5-Day Tanzania Camping Safari through Serengeti and Ngorongoro

You will be picked up from your hotel or accommodation at 7:30 am and introduced to your guide before beginning your journey to Tarangire National Park, a drive of about 1 hour and 45 minutes. The park is popular for its assorted scenery and is well known for its abundance of ancient baobab trees and for having the biggest herds of elephants in the entire nation.

You will enjoy a game drive through the park in search of cheetahs, lions, giraffes, and zebra. Later, you will head to the Tarangire picnic site for lunch and enjoy the wonderful view overlooking the Tarangire River and the animals around it. While having lunch, you may have close encounters with small monkeys and birds.

After lunch, you will continue with the game drive and later exit the park, then drive to Fig Tree Lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, you will head out for the Serengeti. You will travel along a lengthy, bumpy road for roughly 4-5 hours, enjoying amazing wildlife along the way as you pass up the crater highlands and into the enormous Serengeti plains.

You will stop for a picnic lunch before entering the park for an afternoon game drive. Later, you will head to Seronera Campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

You will start your day early, getting up before daybreak to set out on a sunrise game drive. Witness the morning sun lighting up the savannah while hunters like leopards and lions take on their morning hunt.

After the drive, you will return to camp for breakfast and then proceed with another game drive. In the afternoon, you will have lunch before exiting the park and continuing to Ngorongoro Crater, where you will have dinner and spend the night at Simba Campsite.

After breakfast, you will descend into the Ngorongoro Crater, considered to be one of the eight wonders of the world.

Home to over 120 animal species, including the legendary Big Five, Ngorongoro Crater is one of the best safari destinations in the world. It is one of the parks where you can see the endangered black rhino, as well as a place to witness enormous numbers of hippopotami.

From the comfort of your open-top vehicle, you will have an opportunity to spot countless other animals such as lions, leopards, jackals, hyenas, wildebeest, zebras, elephants, and Cape buffalo. After exploring the crater, you will head to the hippo pool for lunch, then continue with the game drive. Later, you will ascend the crater and begin your drive to Fig Tree Lodge, where you will have dinner and stay overnight.

After breakfast, you will have a short drive of approximately 5 minutes to the gate of Lake Manyara National Park, which is close to Mto wa Mbu town. The park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, and despite being relatively small, it is home to diverse wildlife.

Lake Manyara is also a birdwatcher's paradise, with many bird species, from flamingos and several birds of prey to the colourful-breasted roller. After completing your game drive, you will begin your journey back to your accommodation in Arusha or head to the airport if you have a flight to catch.