3-Day Wildlife Safari in Tanzania with Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, the tour begins as you head towards Tarangire National Park for a game drive, with a picnic lunch in the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and majestic baobab trees. It forms the centre of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3,000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest, and 30,000 zebras. You will enjoy a full-day game drive and admire the park's natural beauty before driving back to the campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, the tour departs for Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats, including acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab-strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps, and the lake itself. Thanks to this diversity, the small park supports a large number of animal species and incredible birdlife. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons in the world, and its tree-climbing lions are also renowned. You will have the day to enjoy all that the park offers, and in the late afternoon, you will drive back to the campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

After an early breakfast, you will descend more than 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area sustains a vast variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another major draw of this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, including lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot.

We will also visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds can usually be seen here. In the late evening, we will drive back to Arusha.