3 Days Tanzania Highlights
Day 01: Departure from Home Arrival Arusha Drive to Tarangire National Park
Depart from home and take your preferable airline to Tanzania, Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO).
Meet upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport with our professional driver guide who will warmly welcome you to our beautiful country.
Our professional Driver Guide will transfer you to Tarangire National Park (a three-hour drive). With picnic lunches, depart driving to Tarangire National Park for a game drive. The vast number of baobab trees and a large herd of Elephants will catch your attention as you enter the Tarangire gates.
Tarangire is far from being the biggest of the Tanzanian parks, but its unrivalled landscape of open plains, dotted with thousands of baobabs, is unforgettable. About 120 km south of Arusha, Tarangire is known for its very big herds of buffalo. This is one of Africa’s little-known gems and should be on the itinerary of all lovers of wilderness and solitude. The game numbers are staggering: 30,000 zebra, 25,000 wildebeest, 5,000 buffalo, 3,000 elephants, 2,500 Maasai giraffes, and over 1,000 fringe-are oryx (gemsbok). Predators include lion, cheetah, and leopard and birders will want to look out for the endemic ashy starling, rufous-tailed weaver, and black-collared lovebird.
Optional Activities
Balloon Safari (with adventure aloft)
Visit Maasai Community Visit
Check-in at Hando Coffee Lodge
Dinner and overnight at Hando Coffee Lodge
Main activity: Full game drive at Tarangire National Park
Day 02: Full day game drive inside Ngorongoro Crater
Breakfast at Hhando Coffee Lodge.
Depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area for a Crater tour.
you will descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the crater for a day tour with picnic lunches. The stunning spectacle of the Ngorongoro is undoubtedly one of the highlights of a safari tour in Tanzania. “There is nothing with which to compare. It is one of the wonders of the world”, once wrote Professor Bernard Grzimek. On this day, you will explore the forest areas that are inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open savannah where the lions hunt for food.
Enjoy your lunch on one of the finest picnic sites in the crater with free Wi-Fi facilities and reasonable washroom facilities.
Picnic lunches are taken instead of hot lunches to give clients more time in the crater, and avoid double payments, as crater tours are conducted on a single-entry basis.
In the evening ascend the crater floor and proceed to the lodge for a dinner and overnight.
The Ngorongoro Crater is 2,286m above sea level and is the largest unbroken caldera in the world. Ngorongoro is surrounded by very steep walls rising 600 meters from the crater floor. The crater was been declared a World Heritage Site. The views at the rim are sensational. On the crater floor, grassland blends into swamps, lakes, rivers, woodland, and mountains – all a heaven for wildlife, including the densest predator population in Africa. The crater is home to up to 25,000 large mammals, mainly grazers – gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest, and warthog. You will not find giraffes as there is not much to eat at tree level, or topi, because the competition with wildebeest is too fierce, nor will you find impala. The crater elephants are strangely, mainly bulls. There are a small number of black rhinos here too. The birdlife is largely seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.
In the evening ascend the crater and proceed to Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge/Hando Lodge.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge/Hando Lodge.
Main activities: Cultural tours and game drive in the crater
Day 3: Morning nature tour at Lake Manyara the depart to Kilimanjaro International Airport
You will commence your final day with an early breakfast at leisure and safari briefing at your hotel. Thereafter, drive to Lake Manyara with Packed Lunches for an early morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree climbing lions, flamingos, and other varieties of birdlife.
Lake Manyara National Park is one of the most diverse of Tanzania’s national parks, a tiny (325km², about 205sq miles) combining the Rift Valley, Lake, dense woodlands and steep mountainside. This park is very famous for its tree-climbing pythons and tree-climbing lions, which spend most of the day, spread out along the branches of Acacia trees six to seven meters above the ground.
Manyara is a birding paradise (more than 380 species), especially for waterfowl and migrants and the forests are one of the best places around to see leopards. Lions hunt on the grassy shores of the lake. The park is also particularly noted for its huge herds of buffalo and elephants, as well as giraffes, impalas, hippos, and a great variety of smaller animals.
Late afternoon transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight back home.
End of 3 Days Tanzania Highlights
