4 Days – The Serengeti Safari – Fly And Drive

7:30 – Get ready to board your private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep. Your Hidaya Africa Tours & Travel driver/guide will swing by your hotel, residence, or another place of your choosing to get your safari started. Heading through Masai country, keep an eye out for these indigenous people, tending to their cattle as we head for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Standing on the crater rim at Ngorongoro, you know you’re entering another world – one that has kept itself apart from the rest of the planet for thousands of years. Descending into this blue/green ecosystem, we’ll enter a rare space born of an amazing density and variety of wildlife. Lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, rhino, zebra, and more have made this extinct volcano their home for eons. After a very full day here, we’ll ascend back to the top where a special treat awaits… a spectacular sunset at the crater’s rim. We’ll spend our first safari evening at our Ngorongoro lodge or tented camp.

We’re headed to Tanzania’s oldest and largest reserve, the Serengeti. But along our route, we’ll stop at a very special place – the Oldupai Gorge. Immense troves of fossilized remnants from ancient man have been discovered here, including vast numbers of tools. These have provided an invaluable record of human development. It’s an eye-opening experience. But the great Serengeti is next – it’s a great treeless plain, extending to the horizon, filled with wildebeest, gazelle, zebra, impalas, and exciting populations of lions, leopards, and cheetahs. We’ll begin our game drives over the vast spaces here looking for wildlife, like the over 50,000 buffalo filling these wide-open grasslands. We’ll relax and enjoy dinner at our Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp

Plenty of time today to get to know the Serengeti, with unlimited game drives and time for relaxation at your accommodation. The great park has been called one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of Africa” because of its wildlife by the millions and its brilliant display of over 500 colorful bird species. We’ll take a lunch break to rest and refresh between game drives and then set out tracking for big and small game like honey badger, wild dog, monkey, and baboon. We’ll also explore the park’s rivers and may even find some unexpected wildlife like hippos and crocodiles. It will be a very full day. Come evening, we’ll retire to our Serengeti accommodation for dinner and relaxation.

Let’s rise early to make the most of our final safari day! The morning light across the park’s great plains is warm and inviting as the animals stir in the fields. We’ll take a game drive for some last sightings of the Serengeti’s many inhabitants and also enjoy a big safari breakfast. Soon it’s time to head to the airstrip for our flight back to Arusha. Hop aboard and we’ll enjoy these great fields, forests. and land formations from the air. We’ll have you back in Arusha at about 12:45 pm. where one of our drivers will pick you up for the return to your hotel or residence. You’ve experienced some of the richest and densest wildlife populations on the planet. We hope you soaked it all up and are eager to share these moments with friends and family. When you’re next ready to safari, please reach out to us at Hidaya Africa Tours & Travel. Thank you – Asante!