5 DAYS 4 NIGHTS SAFARI TO TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK, SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, NGORONGORO CRATES AND LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
Overview
This 5-day Tanzania safari begins with a full day game drive in Tarangire National Park, famous for its large elephant herds, baobab trees, and rich birdlife, before overnighting in Karatu. You’ll then travel via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area into the vast Serengeti for two days of game drives in the wildlife-rich Seronera area, searching for predators and the classic savannah herds. On day four you descend into the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater for an immersive game drive among the Big Five and dense concentrations of wildlife, before a final morning in Lake Manyara National Park home to tree-climbing lions and abundant birdlife and transfer to Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport for 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: Arusha to Tarangire National Park - Karatu
After your early morning breakfast, our 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 to Karatu for leisure, dinner and overnight at your chosen accommodations.
Day 2: Karatu to Serengeti National Park
After breakfast we head to Serengeti National Park with en route game drive via Ngorongoro Conservations Area. We then continue our journey to our exciting destination being a name familiar to everyone the Great Serengeti. In the Maasai language, "serenget" means "endless plain".
The park Covers over 15,000 square kilometers. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive exploring the wildlife of Serengeti.
By late afternoon you will drive to your camp. Evening at leisure, dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.
Day 3: Full Day in Serengeti National Park
‘The endless plains of the Serengeti…’ Today’s you will have early breakfast before starting your game drive in search of predators returning from their night’s hunting. Your drive will continue to look for prides of lions, and other big cats such as cheetahs and leopards.
You will have your lunch either in the picnic site or return back to your camp for a hot lunch then have a rest or go to an evening game drive. Evening at leisure, dinner and overnight stay on a full board basis.
Day 4: Serengeti - Ngorongoro Crater - Karatu
Early breakfast before leaving Serengeti towards Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, you will descend down the crater floor for game drive.
We descend 2,000 feet to the crater floor to explore these natural inhabitants while keeping on observing an extraordinary variety of wildlife such as elephant, lion, leopard, hyena, zebra, wildebeest, Thomson's gazelle, reedbuck, and buffalo. The balance of predator and prey in this extraordinary ecosystem is so precise that animals seldom leave.
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 5: Lake Manyara National Park – Arusha / Kilimanjaro International Airport
Morning breakfast then drive to Lake Manyara National Park. The journey takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes, you'll enter Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive.
The park is truly known for its Tree Climbing Lions and it is an amazing playground that offers some of the best game viewing in the world. You can expect to see many of Africa's most well-known animals, with the tree-climbing lions a particular treat. These proud predators lounge in acacia trees practically begging to be photographed.
The park if also recommended for those who are bird lovers as they will find Lake Manyara as an absolute delight, with a variety of a hundred species of birds to be found in this park. Even the novice can expect to be amazed by large flamingo flocks, circling birds of prey and the brightly colored lilac breasted roller. Lunch will be taken within the park and proceed with short game driver before driving back to Arusha/Kilimanjaro International Airport for catching your flight to your next destinations.