3-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari from Arusha with Ngorongoro Crater

Non-game-viewing travel time: 1:40 hours. Distance: 110.33 km.

• After breakfast, your driver-guide will be ready at your hotel to pick you up and head into Tarangire National Park for a game drive. The park has excellent landscapes, including a plain known as the small Serengeti, and the Tarangire River acts as a significant magnet for animals during the dry season. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals - the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, and a few Ashy Starlings. The park also offers many buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, leopards, impalas, gazelles, warthogs, and wild dogs, which are occasionally seen. The park is also enriched with birds, with more than 400 species.
• During the lunch hour, we will stop at a picnic site for lunch and continue with the game drive until the evening, when we will drive to the camp for an overnight stay. Dinner and overnight at Fanaka Campsite.

Non-game-viewing travel: 30 minutes. Distance: 56 km.

• After an early breakfast, we will enjoy game viewing on the route toward the exit gate and then drive to Lake Manyara National Park. The park lies in the Rift Valley and offers great landscape views. The vegetation here is completely different compared to Tarangire. The park is green and has lots of water springs from the Great Rift Valley. In this park, you can see monkeys, baboons, zebras, wildebeest, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, and many others, including lions, leopards, and cheetahs. The place is famous for lions climbing trees and for being home to pink flamingos.
• You will also be able to experience many different bird species.
• Lunch at the picnic site, then continue with a game drive.
• Later in the afternoon, you will drive to Ngorongoro for an overnight stay. Dinner and overnight at Simba Public Campsite.

Non-game-viewing travel time: 1 hour. Distance: 181.21 km.

• After an early breakfast, we will descend over 600 meters into the crater for a game drive on a half-day safari tour. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, Ngorongoro National Park supports a wide variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. This is the only park where you can more easily see black rhinos than in any other park. 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 and acts as a home for flamingos and hippos. Apart from animals, the park has the most incredible landscape and a beautiful caldera. We will have lunch at the picnic site.
• In the afternoon, after lunch, we depart the crater and drive back to Moshi. The hotel is on a bed and breakfast basis.