Leave the lodge after breakfast for Tarangire National Park, the driving is via Arusha town & along the beautiful Maasai steppe, drop your safari chef at Makuyuni junction and enter the park for your first game drive of the trip. Tarangire National Park runs along the beautiful lines of Tarangire River and mostly is made up of low lying hills on the floor of the Great East African Rift Valley. The vegetation in this park is mainly consists of huge African Baobab trees, scattered Acacia woodland and a large swamp area in the south.

Tarangire River and the swamp are acting as a refugee’s camp for wild animal during the dry season. This park is highlighted with some of the largest elephant heard found nowhere in Africa, the rare species of animals like Fringed-eared Oryx and the Great Kudu are also found here. Tarangire is home to 400 species of bird including the rare Ash Starling. End up this day of your Tanzania best camping safari & Zanzibar beach by driving to your campsite during or before sunset.

Overnight at Lilac Campsite close to Lake Manyara or similar. All meals included.

After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park “The wild Africa” driving is cross local villages and along the high laying farmland of Karatu until you reach the Ngorongoro gate. After registration & other park formalities you will drive up to the highlands of Ngorongoro 2,300 meters, stop at the crater view point for some great photos of the crater floor from above. After drive along the Crater rim and down to the endless rolling plains of Serengeti National Park.

On the way stop at one of the Maasai villages where you will be invited by Maasai warrior for some cultural encounter, you will go in and around their houses & you will have a brief story of their nomadic life around this area, you will meet members of the family and kids, you may ask questions & take pictures with them. Later they will sing a farewell song which involves jumping high, you are allowed join the dancing. Afterward drive to Naabi Hills Gate for check in to Serengeti.

Spend some time for registration and other park formalities, this will be the time to have your packed lunch and thereafter start your afternoon game drive in the Serengeti in search of the Great Wildebeest Migration. Arrive at the Camp during or before the sunset.

Overnight at Seronera Public Campsite – Central Serengeti. All meals included.

We recommend an early morning game drive starting at 06:30am, depart your campsite after a cup of coffee carry your breakfast box and lunch box. Early morning game drive allows you to witness the beautiful sunrise in the Serengeti with possibilities of spotting cat family on the road as the spend most of their morning time on the road avoiding the morning mist.

You can also see other predators coming back from their long night of hunting or a group of lioness planning a morning ambush or eating along the road. If the Wildebeest Migration will be packed in Serengeti you will go straight to where they are and spend much time with them, you can anticipate to see some animal action like hunting, fighting even eating. Serengeti is still worth a visit with or without the Wildebeest Migration. Later on, you go back to your campsite during or before the sunset.

Overnight at Seronera Public Campsite – Central Serengeti. All meals included.

On this day the best camping safari & Zanzibar beach holidays takes you to the world nature wonder the Ngorongoro Crater. Depart Serengeti after breakfast, en-route game drive up to Naabi Hills gate & past Malanja depression, reach Ngorongoro Conservation Area & descent 600 meters into the Crater floor for game viewing.

Ngorongoro Crater the Eden of Africa was formed some million years ago due to internal forces, after eruption it left a huge caldera which mistakenly called Crater. Supported by yearly around water supply from the highland of Ngorongoro and enough green the Crater supports a larger variety of wildlife include herds of wildebeest, zebra, elephant, hippos, buffalo, topi, eland & the rare black rhino.

This picturesque crater has a dense population of predators like hyenas, lion, cheetahs, jackals and the mysterious leopard which needs sharp and trained eye to spot. Birds are abundance from aquatic to forest birds, with a bit of luck the so called Big Five can be seen in the course of one day of game drive.

Apart from this animals the Crater keep a larger number of bird species both aquatic and terrestrial birds. You will visit the hippo pool & a large but shallow alkaline lake on the southwest corner of the crater frequently visited by some flocks of flamingoes & hippos. Break for lunch & later drive to Simba Public Campsite at the Crater rim for dinner & overnight.

Overnight at Simba Public Campsite in the Crater rim. All meals included.