Tour Highlights

• Fulfill your African dreams of big-game viewing in Tanzania’s largest wildlife park – the Serengeti Plains.
• Spend an incredible day in the Ngorongoro Crater, a natural wildlife amphitheater.
• Discover Lake Manyara National Park, a bird watcher’s haven with more than 380 species recorded in the park.
• Visit Olduvai Gorge, the fossil beds where Dr. Leakey established the Great Rift Valley as the ‘cradle of mankind.’
• Stay in luxurious Serena Hotels accommodations, all set in choice locations.

Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Depart USA
Your Tanzania journey begins with your international flights to Nairobi via London.

Day 2: London / Nairobi, Kenya
Welcome to Nairobi, the historical gateway to East Africa’s safari country. You are met on arrival and transferred to your elegant hotel. Nairobi Serena

Day 3: Nairobi / Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
Kilimanjaro looms in the distance as you travel to the Tanzanian border. You begin scouting for wildlife soon after passing through Arusha, en route to Lake Manyara National Park. This compact park boasts a lively variety of mammals, reptiles, birds and habitats, making this a memorable place to visit. You may glimpse monkeys in tree branches, elephants gathered under a baobab tree, and lions on the hunt, hippos congregating in the pools along the lake shore, and the lake’s huge flocks of colorful flamingos. More than 380 species of birds, including migratory species, have been recorded in the park. Lake Manyara Serena (B,L,D)

Day 4: Lake Manyara National Park / Ngorongoro Crater
Venture today through the Masai country of the Ngorongoro highlands. Arrive at your lodge on the rim of remarkable crater, a wildlife amphitheater within a 12-mile-wide caldera, formed out of a collapsed ancient volcano. Ngorongoro Serena (B,L,D)

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater
Enjoy a thrilling day in the crater, where some 30,000 animals roam freely. This is perhaps the best place in East Africa to get close to rhinos and lions and other predators among the hundreds of animals. This is a photographer’s paradise. Ngorongoro Serena (B,L,D)

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater / Serengeti National Park
Your safari continues as you travel the vast Serengeti Plains. Its openness and sparse shelter makes this an outstanding place to view the dramatic interplay of predators and prey.
Stop en route at Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakey family has made a number of important discoveries about early humans and their use of tools. Serengeti Serena (B,L,D)

Day 7: Serengeti National Park
Experience some of the finest wildlife viewing in all of Africa with lion, cheetah, antelope, buffalo and other animals in abundance. The game is plentiful and viewing is superb throughout the year. This is also the location for one of the stellar events in the natural world – the annual migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebra. It is a stirring sight to see massive herds of animals roaming the Serengeti. Serengeti Serena (B,L,D)

Day 8: Serengeti National Park / Nairobi / Depart
After a final game drive and breakfast, fly back to Arusha. In the afternoon, continue by air to Nairobi for a festive farewell dinner. Later tonight, you are transferred to the airport for your departing flight. Nairobi Serena Dayroom (B,L,D)

Day 9: Arrive USA
Connect in London to your flight home, arriving later today.

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