Southern Serengeti & Ndutu Plains

Met by your guide at JRO and driven to your lodge outside Arusha for a relaxed first night, a briefing on the days ahead and dinner.

Drive through the Rift Valley escarpment and Karatu farmlands to the crater rim, with an afternoon at leisure and sundowners over the caldera.

A morning descent into the crater for game viewing among lion, elephant, buffalo and black rhino, then on to the Ndutu plains in the afternoon.

Sunrise to sunset on the short-grass plains: newborn calves finding their feet, cheetah hunting in the open, lion prides on the kopjes and hyena and jackal working the edges of the herds.

A final full day following the herds wherever they have moved, with a bush picnic and time for photography in the best light.

Breakfast in camp, a last game drive out through the plains and the drive back to JRO for your onward flight.