Our guide-driver meets you at your hotel in Arusha, and you start your journey heading to the park.

Tarangire is one of Africa's little-known gems. Its name comes from the Tarangire River, which flows through the park and is the only source of water during the dry season.

Tarangire's landscape is incredibly diverse, unmatched anywhere else in northern Tanzania. The park is home to ancient baobab trees, believed by the Maasai to be the world's first trees, as well as large termite mounds. During the dry season, the blazing sun turns the ground a dusty red color, while during the rainy season, everything turns green (thick bushes and lush tall grasses).

Known for its large elephant population, it is also home to lions, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, waterbucks, baboons, pygmy mongooses, impalas, buffalos, antelopes and fringed oryx. The swamps are divided by flocks of birds, including green forest hoopoes, lovebirds, tall herons, giant kingfishers, bustards, and ostriches.

The driver-guide will choose a picnic spot in the park for lunch break and then continue your safari.

Today you'll visit Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day wildlife game drive and viewing. Lake Manyara, stretching along the foot of the Rift Valley escarpment, is home to giant fig trees, acacia and mahogany forests, and grassy water plains. The park's contrasts are simply breathtaking: open plains, vast escarpments, a lake, dense forests, and distant volcanic peaks come together in an area that Ernest Hemingway called "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in Africa."

Animals such as large buffalo, wildebeest, giraffe, mongoose, dik-dik, and herds of zebra congregate on the grassy plains, while a narrow strip of acacia forest is home to legendary tree-climbing lions and elephants.