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* Safari! Elephants, lions, cheetahs, baboons, hippos, impalas, wildebeests, buffalo, giraffes, flamingos and more
* Classic African savanna
* Masai tribal villages
* You mostly ride in a jeep. There are hiking opportunities, but they are very limited. Masai guides with riffles would escort you
* Views of Mt. Kilimanjaro (climbing it is a separate adventure)
* Most tours combine Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara National Parks
* Classic African savanna
* Masai tribal villages
* You mostly ride in a jeep. There are hiking opportunities, but they are very limited. Masai guides with riffles would escort you
* Views of Mt. Kilimanjaro (climbing it is a separate adventure)
* Most tours combine Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara National Parks
Attractions and sights
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Lake Manyara
The endless sea of flamingos that make the lake appear almost pink. 300 other birds species. Tree-climbing lions. Baboons, hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, and giraffes. Mahogany trees.
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Serengeti National Park
Perhaps the best safari on Earth, a site of Great Migration, with 1.5 million hoofed animals on the march. Serengeti has the highest concentration of large animals on the planet, including 2,500 lions
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Ngorongoro Crater
Large dormant volcanic caldera teeming with wildlife. 25,000 large animals live there: elephants, black rhinoceros, hippopotamus, wildebeest, zebras, oryx, gazelles
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Mount Kilimanjaro
A dormant volcano, the highest mountain in Africa (5,900 m / 19,300 ft), with its iconic snow cap. Climbing it is a serious adventure, constituting a separate trip
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More attractions and sights
* Tarangire National Park, Lake Natron, Lake Eyasi, Olduvai Gorge.
* Masai Mara National Park: extension of Serengeti, on the Kenyan side of the border. It's not much different; one will do
* Ruaha and Katavi National Parks and Selous Game Reserve: great destinations, but quite far away (south) from Serengeti. Selous is mostly reserved for hunting
* Masai Mara National Park: extension of Serengeti, on the Kenyan side of the border. It's not much different; one will do
* Ruaha and Katavi National Parks and Selous Game Reserve: great destinations, but quite far away (south) from Serengeti. Selous is mostly reserved for hunting
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When to go
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Warning:
Risk of malaria and other tropical disease. Vaccination and anti-malarial drugs are required.
How to get there
Most safaris to the Serengeti start from the town of Arusha. The best option is to fly into Kilimanjaro Int'l Airport (KIA), 30 mi from Arusha. It is also possible to fly to Dar es Salaam, and use a domestic flight to Arusha Airport (ARK). From there, your tour operator will drive you to Serengeti (about 200 mi / 8 hrs by bumpy dirt roads), with day-long stops at Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara. More luxury tour operators will fly you from Arusha in a small charter plane to one of the airstrips in the park.
Alternatively, fly to Nairobi, Kenya, and take a tour from there, via Masai Mara park.
Alternatively, fly to Nairobi, Kenya, and take a tour from there, via Masai Mara park.
Similar destinations:
Kruger National Park
Victoria Falls
Peruvian Amazon
Pantanal
Mount Kilimanjaro
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