5-Day Wonderful Tarangire, Manyara, Crater and Serengeti
Discover Nature, Treasure Every Memory
Overview
Get a taste of Tanzania with this whirlwind safari itinerary, visiting four of the country’s best wildlife-watching destinations. Observe elephant migration and diverse birdlife at Tarangire National Park, tree-climbing lions at Lake Manyara National Park, witness the Great Migration across the Serengeti and explore the incredible natural phenomenon, the UNESCO-protected Ngorongoro crater.
Itinerary Details
Arrival
Day 1: Arusha-Tarangire National Park
Have a morning pick-up from your accommodation and start a beautiful journey to Tarangire National Park while carrying lunch boxes. Once the game drive is over, we drive back to the lodge for relaxation and an overnight stay.
Tarangire National Park is well known for its large elephant herds, consisting of a diversity of landscapes, from seasonal swamps to savanna with the Tarangire River wending its way through the parklands. It is possible that we will have the experience of seeing a lion stalking his prey or leopards watching whilst relaxing in the trees above.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Marera Valley Lodge
Day 2:Lake Manyara National Park
After an early breakfast, while carrying our lunch boxes, you will start your beautiful journey to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive. You will enjoy watching several tree-climbing lions and take you close to the lake for flamingo viewing. Once you finish the game drive, you will transfer to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Lake Manyara National Park is well known for the unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds. Also get ready to see the shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingos and other more than 400 species of birds, many of them waterfowl or migrants.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Marera Valley Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, with your lunch box, we will start our beautiful journey to Serengeti National Park for a game drive. You will have a half-day game drive in the park, and later, we will transfer to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay. The next day, you will enjoy a wonderful full-day game drive inside the park.
The Serengeti National Park is a wonder of nature shared between Tanzania and Kenya. Here, you will experience and witness the great wildlife migration involving over two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes. It’s also an extremely large and wild national park and home to the Big Five of Africa.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Friends – Serengeti Camp
Day 4: Full Time Serengeti National Park
Today will be the “Serengeti game viewing day”. After breakfast this morning, enjoy an amazing game drive. The great diversity of Serengeti wildlife is evident here—look for buffalo, hippopotamus, elephant, giraffe, antelope, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle, and lions. If you are there during the spectacular wildebeest migration, you will be more than astonished. In the late afternoon, we’ll venture out in another game drive.
Everywhere there are animals, monkeys and, yes, birds…but look closely and you will be thrilled to see the huge jungle cats—lion, leopard and cheetah—watching the world go by. And go by it does. Rhino, gazelle, antelope and massive elephants by the hundreds. Animals in the trees, flying, camouflaged in the bush, in rivers and in streams. This is the adventure of a lifetime!
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Friends – Serengeti Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater-Arusha
Descend to Ngorongoro caldera.
We have kept the best for the last day, after your breakfast with views to the crater your 4-wheel drive vehicle will take you 2000ft down to the crater.
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest volcanic caldera at 8300sq km. It is frequently described as one of the wonders of the world. Not only because of its geological magnificence but also because it serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s largest populations of large mammals.
After the game drive (Late afternoon), we will depart the park and initiate the return to Arusha at your preferred accommodation.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
End of tour
Includes & Excludes
- Overnight stays in the lodge(s) as shown on the itinerary (check-out at 10 am)
- Meal plans as shown on the itinerary
- Private (4x4) modern safari vehicle for safari game drives
- Language preference-speaking safari guide for the duration of your safari
- Park fees for all the (national) parks on the itinerary
- Game drives in the national parks
- Any extra activities as shown on the above itinerary
- Drinking water in the safari jeep
- Arrival and departure airport transfers
- International flights & Domestic flights
- Fees for passports, visas, immunisations, and insurance
- Personal insurance (travel insurance and Flying Doctors)
- Tips for staff such as driver cum guides/chef/porter
- Other drinks such as wines, Beer, champagnes and spirits
Note (COVID-19)
“Please note that all these are sample itineraries. We will tailor-make your safari according to your wish and due to COVID-19 restrictions on travel around the world, it is free to postpone your travel up to 1 year after the original travel date”
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