After breakfast we depart with a picnic lunch for the Serengeti, game viewing throughout the day in the park as we make our way to the campsite located in the Seronera Valley, arriving for dinner and overnight. Arguably the most famous National Park in the world, the Serengeti Ecosystem (the name comes from “siringit” the Masai word for “endless plains”) consists of some 35,000 square kilometers. It extends into the Masai Mara in neighbouring Kenya and provides a vast ecosystem for the wildebeest migration that takes place each year.

Full days exploring the Serengeti with picnic lunch. Dinner and overnight within our camp in Seronera. The famed plains are found to the south of the park east of the Seronera Valley, rolling hills in the less-visited Lobo area to the north and wooded riverine valleys to the remote east around Kirawira and Grumeti. The park itself is about 14,763 sq kms in area and encompasses the main part of the Serengeti ecosystem.

Early this morning we depart Serengeti National park with picnic lunch game viewing as we make our way towards the Ngorongoro Highlands and Simba Campsite on the edge of the rim for dinner and overnight. Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the name given to the 8,300 square kilometre piece of land that surrounds the famous Crater and the High-lands of the same name. The Crater was once the headquarters of Serengeti National Park of which it was an integral part, but in 1956, after in-tense pressure and lobbying from the local Masai community who were dispossessed of the lands when the National Park was set up, Ngorongoro was designated a Conservation Area.

Early this morning we descend the crater walls to spend the day game viewing with a picnic lunch. After lunch, we depart for Arusha Arriving mid to late afternoon. The 210 square km Crater is now one of the principal attractions on the Northern Tanzanian Safari Circuit and the reputation of the Crater Highlands is slowly developing as a premier trekking destination. The Crater is all that it is made out to be, the hyperbole about Gardens Of Eden, Eighth Wonder Of The World etc all justified by its perennial animal population. This cross-section of wildlife is about as convenient as you will find, dispersed amongst an amazing array of ecosystems within the Natural Amphitheater created by 600-metre-high cliffs around it. It is home to one of the few remaining populations of black rhino in Tanzania and just about every other East African mammal, with the exception of giraffe (walls are too steep) and impala, all unafraid and used to the constant retinue of vehicles.