When you arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you’ll be met by your driver and vehicle. After lunch in Arusha town, you’ll drive to Manyara where you’ll check into the Manyara Serena Lodge for dinner and into your lodge for dinner. Distance/drive time: 130 km / 2 hours

After breakfast, take a game-drive around Lake Manyara National Park, which is famous for its tree climbing lions. With picnic lunch, you’ll drive to the Serengeti National Park and enjoy an afternoon game drive before checking into Serengeti Sopa Lodge, where you’ll have dinner. Distance/drive time: 205 km / 4 hours

Enjoy a full day’s game drive around the vast Serengeti, which covers an astounding 14,763 square kilometres of endless rolling savannah plains. It’s Tanzania’s most well-known park where tens of thousands of hoofed animals roam in a constant search for the fresh grasslands upon which their survival depends. The million-plus wildebeest are the predominant herbivore and also the main prey of a wide range of large carnivores, which consist mainly of lions and hyenas. While the annual migration is the Serengeti’s most famous attraction, the park is also renowned for its lions, many of which have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars so that their movements may be tracked, as well as its wealth of cheetahs, zebras, giraffes, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelles, elands, impalas, klipsringers, hippos and warthogs. All meals are at the lodge.

You’ll leave the Serengeti and drive to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area via Olduvai Gorge – the “cradle of mankind” and site of one of the most important and controversial Palaeolithic finds in recent history. You’ll continue into the crater for an afternoon tour and picnic lunch. Often referred to as the “eighth wonder of the world”, the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife arenas. A World Heritage Site, it is also one of the largest volcanic craters in the world (almost 20km wide, 610-760m deep and covering a total area of 264 square kilometres). The Crater, a unique biosphere, harbours grasslands, swamps, forests, saltpans, a fresh-water lake and a glorious variety of birdlife, all enclosed within its towering walls. In the late afternoon, you’ll ascend to the rim of the crater and drive to your lodge for check-in at the Ngorongoro Farm House. Dinner will be served at the farmhouse. Distance/drive time: 150 km / 3 hours

After breakfast, you’ll drive to Arusha where you’ll have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will be taken to Kilimanjaro International Airport to continue your trip or return home. Distance/drive time: 190 km / 4 hours