6-Day Buffalo Safari Experience

Your driver-guide meets you at Kilimanjaro International Airport, or any other arrival point, welcomes you to Tanzania and drives you comfortably to your hotel in Arusha, where you can recover from the journey. Later you are briefed on the safari ahead.

Enjoy the tranquil surroundings and the real African atmosphere, with panoramic views of the rugged peaks of Mount Meru, Tanzania's second-highest volcanic mountain, on clear days. Savour a well-prepared dinner and your first night.

After breakfast, your guide collects you at around 08:00 for Arusha National Park, a small, magnificent 'pocket park' with a wealth of attractions. Visit the magical fig tree arch, explore the savannas and the alkaline Momella Lakes, and take in panoramic views of Mount Meru, which rises some 70 km west of its sister mountain, Kilimanjaro.

For bird lovers it is a paradise, with Narina trogons and turacos among many other species, and black-and-white colobus monkeys lounging in the trees with their long white tails dangling from the branches. After a picnic lunch, a short game drive leads you on to your lodge in Tarangire National Park for dinner and the night.

After breakfast at around 08:00, you game drive through Tarangire National Park, a magnificent 2,850-square-kilometre park about 120 km south-west of Arusha, famous for the animals that gather along the Tarangire River, the main source of water in the dry season. The river winds for about 120 km through the park before emptying into Lake Burunge.

Watch for buffalo and elephant herds, and with luck a small pack of African painted dogs patrolling the bush, elusive kudu in the thickets and shy eland watching from a distance. After a picnic lunch and a short game drive, continue to your lodge in the small, dusty town of Karatu for dinner and the night.

After breakfast at around 08:00, you drive into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and descend to the majestic crater floor. With water all year round, the crater supports a remarkable variety of wildlife: large herds of buffalo, dazzles of zebras, pods of hippos, big-tusked elephants and dark-maned lions in their prime, as well as the ostrich, the world's largest and fastest flightless bird.

Savour every moment on the crater floor and enjoy a picnic lunch, then take a short game drive out to your lodge in Karatu for dinner and the night.

After breakfast at around 08:00, you drive to Lake Manyara National Park, tucked at the base of the Rift Valley escarpment. It is famed for its rare tree-climbing lions, its evergreen groundwater forest and some of Africa's largest recorded troops of olive baboons, and it has a long, high canopy walkway that takes you close to nature. Permanent springs flow from the foot of the escarpment, fed by water from the crater highlands seeping through the porous rock.

The park is also rich in birds and animals. After a picnic lunch, you drive back to your hotel in Arusha for dinner and your final night.

After a hearty breakfast, and depending on your flight time, your driver-guide transfers you comfortably by road to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your international flight home.

This marks the end of your buffalo safari. From all of us at Gip Adventure, we wish you a safe journey home full of lasting memories.