5-Day Tanzania Safari with Great Migration and Ngorongoro Crater

Depart from Arusha in the morning for Lake Manyara with your Tanzania safari guide. Lake Manyara National Park is serene and beautiful, with the main attractions of abundant birdlife, tree-climbing lions, elephants, and hippos that you can see at closer range than in most other places. Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake and, at certain times of the year, hosts thousands of flamingos and a diversity of other birdlife.

Go on game drives in the afternoon.

Have dinner and stay overnight at the campsite.

Depart for Serengeti, passing through Olduvai Gorge - the site of the Leakey family's discovery of fossils of human and animal ancestors dating back almost two million years. Serengeti National Park is a large national park in the Serengeti area of Tanzania. It is famous for the annual migration of over one and a half million white-bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebras.

Have dinner and stay overnight at the campsite.

After a hearty breakfast, spend a full day in the Serengeti plains searching for wildlife. Spend the morning through the afternoon enjoying game drives. Serengeti is easily Tanzania's most famous national park, and it is also the largest, with 14,763 square kilometres of protected area bordering Kenya's Masai Mara Game Park. It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the rains every October and November. They swirl west and north after the rains in April, May, and June. The wildebeests travel through a variety of parks, reserves, and protected areas.

Explore different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.

Relish meals and an overnight stay at the campsite.

Begin a morning drive to Ngorongoro Crater, where a 4-wheel drive vehicle will take you 2000 ft down into the crater.

Enjoy a picnic lunch at the crater. The Ngorongoro Crater is the world's biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km. It serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa's largest populations of mammals.

Ascend back to Ngorongoro Simba campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

Depart for Arusha after breakfast.

Get some last-minute shopping done en route.

Have lunch and take the final drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home.