5 Days Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara Group Joining Safari

After breakfast you will drive to the Serengeti National Park, enjoying the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area along the way. Leaving the highlands behind, you will enter into the heart of wild Africa, the Serengeti National Park with its endless plains rolling into the distance, as far as the eye can see. You will head to the central area of the park, known as the Seronera, one of the richest wildlife habitats. In this part of the park you will visit the Seronera River which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti's species. You will arrive in time for lunch and afterwards, enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park. Later in the day you will have dinner and your overnight stay in the Seronera Camp [nguchiro camp site].

Today you will wake up early, have a cup of coffee and take off for a sunrise morning game until the late morning. You will then return to the campsite for brunch. After your meal you will check out and take off on an exciting game drive in the Serengeti later driving to the Ngorongoro Crater. You will check in and enjoy dinner and your overnight stay at the Ngorongoro Simba Campsite.

After breakfast you will drive to the crater for the crater tour. Your expert guide will take you in search of big game. The animals allow you to get up close for great photos. This is one of Tanzania’s top parks for wildlife numbers. You are likely to see most of the “Big Five”, with lion, buffalo and elephant being almost certain, rhino relatively likely, and leopard a little more elusive. You are also likely to see great numbers of zebra and wildebeest, as well as spotted hyena. Later in the day you will ascend back up the crater and head to lilac camp site for dinner and your overnight stay.

After breakfast you will check out and take off for an exciting game drive in Lake Manyara National Park with a packed lunch. The Lake occupies a large area of the park, the forest starts just when you cross the park gate along the base of the Great Rift Valley with the hot spring to the west of the park. The park is home to the famous tree-climbing lion, buffalo, giraffe, hippo and troops of baboon. You will also see the majestic pink flamingo, ostrich, Egyptian geese and more. After your picnic lunch you will take part in an afternoon game drives; later driving to a Maasai Village to experience the different activities and cultures of the Maasai people. In the evening you will drive back to Arusha for dinner and your overnight stay. This is where your safari will end.