[ Arusha Coffee Lodge, Tarangire Treetops, The Manor at Ngorongoro, Serengeti Pioneer Camp ]

At a glance
This classic 8 day journey takes you through the baobab and elephant dotted landscape of Tarangire National Park, to the breath taking Ngorongoro Crater, finishing in the world-renowned Serengeti, with its endless horizons and abundant wildlife. For this safari we enlighten Ngorongoro Conservation Area because of its natural uniqueness and the efforts done over time to safe guards it under the authority management.

Detailed trip itinerary
Day 1: Arusha City, Arusha Coffee Lodge (All Inclusive)
Welcome to Tanzania! Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) a SkySafari Representative will welcome you and you will be chauffeured to The Arusha Coffee Lodge, two nights in Tarangire Treetops, two nights in The Manor at Ngorongoro and two nights in Serengeti Pioneer Camp or Serengeti Migration Camp
Here you will enjoy a complimentary upgrade to one of our 12 Plantation Suites. Your stay at The Arusha Coffee Lodge is on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks (premium drinks excluded), laundry service and transfers).
- Bean-to-cup Coffee Estate Tour
- Visit Arusha National Park
- Arusha City Highlights
- Daytrip to Ngorongoro
- Peaberries Spa
- Kahawa Coffee Shop
- Soko Gift Shop
- Tanzanite Experience
- Jikoni African Restaurant
- Honeymoons & Weddings
Lying on the gently rolling foothills that cascade down from the ever-present Mount Meru is the bustling and vibrant town of Arusha. It is here on the outskirts of this town, hidden amongst one of Tanzania’s largest coffee plantations, that you will find Arusha Coffee Lodge, a perfect haven for relaxation either before or after any East African safari. Comprising of 30 Plantation Houses that radiate out into the evergreen coffee fields, Arusha Coffee Lodge has been designed around the original landowner’s home that dates back to the early 1900’s.
The homely feel of the Lodge is by no means accidental as the origins of the homestead continue to emit glimpses of times-gone-by. The friendly and personable staff help create an ambiance that continues to draw appreciation from all those who visit and stay. Within the main Plantation House reside an ‘a la carte’ restaurant, an intimate cafe bistro and a cozy lounge, all of which have inviting open log fires to warm you from the cool night air. With an enclosed, intimate swimming pool, a popular garden terrace, and acres of lush coffee plantation, Arusha Coffee Lodge encourages exploration and discovery at every turn.
Day 2: Tarangire National Park, Tarangire Treetops (All Inclusive)
After breakfast and a briefing on your SkySafari, enjoy a Coffee Tour on the plantation. After an Alfresco Lunch in the gardens of the lodge you will be chauffeured to Arusha Airport, gateway to the flying safari in Tanzania. Time to board the SkySafari Executive Grand Caravan. Your SkySafari will now take to the Air for your 20-minute flight to Kuro Airstrip in Tarangire National Park. On arrival at the airstrip, the Tarangire Treetops team will meet you for a game drive in Tarangire National Park ending in Treetops’ Private Reserve.
You will arrive at Tarangire Treetops in time for sundowners. Your stay here at Tarangire Treetops is for 2 nights in a Tree House, and is on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks (premium drinks excluded), laundry service, transfers, game drives and scheduled activities).
- Night & Day Game Drives
- Walking Safaris
- Maasai Village Tour
- Boma Dinner
- Sundowner Cocktails
- Bush Lunch
Centered about a Main Lodge - which itself encases a thousand year-old baobab tree - Tarangire Treetops comprises of 20 rooms all of which are elevated above the ground affording views over the tops of surrounding marula and baobab trees. Each Treetops Room boasts one of the largest bedrooms to be found in any camp or lodge in East Africa – with a floor space of 65 square metres – and all with an exotic double shower en suite bathroom. With furnishings that create warmth and demonstrate a commitment to local craftsmanship, the ‘up-in-the-air’ experience is completed by the open-fronted room design affording views across the Tarangire plains from an expansive but private balcony.
Dining at Treetops sustains the momentum of undeniably memorable moments. Whether enjoying a lantern-lit dinner in a traditional Boma echoing to the sounds of Maasai chants, or eating poolside by candlelight whilst a wealth of wildlife comes to drink at the Lodge water hole, Treetops creates memories by the minute and in so many differing ways.
Tarangire National Park is one of the more seasonal parks in northern Tanzania, with a lot of migratory movement within the greater Tarangire ecosystem. In the Dry season, between June and October, large herds of animals are attracted to the Tarangire River. At this time, the elephant numbers are spectacular and the park should be part of any safari in northern Tanzania. Herds of up to 300 elephant can be found, looking for underground streams in the dry riverbeds, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. Abandoned termite mounds often house mongoose colonies. All the main predators are present, but because of thick vegetation, not spotted as often as in some of the other parks in northern Tanzania.
Full List of Mammals found in Tarangire National Park:
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Banana Bat
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed Jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Bush baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Cane Rat
- Caracal
- Cheetah
- Coke’s Hartebeest
- Common Waterbuck
- Common Zebra
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Eland
- False Vampire Bat
- Fringe-eared Oryx
- Golden Jackal
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog Rare
- Impala
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Leopard
- Lesser Kudu
- Lion
- Marsh mongoose
- Masai Giraffe
- Olive Baboon
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Small-spotted Genet
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Unstriped Ground Squirrel
- Warthog
- White-bearded Gnu or
- White-bellied Free-tailed Bat
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Wildebeest
- Yellow-bellied nBat
- Yellow-winged Bat
Tarangire National Park is a great bird-watching site with more than 500 species recorded. The park harbors several dry-country bird species at the extremity of their range, such as the northern pied babbler and vulturine guineafowl. Serious bird-lovers should also keep an eye open for flocks of the dazzlingly colorful yellow-collared lovebird, and the somewhat drabber rufous-tailed weaver and ashy starling – all restricted to the dry savannah of north-central Tanzania. Migratory birds are present from November to April.
Birdlife is plentiful all year round, but bird watching is at its best when the European and north African migratory birds are present (November to April). Nesting among the resident birds is taking place during this same time, so it is easy to spot birds in their breeding plumage. Wildlife viewing is best during the Dry season (June to October).
- Abdim’s Stork
- African Barn Owl
- African Black Kite
- African Crake
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Finfoot
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Lily-trotter
- African Little
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Scops Owl
- African Spoonbill
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Ashy Starling
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Banded Martin
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Beautiful Sunbird
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-ncked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-headed Coucal
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Boehm’s Spinetail
- Broad-billed Roller
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown-headed Tchagra
- Button Quail
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Cattle Egret
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chin-spot Puff-back Flycatcher
- Common Snipe
- Common Wheatear
- Coqui Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- Crombec
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- Didric Cuckoo
- Drongo
- Dwarf Bittern
- Egyptian Goose
- Emerald Cuckoo
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-eater
- European Cuckoo
- European Hobby
- European Hoopoe
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightjar
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller
- European Swallow
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fish Eagle
- Flappet Lark
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Giant Kingfisher
- Goliath Heron
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Great Sparrow Hawk
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great White Egret
- Greater Honeyguide
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Heron
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Ground Hornbill
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin
- Harrier Hawk
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Hooded Vulture
- Issabeline Wheatear
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Knob-billed Duck
- Kori Bustard
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Layard’s Black-headed Weaver
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- LittleSparrow Hawk
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-toed Lapwing
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Magpie Shrike
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Marabou
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle
- Masai Ostrich
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Moorhen
- Mottled Swift
- Mottled-throated Spinetail
- Mourning Dove
- Mozambique Nightjar
- Namaqua Dove
- Northern Brubru
- Northern White-tailed Lark
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Open-bill Stork
- Orange-bellied Parrot
- Osprey
- Painted Snipe
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Pangani Longclaw
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Pranticole
- Purple Heron
- Pygmy Falcon
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red Bishop
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-necked Falcon
- Red-necked Spur-fowl
- Red-tailed Chat
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Retz’s Red-billed Shrike
- Ringed Plover
- Ring-necked Dove
- Rosy-patched Shrike
- Ruff
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Sacred Ibis
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Secretary Bird
- Shelley’s Francolin
- Shikra
- Singing Bush Lark
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Spectacled Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Buzzard
- Straight-crested Helmet Shrike
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Three-banded Plover
- Tropical Boubou
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Violet-tipped Courser
- Vitelline Masked Weaver
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Water Dikkop
- Wattled Plover
- Wattled Starling
- Waxbill
- Well’s Wagtail
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bearded Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-faced Scops Owl
- White-faced Tree Duck
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-necked Cormorant
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-winged Black Tern
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Sandpiper
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-bellied Duck
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-billed Stork
- Yellow-collared Lovebird
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 3: Tarangire National Park, Tarangire Treetops (All Inclusive)
After breakfast at Treetops you will enjoy a full day of activities including game drives, a visit to an authentic Masai village, a game walk, sundowners in the bush and a night game drive. Lunch and dinner will be served at Tarangire Treetops.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Conservation Area, The Manor at Ngorongoro (Fullboard)
After breakfast you will enjoy a morning game drive through Tarangire National Park. Stop at leisure for a picnic lunch on your way to Kuro Airstrip and connect to Manyara Airstrip. On arrival 20 minutes later, our team from The Manor at Ngorongoro will meet you and transfer you to The Manor where you will arrive in time for high-tea.
Here, your 2-night stay will be in a cottage on an all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks (premium drinks excluded). Laundry service, transfers, game drives and scheduled activities).
- Game Drives at the Ngorongoro Crater
- Lunch at the ngorongoro crater floor
- Game drive at Lake Manyara national park
- Horse riding around the coffee estate
- Manor estate picnic & horse ride
- Sundowner cocktails at the manor
- Relaxing deep tissue massages
Crossing the Rift Valley and climbing the steppe onto the green and rolling hills south of the Ngorongoro Crater, there lies a truly undeniable surprise and one that will be a home-away-from-home. The Manor at Ngorongoro, located in the north west Tanzania and with its 9 luxurious cottages (18 Suites), family cottage, and magnificent main Manor House, is one of the first safari lodges of its kind to blend East African hospitality with old-world Afro-European architecture and decor. Located adjacent to the famous Ngorongoro conservation area and within a 1500-acre Arabica coffee estate, The Manor is reminiscent of an elegant up-country farm home in the Cape Dutch-style of architecture.
Every detail of The Manor has been designed with its guests’ comfort in mind. Each of the cottages has been carefully positioned to maximise the views of the adjacent verdant hills but at the same time to maintain the intimacy and privacy of this old-world Manor home. The Manor at Ngorongoro provides the perfect environment to relax and take in the outstanding natural beauty of its gardens and the coffee-bush laden hills. However the drama that is Africa is but a short distance away.
A visit to the Ngorongoro Crater is an experience of a lifetime. There are few places that have wildlife densities and variety on this level. It is not unusual to see the Big Five in one day – and all this in the most amazing setting with a backdrop of the 600m/1,968ft-high crater wall. The Ngorongoro Crater offers some of the best wildlife viewing in Africa. All the major safari animals occur in great numbers. The resident population of black rhino is a real treat, as rhino are very difficult to spot elsewhere in Tanzania. The crater is also home to some very impressive elephant bulls with huge tusks. Lake Magadi often harbors large flocks of flamingo.
Full List of Mammals found in Ngorongoro Crater:
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black rhinoceros
- Black-backed Jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Bush Buck
- Bush Duiker
- Bush Squirrel
- Cheetah
- Coke’s Hartebeest
- Common Waterbuck
- Common Zebra
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Giant Forest Hog
- Giant Rat
- Golden Jackal
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Klipspringer
- Large-spotted Genet
- Leopard
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Maasai Giraffe
- Marsh Mongoose
- Olive Baboon
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Side-striped Jackal
- Small-spotted Genet
- Spotted Hyaena
- Thompson’s Gazelle
- Tree Hyrax
- Warthog
- White-bearded Gnu or Wildebeest
- Yellow-bellied Bat
Both the Ngorongoro highlands and the crater offer excellent birding, with over 500 species recorded. Birdlife in the highland forest is rich and interesting. Among the birds to be seen are white-eyed slaty flycatcher and Livingstone turaco. A number of specialized grassland birds are resident in the crater. Most noticeable are ostrich, kori bustard, crowned crane and the secretary bird. Migratory birds are present from November to April. Although birdlife is generally good throughout the year, from November to April migratory birds from Europe and northern Africa are present, and many resident birds are in breeding plumage. This makes it the best time for bird watching. The best time to watch wildlife is during the Dry season, which is June to October.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Nightjar
- African Black Duck
- African Black Kite
- African Cuckoo
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Marsh Owl
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pochard
- African Sand Martin
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- Angola Swallow
- Anteater Chat
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Banded Martin
- Bateleur
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Wagtail
- Brimstone Canary
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown-backed Woodpecker
- Buff-backed Heron or Cattle Egret
- Bunting
- Cape Rock
- Cape Wigeon
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted
- Cliff Chat
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Sandpiper
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- Didric Cuckoo
- Drongo
- Eastern Double-collared
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Black Stork
- European Common Snipe
- European Common Wheatear
- European Cuckoo
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightjar
- European Pintail
- European Rock Thrush
- European Sand Martin
- European Shoveler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Teal
- European Whinchat
- European Willow Warbler
- Fan-tailed Widow-bird
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garganey Teal
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Goliath Heron
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great White Egret
- Greater Flamingo
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Heron
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grey-rumped Swallow
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Hooded Vulture
- Hottentot Teal
- Indigo-bird
- Issabeline Wheatear
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Knob-billed Duck
- Kori Bustard
- Lammergeyer
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Rock Thrush
- Little Stint
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Magpie Shrike
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle
- Masai Ostrich
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Mottled Swift
- Namaqua Dove
- Northern Brubru
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Nyanza Swift
- Open-bill Stork
- Painted Snipe
- Pallid Harrier
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Peregrine
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Pratincole
- Purple Grenadier
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red Bishop
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-wing Starling
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring-necked Dove
- Robin Chat
- RobinChat
- Rosy-breasted Longclaw
- Ruff
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-tailed Sparrow Weaver
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Wheatear
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Plover
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stonechat
- Stork
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Sunbird
- Superb Starling
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Tropical Boubou
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Wattled Starling
- Waxbill
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Duck
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-winged Black Tern
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-breasted Seed-eater
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Spur-fowl
- Yellow-spotted Pretonia
- Yellow-throated Long-claw
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 5: Ngorongoro Conservation Area, The Manor at Ngorongoro (All Inclusive)
After breakfast, an Elewana vehicle will drive you down the crater for a full day of exploration of the Ngorongoro Crater. A picnic hamper lunch will be served on the crater floor. After lunch, you will explore more of the crater before heading back to the Manor for SPA, evening cocktails, dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti Pioneer Camp (Fullboard)
After breakfast, transfer to Lake Manyara and safari through the lake en-route to the airstrip. After lunch you will be driven to Manyara airstrip for your onward flight to the Serengeti, where you will stay at either Serengeti Pioneer Camp or Serengeti Migration Camp. The choice of Camp will be made in advance of your arrival to Tanzania with the decision based on which location will provide the optimum game-viewing opportunities. Both Camps provide exceptional accommodations and are located close to the migratory path of the Wildebeest Migration.
However each Camp benefits from resident wildlife - all-year round. Enjoy full-day game drives, bush luncheons and dinners as well as evenings under the stars at the Camps. You will spend the next 2 nights in a luxurious safari tent, on all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, drinks (premium drinks excluded), laundry service, transfers, game drives and scheduled activities)."
- Game Drives
- Bush Picnics
- Sundowners
- Camp Fire Dining
- Balloon Safaris
Located in South Central Serengeti - Tanzania - (within the Moru Kopjes area), Serengeti Pioneer Camp is ideally situated to offer superlative access to the annual migration and the ‘Big 5’ with sweeping views overlooking Moru Kopjes, Lake Magadi and the endless plains. Paying homage to the mobile camps of the 1930’s, a time when an African safari was truly a journey into the unknown, Serengeti Pioneer Camp’s ‘zero footprint’ and close proximity to nature combines to make an unmistakably distinctive and truly individual offering.
Comprising of twelve-tented accommodations, all of which have en-suite facilities including a flushing toilet, vanity basin, and showers, the tent interiors are designed to evoke the very best of an era long-gone but certainly not forgotten. With the ‘Big Five’ and the annual migration being the constant highlights of any visit to the Serengeti, the introduction of Serengeti Pioneer Camp will help to sate the desires of even the most expectant of safari travelers.
The combination of both Serengeti Pioneer Camp and that of the award-winning Serengeti Migration Camp to the north, it will now be possible to cover over 90% of the Serengeti from both of these two camps, thus maximising the game-viewing opportunities, and increasing game-viewing time.
The Serengeti is one of the most famous parks in Africa and is synonymous with wildlife and classic African scenery. It is Tanzania's oldest park and a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is home to the spectacular wildebeest migration and offers top-class wildlife viewing throughout the year. The Serengeti offers some of the best wildlife viewing in Africa. All the major safari animals occur in great numbers. Cheetah and four of the Big 5 are easily seen, but rhino sightings are rare, and only black rhino are present. Aside from the big cats, many other predators can be spotted including spotted hyena (especially in the morning), jackal and bat-eared fox.
The Wildebeest Migration
Every year, over 2 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle migrate from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya. If you're there at the right time, you can spot herds of wildebeest and zebra stretching to the horizon.
Full List of Mammals found in Serengeti National Park:
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Palm Civet
- African Striped Weasel
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Ant Bear
- Banana Bat
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black and White Colobus
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed Jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Black-tipped Mongoose
- Blue Duiker
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Bush Baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush Pig
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Cane Rat
- Caracal
- Chanler’s Reedbuck
- Cheetah
- Clawless Otter
- Coke’s Hartebeest or Kongoni
- Common Waterbuck
- Common Zebra
- Defassa Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- East African Hedgehog
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Fringe-eared Oryx
- Giant Rat
- Giant White-toothed Shrew
- Golden Jackal
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Greater Galago
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Kenya Mole Rat
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Klipspringer
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Large-spotted Genet
- Leopard
- Lesser Kudu
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Marsh Mongoose
- Masai Giraffe
- Olive Baboon
- Oribi
- Pale-bellied Fruit Bat
- Patas Monkey
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Red Duiker
- Roan Antelope
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Side-striped Jackal
- Small-spotted Genet
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Striped Hyaena
- Suni
- Thomson’s Gazelle
- Topi
- Tree Hyrax
- Warthog
- White-bearded Gnu or
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Wildebeest
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Zorilla
The Serengeti has more than 500 bird species recorded, and the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is one of Africa's Endemic Bird Areas (land important for habitat-based bird conservation containing restricted-range bird species), hosting five bird species found nowhere else.
These specials are easy to locate within their restricted range. The grey-breasted spurfowl is common in the Seronera area. In woodland areas, parties of Fischer's lovebird draw attention to themselves and the rufous-tailed weaver is a fascinating bird placed in its own genus. The other two endemics are the Usambiro barbet and the grey-crested helmet-shrike. Migratory birds are present from November to April.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- African Black Duck
- African Black Kite
- African Crake
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Kestrel
- African Marsh Owl
- African Moustached Warbler
- African Penduline Tit
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pochard
- African Scops Owl
- African Skimmer
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- African Wood Owl
- Angola Swallow
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Ashy Starling
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Ayres’Hawk Eagle
- Banded Tit Warbler
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird
- Barn Owl
- Barred Owlet
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Beautiful Sunbird (black-bellied race)
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black and White Mannikin
- Black and White-casqued
- Black Bishop
- Black Coucal
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-backed Puff-back
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Blackcap Warbler
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Black-headed Gonolek
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-winged Bishop
- Black-winged Plover
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-cheeked Waxbill
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Wagtail and races
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Brimstone Canary
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown-chested Wattled Plover
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Button Quail
- Cape Quail
- Cape Rook
- Cape Wigeon
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Cattle Egret
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut-banded Sand Plover
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock Buntin
- Cliff Chat
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Sandpiper
- Coqui Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- Crested Guinea-fowl
- Croaking Cisticola
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- Dark Chanting Goshawk
- Didric Cuckoo
- Double-toothed Barbet
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky Nightjar
- Eastern Grey Plantain-eater
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald Cuckoo
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Black Stork
- European Common Snipe
- European Common Wheatear
- European Cuckoo
- European Hobby
- European Hoopoe
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightjar
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller
- European Sedge Warbler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Willow Warbler
- Fan-tailed Warbler
- Fan-tailed Widow-bird
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fischer’s Straw-tailed Whydah
- Flappet Lark
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey Teal
- Giant Kingfisher
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Goliath Heron
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Snipe
- Great White Egret
- Great-crested Grebe
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater or White-eyed Kestrel
- Great-spotted Cuckoo
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-breasted Spurfowl
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Negro Finch
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Ground Hornbill
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Hartlaub’s Bustard
- Hartlaub’s Turaco
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Holub’s Golden Weaver
- Hooded Vulture
- Hornbill
- Horus Swift
- Hottentot Teal
- Indigo-bird
- Jackson’s Bustard
- Jameson’s Fire Finch
- Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird
- Kittlitz Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Kori Bustard
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Lesser FlamingoHarrier Hawk
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Purple-banded Sunbird
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Spotted Woodpecker
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Little Tawny Pipit
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Maccoa Duck
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Magpie Shrike
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Malachite Sunbird
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle
- Masai Ostrich
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Mosque Swallow
- Mottled Swift
- Mourning Dove
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina’s Trogon
- Northern Brubru
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Olive Sunbird
- Open-bill Stork
- Painted Snipe
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pale Flycatcher
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Pennant-wing Nightjar
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Purple Grenadier
- Pygmy Falcon
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red Bishop
- Red-backed Scrub Robin
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Quelea
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-necked Spurfowl
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Tit
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ringed Plover
- Ring-necked Dove
- Ross’s Turaco
- Rosy-breasted Longclaw
- Ruff
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Rufous-tailed Weaver
- Ruppell’s Long-tailed Starling
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Sandy Plain-backed Pipit
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Turaco
- Scimitar Bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Plover
- Shelley’s Francolin
- Shikra
- Short-tailed Lark
- Silverbird
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- Sooty Chat
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Spectacled Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stork
- Straight-crested Helmet Shrike
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Pipit
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Swahili Sparrow
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Tiny Cisticola
- Tropical Boubou
- Two-banded Courser
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Vieillot’s Black Weaver
- Violet Wood Hoopoe
- Violet-backed Starling
- Violet-backed Sunbird
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
- Water Dikkop
- Wattled Plover
- Wattled Starling
- Wattle-eye
- Waxbill
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Canary
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-faced Tree Duck
- White-headed Barbet
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-throated Robin
- White-winged Black Tern
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Woodland Kingfisher
- Wooly-necked Stork
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-billed Waxbill
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-mantled Widow-bird
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 7: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti Pioneer Camp (All Inclusive)
After breakfast you will spend a full day exploring the vast Serengeti. Enjoy a lunch in the bush, after which the afternoon will be spent game viewing. You will return to your camp in time for sundowners and dinner.
Day 8: Departure, Arusha City
Watch a spectacular sunrise whilst staying at Pioneer Camp or stretch your legs on a game walk if you are staying at Migration Camp. Lunch will be served at the camp and thereafter a game drive en route to the airstrip for your flight back to Arusha. On arrival you will be welcomed and met by a SkySafari representative and chauffeured to Arusha Coffee Lodge. Depending on your outbound flight details, enjoy the use of a dayroom and then you will be chauffeured to Kilimanjaro Airport.
Tour Inclusions
Pick up from Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) on arrival to Arusha Coffee Lodge
All flights as per the itinerary
Transfer to Arusha Coffee Lodge and to the airport for onward flight
Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
All activities as per the itinerary
All park fees
3 game drives in a day in a 4WD land cruiser both side open as per the itinerary
All transfers
All our transport has insurance
2 litres of mineral water per day per person
Tour Exclusions
Drinks
Tips for the service
Yellow fever vaccination
Visa
Things of personal use

Easter & Christmas Surcharges
A surcharge would be charged per person per night on Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Easter Monday and on 24th 25th, 26th, 31st December and 1st January. The Surcharge would be confirmed at the time of booking for clarity purposes.
For optimal enjoyment of your safari, we urge you to carry the following:
All weather firm shoe pair, short and dress to use during the day, trouser for use in the evenings with long sleeved shirt, sweater or jacket, hat, swimming costume, sunglass, camera, binocular, sun protection cream and insect repellent spray or cream.