6-Day Tanzania Safari through Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

You will meet our professional driver tour guide at your hotel, who will deliver a short safari info briefing. After your breakfast and then we drive to Tarangire National Park for game viewing. The Park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African National Park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge/Tented Camp/Hotel/Budget Basic Campsite.

After your breakfast, and then we drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive National Park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The Park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of Elephants; Manyara is famous for a Tree-climbing lion, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge/Hotel/Tented Camp/Budget Basic Campsite.

After breakfast, we depart from the Camp and drive to Serengeti via Ngorongoro Conservation Area and later arrive on the great Serengeti plains for a different but just as the spectacular wildlife viewing experience. You will pass one of the world’s greatest prehistoric archaeological sites, called Olduvai Gorge, and then continue your way over the scrub lands. The wooded knolls around Naabi Hill Gate mark the Serengeti’s official entrance, which then drops into the Park’s signature wide-open plains. Like no other, this stretch embodies the meaning of the word “Serengeti,” which derives from the Masai “Siringet” and has been artistically translated as “the land that flows on forever”. Serengeti National Park covers 6,000 square miles of pristine land and offers not only expansive vistas but the largest migration of mammals on earth, including 1.5 million wildebeest. Dinner .and overnight at the Lodge/Tented Camp/Luxury/Budget Basic Campsite.

After breakfast, you will have a full-day game viewing at Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti, Tanzania’s second-largest National Park, covers nearly 6,000 square miles of grassland and plains, Savannah, kopjes, hills, woodlands, .and River line forests. The Grumeti, Mbalageti, .and Mara river systems serve as critical water sources .and are often excellent sites for wildlife viewing. Beyond the heralded migration of wildebeest .and zebra, the Serengeti is best known for its big predators, including cheetahs and leopards, as well as large pride of Lions .and clans of Hyenas. Other commonly seen animals include gazelle, buffalo, giraffe, Topi, Hartebeest, Ostrich, .and Jackal, but it is the full diversity of wildlife and habitats that you will truly find amazing. The greater Serengeti ecosystem actually covers the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Masai Mara in Kenya, .and numerous surrounding wildlife-protected l.ands that combine for a total of almost 17,000 square miles, which is larger than the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, .and Rhode Island all together. Dinner .and overnight at the Lodge/Tented Camp/Luxury/Budget Basic Campsite.

Our day starts with a morning game drive central to the Serengeti. For animals, that’s an active time of the day – not hot yet, so there is a lot to see out there until 11:30 am then we return back to the Lodge/Camp for Brunch. On our way back we will stop at Olduvai Gorge. It’s a fascinating archaeological site we will visit if you are interested in history .and the Masai tribes. Dinner .and overnight at the Lodge/Tented Camp/Hotel/Campsite set on the Crater rim, the Lodge/Tented Camp/Luxury/Basic Budget Campsite offers stunning views of Ngorongoro .and the surrounding highlands. 

On our last day starts very early in the morning equipped with a picnic lunch we descend 2000 ft. down to the Crater floor by our 4×4-wheel drive vehicle for game viewing. Let’s explore this Garden of Eden. Ngorongoro is a huge .and deep volcanic Crater. There’s rich pasture, swamps, forest, .and permanent water on the Crater floor that’s why wildlife here is so diverse .and numerous. There are up to 25.000 larger animals living here. It’d the best opportunity to see the Black Rhino .and many other rare species like the black-manned lion. We will have a fantastic day .and you will see wildlife at its best. Late afternoon we drive back to Arusha .and you will be dropped at your Lodge/Hotel at your own cost. End of tour.