5 Days – Tanzania Choice Safari

7:30 am Your safari begins at your hotel, residence, or place of your choosing when your Hidaya Africa Tours & Travel driver/guide comes to pick you up in a 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep.

Hop aboard and we’ll take off through the Masai country, passing local farms and Masai herders tending to their cattle as we proceed to Lake Manyara Park.

Let’s rise with the sun and listen to the birdsong as we take in the early morning light softly dappling the park. This is a wonderful time to appreciate the gentle stirrings of nature all about. We’ll breakfast and then head out to the great Serengeti.

We’ll make stops along our route to relax and enjoy a picnic lunch.

And then, we’ll find ourselves in the massive reaches of the world-famous Serengeti. The almost treeless plains are home to uncountable wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, impala, and vast herds of buffalo filling these grasslands out to the horizon.

Everything about the Serengeti is immense and impressive – it’s been called one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of Africa”. Even the name Serengeti comes from the Maasai word “siringet” meaning “endless plains”.

And as you take your game drives throughout the day over these “endless plains”, you’ll be in awe of the massive amount of wildlife populating this vast expanse – the greatest number of big cats, especially lions of any spot in Africa.

We’ll enjoy a lunch break and some downtime before tracking for more predators and smaller game as well, like monkey, baboon, wild dog, and even the honey badger.

Overhead, we’ll be entertained by an endless sky of over 500 bird species. The park does contain some forest and marsh areas where we’ll look for hippo and crocodile in its rivers.

The early morning sun will light up the vast plains and its multitudes of predators and grazers emerging from the night. We’ll take in this glorious scene before heading off to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

En route, we’ll stop at the incredible Oldupai Gorge, site of a treasure trove of fossilized artifacts from early man’s development in this area.

And then we arrive at the rim of Ngorongoro – the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera. We’ll descend into the crater, a self-contained ecosystem teeming with over 25,000 animals.

We’ll spend the day exploring this thriving world of wildlife cut off from the rest of Africa. Lions, leopards, black rhinos, elephants, monkeys, antelope, and even pink flamingoes occupy this special place.

Then, toward evening, we’ll head back up the volcano’s wall and marvel at a stunning sunset lighting up the crater’s rim.

If we get up early we can catch another marvel at the crater’s rim – an amazing sunrise.

And then we’re off for our trip back to Arusha. We’ll take some rest stops and enjoy lunch along the way.