5-Day Budget Camping Safari in Tanzania with the Great Migration

After breakfast, pick up from the hotel and start your safari from Arusha to Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park is famous for its dense wildlife population, which is most spectacular between June and September, the dry period. During this time, thousands of animals - wildebeest, buffalo, and oryx - migrate from the dry Maasai steppe to the Tarangire River looking for water. Lions, leopards, and other predators follow the herds. Tarangire is home to over 500 varieties of birds. Have lunch, enjoy a late afternoon game drive, and then continue to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay at Sunbright Campsite.

Enjoy an early breakfast at 7:00 am, then set out on a game drive en route to Serengeti National Park. Serengeti is the largest and most famous park in Tanzania, known worldwide for its endless plains, wildebeest migration, herds of lions, and other predators such as hyenas, cheetahs, and leopards. Crocodiles can be found in the Grumeti River, along with hippos, giraffes, antelopes, and gazelles. Dinner and overnight will be in the heart of the Serengeti at Seronera Campsite.

Today, after breakfast, you will leave with a lunch packet and drive as you follow the migration paths, depending on their location. You will spend the day following the Great Migration of about 1.5 million wildebeests and 500,000 zebras moving through the Serengeti ecosystem. Dangers are everywhere, and packs of lions, cheetahs, and other carnivores wait for the right moment to strike. Crocodiles in the Serengeti River show no mercy as the herds cross the river. Thousands are swept away by the waters, and the scenes are amazing. Later in the early evening, you will drive to Lobo Campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, depart from Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Crater Rim. Wake up early for morning game drives in Serengeti Lobo, then head back to the lodge for breakfast. You will then check out and drive with lunch, enjoying game viewing en route to the Ngorongoro Crater rim for dinner and an overnight stay at Simba Campsite.

Wake up early in the morning for breakfast, then descend to the crater floor for game drives. All of the Big Five - rhino, lion, buffalo, and elephant - live in this wonderful caldera. Others that live here include zebra, hippo, wildebeest, hyena, and more. Birds include flamingos on the soda lake, geese, storks, vultures, and more. Your lunch will be served at the picnic site in the crater at Ngoitoktok Swamp, a hippo pool. After lunch, drive back to Arusha.