4-Day Luxury Tanzania Safari with Ngorongoro Crater

You will be picked up from the airport by a representative and driven to your accommodation in Arusha, where you will overnight and relax in anticipation of the adventures ahead. Mount Meru Hotel is Arusha's famous and one of Africa's most exciting conference destinations. An oasis of tranquillity at Tanzania's gateway to major tourist destinations, the Mount Meru Hotel blends stylish, elegant African architecture with supremely luxurious accommodations.

Accommodation: Mount Meru Hotel

In the morning, you will be collected from your accommodation in Arusha by your safari guide. The drive to Tarangire follows a good tarmac road across the gently rolling Masai plains with scattered acacia trees. En route, you will pass many Masai in their colourful dress walking along the roadside, riding bicycles, herding their cattle, and driving donkey carts.

Tarangire National Park is well known for its large elephant herds. From the open roof of the vehicle, you will experience the seasonal swamps, savanna, and Tarangire River while searching for many animals, including zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and giraffe. You may even glimpse a lion stalking its prey or leopards watching and relaxing in the trees above.

After an extensive game drive, and having experienced the various sights and sounds of the wilderness, you will leave the park and head to your luxury partner lodge, where you will enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Kitela Lodge (Karatu)

After an early breakfast, you will drive through the Rift Valley to the cooler regions of the Ngorongoro Highlands. The Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest volcanic caldera, is almost 20 km wide, approximately 610 m deep, and is known for its great variety of wildlife, including the

After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park, a small but diverse park 120 km west of Arusha. The park's namesake is a shallow salt lake that covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons, and is home to thousands of flamingos and more than 500 other bird species.

During your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephants, and, with some luck, lions lounging in the trees. In the afternoon, you will return to Arusha.