7 Days Classic Hiking Safari Tanzania

Itinerary

Day 1: The drive from Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park

Pass By: Lake Manyara National Park Tanzania
After having a picnic lunch in Manyara, you start a late afternoon game drive, which is the best time to view animals in this park. When you approach it from the east, the Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming an impressive backdrop to the lake. In the tall trees of the ground water forest, monkeys leap from branch to branch, and on the escarpment, elephants stand in the shade. Other animals frequently seen are zebras, impalas, monkeys, giraffes, buffalos, hippos, and others.

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Campsite inside the park

Day 2: Drive to Lake Natron

Pass By: Ol Doinyo Lengai, Arusha Tanzania
Drive to Lake Natron has a number of activities that are very easily combined with walks in the middle of the day there is the nearby Ngare Sero gorge that you can walk to options of long hikes to the source or shorter hikes to waterfalls. The staffs are on hand to make you stay as adventurous or relaxing as you want.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: overnight at Lake Natron

Day 3: The drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge

Pass By: Serengeti National Park Tanzania
The drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge takes 3 to 4 hours. Olduvai Gorge is an archaeological site located in the eastern Serengeti plains, in which early human fossils were first discovered. It has an amazing landscape that resulted from the same tectonic forces that created the Great Rift Valley millions of years ago.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at campsite

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

Pass By: Serengeti National Park Tanzania
After breakfast, venture into the Serengeti’s wilderness corners for a full day of game viewing in the park. With a picnic lunch beside you, if you prefer some physical activity, you can also drive to the Ikoma Area and a nice walking tour along Grumeti River. In the late evening overnight at campsite.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Campsite

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater

Pass By: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive inside the crater. This is the best place in Tanzania to see black rhino as well as the pride of lions that include the magnificent black-maned males. There are lots of colorful flamingos and a variety of water birds. Other game that you can see includes leopard, cheetah, hyena, other members of the antelope family, and small mammals.


Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Dinner and overnight at the campsite

Day 6: Southern Ngorongoro Area

Pass By: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
Morning hike in the Southern Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the elephant cave and waterfall. In the afternoon visiting the Iraqw tribe cultural center in Karatu to learn how the tribe protected their cattle from Maasai incursions using underground settlements.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at campsite

Day 7: Tarangire National Park

Pass By: Babati, tanzania, Tarangire National Park 3134 Tanzania
This park is spectacular in the dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of the Tarangire River. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, elands, and Oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rain when they migrate again to good grazing areas. In the late afternoon, drive back to Arusha

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.