Hakuna Matata Group Safari

Welcome on arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport and transfer to the lodge located near the airport.

Free dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.

Breakfast at the lodge. Departure for Manyara National Park.

From the main entrance, the road first winds through lush jungle where groups of baboons, numbering around a hundred, bustle along the track, where blue monkeys blend into the trees and where the shy bushbucks move cautiously between the shade and the light of the undergrowth.

The silvery-cheeked hornbills are striking with their enormous casque, as if they were about to go off to war within the hour.

Full-day safari and picnic lunch under the umbrella acacias.

This park, in the Rift Valley, offers an interesting diversity of wildlife to observe: elephants, buffalo, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, impalas and many others. The hippo pool attracts a large number of water birds.

Manyara Park sometimes offers a rare spectacle, that of lions perched, sometimes very high up, in the umbrella acacias. Will you be lucky enough to spot them perched there?

At the end of the day, you will drive to the village of Mto Wa Mbu, if you ask your driver, you can visit the village. (watch the video of this village)

Dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge (or equivalent)

Breakfast at the lodge. Departure for the Ngorongoro Crater.

This day will be devoted to discovering this famous crater, considered the 8th Wonder of the World ( > watch the video of this place).

The crater is a vast caldera 20 km in internal diameter. It is home to an incredibly rich fauna, perfectly protected by a 600-metre-high rim.

A special moment: it is one of the few places in Tanzania where you can see the “Big Five”: the elephant, the lion, the rhinoceros, the leopard and the buffalo.

Picnic lunch by the edge of Ngoitokitok pond.

More than 500 species of birds, resident and migratory, are observed in the crater. Lake Magadi, with its brackish waters, is often visited by pink flamingos.

Hippos lounge in the freshwater ponds while buffaloes take mud baths.

Dinner and overnight at Ndutu Lodge in Ndutu from June to November

Departure for the safari in the Serengeti straight after breakfast.

From December to March the programme is adapted to be as close as possible to the migration:

Day 04: Safari in Ndutu and overnight at Ndutu Wildlands Camp (or equivalent)

Day 05: Safari in the Serengeti and overnight at Mbalageti Lodge (or equivalent)

The Serengeti is the country’s second-largest national park (14,763 km2).

Famed for the annual migration of thousands of wildebeest, this park offers magnificent landscapes: the grassy savannah of the endless plains in the south, the wooded, hilly regions in the west, the Kopjes region (granite formations) in the east and the bush savannah in the north.

Picnic lunch during the safari.

In these vast plains with many permanent waterholes, herds of herbivores followed by their predators offer an impressive spectacle.

The Serengeti is so large that you may be the only ones to witness the cheetah hunt, whose favourite prey is Thomson’s gazelle.

After breakfast, depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with a final safari in the Serengeti.

This abundance of wildlife in the northern parks has generated a local economy focused on ecotourism. Tanzania has established protection policies and specific taxation for tourism activities.

Picnic lunch en route.

In the afternoon, pass through the Olduvai region, with the possibility of visiting a Maasai village (optional, payable locally)

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge

After breakfast, departure for the Tarangire region.

Day safari in Tarangire National Park, considered one of the country’s finest wildlife refuges.

Covering an area of 2850 km2, it is renowned for its exceptional concentrations of animals between August and January.

The park is home to species that are harder to spot and often found nowhere else in the other parks of Northern Tanzania, such as: the gerenuk, the lesser kudu, the oryx beisa, the eland and the most sought-after antelope, the greater kudu.

Picnic lunch during the safari.

The park is crossed by a river that never dries up in certain places, the Tarangire River.

This park has the highest concentration of baobabs in the world, which punctuate the landscape.

Elephants, of which there are very many, strip the bark from these mythical trees to drink, as they are true water pumps.

At the start of the afternoon, departure for your accommodation.

Dinner and overnight at Ambureni Coffee Lodge (or equivalent)

After breakfast at the lodge, you will spend a free morning in the city of Arusha to organise on site.

Lunch not included.

After lunch, transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport for your international flight or flight to Zanzibar for the extension.