5-Day Tanzania Safari to Serengeti and Ngorongoro from Arusha

Pick up from your Arusha hotel at 8 a.m. and take a 3-hour drive to Tarangire National Park. You will enjoy a full-day game drive, then return to the campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

Tarangire National Park is about 115 km from Arusha and covers an area of 288 square km. Here, wild animals gather to drink water, and the major attractions include the large number of elephants, the python climbing tree, and the baobab tree. You may also see lions, leopards, and different antelope species.

After waking up this morning, you will have a full breakfast and pack your luggage in the safari jeep. Then, you will begin an en-route game drive to Serengeti, with your lunch served inside the jeep. On the way, you can enjoy a beautiful Rift Valley view of Ngorongoro Crater, and you will reach Serengeti around 3 p.m. You will have an evening game drive in central Serengeti, where you can see the sunset, followed by dinner and an overnight stay at Seronera Campsite inside the park.

The major attractions in Serengeti are the endless plains and the great Serengeti wildebeest migration.

Our driver guide will make sure you are able to see part of the wildebeest migration, which is accompanied by a large number of zebra and smaller numbers of Grant's gazelle, Thomson gazelle, eland, and impala.

You will wake up around 5:45 a.m. for breakfast and to see the sunrise in Serengeti. After breakfast, you will enjoy an early morning game drive until 11:30 a.m. Then, you will return to the campsite for a hot lunch and pack your belongings in the jeep.

After finishing your hot lunch, you will continue with a game drive in Serengeti while heading to Ngorongoro Crater, arriving at Simba Campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

You will wake up around 5:30 a.m. for breakfast. After breakfast, you will descend to the Ngorongoro Crater floor, where you can see all of the Big Five. You will also see different types of birds and black rhinos inside the crater. On this day, you will have lunch inside the crater while watching nature and the high concentration of flamingos.

Later, after 6 to 7 hours of game drives on the crater floor, you will ascend from the crater, passing through the campsite to pack all luggage inside the jeep, ready for dinner and an overnight stay at Simba Campsite.

You will head to Lake Manyara for a full-day game drive. Inside the park, you will see tree-climbing lions and many flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake, and you will visit the hot springs. On the same day, you will also visit a Maasai Boma and see how the locals live. Later, you will return to Arusha for dinner and an overnight stay.