5-Day Tanzania Safari through Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

• Depart after an early breakfast and drive to Tarangire National Park for a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch.

• Explore the vast landscape where herds of up to 300 elephants dig into the dry riverbed in search of underground streams.

• Look for nomadic wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest, and eland around the shrinking lagoons.

• Experience one of Tanzania's best dry-season wildlife refuges, known for its impressive elephant population.

Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at Marera Valley Lodge.

Destination: Tarangire National Park

• Have breakfast and depart the lodge at 08:30 for Lake Manyara National Park with a hot picnic lunch.

• Spend a full day exploring the park's diverse habitats, from dense groundwater forests to open floodplains and the soda lake itself.

• Observe baboon troops relaxing by the roadside, blue monkeys leaping through mahogany trees, bushbuck hiding in the shadows, and hornbills calling from the canopy.

• Experience the scenic beauty famously praised by Ernest Hemingway.

• Return to Marera Valley Lodge for dinner and overnight.

Destination: Lake Manyara National Park

• After breakfast, travel to Serengeti National Park for a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch.

• Explore the world-renowned plains where more than one million wildebeest follow ancient migration routes.

• Witness wildlife behaviour including territorial battles, mating displays, predator action, and seasonal movement across the ecosystem.

• Experience the vast savannahs filled with lions, elephants, cheetahs, giraffes, and countless plains game.

Overnight stay inside Serengeti National Park.

Destination: Serengeti National Park

• Awake early for a sunrise game drive in Serengeti National Park.

• Look for lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, impala, gazelles, and possibly the wildebeest migration, depending on the season.

• Enjoy brunch in the park before beginning the journey to Ngorongoro.

• Continue with game viewing en route as you exit Serengeti and enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

• Arrive in the evening and overnight at a lodge along the crater rim.

Destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area

• Have an early breakfast and descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a 6-hour wildlife experience.

• Look for the Big Five: lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, and possibly the endangered black rhinoceros.

• Enjoy a picnic lunch at Ngoitoktok Spring while observing hippos and birdlife.

• Continue game viewing to see giraffes, warthogs, baboons, zebras, and other large mammals.

• Ascend the crater rim and begin the journey back to Arusha with optional stops in Mto wa Mbu village.

• Arrive in Arusha and receive a transfer to your hotel or the airport, marking the end of the tour.