3-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Big Five and Tree-Climbing Lions

• Pick-up in the morning for a short safari briefing.

• Start travelling southwest towards Tarangire National Park. The park has a diversity of landscapes, including grasslands, acacia woodlands, and forests, and it is especially popular for its huge elephant herds and animals gathering at the river and swamps. The wildlife ranges from swarms of yellow-breasted lovebirds to kudus, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, and impalas. Predators include lions, leopards, and hyenas, while wild dogs are rare.

• In the late afternoon, you will leave the park and travel to a nearby campsite, where you will spend the night in tents.

Accommodation: Fanaka Public Campsite.
Meals included: Breakfast.

• After breakfast, with packed lunch boxes, go for a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. This park, with its shallow alkaline lake, stretches along the base of the Rift Valley Escarpment. Lake Manyara attracts thousands of birds, including huge flocks of flamingos. Other animals in the park include buffaloes, elephants, hippos, and Masai giraffes, as well as troops of boisterous baboons and monkeys in the forests. The park once became famous for its tree-climbing lions. If you are lucky, you might be able to spot them on the branches of acacia trees.

• After a game drive in the park, you will ascend to the Ngorongoro Highlands, where you will stay overnight at a campsite situated on the crater's edge with magnificent views of the caldera below.

Accommodation: Fanaka Public Campsite.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• After an early breakfast at your campsite, you will travel down a precipitous trail into the crater. Its grassy plains and acacia forests are home to almost all the species of animals found in East Africa.

• In only a few hours, you might be able to see all of the "Big Five" - lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard.

• After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch inside the crater, leave the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and travel back to Arusha town for departure.

End of tour.