Your trip starts when a professional guide picks you up in Arusha and drives you to Tarangire National Park, which is well known for its large elephant populations and ancient baobab landscapes.

A full-day game drive lets you look for antelope of several kinds, wildebeest, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, cheetahs, leopards, lions and elephants. The Tarangire River also draws wildlife in large numbers, particularly in the dry seasons.

Accommodation: Ngare Lodge

After breakfast, drive via Mto wa Mbu village and climb into the Ngorongoro Highlands. Along the route you can enjoy broad views across the crater rim, volcanic scenery and Maasai villages.

From there you carry on into Serengeti National Park for an afternoon game drive over the plains, where lions, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, giraffes and large herds of grazing animals may appear. Depending on timing, Great Migration herds could also come into view.

Accommodation: Robins Safari Lodge

Your whole day is devoted to roaming the Serengeti ecosystems in search of the Great Wildebeest Migration. During game drives, your guide tracks the moving herds and the zones where predators are busy.

Depending on the season, river crossings may unfold before you, along with hunts between predators and prey and vast gatherings of zebras and wildebeest; jackals, hippos, buffaloes, elephants and numerous birds are worth watching for as well.

Accommodation: Robins Safari Lodge

Depart the Serengeti early and head for the Ngorongoro Crater, then drop to the crater floor for a game drive in one of Africa's richest wildlife habitatss.

Black rhino, lions, elephants, buffaloes, hyenas, hippos, zebras, wildebeest and flamingos are all likely here too. After a picnic lunch you drive back to Arusha and are dropped at your hotel or the airport.

Accommodation: None (End of safari)