Morning KLM flight from London Heathrow to Amsterdam and then onto Kilimanjaro, where you connect with a private transfer to Arusha. Overnight at the Serena Mountain Village

Driving to Tarangire National Park you enter a world populated by huge herds of elephant and buffalo, where lion, leopard and cheetah hunt with impunity. Your driver/guide is an experienced wildlife expert whose knowledge and ability to spot the animals and birds will astound you. This afternoon enjoy your first game drive through this remarkable landscape, before an overnight stay at the Tarangire Sopa Lodge.

Enjoying a morning’s game viewing, you then continue to Gibbs Farm, nestling in the shadow of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where you enjoy lunch. From here continue to the Ngorongoro Crater for your stay at the Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.

The world’s largest intact caldera (collapsed volcano), the Ngorongoro Crater boasts the largest concentration of wildlife on the African continent, with some 30,000 animals playing out a constant battle for survival across its spectacular plains. Today you descend the 600 metres into the crater by 4-wheel-drive vehicles for a full day’s safari.

Travelling via Olduvai Gorge, where some of the planet’s earliest evidence of human existence was found in the 1950s by Professor Louis Leakey, you continue to the Serengeti National Park for a stay at the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge

Serengeti is the Masai word for ‘endless plains’, a somewhat apt description of this magnificent setting. The endless plains are matched by the seemingly endless wildlife that sweeps across these timeless vistas. On your game drive today you have every chance of seeing the Serengeti’s big game, including lion, leopard, buffalo and elephant, as well as huge herds of zebra and wildebeest

A morning’s drive into the Great Rift Valley brings us to Lake Manyara, where an afternoon’s game viewing should hopefully afford you the chance of catching a glimpse of Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions. Overnight at the Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge.

A final early morning game drive before you return to Arusha (125 KM/approximately 2 hours) for lunch. In the evening depart by KLM via Amsterdam (touching down en route to Amsterdam in Dar es-Salaam) to London

Arrive at London Heathrow in the morning