5-Day Tanzania Safari Tour Tarangire, Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, your safari guide will pick you up from your hotel in Arusha and drive to Tarangire National Park, the first destination of your Tanzania safari tour. The park is famous for its large elephant herds, ancient baobab trees, seasonal swamps, and the Tarangire River, which attracts a variety of wildlife. Enjoy a game drive through the park, looking for elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, warthogs, antelopes, and diverse birdlife. Enjoy lunch during the day before continuing with wildlife viewing in the afternoon. Later, leave the park and drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge / Similar
Meals: Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, depart for the legendary Serengeti National Park, travelling through the scenic Ngorongoro Highlands. Enjoy views of rolling hills, local villages, farmland, and Maasai communities along the way. As you enter Serengeti, the landscape opens into vast golden plains that support an incredible variety of wildlife. Begin an afternoon Serengeti safari, searching for lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, and buffaloes. Depending on the season and location of the herds, you may also have the opportunity to see the Great Serengeti Migration. Continue to your camp for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camp / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Spend a full day exploring the magnificent Serengeti, giving you more time to enjoy wildlife viewing and photography. Start with an early morning game drive when temperatures are cooler and many animals are active. Your guide will take you to the best wildlife areas based on recent sightings and seasonal movements. Search for large herds of wildebeests and zebras, as well as lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, and other wildlife. During the migration season, your route may be adjusted to follow the movement of the herds. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the park before continuing with an afternoon game drive and returning to camp in the evening.

Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camp / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive in Serengeti before departing toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This provides another opportunity to see wildlife before leaving the Serengeti plains. Continue through the changing landscapes toward the Ngorongoro Highlands, with scenic views of forests, hills, and local communities along the route. You may see Maasai people and their livestock as you travel through the conservation area. Arrive at your accommodation near Ngorongoro and enjoy a relaxing evening, preparing for the following day's crater adventure.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Wild Camp / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After an early breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Crater and descend approximately 600 meters into the crater for an exciting game drive. Explore the crater floor, home to a remarkable concentration of wildlife, and search for lions, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests, hippos, flamingos, and, with luck, black rhinos. Enjoy a picnic lunch inside the crater surrounded by dramatic scenery and wildlife. After the game drive, ascend from the crater and begin the drive back to Arusha. Arrive in the afternoon or early evening, marking the end of your unforgettable Tanzania safari experience.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch