7-Day Follow the Gnu

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Today, you'll start a beautiful journey across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. Although small in dimension, the park has breathtaking scenery and lush acacia forest, giant figs and mahogany trees. It's also home to a growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Permanent residents also include giraffes, elephants, impalas and a huge amount of buffaloes. The lake is also home to a large number of hippos.

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Today, you'll drive through the Ngorongoro Highlands towards the Ngorongoro Conservation area, with spectacular Crater view, on the way to the endless plains of the Serengeti National Park. There is a chance to see all the Big Five. You will enjoy a picnic lunch en route. Once finished at the Serengeti National Park, you will head to your accommodation for the night.

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Today, you'll be lucky enough to spend yet another full day exploring the Serengeti National Park. This is also the place of choice to look for lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas and many smaller animals together with more than 500 species of birds. You'll head out after breakfast on your safari game drive, enjoy a picnic lunch out on the plains and return to the lodge in time for dinner.

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In the late afternoon, the adventure continues when you travel to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. After an early breakfast, you'll depart towards the most famous national park in the world, the Serengeti. The driving itself, although long, is spectacular. You will drive up the crater highlands, making a quick stop at the rim for an out of this world view of Ngorongoro Crater. This will be an unforgettable moment for anyone seeing it for the first time.

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Ngorongoro Crater is considered one of the wonders of the natural world. The crater spreads for 102 square miles and has 2,000-foot-high walls, making it virtually a Noah's ark and inhabiting almost every species of wildlife that is indigenous to East Africa. It's one of the very rare locations in the whole continent where you can witness the Black Rhino. In the afternoon, you'll return to Arusha for your final night.