5-Day Tanzania Safari to Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire

• Pick up from your hotel in Arusha.

• Proceed to Lake Manyara National Park, which has a good network of tracks and roads that allows excellent game-viewing opportunities. Animals seen here include buffalo and elephant. Other animals present that can be seen with luck are tree-climbing lions, leopard, and black rhino. Lesser flamingos and Egyptian geese are some of the birds seen here.

• Proceed for a game drive en route and check in for lunch.

• After lunch, proceed for an afternoon game drive.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

• After breakfast, drive to Serengeti National Park through Olduvai Gorge for a picnic lunch.

• Then proceed to Serengeti National Park for dinner and overnight. On the way, see different species of animals, birds, and plants, which will be explained by your guide. The drive takes about 4 hours.

• Enjoy breakfast before a full-day drive in Serengeti National Park, with a picnic lunch.

• Return to the hotel for an overnight stay. Explore the north part of the Serengeti, with a viewing of the annual migration undertaken by more than 30 million animals.

• After breakfast at Serengeti National Park, drive to Ngorongoro Crater with picnic lunches. Descend to the crater floor for a full day of tracking game with your guide. Ngorongoro Crater is 670 m deep and 260 km² wide, making it the largest in the world. It contains all the Big Five, as well as hippos, cheetah, antelopes, and spotted hyena. Black rhino and leopard can only be seen with luck, as the two are extremely shy and elusive. The birds seen here include eagle, vulture, and flamingos in the crater lake. Stork, bats, giant vulture, sacred ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long-necked heron, and the cattle eagle can also be spotted here. Other game like vervet monkey, jackal, foxes, rock and tree hyraxes, warthog, gnu, zebra, and hare can be seen with relative ease.

• Break for lunch at the Ngorongoro springs picnic site.

• In the evening, ascend out of the narrow and steep crater walls, which is a thrilling exercise.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

• After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park for game viewing. Tarangire is named after the Tarangire River, which lures a lot of plains game to the area, making it a park rich in wildlife.

• After 4 pm, drive back to the hotel in Arusha for a shower, early dinner, and either an overnight stay or your onward schedule.