Breakfast at the lodge and check out. Tour briefing then proceed to Lake Manyara National Park region. Arrive and check in at the Lake Manyara Serena lodge, followed by lunch. 15h 00, Depart for afternoon game drive in the park. 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.

Breakfast at the lodge and check out. Depart via Karatu and Ngorongoro Massif to Serengeti National Park. En route, visit the Olduvai gorge museum. Olduvai Gorge, Olduvai also spelled Olduwai, paleoanthropological site in the eastern Serengeti Plain, within the boundaries of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania. It is a steep-sided ravine consisting of two branches that have a combined length of about 30 miles (48 km) and are 295 feet (90 metres) deep. Deposits exposed in the sides of the gorge cover a time span from about 2.1 million to 15,000 years ago. Picnic lunch. Continue with game drive to the sopa lodge in Serengeti. Arrive in the evening and check in. Dinner and overnight stay.

Full day spent in the park game viewing. (It is possible to do a full day with picnic lunches or to split the game viewing into 2 with a hot lunch break at the lodge). The Serengeti is vast and beautiful; it’s one of Africa’s most captivating safari areas. The sheer amount of game here is amazing. Estimates suggest up to about two million wildebeest, plus perhaps half a million zebra, hundreds of thousands of Thompson’s gazelle, and tens of thousands of impala, Grant’s gazelle, topi (tsessebe), hartebeest, eland and other antelope – all hunted by the predators for which these plains are famous. Meals and overnight at the lodge.

Another Full day spent in the park game viewing. (It is possible to do a full day with picnic lunches or to split the game viewing into 2 with a hot lunch break at the lodge). The Serengeti is vast and beautiful; it’s one of Africa’s most captivating safari areas. The sheer amount of game here is amazing. Estimates suggest up to about two million wildebeest, plus perhaps half a million zebra, hundreds of thousands of Thompson’s gazelle, and tens of thousands of impala, Grant’s gazelle, topi (tsessebe), hartebeest, eland and other antelope – all hunted by the predators for which these plains are famous. Meals and overnight at the lodge.

Breakfast at the camp and check out. Depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area with game drive en route as you exit Serengeti. Arrive and check in at the lodge. Lunch. This afternoon you will have an option to visit an authentic Maasai cultural village. The Maasai are proud pastoralists and warriors. The ladies and children will entertain you with traditional songs and while at the village see how they go about their daily lives in a very traditional way like making fire with stones and sticks. Evening, return to the lodge for Dinner and overnight stay.

Breakfast at the lodge. You will then descend into the Ngorongoro Crater in the morning for game drive. Picnic will be at the hippo pool. The Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania, 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 m 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. Endangered black rhino are protected within its rim. Ascend in the latter stages of the afternoon and head to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Breakfast at the lodge and drive to Arusha. Arrive and have lunch at the Arusha Coffee Lodge.This afternoon visit Shanga, an Elewana initiative based at Arusha Coffee Lodge where physically challenged crafts people create beautiful necklaces from recycled powder glass beads. This is an incredible business venture that retails throughout Tanzania and abroad, and helps so many deaf and disabled people earn a salary who otherwise would have nothing. After an informative tour of the colourful workshop, you can spend the afternoon browsing the city’s Maasai Market and Cultural Heritage Centre for traditional handicrafts. You will later be transferred to your hotel.