This small group overland safari takes you to Africa's most famous plains of the Serengeti, the unique Ngorongoro Crater, the Olduvai Gorge and Lake Manyara National Park.

The Serengeti is undoubtedly one of Africa's wildlife viewing highlights and has featured on countless documentaries such as Big Cat Diary and the Living Planet.    It derives its name from the Masai word siringet which means "endless plain" - a term which at 14,763 square kilometers it well deserves.

Throughout the year the Serengeti thrives with wildlife, providing excellent opportunities to see prides of lions and spotted hyena in clans of up to eighty strong.  Plains game animals including giraffe, buffalo, warthog and antelope such as eland, impala, oryx and dikdik can be seen at any time.  There are also healthy populations of predators such as leopards, side-striped and golden jackals and cheetahs, as well as 520 species of birds.

In addition to the Serengeti's residents, the plains play host to 2 ½ million migrating grazers including around 1.7 million wildebeest, half a million Grant's and Thompson's Gazelles and some 300,000 zebras.  These move en masse between the Serengeti and the Masai Mara in Kenya in response to seasonal pastures.  This is the largest migration on Earth and it concentrates in the Serengeti and the western Ngorongoro between December and July.  By August and September most of the migrating animals are accumulated in the Masai Mara.

Whilst the Serengeti offers a wide open wilderness, the Ngorongoro concentrates game (and visitors) into a dramatic yet confined crater.  The physical geography of the location is quite unique.  Whilst the density of human life may not be what you hoped for at the crater, it is the focus of a visit to Olduvai Gorge which another volcanic landscape and the 'cradle of mankind'.   This is the place where Louis Leakey discovered remains of our direct ancestors in the form of a skull dated to be 1.75 million years old.

Lake Manyara National Park may be small, but it contains one of Africa's highest concentrations of elephants and the continent's highest biomass of plant and animal per square metre.  Dense bush and tree cover in this park make for a very different game viewing experience than the Serengeti and Ngorongoro.  The lake itself is rich in algae and in turn this attracts large flocks of falmingoes.

For a brief overland itinerary please Click Here.

For an itinerary out overland and return by flight Click Here.

Prices

This safari can also be run on a private basis.  Please enquire for details.

Safaris depart on Sundays @ 1400.

Option to fly one way return Add £125

Price includes
All transport starting and ending in the town of Arusha.
Driver / guide
All meals
Entry fees to national parks, reserves and museums.
Government taxes, hotel levies and service charges

Price exludes
Porterage
Gratuities
Items of a personal nature such as laundry, drinks
Excursions not listed within the itinerary
Transfers not specified

Accommodation In first class game lodges, tented camps and private homesteads

Transportation This will be in a 4WD game vehicle in which all passengers will be beside a window and game viewing can also be conducted out from an open roof.

Min group size 2

Max group size 7

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