5 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti Safari is a short Tanzania safari tour that takes you to the most sought-after Tanzania national parks in search of the big 5 animals. This 5 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti Safari is best for travelers with limited time for it gives you an opportunity to see the Tanzania big 5 animals in a short time, and with limited movement within parks.
This 5 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti Safari is a great Tanzania safari package to add to your Zanzibar beach holiday. Adding a 3-night Zanzibar beach stay to this 5 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti Safari is highly advised, that you get to complete a Tanzania safari holiday.
Day 1: Transfer to Tarangire National Park – Karatu Area
Depending on your location in Arusha, your Tanzania safari guide will be available and ready to pick you up, brief you and start your safari, and thereafter transfer to Tarangire National Park. It is a 2-3 hour drive to Tarangire from Arusha. Upon arrival, connect for a game drive in search of animals like the herds of Elephants as well as other wildlife species like zebras, hartebeest, elephants, waterbucks, gazelles, oryx, and others. Transfer to your booked lodge in Karatu for dinner and overnight at Hhando Coffee Lodge
Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater and Maasai Bomas Cultural Tour
After breakfast, descend 600 meters into the crater and enjoy seeing wildlife species such as cheetahs, lions, leopards, elephants, antelopes, giraffes, buffalos, wildebeests and many others. You will also visit Lake Magadi, which is a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner and is among the main features of the crater. You will see a large number of flamingos, hippos as well as other bird species along the lake shores. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor! Later, visit the Maasai Bomas for an amazing cultural experience. Return to the lodge, relax as you wait for dinner, and overnight at the lodge as above.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 3: Drive to Serengeti National Park – Central Serengeti Game Drive
After breakfast, check out of the lodge and transfer to Serengeti National Park where you will arrive in central Serengeti for a game drive. A game drive animal viewing experience around the central part of Serengeti National Park, commonly known as Seronera Area, will reward you with wildlife species like lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos, wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, cheetahs, impalas, gazelles, kudu, rhinos among others. Serengeti National Park is one of the destinations in Tanzania where one is sure of getting closer to the Big 5 game while on a game drive. The park also acts as the breeding ground for the wildebeests, which are always seen on an annual migration between Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. This migration always follows the rain patterns. Your game drive in Serengeti shall be punctuated with a picnic lunch stop. Chase the sunset as you drive to the camp; check in, and relax as you wait for dinner and overnight stay at Tukaone Serengeti Camp.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 4: Full-Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park
You will have an early breakfast at your lodge ahead of the full-day wildlife viewing activity as you explore Serengeti National Park. During your morning game drive in the wilderness of the national park, you will see a variety of wildlife species like lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, Zebras, Impala, African wild dogs, Serval cats, elephants, and many other species then have your packed lunches in the national park as you prepare for another game drive after lunch. You will also drive around the kopjes like the Simba kopjes during your game drive in Serengeti National Park and you will enjoy seeing lions as they watch their prey in the savannah plains from the top of the rocks. You will also enjoy watching the sunset as your guide drives you back to your lodge.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 5: Return to Arusha for departures
You will enjoy breakfast, check out of the lodge, and be driven back to Arusha with en-route lunch. Upon arrival in Arusha, you will be dropped off either at your hotel or at the airport for a flight to the next destination like Zanzibar, or back home. This brings your 5 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti Safari to an end!
Price includes
- Pick up and drop off Arusha
- All Park entry fees
- Ngorongoro Crater fees
- Concession fees and transit fees
- Accommodation as per itinerary
- 4X4 safari vehicle & Fuel
- Full-time English-speaking driver/ guide
- All meals as indicated
- Vehicle entrance fees
- Bottled mineral water while on safari
- All activities as indicated
Excludes;
- Flight fares
- Tanzania Visa
- Travel Insurance
- All items of a personal nature like laundry, tips, phone calls, beverages, e.t.c
- Is anything else not included in the itinerary?
