3-Day Camping Safari in Tanzania with Tarangire and Ngorongoro

We will pick you up in the morning and drive southwest towards Tarangire National Park. The park has a diversity of landscapes, including grasslands, acacia woodlands, and forests, and it is especially popular for its huge elephant herds and the animals that gather at the river and swamps.

Wildlife here ranges from swarms of yellow-breasted lovebirds to kudus, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, and impalas. Predators include lions, leopards, and hyenas, while wild dogs are rare.

In the late afternoon, you will leave the park and drive to Manyara, Mto wa Mbu.

Wake up for an early breakfast at the campsite, then drive 45 minutes to the Ngorongoro gate. From here, continue for 20 minutes to the viewpoint, where you can see all the craters.

Drive down a steep trail into the crater floor. Its grass plains and acacia forest are home to most animal species found in the East African savannah. You might see the 'Big Five' - lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard - in only a few hours.

After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch inside the crater, you will leave the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and drive to Mto wa Mbu, where you will spend the night in tents at Fanaka Campsite.

After breakfast at your camp, you will drive via Mto wa Mbu town to Lake Manyara National Park for a half-day game drive. Lake Manyara National Park, with its shallow alkaline lake, stretches along the base of the Rift Valley wall.

Lake Manyara attracts thousands of birds, including huge flocks of flamingos. Other animals in the park include buffaloes, elephants, hippos, and Masai giraffes, as well as troops of boisterous baboons and monkeys in the forest.

The park once became famous for its tree-climbing lions, and if you are lucky enough to spot them, you will be amazed by the sight of these animals lounging on branches in the acacia trees.

After the game drive, you will have lunch inside the park and then drive back to Arusha or Moshi.