6-Day East Africa Highlights

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After breakfast, check out and begin your Tanzania highlights tour with a 4WD transfer to Tarangire National Park. After lunch a Safari drive. Tarangire runs along the Tarangire River and low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor with huge swamp areas which act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Return to the luxury and rustic Little Oliver’s Camp for dinner.

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Discover Africa just as it should be from Oliver’s Camp in the remote southern reaches of Tarangire. Game drive through forests of enigmatic baobab, home to vast herds of buffalo and elephant. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park and is the primary source of fresh water for the wild animals. It is also home to more than 550 bird species. The park is also famous for the termite mounds that dot the landscape.

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Lake Manyara National Park offers a spectacular setting and is famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds. The shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds. After picnic lunch drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, once a gigantic volcano is the largest intact caldera in the world. Today it is an extensive highland area with the famous 600m deep Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Check in at the Highlands Lodge.

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Endangered black rhino are protected within its rim, giant-tusked elephants wander the forests, black-maned lions stalk the grasslands, and flamingoes crowd the soda lakes. An estimated 25 000 large mammals are resident in this bowl of plenty, including a population of approximately 6 000 resident wildebeest, 16 highly endangered black rhino and around 70 lions. Cheetahs move in and out of the Crater, while leopards are most often encountered in the spectacular Lerai Forest.