5-Day Best Camping Manyara Serengeti Ngorongoro Safari
This 5-day camping safari allows you to experience the highlights of the Northern safari circuit. You will experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of some of the most diverse landscapes; monkeys in the forest, lions in trees, elephants amongst acacias, and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. You will also visit Serengeti National Park, which is home to 3 million animals. These spectacular grass plains offer the best opportunity of viewing cheetahs, leopards, and lions.
Our representative will pick you up from the airport and drive you to your accommodation in Arusha. Depending on your arrival time, you will have time to relax and prepare for the adventure of a lifetime.
Busy Arusha is an essential part of safari life here in northern Tanzania, and most travelers pass through at some stage.
- Main Destination: Arusha (City)
In the morning you will be picked up from your accommodation in Arusha by your personal safari guide. The drive to Lake Manyara National Park is on a good tarmac road, across the gently rolling Masai plains with scattered acacia trees. En route, you will pass many Maasai's in their colourful dresses walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding their cattle and driving donkey carts.
The park’s namesake is a shallow, salt lake. It covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons and is home to thousands of flamingos and over 500 other bird species. On your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffalo, elephants and with some luck, lions lounging in the trees. After an extensive game drive, having experienced the various sights and sounds of the wilderness, you will leave the park and head to a nearby campsite, where you will enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, we'll set off for the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the great migration. The views are spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, spread out before you, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti means 'endless plains' in Maa, the Maasai tongue. This 6,900sq mile (18,000sq km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than 1.5 million wildebeests and 250,000 zebras, as well as both gazelles and impalas. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, leopards and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrates through the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyraxes, bat-eared foxes, mongooses, honey badgers, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds.
After your extensive game drive, you will arrive at your campsite and enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast, we'll head out for another game drive on the Serengeti National Park. We may be afforded the opportunity to spot the “Big Five”—lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard—before embarking on our journey to the Ngorongoro Crater. The animals roam freely through the unfenced reserves offering us an uninterrupted game-viewing experience. Arriving at the edge of the crater, we'll have our first glimpse of what awaits us the following day—glistening streams, open grassland and a myriad number of animals. We'll spend the night at Simba Campsite, directly on the crater’s edge with the orange glow of sunset surrounding us as we drift off to sleep.
- Main Destination: Ngorongoro Highlands
Very early in the morning, after a quick stop at the viewing point high up on the caldera's edge, giving a birds-eye view of this teeming land of beauty, we'll descend down onto the crater floor. Enjoy a full day of wildlife viewing in one of the seven wonders of Africa and one of the most incredible places on Earth. The caldera, formed with the massive explosion of a volcano three million years ago, is home to 25,000 ungulates and makes a paradisiacal roaming ground for the Big Five along with over 500 species of bird. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, we'll drive up the steep road out of the crater, passing through different climatological zones. We'll then return to Arusha.
- Main Destination: Arusha (City)
- All airport transfers in private car
- Transport & Gamedrives in modified 4WD Land Cruiser
- Proffesional safari guide
- Meals and accommodation as per itinerary
- All wildlife reserve entry fees
- All accommodation as notes in tour program
- International airfare & flights
- All items of a personal nature
- Gratuities for safari guide and camp staff
- Travel insurance Visa and Passport fees
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and beverages in lodge