On this 5 Days Tanzania Wildlife Safari you will visit Tarangire National Park and Serengeti National park as well as the world famous Ngorongoro Crater. Experience the main highlights of Tanzania’s northern circuit offering you the best Tanzania safari experience.
From the famous Big Five and mystical Baobab trees, to charming accommodations. The diversity of wildlife and landscape is breathtaking beautiful, your professional guide will open your eyes to the world of safari and share his knowledge about wildlife, vegetation as well as Tanzania’s cultures and people.
Highlights of 5 Days Tanzania Wildlife Safari
- Day 1: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
- Day 2: Tarangire – Serengeti National Park
- Day 3: Serengeti National Park
- Day 4: Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Crater – Karatu
- Day 5: Karatu – Arusha
Detailed itinerary of 5 Days Tanzania Wildlife Safari
Day 1: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
After a short briefing in the morning by your guide, you will be taken to Tarangire National Park. The park with its endless tree savannah including the impressive baobab trees and seasonal marshes, is also home to the largest elephant herds in northern Tanzania. In addition to elephants you are likely to spot giraffes, buffaloes, lions, zebras, wildebeests and other types of antelopes and gazelles.
Upon arrival at the park, your guide will open the roof of the vehicle and the extensive wildlife viewing will begin. Have lunch at a picnic spot and in the afternoon, you will get to see more of this amazing and beautiful park. In the late afternoon you will arrive at your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight stay at Burunge Tented Lodge.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Tarangire – Serengeti National Park
After breakfast you will depart towards the Rift Valley, passing through Mto wa Mbu and Karatu, in the cooler regions of the crater highlands. You will enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and stop for a short look into the crater from a viewing point. Continue your journey around the crater, you will descend the other side, enjoying your free African massage on the bumpy road, passing Maasai villages on your way to the Serengeti National Park.
At the Naabi Hill entrance gate you can walk to a viewpoint with spectacular views across the plains of the Serengeti Savannah. You will then continue towards the Seronera Area in the central part of the Serengeti.
Serengeti offers a multitude of wildlife including the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard. Late in the afternoon you will arrive at your lodge, check-in and spend the rest of the day at rest.
Overnight stay at Kati Kati Tented Camp.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
Following breakfast, you will spend the whole day on a game drive in the Serengeti and have lunch at a picnic spot en-route. Depending upon the time of year, you might even have the chance to witness the great migration with hundred thousands of wildebeests, zebras and Thomson gazelles. During the small rainy season in October and November, you will typically see these herds moving from the Kenya Masai Mara through the northwest of the Serengeti to the plains in the south. After the great rainy season in April, May and June, the herds slowly travel back through the western and north-western part of the Serengeti. Your guide will try his outmost to find the animals and will make sure that you can see them from the best spot in the national park. Naturally, the migration also attracts predators and with luck you might see a kill in action. Head back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Crater – Karatu
After breakfast, you will start early on your outward journey from the Serengeti back to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, leaving behind the beautiful Seronera Valley. As predators are livelier in the cooler hours of the day, you might even see them in action.
Lunch will be taken en-route at a designated picnic spot. On reaching the edge of Ngorongoro Crater, the 19-kilometer diameter caldera opens up before you in all its stunning glory and you will descend into the crater on an adventurous trail. This World Heritage is seasonally home to over 25,000 animals including a wide variety of birds, hyenas and the Big Five. Exiting the crater on a different ascent road, you will drive to Karatu in the Ngorongoro Highland, where you will spend the night at Tanganyika Wilderness Adventure Lodges.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Karatu – Arusha
After relaxing breakfast, you will return to Arusha, arriving around noon. Your guide will drop you off at the airport to catch your departure flight back home or to your next destination.
End of 5 Days Tanzania Wildlife Safari
Included
- transport in a 4×4 safari vehicle
- professional, English-speaking guide
- 4 nights’ stay in lodges and tented camps
- meals according to the itinerary
- drinking water
- activities and transfers as per itinerary
- all national park fees
- Flying Doctors insurance (AMREF) during the safari
Excluded
- flights (international and domestic)
- meals not indicated in the itinerary
- alcoholic and soft drinks
- optional activities
- tips
- personal expenses, visa fees, travel insurance