3-Day Tarangire, Manyara and Ngorongoro Camping Safari

Non-game-viewing travel time: 1:40 hours
Distance: 110.33 km

After breakfast, your driver-guide will be ready at your hotel to pick you up and head into Tarangire National Park for a game drive. The park has great landscapes, including plains known as the "small Serengeti" and the Tarangire River, which acts as a major magnet for animals during the dry season. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south.

Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals - the greater kudu, the fringed-eared oryx, as well as a few ashy starlings. The park also offers large numbers of buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, leopards, impalas, gazelles, warthogs, and wild dogs, which are occasionally seen. The park is also rich in birdlife, with more than 400 species.

During lunch hour, we will stop at a picnic site for lunch and continue with the game drive until evening, when we drive to the camp for an overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Campsite.

Non-game-viewing travel time: 1 hour
Distance: 56 km

After an early breakfast, you will have a game drive en route toward the exit gate and then drive to Lake Manyara National Park. The park is located on the Rift Valley and has great landscape views. The vegetation here is completely different compared to Tarangire. The park is full of greenery and has lots of water springs coming from the Great Rift Valley.

In this park, you will be able to see monkeys, baboons, zebras, wildebeest, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, and many others, including lions, leopards, and cheetahs. The place is famous for lions climbing trees, as well as being home to pink flamingos. You will also experience a large number of different bird species.

Lunch will be at a picnic site, followed by more game driving.

Later in the afternoon, you will drive to Ngorongoro for an overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight at Simba Public Campsite.

Non-game-viewing travel time: 1 hour
Distance: 181.21 km

After an early breakfast, we will descend over 600 meters into the crater for a game drive on a half-day safari tour. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.

Another big drawcard of this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. This is also the park where you can more easily see the black rhino than in any other park.

We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater and acts as home to flamingos and hippos. Apart from the animals, the park has a wonderful landscape and is a very beautiful caldera park. We will have lunch at the picnic site.

In the afternoon, after lunch, we depart the crater and drive back to Arusha.