DAY 01: KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (JRO) TO ARUSHA
Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, meet Biko Adventures Tours representative pick up and transfer to Arusha. Stay overnight at Masailand Safari Lodge (BB)
DAY 02: ARUSHA TO ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK
From your overnight lodge, we will pick you up after breakfast, Drive to Arusha National park, enter the Park for a game drive, this is the smallest park in the Northern Zone, the park is very beautiful with magnificent views of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru which is within the park. We see much wildlife such as Cape Buffalos, Zebras, Warthog, Many giraffes, Bushbuck, Waterbucks, Dik diks, red duiker, Baboons, Velvet Monkey, Blue Monkeys, and very beautiful Black and White Colobus Monkeys, Elephants, as well as many species of birds. The small Momella and Big Momella lakes are the best places to see aquatics birds Including Pink Flamingos, day trip walking and Canoe is possible in this park. Stay overnight at Masailand Safari Lodge (BLD)
DAY 03: ARUSHA TO TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
Today we drive to Tarangire National park, via local Maasai villages along the main way, here you will see Maasai heading their livestock to the green pasture, as well as women searching for wood and water, Tarangire is the best place to see many Elephants and many Baobab trees. There is much wildlife such as Giraffe, Migration of wildebeest and Zebras, Cape buffalo, velvet monkey, Impala, Grant’s gazelle, Thomson gazelle, Lion, Leopard, cheetah, Banded and Dwarf mongoose, Olive baboon, African wild dog, caracal, and honey badger, waterbucks and Dik-dik. Here is home to more than 550 bird species. Stay at Tarangire Safari Lodge (BLD)
DAY 04: TARANGIRE TO LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
The park is known as Tree climbing lion, after breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National park through the Great Rift Valley one of the most dramatic features on earth, extending from the dead sea in Jordan to Mozambique in the South. You will pass through the Maasai land. Lake Manyara National park is renamed after the plant Euphorbia tirucallii, ‘Emanyar’ in Maasai language, and ‘ladies fingers’ in English. The park covers an area of 330kmsq, of which 220kmsq is covered by a lake and the rest by woodland. There is an enormous amount of wildlife such as tree-climbing lion, leopard, cheetah, hippopotamus, buffalo, elephant, zebra, wildebeest, baboon, blue monkey, velvet monkey, pink flamingo, and over 350 bird species. Stay overnight at Kudu Lodge (BLD)
DAY 05: DRIVE TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, we head to the Serengeti National park, via Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We will stop at the rim of the crater for a great view of the crater, we make our drive around the crater rim to Serengeti Park. Geographically Serengeti is divided into two zones: Eastern-Southern, which is covered with a vast plain made of volcanic ash which was emitted from Ngorongoro highlands, hence the name “Siringet “, a Maasai word for endless plain. The second zone, Western-Northern, is woodland and small hills. Stay overnight at Thorn Tree Tented Lodge. (BLD)
DAY 06: FULL DAY SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Full-day game drive in Serengeti National Park. After breakfast leaves your camp for a game drive. The Serengeti National park is part of the Serengeti ecosystem which boasts the greatest wildlife concentrations of ungulates: more than 1 million wildebeests and nearly half a million zebras annually follow the rains around this ecosystem, from the plains to the savannah woodlands, to the Masai Mara and back to the plains again. This big migration has been described as the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth. We will see lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, gazelle and if lucky migration of wildebeest and zebra and a lot of birdlife. The Serengeti is not only famous for the big game roaming over the plains, but also for its great ornithological spectacle. The highlights include: the endemic grey breasted spurfowl and the true Fischer’s lovebirds, Tanzanian red-billed hornbill, silver bird, magpie shrike and ostrich. Stay overnight at Thorn Tree Tented lodge (BLD)
DAY 07: NGORONGORO CRATER TOUR TO ARUSHA
After early breakfast drive to Ngorongoro and descend to the crater floor. The Ngorongoro crater it’s a beautiful wildlife haven in the world .it is more like the animal kingdom or paradise, where some of Africa’s last Black Rhinos are still well protected. The black mine lion’s stalk through the grass, flamingos crowds the Magadi Lake and the Giant-tusked Elephant mostly seen along the permanent swamps. Exit a crater and drive back to Arusha. Stay Overnight at Masailand Safari Lodge (BB)
DAY 08: DEPARTURE DAY
Leisure breakfast, have a visit of Arusha city (optional) afternoon drive to Airport