Breakfast, we collect picnic hot lunches and transfer to the full-day game drive in Tarangire National Park. The name “Tarangire” derives from the Tara River and “Ngiri,” the Swahili word for “warthog.” Tarangire is renowned for its vast herds of elephants, African pythons, and towering baobab trees.

• Therefore, driving Distance: 121 / km (2 Hours)

The next part of your journey is to Tarangire National Park, stopping at a central market in Arusha. Your next two nights will spent at Olives Camp, a tented safari camp in this wild landscape with ancient baobab trees as its backdrop. Therefore, The first afternoon is reserved for a thrilling game drive, during which you will encounter safari heavy hitters, including rhinos, leopards, and lions. However, On return to the camp, your guides will facilitate an interpretive talk on the constellations of African stars.

Then, your next two days will spent exploring the park with an introduction to the ‘Giants of the Tarangire’ – the baobabs and elephants, and your guides will prepare an introduction to wildlife photography. Plus, you’ll visit the Silale Swamp, one of the Tarangire ecosystem’s most essential features. Vast herds of herbivores flood the park in search of this water, attracting lions, leopards, and the painted wolves of Africa, endangered wild dogs.

• Therefore, Driving Distance is: 124 / km (2 Hours)

From Arusha, you’ll head to the Ngorongoro Crater, where you’ll stay at Entamanu Ngorongoro, possibly the most lavish lodge in Tanzania! Often described as ‘Maasai meets Versailles,’ its interiors are a high-camp take on the luxury safari theme. You’ll stay in one of the lodge’s glamorous suites, enjoying a king-size four-poster bed, a deluxe separate seating area, and a full bathroom with floor-to-ceiling windows onto spectacular Crater views! You’ll head out on expertly guided game drives during your two nights here. You can expect to see all Big Five species – lion, rhino, leopard, elephant, and buffalo. Smaller predators and herbivores abound, including cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, servals, caracals, golden cats, wild dogs, giraffes, wildebeest, zebra, and a fine assortment of antelopes.