We’ll cover an approximate of 4 hrs. drive.

7:30 am. Get ready to safari as your Vulture African Safaris driver/guide
arrives at your hotel or the airport. Enter into your private 4 x 4 safari Land
Cruiser and we’ll take off driving through the savannah country, passing
homesteads and Maasai herders tending to their cattle.

We’ll arrive at Amboseli National Park in the late morning. Lunch is next at
our accommodation and we’ll ready ourselves for the first of many game
drives over the next six days.

Things you’ll notice at this park – one is the elephants, so many that you
are guaranteed sightings. The other is the views of towering Mt.
Kilimanjaro.

Besides the great population of elephants, Amboseli will offer us sightings
of other wildlife like giraffe, zebra, lion, cheetah, ostrich, warthog, and lots
of birdlife.

Toward evening, look toward Kilimanjaro – often the clouds obscuring its
snow-capped summit part revealing the splendid vision of the entire
mountain, right to its peak.

Let’s relax and enjoy dinner at our Amboseli safari lodge or tented camp.

Our drive time today will be clocking around 5 – 6 hrs.

We’re getting into the safari rhythm with an early rise to watch the morning
sun light up the fields, hills, and marshes of the park. We’ll take a pre-
breakfast game drive as the wildlife slowly emerges into the new day.

Breakfast will be at our accommodation and then we’re off to Tanzania.
We’ll stop for immigration checks at the border town of Namanga, before
proceeding on to Lake Manyara Park. Our route takes us through Maasai
country, and you may see some of the herders tending to their flocks.

A big, beautiful lake greets us at Manyara, and filling our field of view are
the thousands of pink flamingoes feeding on its algae. The sight of so much
colorful avian life is a signature souvenir of Africa.

Besides the lake, the park also offers a dreamy landscape of acacia woods
in which you may find the renowned Manyara tree-climbing lions. Look for
them resting above in the tree branches.

We’ll spend the night here at your Manyara safari lodge or tented camp
with dinner and talk of the day.

An approximate 4 hrs. drive.

This is the perfect place to soak up the sunrise, the soft golden light
illuminating this magical reserve.

We’ll enjoy an early game drive before setting out for the Serengeti. Soon
we’ll come to the vast Serengeti plains, an astonishing expanse of endless
land and wildlife.

We’ll take an afternoon game drive over this storied savannah, admiring
the great populations of wildlife filling this immense space.

The first of two evenings at the Serengeti will be at our safari lodge or
tented camp.

Let’s rise with the Serengeti sun as the great fields come alive with
spectacular herds of wildebeests and so much other wildlife.

It’s here that millions of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, eland, topi and others
breed and begin their Great Migration in search of taller grasses, water,
and the trek for their survival. It’s a phenomenal sight not seen elsewhere.

Also, on the vast Serengeti – big cats like lions, leopards, and cheetahs
thrive in great numbers.

We’ll fill our minds and memories with scenes of Africa’s fantastic big game
throughout the day and toward evening retreat to the comfort of our
Serengeti accommodation for dinner and rest.

An approximate 3 hrs. drive.

We’ll grab some picnic lunches as we take a final game drive through the
Serengeti. But now we are on our way to the Ngorongoro Crater.

On route, we’ll make a diversion to the anthropological wonder of Olduvai
Gorge. The site is a living fossilized record of early man’s tool-making and
early development and is not to be missed.

As we come to the Ngorongoro Crater’s rim, let’s pause and take in the
vast thriving world below us, an area of some 264 sq km (102 sq mi).
Fasten up as we head down 600 m (1,968 ft) in our 4 x 4 Jeep coming to
the crater’s floor, a living ecosystem alive with wildlife.

We’ll spend the day exploring the crater’s fields, lakes, and woods looking
for its dense quantities of lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos, antelope, and
even monkeys and baboons.

The diversity of wildlife is so great in this isolated world we may even see
pink flamingoes at the crater’s Lake Magadi.

Then, toward late afternoon we’ll ascend back up the crater’s wall to catch
a dazzling sunset at the rim.

We’ll head to our Ngorongoro accommodation for a final safari evening and
dinner.

An approximate 3 ½ hrs. drive.

Let’s try to catch the sunrise at the crater’s rim – it’s certain to be dazzling.
Then, after breakfast, we’ll depart for Arusha with a lunch stop along the
way.

We’ll bring you to your Arusha hotel or head back to Nairobi.
We can also take you to the Kilimanjaro Airport for the easy flight to
Zanzibar Island and its glorious beaches.

From the heights of Kilimanjaro to the depths of the Ngorongoro Crater,
from the quiet beauty of Lake Manyara to the stirrings of lions and
wildebeests at the Serengeti, we hope you have thrilled to our Africa – the
awesome beauty of Kenya and Tanzania. Vulture African Safaris thanks
you for your interest in and love of our wildlife safaris.