5-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, you'll drive to Arusha National Park and depart from your Arusha or Moshi accommodation. After entering the park, you will embark on a game drive. Your drive will take you past park landmarks such as the Momella Lakes and Ngurdoto Crater - sometimes known as "Little Ngorongoro."

Your safari vehicle will also go under the Fig Tree (Ficus thonningii), whose roots have grown to form an arch large enough for a safari car - even elephant-sized - to pass underneath. You may stop, get out of the car, and take pictures.

During lunch, you will stop at a picnic site where you will have your meal. After that, proceed with the game drive. At around four, you will start leaving the national park for Arusha, where you will spend the night.

You'll depart from Arusha after breakfast for the drive to Lake Manyara National Park. The journey takes approximately two hours, but we'll pass through the market town of Mto Wa Mbu along the way. This agricultural and fresh produce market is a melting pot of local cultures and a souvenir hunter's paradise.

After a brief stop at the village market, you'll enter Lake Manyara National Park. The park is truly a photographer's playground and offers some of the best game viewing in the world. You can expect to see many of Africa's most well-known animals, with the tree-climbing lions a particular treat. These proud predators lounge in acacia trees, practically begging to be photographed.

Bird watchers will find Lake Manyara an absolute delight, with various birds displayed in the park. Even the novice can expect to be amazed by large flamingo flocks, circling birds of prey, and the brightly coloured lilac-breasted roller. In the late afternoon, you will leave the park and head to the nearby Kizumba campsite to spend the night.

After breakfast, we head towards Serengeti National Park via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa, the Serengeti National Park, with its endless plains rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see.

We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. It features the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife representative of most of the Serengeti's species.

We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park. Dinner and overnight will be at a camp.

After breakfast, you will do a game drive in Serengeti National Park. With your lunch box, following the animal migration in the Northern Serengeti where the migration will be, you will be able to see wildebeest, zebra, topi, hartebeest, eland, antelope, hyena, and varieties of birds singing in the trees, while also viewing the beauty of the landscape and nature.

After having your lunch, you will continue with a game drive in the Serengeti, heading to the gate to check out of Serengeti National Park. After that, you will proceed with game viewing en route to Ngorongoro Crater.

Dinner and overnight at a campsite at the rim of the crater.

After breakfast, descend into the crater with your lunch box, enjoying the game drive for over six hours. The Ngorongoro Crater is home to an estimated 30,000 animals, including some of Tanzania's last remaining black rhinos. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the crater sustains a wide variety of animals, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.

Another big drawcard to this picturesque national park is its vast population of predators, which includes lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard on the crater floor.

After a picnic lunch, you will continue with a game drive there. In the late afternoon, you will drive back to Arusha Town.