6-Day Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara & Serengeti Wildlife Safari
Highlights
Arusha, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara
Locations Covered
Arusha, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara
safari, camping, Wildlife
Private Tour
6 Days
Easy
English, Spanish
Description
Explore the best wildlife parks in Northern Tanzania at the vast Serengeti Plains, Lake Manyara and the Crater Highlands. These places host an abundance of animal and bird species, residents or migratory. Also, be rewarded with sounds of lions roaring, crickets whistling and laughing hyenas.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Arrival in Kilimanjaro International Airport
Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport, where you will be met by our Representative or Safari Manager, who will transfer you to the Outpost Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Get a short briefing and gear check with your safari starting tomorrow by your Safari Manager.
All meals included.
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Day 2: Arusha to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Leave Arusha in the morning and drive to Ngorongoro Crater.
Register at the gate.
Descend to the Crater floor for a full day of game drives.
Enjoy a picnic lunch at the picnic site at the Hippo poolside.
Continue with game drives after lunch in the Crater floor in search of the rhinos, lions, buffaloes, elephants, zebras, impalas, hyenas, topis, hartebeests many others. Ngorongoro Crater is also famous for a lot of birds species, and at Lake Makat in the middle of the crater floor, you will be able to see flamingos, Egyptian geese, pelicans, and many more aquatic and non-aquatic species. Other birds include Lilac breasted rollers, the hammer-kop, species of weavers and many more residents and immigrants alike.
Drive to Crater Rim in the late afternoon for overnight at Simba Campsite for dinner and overnight.
Lunchbox and dinner included.
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Day 3: Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park
After breakfast at the Simba Campsite, make your way to Serengeti National Park with your Tanzanian safari guide.
On your way, have the chance to visit Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakey’s family discovered human fossils dating millions of years, suggesting that Africa is the Cradle of mankind.
Enter through Naabi Hill gate and continue with game drives inside the Serengeti. You expect to see lots of animals for the whole year, and it is the Great Migration that never stops to amaze many a traveller. The Resident animals’ species include buffaloes, elephants, cheetahs, lions, baboons, zebras, and so many bird species. These do not migrate.
Overnight will be either at Seronera Campsite or Lobo Campsite (Depending on the time of the year.) All meals included.
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Day 4: Full Day Safari at Serengeti National Park
Wake up early and go for a game drive at dawn in the Serengeti Plains if it is in your interest.
Go back to the Campsite for breakfast.
Enjoy a full day of game drives to the plains with a lunchbox. Alternatively, you may take the breakfast then go for game drives. The choice is yours!
Overnight at Seronera Campsite/Lobo Campsite. All meals included.
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Day 5: Serengeti to Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, make your way back via the Naabi Gate and across the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Lake Manyara National Park with your Tanzanian safari guide.
Arrive at about noon and register at the Gate.
Enjoy your lunch boxes at the Picnic site at the Gate.
Go ahead with game drives inside this evergreen national park well known for its legendary tree-climbing lions. At the lake, expect to see the colourful flamingo flocks and many other aquatic species. The lake is also a hippos haven.
Drive out of the park and pitch tents at a public campsite in the Mto wa mbu area in the late afternoon. This is a small town at the Gate of Lake Manyara National Park.
If you fancy a dip in the swimming pool after 4 days in the African Sun, please request for a Campsite with the facility, e.g. Jambo Campsite.
All meals included.
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Day 5: Lake Manyara to Arusha
Enjoy breakfast at the Campsite.
Go for game drives at the Lake Manyara National Park until midday.
Drive back to Arusha town, where your camping safari in Tanzania ends. A Masai Village visit is also possible if you wish to get cultural.
What's Included
What's Excluded
Meeting Point
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
Adult | |
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1 to 5 | /person |
Child | |
1 to 5 | /person |
This is a private tour |