3-Day Tanzania Safari to Tarangire, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara

You will be driven by a professional driver-guide and depart with picnic lunch boxes to Tarangire National Park for a game-viewing drive. Covering an area of 2,600 sq. km, Tarangire National Park gets its name from the river that threads its way through the length of the reserve. It is famous for its dense wildlife population, which is most spectacular between June and September, the dry season.

During this time, thousands of animals - wildebeest, buffalo, and oryx - migrate from the dry Maasai steppe to the Tarangire River in search of water. Lions, leopards, and other predators follow the herds. Tarangire is also home to over 500 varieties of birds.

Accommodation/Overnight: Marera Valley Lodge.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunch boxes for Ngorongoro Crater. Situated some 190 km west of Arusha, between Lake Manyara and Serengeti National Parks, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area covers over 8,000 sq. km. At 2,286 meters above sea level, the Ngorongoro Crater is the highest unbroken crater in the world.

Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 meters above the crater floor, this natural amphitheatre covers an area of about 260 sq. km and is home to up to 30,000 animals, almost half of them zebra and wildebeest. Such vast numbers attract plenty of predators, mainly lions and hyenas, but also cheetahs and leopards. Ngorongoro has been declared a World Heritage Site and is regarded as the eighth wonder of the world.

Descend the steep walls into the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a 5-hour game-viewing drive. In the afternoon, you will ascend from the crater floor and proceed to the Karatu Highlands. Spend the evening at leisure to relax.

Accommodation/Overnight: Country Lodge.

Meals: dinner and breakfast.

After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes and head to Lake Manyara National Park. Lunch is taken as a picnic lunch. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park is famous for its large alkaline soda lake, which is home to pink flamingos, yellow-billed storks, and herons.

If you are lucky, you may get the chance to see the tree-climbing lions, which are unique to this national park. Watch out as well for the fun antics of the local baboon population, as Lake Manyara is believed to have the largest number of these primates.

Later in the afternoon, the driver will take you back to Arusha and then to the airport or your hotel.

This is the end of your trip.