5 Days Wildlife Safari in Tanzania

5 Days / 4 Nights Safari

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12 Years Old

5 Days/4 Nights Tanzania Safari Experience

Overview

This unforgettable Tanzanian safari journey will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. The tour will further take you to the Serengeti National Park, into the heart of wild Africa, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. You will visit the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment

Itinerary

Day 1: From Arusha to Ngorongoro National Park

After breakfast drive to Tarangire National Park with picnic lunches for a day of game drive. This park is located 120km southwest of Arusha. In this astonishing park, expect to see substantial herds of Elephants gathering alongside the Tarangire River along with many others species of animals e.g. Wildebeest, Lions, Buffaloes, Zebras and prolific birds. In the evening drive to the lodge/campsite for overnight

Day 2: Tarangire to Serengeti

After breakfast drive to Serengeti National Park via Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority a designated the Unesco World Heritage. On the way you will stop at the Olduvai Gorge (optional) where anthropologists Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made significant discoveries contributing to the theory that human life originated in Africa. After stopping for your picnic lunch on a kopje (rock outcropping) in Serengeti you will continue further into the park game drive en route arriving in time for dinner and overnight at the choice of your accommodation.

Day 3: Game Drive

After breakfast you will have a full day game drive in the park where you expect to see lots of the animals. Serengeti`s Name comes from Maasai Language meaning endless plain. Therefore is home to many animals including Lions, Elephants, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Zebra, Leopard, Cheetah, warthogs, Hyena plus a lots and lots of bird life. In many cases migration is taking place around Serengeti and at that particular time millions of wildebeest and zebra are mingling together followed by predators. Dinner and Overnight at the accommodation of your choice

Day 4: Serengeti – Ngorongoro

After early breakfast set off for early morning game drive in the Serengeti. After lunch proceed to Ngorongoro game drive en route, arriving in time for dinner and overnight

Day 5 : Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha

After breakfast you will descend into the crater for a wonderful crater tour with a picnic lunch inside the Ngorongoro Crater often described as one of the wonders of the world a designated Unesco World Heritage; It is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and a natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s densest animal populations. It is one of the few places where the rare black rhino can be observed in their natural setting. As very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 ft. high walls, you can expect to see lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, many birds and other species. With a bit of luck the ‘Big Five’ can be spotted during one game drive only. Then late afternoon drive back to Arusha.