4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS SAFARI TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, NGORONGORO CRATER AND TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
Overview
This 4-day Tanzania safari begins with a scenic flight from Arusha to Serengeti National Park, where you’ll enjoy game drives across the endless plains, home to the Big Five, vast herds, and abundant birdlife. After a full day exploring the Seronera area, you continue with an en-route game drive to the Ngorongoro Crater for a descent into this remarkable natural amphitheatre, spotting dense concentrations of wildlife including elephants, lions, and buffalo. On the final day you’ll explore Tarangire National Park famous for its elephants, baobabs, and birding before transferring to Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport for your departure.
Package Includes:
- Quality, waterproof, four-season private mountain sleeping tents.
- Professional, experienced, mountain guides.
- All Park fees, Rescue fees and all meals while on the Mountain.
- Guides, Porters, Cook Salaries, Quality Mess tents with table and chairs.
- Large portions of fresh, healthy nutritious food and Clean, purified drinking water.
- Crisis management and safety procedures with Fair and ethical treatment of porters.
- All Airport return transfers
- Transport in a Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4 with pop up roof for game drive HF radio.
- Dedicated Services of Mtazamo Safaris English speaking guide
- Meals as prescribed in the itinerary
- 1.5 lts. of water per person per day during safari
- All Accommodations in Arusha before climbing, after climbing and after safari.
Package excludes:
- International & Domestic flights.
- Visa fees and travelling Insurance.
- Climbing gears (can be hired upon request).
- Meals not listed above.
- Tips and gratuities to the crew/personnel.
- Items of a personal nature – spa treatments, laundry, mini-bars, internet etc.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Fly from Arusha to - Serengeti National Park
At 0600hrs our driver guide will come to pick you from your hotel and transferred to Arusha Airport for your flight to Serengeti National Park. Upon arrive at Seronera Airstrip. Your safari driver-guide will pick you and proceed with game drive within Serengeti National Park.
The word “Serenget" means "endless plain". The park covers over 15,000 square kilometers. And it is quite simply the most magnificent wildlife sanctuary in the world. You will see large prides of lions’ laze in the long grasses; plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trumpet to each other across the plains, while giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland and the whole range of African wildlife present themselves in awe-inspiring numbers.
At sunset you will drive to your camp located in the heart of Seronera Valley. Evening at leisure, dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.
Day 2: Full Day in Serengeti National Park.
Waking up in the Serengeti is something really special. Sights, sounds and smells of Africa are all around us, and ahead is a full day of adventure in the world’s most famous national park.
You will have a full day game drive in various zones of the park. The Serengeti eco-system is home to the "big five" (lion, African elephant, cape buffalo, leopard, rhinoceros). The other main species include giraffe, zebra, antelope, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle, hippopotamus, crocodiles and in season the spectacular migration of the wildebeest. Everywhere there are animals, vervet monkeys, olive baboons and a great variety of birds with a total of 505 species being documented so farm. The adventure of a lifetime!
You will have a short break for picnic lunch in the bush. Before sunset, you will return to your camp for dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.
Day 3: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater - Karatu
Early breakfast before leaving Serengeti enroute game drive to Ngorongoro Conservations Area Authority.
Around 0900hrs you will descend down the crater floor for game drive. The crater and surrounding highlands are one of Africa's most beautiful regions, with volcanic craters forming stunning backdrops to some of the richest grazing grounds in Africa. We descend 2,000 feet to the crater floor to explore this natural zoological park, and observe an extraordinary variety of wildlife: elephant, lion, leopard, hyena, zebra, wildebeest, Thomson's gazelle, reedbuck, and buffalo.
Lunch will be taken in a picnic site inside the crater. In the afternoon we ascend the crater and drive to your accommodation in Karatu for dinner and overnight
Day 4: Tarangire National Park - Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport
After your early morning breakfast, your driver guide will pick you from your hotel with your packed lunch boxes and drive directly to Tarangire National Park for full day game drive.
The park is most famous for its elephant migration, birding and quiet authentic safari atmosphere in a unique surrounding of baobab trees. You will enjoy a game drive exploring the park. Today we will focus our drive in the eastern side of the park, the “River circuit”. Lunch will be taken in a picnic site.
Late afternoon you will drive back to Arusha / Kilimanjaro Airport for connecting your flight to your next destinations.