Day 4
Lake Manyara National Park

In the morning we drive to Mto Wa Mbu and visit the village. In the afternoon we have a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Notice the dramatic change in habitat as grasslands give way to ground water forests featuring sausage trees and strangler figs. We overnight at the beautiful Lake Manyara Serena Lodge, perched almost 2,000 feet above Lake Manyara. (B,L,D)

Days 5 & 6
Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast we enjoy a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park before we drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Explore Ngorongoro Crater, where an abundance of food and fresh water make it possible for 30,000 large mammals to live. This is the only place in East Africa where one can easily observe a natural population of black rhino. Our home for the next two nights is the magnificent Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, located on the crater’s rim. (B,L,D Daily)

Days 7-9
Serengeti National Park

Today we head for the Serengeti, en route visiting Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakey family unearthed thousands of fossil bones and stone tools. We arrive late in the afternoon at the Serengeti Plains, home to the greatest concentration of large mammals on Earth. We spend three nights at our private mobile tented camp, which will be situated closest to the migrating herds during this time. Take morning and afternoon game drives. (B,L,D Daily)

Day 10
Serengeti National Park / Arusha / En Route

Following our last game drive this morning we fly back to Arusha, where dayrooms await us at the Dik Dik Hotel. We enjoy shopping and dinner before returning to the airport for our connecting flight to the U.S. (B,L,D)

Day 11
U.S.
Connect with flights home. (Meals Aloft)

• East Africa’s wildlife is extraordinary. Over two million large animals inhabit the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, while other areas have many unusual species. You’ll see the daily drama of life on the plains.
  
  
• If there is a more beautiful part of the world, we don’t know where it might be. You see snow-capped Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, dramatic 102-square-mile Ngorongoro Crater, rolling grasslands, desert rivers and springs, all filtered through East Africa’s rarefied air.
  
  
• Your accommodations are part of the pleasure of the safari. You stay close to nature but in complete comfort in some of Africa’s finest tented camps and lodges.
  
  
• East Africa’s people are exceptionally welcoming. You learn of the culture of the Maasai, who have retained many of their traditional ways, and also how people have adapted to changing times and the pressures of modernization.