Distance: 139 km
Non – game viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs.
Picked up at Arusha to your Accommodation and depart for Tarangire National Park for game drive. First you will stop at the last minutes supermarket in Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before heading tou Tarangire. The driving is along The Great Northern Highway across Masai steppe & many village all the way to Tarangire National Park.
Tarangire is famous for its huge Baobab trees & large elephant population, you may expect to spot heads of wildebeest, buffalo, zebra, giraffe, hippos, baboons, many antelopes & the giant African elephant. For bird watchers this is the paradise over 400 species of bird have been recorded here which includes the rare species of Ash Staling, Great Kudu & fringed Eared Oryx are among rare species found in Tarangire.
Predators like lion, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals & the ever-elusive leopard are also inhabit this park. Tarangire Park forms the central annual migratory cycle within Tarangire Lake Manyara ecosystem which include up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and about 30,000 zebra.
Late evening drive to Ellince tree lodge at the base of the Great East African Rift Valley dinner & overnight there.
All meals included – Breakfast, lunch & dinnerOvernight
Ellince tree lodge