Tanzania · Safari

5-Day Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire Wildlife Safari

5 Days Round trip from Arusha Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Learn about the Big Five in Serengeti National Park
  • 02 Visit Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera
  • 03 Explore Tarangire National Park, most famous for its elephant migration
  • 04 Spot abundant wildlife including elephants, hippos, lions, zebras, wildebeests, cheetahs, and leopards
  • 05 Travel through breathtaking Serengeti landscapes with endless horizons

Explore the lush wildlife of Tanzania's finest conservatories - Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire - through your awestruck eyes. Power through the long grasslands as you go looking for the Big Five - lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, and rhinoceros. Watch as predators stalk and hunt their prey, all in a regular day's work.

Watch as the crater is home to more than 30,000 large mammals - mainly gazelle, buffalo, eland, and warthog - and has the highest predator density in the world.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 5 Days
Tour type Shared
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Included · Standard
Transport Included
Wheelchair access Not applicable
Cities Arusha, Mount Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire National Park
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport

  • Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, meet our airport representative.

  • Transfer to Point Zone Hotel in Arusha for a briefing and overnight stay before heading out for a lifetime safari experience.

2
Day 02

Game Drives in Tarangire National Park

  • After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park for some very rewarding game drives.

  • Tarangire National Park has some of the highest population density of elephants anywhere in Tanzania. Its sparse vegetation, strewn with baobab and acacia trees, makes it a beautiful and special location.

  • Note how droves of gazelle, wildebeest, zebra, and giraffes migrate to Tarangire National Park's scrub plains before the rains, where the last grazing land still remains.

Overnight at Eileen's Tree Inn.

3
Day 03

Tarangire to Central Serengeti

  • After breakfast, watch game en route to the central area of the Serengeti, where breathtaking landscapes, endless horizons, and abundant wildlife await you.

  • Serengeti is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is sure to captivate your imagination.

Overnight at Katikati Tented Camp.

4
Day 04

Full-Day Wildlife Exploration in Serengeti

  • After breakfast, enjoy a full day of exploring wildlife around the Serengeti centre, which is the ideal location for marvelling at the annual migration of large herds of animals at this time of the year. The Serengeti's endless plains provide an exceptional landscape for wildlife viewing; it truly is the ultimate safari country.

  • Spot elephants, hippos, lions, zebras, wildebeests, cheetahs, leopards, and more.

Overnight at Katikati Tented Camp.

5
Day 05

Ngorongoro Crater Game Viewing

  • Enjoy a full day of game viewing on the Ngorongoro Crater floor. Called the eighth wonder of the world, the crater won't fail to take your breath away as you stand on the rim looking down on a 10-mile-wide crater floor with abundant wildlife.

  • Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken volcanic caldera in the world, covering approximately 260 sq km, with walls rising 600 meters from the crater floor. Before the Ngorongoro Volcano exploded and collapsed 2 million years ago, it was one of the world's tallest mountains.

  • Watch as the crater is home to more than 30,000 large mammals - mainly gazelle, buffalo, eland, and warthog - and has the highest predator density in the world.

Overnight at Point Zone Hotel.

The following day will be a transfer to the airport.

Tarangire National Park's baobab and acacia plains, Serengeti National Park's endless horizons, Ngorongoro Crater's vast caldera

Where this trip takes you

Tarangire National Park's baobab and acacia plains, Serengeti National Park's endless horizons, Ngorongoro Crater's vast caldera

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Arusha 5 cities · 5 Days

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • All National Park entrance fees as per itinerary

  • 4WD Land Cruiser equipped with a pop-up roof for safaris

  • Professional, English-speaking Tanzania driver/guide

  • Mineral water while on safari

  • Accommodation while on safari on a full-board (FB) basis

  • Accommodation for one night upon your arrival, and after the safari, on a bed and breakfast (BB) basis

  • All transfers mentioned in the itinerary

  • Government taxes

What's Not Included

  • All items of a personal nature and gratuities

  • Optional excursions and activities not listed in the itinerary

  • Tips

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Arusha, Tanzania
Tour start
Arusha, Tanzania
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 5 days finish where they began, in Arusha.

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