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AVTZL 3: 4 Days Ngorongoro Crater / Serengeti / Olduvai Gorge / Lake Manyara

Day 1 – Arusha / Ngorongoro

Leave Arusha in the morning (with pick up from your Hotel) and drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area to arrive in time for lunch. Descend thereafter to the crater floor for an afternoon crater tour returning to your Lodge for dinner and overnight.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, an 8,920 sq. Km conservation area situated between Arusha and Serengeti with Ngorongoro Crater at its heart. The floor of the Crater, a vast natural amphitheatre, teems with game – elephant, rhino, buffalo, leopard, cheetah, wildebeest, gazelle and Zebra share the base of this collapsed volcano with Maasai tribesmen and their herds of cattle. Birds hover and dart, with thousands flamingo casting a pink haze over the lake on the crater floor; all seen against the majestic backdrop of the crater walls – the ‘eight wonder of the world’ according to some authorities.

Day 2 - Ngorongoro / Serengeti

Breakfast. Leave the Ngorongoro Highlands and head for the Serengeti Plains. En-route for the Serengeti we stop off at the Historic site of Olduvai Gorge where the world famous discoveries of early mans ancestors were discovered. “The Cradle of Mankind”. After visiting the site and the small museum there, we proceed on to Seronera for lunch at a lodge. Enjoy an afternoon game drive thereafter, returning to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Serengeti National Park: The terrain within Serengeti varies from treeless plains to Savannah dotted with acacia trees and dramatic rocky kopjes and along riverbanks, riverine bush, thick scrub and forest. ‘Serengeti’ simply means ‘open space’. Although best known for it’s magnificent lions, it contains over 35 species of plains game and some 500 species of birds.

Day 3 - Serengeti / Manyara

An early morning game drive in Serengeti is followed by breakfast at your lodge abd thereafter we depart the Serengeti for Lake Manyara. Dinner and overnight at a lodge on the escarpment overlooking the Lake below.

Day 4 - Manyara / Arusha

We spend the morning game viewing in Lake Manyara National Park situated on the floor of the Great Rift Valley.

Lake Manyara National Park – TZ: Only 330 sq. kms, two thirds water, one third dry land and home to a spectacular concentration of game for such a small area is Lake Manyara National park! Elephant and baboon roam the tropical forest and light woodland, buffalo and lion the scrub and open plains and up to 200 hippo congregate in the fresher waters where the Simba River flows into the lake. Manyara is particularly famous for the tree climbing lions and the many species of birds found here.

Picnic lunch in the park before returning to Arusha Town by late afternoon. Drop-off at your hotel in town.

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