3-Day Tarangire, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara Camping Safari

In the morning, start your safari with a drive to Tarangire National Park with a packed lunch. The park, roughly the size of Luxemburg, covers an area of approximately 2,600 km². Its savannah landscape, seasonal swamps, and giant baobab trees are home to Masai giraffes, buffaloes, hartebeest, eland, fringe-eared oryx, the weird-looking long-necked gerenuk, and over 550 species of birds. But it is the elephants Tarangire is famous for, and the park, where herds of up to 300 animals roam, is probably one of the best places in East Africa to see them and get close to these giant creatures.

After an extensive game drive, continue to Panorama Camp Site for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro and descend into the crater with a packed lunch and your Tanzania safari guide. Inside the world's largest caldera, you will see various wildlife ranging from black rhinos, Grant's and Thomson's gazelles, lions, and leopards to elephants and mountain reedbucks in the forests on the slopes. You might also see buffaloes, spotted hyenas, rare wild dogs, and some of the area's more than 500 bird species.

After an intensive game drive and a picnic lunch, leave the caldera in the afternoon and travel to Panorama Camp Site, near Manyara Park, for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, drive to the smaller Lake Manyara National Park with a packed lunch. The park is known for its over 400 bird species, primate-filled forests, and grassy plains. A large area is covered by the alkaline Lake Manyara, which is home to colonies of flamingos and other water birds. Apart from elephants, you might also spot giraffes, hippos, wildebeests, impalas, and teeming groups of noisy monkeys and baboons in the forests near the lake.

In the afternoon, after an extensive game drive, drive back to Arusha.