Have a wonderful early breakfast at your hotel in Arusha and let the adventure begin on the road to Tarangire National Park (famous for its elephant population and baobab trees).  If this is your first trip to Africa, you’ll learn that the journey is half the fun!  Watch for donkeys, cattle and all sorts of new flora and fauna on your way to the Park, then enjoy your first afternoon game drive inside Tarangire.  You are likely to see elephants and birds of all stripes and colors.  Likely, too, to see giraffe, zebra, impala; and possibly even lions.  Dinner and overnight at a lodge at Tarangire.

A full day of game drives inside the Serengeti gives you memories that will last a lifetime.  Explore the natural ecosystem and learn about the animals and nature with your experienced guide.  Enjoy the sunrise and sunset in this great wilderness.  Decide if you want a hot breakfast or to pack your breakfast and get out on the trail first thing in the morning then later have a hot coffee and your packed breakfast while exploring the plains.  By taking a generous boxed lunch, you can spend the whole day discovering the wonders of the plains and kopjes and watering holes that run throughout the Serengeti.  Enjoy a second night at your camp, which will already be feeling like home.

This morning will be spectacular.  After breakfast, descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive and see the large numbers of animals that live in this (relatively) small space, which is a World Heritage Site.  The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact volcanic caldera formed when the Ngorongoro volcano exploded some 2 million years ago.  Some 25,000 animals live in the Crater, including Cape buffalo, hippopotamus, wildebeest, zebra, eland and many other species.  You may even have a chance to see the endangered black rhinoceros.  After lunch, head back to Arusha airport for your departure from Tanzania.