5-Day Northern Tanzania Safari with Lake Natron and Great Migration

You'll be picked up from the hotel at around 8:00 AM and depart for Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch for a full-day game drive. Tarangire, Tanzania's third-largest national park, is known for its majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them.

The Tarangire River is the centrepiece of this park, which is famous for some of the largest herds of elephants in Africa. Here, you may see lions, leopards, cheetahs, lesser kudus, buffalos, oryx, elands, giraffes, and zebras. After the game drive in the evening, you will head back to your lodge, where a delicious dinner awaits you.

After breakfast, from 8:00 AM you will head towards Lake Natron. The drive to Lake Natron is about 4 hours from Tarangire. Lake Natron is a mineral-rich soda lake located in the north of the Ngorongoro district. Once you reach Lake Natron, you will check into your hotel and have lunch.

After lunch, you can proceed towards Lake Natron for a birdwatching or flamingo walk activity, which will take about 4 hours. You might see flamingos and other birds during this walk. After the activity, you will head to your lodge, where a freshly prepared dinner awaits you. Make sure to get some good rest and recharge for another eventful day.

You won't find many better national parks in Africa than the Serengeti, which has few rivals when it comes to both the number and variety of animals. You'll track down the annual migration of wildebeest and zebras.

You'll enjoy the vast horizons that are perfect for spotting predators, especially lions, leopards, cheetahs, and spotted hyenas, and their prey, including buffaloes, impalas, and kongoni, as well as elephants and giraffes. If you're really lucky, you'll see a hunt, one of the most exhilarating sights anywhere in the wild. At every turn, you'll revel in its beauty, with flat-topped acacia trees silhouetted against the setting sun and so many other classic African safari images.

On this day, you'll have morning and afternoon game drives in the north and head down more safari trails in search of animals in Central Serengeti National Park when we take you on a guided game drive.

This is one of the best things about many safaris, and you'll hopefully see many animals. Later, you will drive to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

Your first sight of Ngorongoro Crater is likely not one you'll easily forget. Seen from the crater rim, this natural bowl, both vast and intimate, is one of Africa's most beautiful natural features, stretching 19 green kilometers (12 miles) from one side to the other.

Down in the crater itself, you'll explore an astonishingly rich, self-contained ecosystem protected by high crater walls. Here, lions and hyenas hunt wildebeest and Grant's gazelles within sight of elephants and black rhinos. Your day spent here will reveal a surprising variety of habitats, from the Lereal Forest and salty Lake Magadi to the plains that rise and fall gently across the valley floor. You'll be dropped off in Arusha.