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The Best of Travel in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania)
Tanzania Wildlife Safaris, Wildlife Tours in
Africa, Wildlife Adventures in Tanzania
LAKE MANYARA
/ NGORONGORO/ TARANGIRE - 4 DAYS - ATH 385
Day 1 Nairobi / Lake Manyara
Pick from your Nairobi hotel and leave Nairobi for Arusha
town for lunch, via Namanga border town for immigration formalities.
Proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for afternoon game
drive. A good network of tracks and roads in the park allows
excellent viewing opportunities. Animals seen include
buffalo and elephant. Other animals present that can be seen
with luck are the tree climbing lions, leopard and black
rhino. Lesser flamingos and Egyptian geese are some of the
birds seen here. Dinner and overnight at a lodge.
Day 2 Ngorongoro
After breakfast, depart for the Ngorongoro crater for a full
day of tracking game with your guide on the crater floor.
You will break for your picnic lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs
picnic site. All the big five may be seen. Other species encountered
are cheetah, grant's and Thompson’s gazelle, common
zebra, wildebeest and the spotted hyena. Flamingos may also
be seen at the crater lake. This day will truly be an unforgettable
encounter. Dinner and overnight at a lodge.
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Day 3 Ngorongoro/Tarangire
After breakfast leave Ngorongoro for Tarangire National Park
which serves as a dry season refuge for animals from as far
north as Serengeti and Ngorongoro as it has a permanent river
flowing across it. The park has an atmosphere of remoteness
and has fewer visitors than the other parks in Tanzania's
northern circuit. Arrive in time for a game drive; lunch will
be taken enroute. The park contains all the big five except
leopard. Other migratory game seen here includes cape buffalo,
hoopoes, lovebirds, starling, rock pythons, albino giraffe,
puff adders, the fringe eared Oryx and the gerenuk. Dinner
and overnight at a lodge.
Day 4 Tarangire / Nairobi
After breakfast proceed on your final game drive then leave
for your onward journey to Nairobi via Arusha for lunch and
Namanga border town for immigration formalities. Arrive in
the mid evening.
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