5 Days Rongai Route

🛬 Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) – Upon arrival, you'll be met by your professional safari guide who will assist with luggage and provide a brief orientation. Private transfer to Arusha (approximately 1 hour) through traditional villages and coffee plantations.

🏨 Accommodation: Arusha Coffee Lodge – Nestled within a working coffee plantation, each luxury suite offers private verandas and fireplace. Enjoy a welcome dinner featuring local Tanzanian cuisine.

• Included: private transfer, accommodation, dinner
• Optional: afternoon visit to Shanga Workshop (local artisans)

🐘 After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park (2 hours drive). Known for its massive elephant herds and ancient baobab trees. The Tarangire River attracts wildlife from the entire ecosystem – expect zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, and possibly lions.

🧺 Picnic lunch at a scenic baobab grove. Late afternoon game drive en route to the lodge.

• Overnight: Tarangire Safari Lodge (full board, panoramic views)
• Optional night game drive (extra cost)

🦩 Flamingos, tree‑climbing lions, hippo pool. Maasai village visit. Stay at Manyara Serena Lodge.

🦁 Enter Serengeti via Naabi Hill. Endless plains, first migration herds. Stay central Serengeti mobile camp.

☀️ Full day in Seronera valley. High predator density – lions, leopards. Optional balloon safari at sunrise.

⛰️ Descend into caldera – rhinos, elephants, flamingos. Picnic at Ngoitokitok spring. Overnight crater rim lodge.

🏹 Meet Hadzabe hunter‑gatherers. Hike Empakaai crater rim. Cultural immersion & bush craft.

🛫 Final sunrise, transfer to Arusha. Farewell lunch. Evening flight from Kilimanjaro.