6 Day Safari with Hot air Balloon northern Tanzania

Direct arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport (time and flight to be confirmed), and then transfer to Arusha for overnight stay.

Approximate driving time: 1 -2 hours to Arusha
Game drive included: NoneMeals included: None
Extra activities or add-ons included: Airport transfer
Extra activities or add-ons excluded: None
Commonly seen animals: None
Occasionally seen animals: None
Rarely seen animals: None

Proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for your game drive. This small park featuring an alkaline lake is a perfect start to a safari and offers a variety of habitats including a groundwater forest, grassy floodplain, rocky escarpment, and acacia woodland all near each other. You will spot many common safari animals in this park and may even be lucky to find big cats as this park is famous for its tree climbing lions; however, they may be hard to spot. Later drive to Karatu for overnight stay.

Approximate driving time: 2-3 hours to Manyara / 1 hour to Karatu.
Game drive included: Late Morning (time permitting), afternoon.
Meals included: Breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner.
Extra activities or add-ons included: None.
Extra activities or add-ons excluded: Cultural walks, walking safari, hot lunch, night game drive.
Commonly seen animals: Elephant, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, vulture, warthog, impala, flamingo, marabu, hyena, waterbuck, dik-dik, blue monkey, olive baboons.
Occasionally seen animals: Lion, serval, mongoose.
Rarely seen animals: Cheetah, leopard

Today you will proceed to Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site and Tanzania’s oldest National Park. Boasting an abundance of wildlife all year around easy to spot predators and preys, this is one of the most famous safari parks in the world and what usually comes to mind when someone thinks of an African safari. The scenery in this park is predominantly the classic ‘savannah’ plains however the park also offers hills, rocks, valleys, river and even forests covering just under 15,000km² / 6000ml²; bigger than some countries! Later drive to your lodge.

Approximate driving time: 3-4 hours to Serengeti
Game drive included: En-route, afternoon
Meals included: Breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner
Extra activities or add-ons included: None
Extra activities or add-ons excluded: Maasai village cultural visit, Olduvai Gorge Museum visit, hot lunch instead of picnic lunch
Commonly seen animals: Elephant, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, lion, cheetah, hyena, warthog, kudu, leopard, ostrich, mongoose, hyrax, dik-dik
Occasionally seen animals: Crocodile, caracal, serval, klipspringer.
Rarely seen animals: Black rhino, wild dog.

Early morning you will be picked from your lodge to experience the balloon Safari for 1 hours. Later proceed with game drive inside of Serengeti National Park with flexibility in your direction, route, and duration you spend out in the savannah today searching for the Big 5 and exploring this vast National Park.

Approximate driving time: 0 hour to Serengeti
Game drive included: Morning, afternoon
Meals included: Breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner
Extra activities or add-ons included: Hot Air Balloon safari
Extra activities or add-ons excluded: None  Commonly seen animals: Elephant, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, lion, cheetah, hyena, warthog, kudu, leopard, ostrich, mongoose, hyrax, dik-dik
Occasionally seen animals: Crocodile, caracal, serval, klipspringer.
Rarely seen animals: Black rhino, wild dog.

You will spend half day today exploring the plains of Central Serengeti National Park. The circuits and plains of the Serengeti are endless, and many can spend weeks in the park without covering the entire vastness. You will explore the Central Serengeti plains before you journey back across the Ngorongoro Crater rim for overnight stay.

Approximate driving time: 0 hours to Serengeti / 2-3 hours to Ngorongoro
Game drive included: Morning, En-route
Meals included: Breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner
Extra activities or add-ons included: None
Extra activities or add-ons excluded: Hot air balloon safari, Olduvai Gorge Museum visit, Maasai village cultural visit.
Commonly seen animals: Elephant, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, lion, cheetah, hyena, warthog, kudu, leopard, ostrich, mongoose, hyrax, dik-dik
Occasionally seen animals: Crocodile, caracal, serval, klipspringer.
Rarely seen animals: Black rhino, wild dog.

Today you start early and descend into the Ngorongoro Crater with a great density of wildlife and superb for game viewing almost all year around. Predators are easily spotted here, and you usually will encounter a black Rhino and many of the big 5 all with a spectacular back drop against the 600m (2000ft) crater wall. Later drive Kilimanjaro / Arusha airport/ Moshi/ Arusha. End of the services

Approximate driving time: 0.5 hours to Ngorongoro crater / 4 hours airport
Game drive included: Morning, early afternoon (time permitting)
Meals included: Breakfast, picnic lunch
Extra activities or add-ons included: None
Extra activities or add-ons excluded: Maasai village cultural visit
Commonly seen animals: Elephant, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, lion, hyena, jackal, vulture, warthog, impala, flamingo, ostrich, waterbuck.
Occasionally seen animals: Black rhino, cheetah, dik-dik.
Rarely seen animals: Leopard, caracal, serval.