5-Day Tanzania Safari from Moshi with Tarangire and Serengeti

You will be picked up from your hotel in Moshi at 05:30 am and transferred to Tarangire National Park to begin your game-viewing experience in this magnificent park. It is famous for its extensive collection of baobab trees, spectacular large mammal population, and variety of bird species, not to mention one of the largest concentrations of elephants in the country. After your tour around the park, you will be transferred to your lodge for an overnight stay.

After breakfast, we will descend over 600 meters into the crater for a half-day safari tour. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Crater is home to a wide variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.

Another big drawcard of this picturesque national park is its dense predator population, including lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot.

We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. Many flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here.

In the afternoon, after lunch, you will proceed to Serengeti for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

After breakfast, you will enjoy a full game-viewing drive along the Sogore River Circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River and offers possible sightings of lions, Thomson gazelles, topis, ostriches, and cheetahs.

The visitor's center, not far from the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth visiting after the morning game drive. This nicely designed center offers exciting wildlife displays and a gift shop selling information leaflets and maps of the area. The center also has a shop where cold drinks and snacks can be purchased, as well as a picnic area and an information trail up and around a nearby kopje.

You will enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch at the center in the shade of the giant acacia trees.

In the afternoon, you will drive along the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes. These usually attract several lions and some formidably giant cobras. Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops scattered around the plains, and most are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry season, including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink.

Be one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a hot air balloon over the Serengeti Plains, available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement. You will float silently above the awakening bush while spotting wildlife and enjoying the fantastic scenery of Africa across rivers and over numerous small villages.

After breakfast, we will start a game drive until the afternoon. We shall then drive back to the camp for a hot lunch and some rest.

From 4:00 pm, we shall begin the evening game drive and continue until 6:00 pm.

After an early breakfast at the camp, we will start driving out of the Serengeti while enjoying an en route game drive on the way back to Moshi. You will be dropped at your hotel in Moshi in the evening.