NC23 – 3 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater safari

Day 1: Arusha – Serengeti National Park

Early morning after breakfast, you will be picked from your hotel with your driver-guide and drive to Serengeti. The drive will take you through Lake Manyara, the great Rift Valley escarpment, then to the Ngorongoro highland before reaching the Serengeti Park. The Serengeti is arguably the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world. You will have an evening game drive in the endless plains of the centre Serengeti for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles or a pride of lions lounging in the shade. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing; you will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions, and if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of the interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich.

Day 2: Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Early sunrise game drives around Seronera and then come back to the camp around 10 am for a branch. After breakfast and lunch, leave the park with the game on the route and depart to Ngorongoro crater Rim with the game on the route. No other African county has a game like it. In the dry season, the game drive here is much like game viewing in southern African countries. The area is usually heavily populated with elephants, birds, and resident game

Day 3: Full Day Ngorongoro Crater Tour - Arusha Town

Early morning breakfast, and then descend 600 mitres to the Crater floor for game drive. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world and has fourteen kilometres of isolated natural beauty. A ring of extinct volcanoes surrounds Ngorongoro Crater and the floor, dotted with watering holes, shelters some 30,000 animals. You can expect to see lions, elephants, Zebras, Hippos, Flamingos, Jackals, Rhinos Antelopes, and many birds. The birds seen here include eagle, vulture, flamingos in the Crater Lake, stork, bats, giant vulture, sacred ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long-necked heron, and the cattle eagle. Picnic lunch will take place at Ngoitoktok swamp with a nice view of hippos pool. Late afternoon ascends from the crater and departs for Kilimanjaro airport, where the tour will end.

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• All activities as per the itinerary
• All Accommodation as per itinerary – N.B. accommodation mentioned in the itinerary is dependent on availabilty at the time of booking; alternatives of a similar class may be booked instead
• All meals as per itinerary (3 a day unless otherwise stated)
• All transfers to and from agreed pick up and drop off points (e.g. Airport, Bus Station or hotel in town etc)
• All camping gear (if you are camping)
• Service of an English speaking driver/guide
• Safari base 4×4 Vehicle with open roof for game viewing (sometimes a saloon car or other SUV for excursions in town etc.)
• Driver’s salary and allowances and park fees for vehicle and driver
• Bottled mineral water daily
• All Government taxes
• All Nature Trail Fees.
• Kilimanjaro only - Oxygen is not normally needed but can be carried if requested before tour begin
• Rescue fees
• Professional Kilimanjaro Team with English speaking Mountain guide, up to 4 porters per person
• Professional Cook
• Climbing Certificates
• All wildlife reserve entry fees

• Extras, personal expenses i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry etc.
• Optional activities not outlined on the itinerary
• International flights & corresponding taxes
• Visa
• Flying doctors rescue services
• Travel, medical, injury and luggage insurances
• Tips to the driver & guides
• Anything else not mentioned in the inclusions (above).