6-Day Northern Tanzania Comfort Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

After arrival at the airport (Kilimanjaro / Arusha), your private driver-guide will pick you up and transfer you to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay, awaiting the start of your amazing budget safari adventure on the following day.

Early in the morning, your private guide will pick you up from your accommodation, and you will depart for Tarangire National Park.

The park gets its name from the Tarangire River, which runs through it. This 'river of warthogs' is the only source of water for wildlife in the region during the dry season. In places, the vegetation is quite dense, including elephant grass, acacia woodlands, and lush groundwater forest.

The park is particularly famous for its elephant families, which you can often see congregating by the river. Furthermore, you may see giraffe, bushbuck, and hartebeest. These animals are closely followed by a range of predators, including lions and leopards.

Especially compelling is that there are more breeding species of birds found in Tarangire National Park than anywhere else on the planet!

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head to your lodge in Karatu for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will depart for Ngorongoro Crater. When you first see Ngorongoro Crater, it looks like a forgotten world. Concealed by the steep volcanic walls is a pristine wilderness, including sweeping savannah, pockets of acacia woodland, and glistening lakes and swamps.

The crater was created when a large volcano exploded and collapsed in on itself two to three million years ago. It is equally famous for its geological wonders and for being a natural reserve that is home to some of the densest large mammal populations on the whole African continent.

Undoubtedly, the drive down into the crater is an adventure in itself, and when you reach the crater floor, you quickly find yourself among large numbers of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, and more than 500 bird species. Furthermore, the crater gives you the best chance of seeing the endangered black rhino, which can sometimes be spotted in the open grasslands.

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head for Serengeti National Park, arriving in the late afternoon and going straight to your accommodation at the tented camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will head out for your first game drive in Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti is truly spectacular. It is famous for its vast open grasslands, which allow for excellent sightings of wildlife. The Serengeti is Tanzania's oldest national park, and it is also one of the oldest ecosystems on earth. Moreover, its climate and vegetation have remained largely untouched for millions of years.

While the Serengeti boasts abundant wildlife, it is perhaps best known for the annual Great Migration. Vast numbers of wildebeest, accompanied by large numbers of zebra and antelope, move in an annual pattern, constantly seeking fresh grazing. The precise timing of the migration is entirely dependent upon the rainfall patterns each year.

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head to your tented partner lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early in the morning after breakfast, the Seronera Valley offers lots of wildlife throughout the year, including carnivores such as hyenas, lions, leopards, and cheetahs. These can often be found on and around the large rocky outcrops, as they offer a great vantage point over the plains in search of prey. You may also see ungulates including buffaloes, giraffes, hippopotamuses, impalas, topi, warthogs, and zebras.

After lunch, you will continue with your en-route game drive to Karatu via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, arriving at your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will depart for Lake Manyara National Park, an unspoilt paradise best known for its abundance of birds and tree-climbing lions.

The dramatic western escarpment of the Rift Valley forms the park's western border. To the east is the shallow, alkaline Lake Manyara. The lake covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons, and is home to thousands of flamingos during the rains.

The name Manyara comes from the Maasai word 'emanyara', a popular plant used to build the protective enclosure around a family homestead (boma). Unquestionably, the park's vegetation is diverse, ranging from savannah to evergreen forest. On your exploration of the park, you may also see giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and, if you are lucky, lions lounging in the trees.

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head back to Arusha and continue straight to the airport, arriving in time for your departure flight. All in all, this marks the end of your amazing budget safari adventure.