6-Day Tanzania Wildlife Safari from Arusha with Serengeti and Ngorongoro

After breakfast, your driver will meet you at your hotel for an approximately 2-hour drive to Tarangire National Park. Giant baobab trees, bush savannah, and seasonal marshes add to the wonder of this nature reserve. Tarangire National Park is considered one of the best places to view elephants up close.

The park is also home to buffaloes, zebras, and wildebeests, which are often closely followed by predators such as lions. Leopards are seen now and then, but cheetahs are rarely spotted. From the open roof of the safari vehicle, you will be able to take in the landscape and watch the animals.

In the evening, you will reach your lodge inside the park.

Dinner and overnight at Baobab Camp in Tarangire.

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

After breakfast, you will travel from the Tarangire area to Lake Manyara National Park.

The park is known for its more than 400 bird species, primate-filled forests, and grassy plains. A large area of the park is covered by alkaline Lake Manyara, the seasonal breeding ground for many flamingos and other waterfowl.

The park is also home to giraffes, elephants, zebras, buffaloes, hippos, wildebeests, impalas, and noisy monkeys and baboons. After an extensive game drive, you will exit the park and drive to your lodge for the night.

Dinner and overnight at Marera Lodge.

After breakfast, you will travel via the cooler highlands towards the southern Serengeti, and by midday, you will reach the plains of Serengeti National Park. This park is the largest in Tanzania and has a diversity of habitats and landscapes - short grass plains, savannah, thick bush, swamps, and lakes.

Bizarre rock formations called kopjes dot the grassy landscape, where predators are often seen. The Serengeti is famous for its yearly migration, when hundreds of thousands of wildebeests and zebras trek in search of fresh grass and water.

Dinner and overnight at Embalakai Tented Camps.

The entire day is dedicated to game viewing in Serengeti National Park. The areas you visit will depend on where the migrating herds are located. Predators follow closely behind the trekking animals, including lions, leopards in the acacia trees, and cheetahs.

During the short rainy season in November and December, the herds move from the northern hills to the southern plains. They return north during the extended rainy season from April to June. As the migration depends entirely on the yearly rainfall, the location of the herds may vary from one year to another, although your guide will know where to locate the animals and where to see them best.

Dinner and overnight at Soronera Tented Camp.

On your outward journey to the park gate, you will enjoy more game viewing before leaving Serengeti National Park in the early afternoon to continue to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Along the way, you can see a Maasai boma and experience their lifestyle.

You will reach your lodge in time for lunch.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge.

After breakfast, you will descend to the airport.