilis woodland and hot springs called Maji Moto.

Day 4-6: Serengeti National Park

Enjoy an early morning breakfast before boarding a safari vehicle for the drive back to the Manyara airstrip, for your scheduled flight to your choice of Klein's, Grumeti or Serengeti Under Canvas airstrip.

Klein's Camp

Accommodation for three nights is in a thatched cottage.  Your stay is on a full board basis including scheduled activities and concession fees.  Activities include game drives and nature walks on the Klein's Camp wilderness concession. The afternoon game drives extend after sunset with the aid of a spotlight.  Klein's Camp community visits are available at an additional cost and may be booked directly at the lodge, subject to availability of vehicles.

Grumeti Serengeti Tented Camp

Accommodation for three nights is in a lavish tent.  Your stay is on a full board Basis including scheduled activities and park fees.  Activities include game drives in the Serengeti National Park.

Serengeti Under Canvas

Accommodation for three nights at this wilderness campsite is in a beautiful tent. Your stay is on a full board basis including scheduled game-drives and park fees.  Activities include twice-daily game drives in 4x4 safari vehicles.

The Serengeti National Park, meaning "endless plains" in the Masai language, is undoubtedly one of the world's most celebrated Wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers and photographers. It is Tanzania's oldest game reserve, renowned for the part it plays in the annual Great Migration, when an estimated three million antelope - mostly wildebeest - migrate to Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve. This epic, seasonal journey is a deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject. Here visitors to the park can roam its sprawling plains on exhilarating game drives or hop into a hot-air balloon ride for an once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure. The Serengeti National Park is also home to the Olduvai Gorge, where groundbreaking archaeological discoveries have been made, as well as the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater - a World Heritage Site.

Day 7-8: Ngorongoro

Enjoy an early morning game drive and a tantalising breakfast before being driven back to the airstrip for your scheduled flight to the Manyara Airstrip.  Upon landing you will be met and transferred by road to Ngorongoro Crater Lodge where you will stay for the next two nights.

Accommodation is in a sumptuous double suite.  Each suite is tended by a butler. Your stay is on a full board basis including scheduled activities and park fees.  Activities include game drives on the crater floor. Additional adventures to the Olduvai Gorge, Shifting Sands, a visit to a traditional Maasai village and walks around the Empakai Crater may be booked directly at the lodge (subject to additional cost and availability of vehicles).

The Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, within the Serengeti, is home to more than 30 000 protected animals. It is an area of spectacular beauty and excellent game viewing, a truly unique safari destination in Africa. The Ngorongoro Crater, once a gigantic volcano, is the largest intact caldera in the world. Some maintain that before it erupted, it would have been higher than Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Today, long since having collapsed and eroded, it is an extensive highland area with the famous 600 metre deep Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. Fresh springs and a large soda lake quench the thirst of all the inhabitants. Black rhino are protected within its rim, giant tusked elephants wander the forests, black-maned lions stalk the grasslands, and flamingos crowd the soda lakes.

Day 9: Depart

Transfer after breakfast to the Manyara Airstrip for your scheduled flight to Arusha Airport.  Upon landing you will be met by and transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight.