Itinerary

Day 1

Dawn game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, perhaps the most beautiful on the circuit. Famous for its elephants and lions-in-trees, the park boasts 20 times as many species of trees as in all of North America and outstanding bird life. During the morning game drive you'll understand why this is where Out of Africa was filmed. In the afternoon explore an important elephant corridor and rich native forest in the Maasai community of Silela, Meals and overnight at Kirurumu tented camp:
Ngorongoro Grater

Day 2

Two remarkable days in one of the most phenomenal places in Africa, the 2000-foot deep, 100 sq. mile large Ngorongoro Crater. The Ngorongoro volcano at its nadir was probably about 15 000 feet high and would have resembled present day Mount Meru. Once the world's highest structure, an enormous volcano -- possibly 25 miles wide at its base -- collapsed inwards about 2-3 million years ago at a time when large fractures appeared creating the Eastern Rift wall.

Day 3

The Ngorongoro crater is home to over 20 000 large mammals. Its rich grassland caldera is an animal paradise. See some of the world's largest elephant, large groups of black-maned lion, big herds of plains animals like zebra and wildebeest. The crater is the last place in Africa where free-ranging black rhino are usually seen by all visitors.

One afternoon Our Guide will introduce you to a local Maasai chief who will escort you on a breathtaking walk through the area's outstanding hills. The two days and nights will be spent at Tanzania's most lavish safari camp site.Serengeti National Park

Day 4

Leave the crater on a spectacular drive that takes you first to famous Olduvai Gorge, then overland into the great Serengeti, the Grande Dame of African wilderness. For three days and nights you'll explore the southern plains and western hills, where normally at this time of the year around 2 million wildebeest, zebra and a vast assortment of other plains animals, congregate to feast on the nutrient grasses growing with the developing rains.

Day 5

There is no other as impressive or dramatic wildlife spectacle on earth. During these three nights you'll be pampered in a Luxury Camp set near the migration but hours and days away from the main tourist lodges. At times, the entire veldt will be yours alone. Peter will also take you to sacred Maasai areas, where he will convey the drama and mystery of Maasai history and culture.

Day 6

The Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area represent more than 7 000 sq. miles of some of the finest pristine wilderness left on earth. Travel from the southern plains to the far northern reaches of the park near the Kenyan border. Here among spectacular kopjes live noble Maasai very much as they have for centuries.

Day 7

Our Guide will take you onto a private reserve which boasts an award-winning conservation project that aims to protect important animal corridors and grazing areas from overuse and modern development.

Day 8

Our Guide will take you onto a private reserve which boasts an award-winning conservation project that aims to protect important animal corridors and grazing areas from overuse and modern development.