Good Safari for Nature & Wildlife Photographers

(1^st June – 31^st July) 8-Days – 7-Nights

Lake Manyara/Serengeti/Ngorongoro Crater/Tarangire

Day.1 Arrival

The Guide will be waiting for you with sign board with your names, so you’ll be easy to pick him, after short brief, you’ll be transferred to your accommodation in Arusha.

Day. 2 Game Drives in Lake Manyara National Park

Again after breakfast, will drive to Lake Manyara National park with lunch boxes, all the way to Manyara, you’ll enjoy the beautiful scenery, you’ll break for lunch at the picnic site, you’ll continue with the game drives in Manyara National Park, later afternoon you will drive to your accommodation in Karatu.

Despite being so close to habitation and farmland, it Lake Manyara National Park, remained a unique sanctuary for wild life and more than 400 species of birds. Is best known for its baboon population. In addition, this park has many herbivores such as hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalos, warthogs and giraffes. Some lucky visitors have even spotted the rare tree climbing lion here.

Day. 3 Way to Serengeti National Park/Oldupai Museaum visit

Today, you’ll make your way to Serengeti National park, (game drive en route) with lunch boxes,  today you’ll see as if the truly adventure safari has just began! Will pass through Ngorongoro Conservation Area, (a multiple land use, as Wildlife, Livestock and people-maasai, use the same area) after driving up the highland, will stop at the rim of the crater to have a beautiful view of Ngorongoro crater (if the day is clear) then will continue to Serengeti. Along the way you’ll see some maasai settlements in Ngorongoro area. After chek inn into Serengeti, you will do game drive towards your accommodation.

Day. 4 Western Serengeti

Today you will do the game drives around central Serengeti and towards Western Serengeti, you’ll explore the area on the western before heading to your accommodation for dinner and overnight stay. You’ll take lunch boxes with you.

Serengeti National Park, meaning “endless plains” in the Maasai language, is undoubtedly one of the world’s most celebrated Wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to tourists, photographers, filmmakers, writers and researchers. Here you’ll see animals year round, predators, and quite a number of herbivorous and birds.

Today and tomorrow you have the chance of seeing spectacle of the famous wildebeest migration and most likely crossing Kirawira or Mbalageti Rivers, depending on the weather.  This nearly three million animals mostly wildebeests, moves in a basic clockwise direction throughout the year in the Serengeti eco-system. It’s one of the safari highlights of Africa. This epic, seasonal journey is a deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject. Sightings or crossing cannot be guaranteed as the herds move according to the availability of food, water sources and migration movements can be erratic. The wildebeest herds are accompanied by zebras and Thomson's gazelles and are stealthily hunted by local predators such as lions and hyenas.

Day. 5 Western Serengeti

Today you’ll be having a full day in Western Serengeti, you’ll discuss with your Guide the best way to spend this day. You may go after early breakfast and come back for hot lunch and go out again in the afternoon for game drives, or take lunch boxes and spend the whole day out there.

Day. 6 Game en route, Western Serengeti – Ngorongoro – Karatu

After breakfast, with lunch boxes you’ll set off and drive through Serengeti, Ngorongoro and to your lodge in Karatu. This will be a game drive en route.

Day. 7 Game drives in the Crater Tour

After breakfast, with lunch boxes you’ll drive again to Ngorongoro, but this time, descend down the crater floor for game drives in the crater, later you’ll drive back to your accommodation Serengeti offers the most expansive game viewing in Tanzania.

Ngorongoro Crater, is home to more than 30,000 protected animals. It is an area of spectacular beauty and excellent game viewing, a truly unique safari destination in Africa. The crater shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. Fresh springs and a large soda lake quench the thirst of all the inhabitants. Here you have the chance of seeing the few remained Black Rhino.

Day. 8 Tarangire National Park for Game Drives

After breakfast, with lunch boxes you’ll go to Tarangire National Park for game drives, later you’ll drive to your accommodation.

This park is known for large herds of Elephants, birds over 500 species. Tarangire River offers reliable source of water and draws a large number of game.

Day. 9 Departure

Depending on your flight schedule, you’ll leave the lodge after breakfast with lunch boxes or after hot lunch to catch up with your flight back home.