CEXT 213 - Ngorongoro-Serengeti
Wildlife Special (5 Days)
Day 1 Nairobi
- Lake Manyara
Arrive at the Namanga border town at 10.00 hrs. After
immigration formalities, drive to Arusha for lunch. The afternoon
is spent game viewing at Lake Manyara National Park which
is famous for its tree climbing lions and large flocks of
flamingoes. The park contains five distinct vegetation zones
and is of scenic beauty. Dinner and overnight is at your lodge
or tented camp.
Day 2 Lake Manyara - Ngorongoro
Crater
After breakfast, taking picnic
lunch with you, descend 2000 ft (670m) into the crater floor
in four drive land rovers with pop-up roofs. Full day crater
tour with break for lunch at Ngoitoktok springs picnic site.
The main crater has a diameter of 165 km and contains a constant
animal population of varied species, including Black manned
lions, Rhinos, Buffaloes, Elephants and other Grazing animals.
An early evening ascent to your lodge or tented camp for dinner
and overnight.
Day 3 Nogorongo
- Serengeti
07:30 hrs: Leave Ngorongoro after breakfast for Olduvai
Gorge. Lunch is taken at the Olduvai Gorge Museum. After lunch,
visit various sites of the Gorge to see where the remains
of prehistoric man were discovered by the famous archeologist
Dr. L.S.B. Leaky and an old Masai home on the way. Proceed
to Serengeti plains past Seronera and on to Lobo, with afternoon
game viewing. Dinner and overnight at your lodge or tented
camp.
Day 4 Serengeti
Leave Lobo for Ndutu with game viewing in Serengeti
and around Ndutu woodlands to locate leopards and numerous
plains games as well as Cheetah and other species common here.
Proceed for an overnight stay at your lodge or tented camp.
Day 5 Serengeti
- Nairobi
After breakfast, with brief game viewing on your way
out of Serengeti drive to Arusha via Mto wa Mbu village for
shopping of makonde carving and - other souvenirs. Lunch at
an Arusha hotel. Drive to Nairobi via Namanga border town,
arriving early evening.
CEXT 226 - 6 Days - Serengeti's
Rich Heritage
Day 1 Ngorongoro
Early morning departure from Nairobi for Tanzania,
crossing the border at Namanga where our Tanzanian guides
will meet you. Drive on to Arusha for lunch and continue to
the Ngorongoro Crater. Dinner and an overnight stay at your
lodge or tented camp.
Day 2 Ngorongoro
Breakfast at the lodge and drive
down to the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a full day's game
viewing. The Crater (covering at total area of 100 square
miles) is host to Rhino, Lion, Elephant, Zebra and Wildebeest.
Enjoy a picnic lunch before ascending the crater wall back
to the lodge. After dinner and an overnight stay is at your
lodge or tented camp.
Day 3 Serengeti
Breakfast and continue to the vast Serengeti National
Park. Stop at Olduvai Gorge site of the famous archeological
findings of early man by the Leakey family. Lunch is at the
archeological site and afternoon game viewing where the large
herds of Wild beast, Zebra, and Gazelle roam the plains. Dinner
and overnight at your lodge or tented camp.
Day 4 Serengeti
Morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti
with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge or campsite in
the mid afternoon. It is possible to view all the big five.
Animals here are seen in very large herds, especially wildebeest,
zebra gazelle and other antelopes. The park is one of the
largest in the world; it's animal concentration and abundance
is unequalled. The annual migration of wildebeest and zebra
occurs in this park in May/June. In the parks central plains
there are carnivores like Lion, Leopard, hyenas and cheetah.
The evening meal and an overnight are at your lodge or tented
camp.
Day 5 Serengeti - Tarangire
After breakfast, depart Serengeti
for Tarangire National Park, lunch en-route The Park has an
atmosphere of remoteness and has fewer visitors than all the
other parks in Tanzania's entire northern circuit. Blue monkeys,
hornbills, pelicans, herons can be seen as well as elephants
in large herds, cheetah, jackal, fish eagle, marabou stork,
and hippos. Dinner and an overnight are at your lodge or tented
camp.
Day 6 Tarangire/Nairobi
After breakfast proceed on a game
drive then depart for Arusha for lunch and your onward transfer
to Nairobi via the Namanga border town for immigration formalities,
arriving in Nairobi in the late evening.
