Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport, you will be greeted by our team who will assist you with your luggage and transfer you to your accommodation. Our knowledgeable guides will be on hand to provide you with any necessary information and answer any questions you may have about your upcoming adventure. Whether you're headed to the majestic slopes of Kilimanjaro or the captivating landscapes of Arusha National Park, your journey begins with a warm welcome and seamless transfer from the airport to your destination

Today you go on your first real game drive. After a leisurely breakfast and a short introduction from your guide you will enter your 4×4 safari car/truck and start the drive towards Arusha National Park! Arusha Park is known for its abundance of tropical birds. With over four hundred different species in this relatively small park, you can easily spot them as you drive through the tropical rainforest! Often the lakes of the park are filled with thousands and thousands of flamingos, including the rare Greater Flamingo. The park also has some beautiful craters, waterfalls, mountains and grassy areas. The park is known as the home of the Colobus monkey, which you can recognize by its long tail. The name comes from its blunt thumb: Colobus is from the Greek colobos, which means stump. It is a rare monkey and therefore one of the reasons to visit the park.

You leave Arusha after breakfast and drive about 1-2 hours to Tarangire National Park circa 80 km away. On the way you will pass lively Masai villages and the wide plains for which East Africa is so famous. The Tarangire National Park is very large, all in all 2600 square kilometers, about the size of the german state of Schleswig Holstein. There are extensive gently undulating plains here, including two large pans in the south that turn into swamps depending on the season. After Serengeti, Ruaha and Mikumi, the Tarangire is the fourth largest park in Tanzania. It is named after the Tarangire River, which rises in the mountains south of the park. This river winds its way from the extreme south through numerous rocky hilly landscapes, which are between 1000 and 1675 meters high, almost to the northernmost tip of the game reserve.

After an early morning refreshment you will drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area also known as the 8th wonder of the world.you will have a chance to visit Maasai Village who live within Ngorongoro Conservation Area.You will have a chance to interact with local people and learn about their culture.  The tarred road takes you higher and higher up to the Ngorongoro crater rim. The road climbs steeply in serpentines through a noticeably cool, fairytale mountain forest on the outer slopes of the crater. After a few kilometres you will reach the Loduare Park gate, the entrance to the Conservation Area.

Today you can look forward to the highlight of your trip – a Safari in the legendary Serengeti National Park Many of the most famous nature films and documentations were shot in this world famous national park. The word Serengeti comes from the Maasai language and literally means “endless plains”. Many predators roam these vast plains; over four thousand lions, 225 cheetahs, thousands of leopards, 3500 hyenas and hundreds of wild dogs. After breakfast, continue along the western crater road until the trail leads you downhill directly into the Serengeti.

Today you get up before sunrise and continue your Serengeti Safari with an early morning game drive. As the sun begins to illuminate the savannah, you will have the best opportunity to see predators in action as they take advantage of the low light and cooler temperatures to seek an early meal. It is an ideal time to see lions, leopards and cheetahs in action as well as the movements of wildebeest, zebra and other herbivores. Alternatively you can book a hot air balloon safari at sunrise followed by a champagne breakfast.

After breakfast you leave the Serengeti for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The drive takes you back through the Serengeti along a beautiful route and offers the opportunity to see some animals you may have missed earlier – wildebeests and zebras in huge groups, large and graceful giraffes, leaping antelopes and gazelles, the mighty African elephant or the elegant predators. After you have left the gates of the reserve behind you, you drive about 30 minutes further to the small town of Karatu. Here you have the opportunity to stop at some of the many “dukas” (small shops) and to buy some souvenirs for home. The fertile soils of the area are intensively cultivated by small farmers. You can look forward to a variety of tropical fruits, fruit and vegetables that are offered for sale by Tanzanian mamas. Haggling and negotiating is part of the sale here. Afterwards you return to your accommodation for dinner.

After an early morning picnic, today you’ll head to Lake Eyasi home to the Hadzabe Bushman ethnic group, traditional hunter-gatherers with a similar way of life to the Bushmen of southern Africa. The area around Lake Eyasi is a wild, almost unexplored and impressive landscape with very few visitors. Lake Eyasi is an alkaline lake that stretches about 50 km southwest. In the northeast the impressive crater highlands dominate the horizon, in the north the plains of the Serengeti.

End of your 9 Days Northern Circuit Serengeti Safari in Arusha. After breakfast transfer to Arusha then airport to catch your flight back home. On the way you will have a chance to make your own shopping to souvenir shops before heading to Arusha for your flight.