Tanzania · Camping Safari

3-Day Tanzania Camping Safari through Tarangire Ngorongoro and Manyara

3 Days Round trip from Arusha Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Safari at Lake Manyara National Park, home to more than 350 bird species
  • 02 Visit Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera
  • 03 Go on a game drive at Tarangire National Park, most famous for its elephant population
  • 04 Spot flamingos, pelicans, and other birdlife across varied northern Tanzania landscapes

Embark on a 3-day camping safari through some of Tanzania's most varied landscapes, exploring Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Manyara National Park. Enjoy game drives across open savannah, seasonal marshes, and crater highlands while looking out for elephants, lions, giraffes, buffalo, flamingos, pelicans, and a wide variety of birdlife. This short safari combines remarkable wildlife viewing with three of the Northern Circuit's most iconic parks.

Embark on a 3-day camping safari through some of Tanzania's most varied landscapes, exploring Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Manyara National Park.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 3 Days
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Included · Budget
Transport Included
Wheelchair access Not applicable
Cities Arusha, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara, Tarangire National Park
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

Arusha to Tarangire National Park

  • In the morning, we will pick you up from your hotel marking the beginning of our 3-day program of Tanzania Camping safari.

  • Be taken to the Tarangire National Park. With its endless tree savanna and seasonal marshes, the Tarangire National Park is also home to the largest elephant herds in North Tanzania, with over 4000 at the last count. To add to this, you also can watch giraffes, buffalo, lions, zebras, gnus and different types of antelopes and gazelles.

  • Upon arrival at the park, your driver will be ready with open roof jeeps for wildlife viewing. Begin the ride with packed lunch boxes to be taken to a picnic spot. In the afternoon, you will get to see more of this wonderful park.

Later in the afternoon, you will arrive at the Twiga campsite or Maramboi Tented Camp outside the park for overnight.

Lunch and dinner are included.

2
Day 02

Tarangire National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area

  • Begin with a nice early start and drive past the Rift Valley (Africa’s graven fault) up to the cooler regions of the crater uplands. The Ngorongoro Crater is almost 600 m deep, and in this massive caldera, you will find an amazing variety of animals. Alongside the “Big Five” (elephants, buffalo, lions, leopards and rhinoceros), you will find virtually all of the animals that can be found on the entire east of the African savanna.

  • At a chosen picnic spot, you will have lunch, and the rest of the afternoon will be devoted to more wildlife watching.

Leave the crater making the second night of our camping tour. You will be driven to the Simba Campsite or Ngorongoro Farm House for dinner and overnight stay.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

3
Day 03

Ngorongoro Crater to Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

  • This day marks the final of our program -3 Days Tanzania Camping Safari. After breakfast, you will continue on your “Northern Circuits” tour to the next national park in Tanzania -Lake Manyara National Park, which is one of the smaller parks in Tanzania. It covers an area from the north-western edge and a large proportion of the lake itself. The lake here is the seasonal home to thousands of flamingos, pelicans and more than one hundred other types of birds that make this lake their home. On the partly forested edges, you will find and get a chance to watch the proud elephants with their impressive tusks searching for food as they go about their daily business. You will also get to see giraffes, buffalo, gazelle, antelope, baboons, and last but not least, the famous tree-climbing lions.

  • After a jammed packed wildlife tour, it is time to leave this national park and return to Arusha.

Breakfast and lunch are included.

Tarangire National Park savanna, Ngorongoro Crater highlands, Lake Manyara National Park lakeshore

Where this trip takes you

Tarangire National Park savanna, Ngorongoro Crater highlands, Lake Manyara National Park lakeshore

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Arusha 4 cities · 3 Days

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • All park entrance, accommodation, and administrative fees

  • All meals while on safari

  • 3 litres of water daily

  • Transfers to and from Arusha

  • 4WD transportation while on safari

  • Staff fees

  • Camping accommodation where noted

  • Walking tour in some protected areas

  • English-speaking Tanzanian safari guide

What's Not Included

  • International airfares and departure taxes

  • All personal expenses such as telephone calls, fax, email, etc.

  • Tips and gratuities for hotels, lodges, camp staff, and driver-guides

  • Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks

  • Laundry services

  • Visa fees and international flight tickets

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 3 days finish where they began, in Arusha.

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