4-Day Serengeti Safari through Ngorongoro and the Big Five

Once you've arrived safely at Kilimanjaro Airport, you'll be met by one of our friendly drivers, who will transfer you to the White House Hotel in Moshi. If you arrive early, you could explore the small town of Moshi, which is only a short taxi ride away, or simply relax at the hotel and get ready for the days ahead. You may even meet one of our operations staff and guides, who will explain everything you need to know about your safari.

Drive to Serengeti National Park through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for an afternoon game drive and overnight stay.

Today, before entering Serengeti, you'll spend time driving through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), with its big expanses of savannah, rainforest, and bushland. Measuring 8,300 square kilometres and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the only area on Earth where mankind and wild animals coexist harmoniously.

The area has wildlife protection status while also allowing human habitation at the same time. This uniqueness makes the NCA the only place where humans, livestock, and wild animals live together peacefully. On your way, you might see Maasai livestock grazing alongside zebras and wildebeest in the grasslands under the care of Maasai boys.

Have a morning game drive in Serengeti National Park until late afternoon, then drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for an overnight stay on the crater rim.

On this day, you'll have a chance to explore the migration of millions of wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, and topi as they wander the short grass plains, followed by their predators in their annual migration in search of pasture and water.

Serengeti National Park, globally known as the "Endless Plain," is the oldest and most famous national park in Tanzania and probably the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world. Its vast plains are home to predators and prey, vying for grasslands and the last watering holes as the dry season progresses. Millions of mammals migrate across the plains between December and May, and the interaction between species is awesomely entertaining.

Descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for 6-8 hours, then ascend and drive back to Arusha or Moshi, or be transferred to the airport to connect with your flight back home.

Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world. The crater, together with the Olmoti and Empakaai craters, forms part of the eastern Rift Valley, whose volcanism dates back to the late Mesozoic and early Tertiary periods and is famous for its geology. It also includes Laetoli and Olduvai Gorge, an important paleontological record associated with human evolution.

Ngorongoro Crater is home to black-maned lions, cheetahs, leopards, foxes, jackals, hyenas, and a variety of herbivores such as buffaloes, wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, eland, and elephant bulls. This is the park where you can see the so-called "Big Five" all together.