5-Day Group Safari to Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Lake Manyara
Your Safari Experience
Explore four of Tanzania’s most renowned national parks on a budget-friendly 5-day group safari. This itinerary is designed for travellers seeking extensive wildlife viewing, diverse landscapes, and excellent value. Highlights include Tarangire’s elephants and baobabs, the Serengeti plains, Ngorongoro Crater, and the forests of Lake Manyara.
Joined by a small group of like-minded travellers and guided by a certified safari expert, you’ll enjoy comfortable camping or lodge options, scenic game drives, and the chance to spot the Big Five. It’s the ideal safari for solo travellers, couples, and friends looking for an affordable yet immersive Tanzania experience.
Safari Highlight
Day 1: Tarangire National Park
You will be picked up at 8:00 am to meet your guide. The drive to Tarangire National Park takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. The park is known for its diverse scenery, ancient baobabs, and Tanzania’s largest elephant herds. Enjoy a game drive to spot cheetahs, lions, giraffes, and zebras.
Lunch will be served at the Tarangire picnic site, which offers excellent views of the river and surrounding wildlife. You may also see monkeys and birds nearby during your meal.
After lunch, you will continue the game drive, then exit the park and proceed to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 2: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will begin your journey to the Serengeti. The route includes a scenic game drive through the crater highlands along a long, occasionally bumpy road before reaching the Serengeti plains.
The drive usually takes four to five hours. If the weather permits, you’ll stop at the crater viewpoint past the Ngorongoro gate for a 10-minute break to view the Ngorongoro Crater before continuing to Serengeti.
You will have a hot lunch at the Serengeti Naabi Hill gate, then check in at the park for an afternoon game drive. In the evening, proceed to your campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 3: Serengeti - Ngorongoro Highlands
Start your day with an early morning game drive in the Serengeti to see as much wildlife as possible. Afterwards, return to camp for lunch. Then, at noon, begin your 2-3 hour journey to the Ngorongoro highlands.
Along the way in the Ngorongoro Highlands, enjoy breathtaking landscapes and abundant wildlife. In the evening, proceed to Simba Public Camp for a restful night and reflect on the day’s experiences.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater
You’ll begin your day at 6:00 am, entering the crater with a packed breakfast. The area is home to diverse East African wildlife, including the rare black rhino. The crater covers about 260 square kilometres with a diameter of approximately 20 kilometres, so you’ll spend five to six hours exploring.
After exploring, you’ll return to the campsite for a hot lunch, then head back to your accommodation in Mto wa Mbu.
Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, you will check out and depart with a packed lunch for an exciting game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. The lake takes up a large portion of the park, and as you enter, the forest begins just after crossing the park gate along the base of the Great Rift Valley, with the hot spring to the west. Explore the famous tree-climbing lions, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, and baboon troops found here. After admiring pink flamingos, ostriches, Egyptian geese, and other animals, you will enjoy a picnic lunch before heading on an afternoon game drive. Afterwards,proceed with the drive back to Arusha.
Included in the price
- Government park fees
- A professional Guide
- 4×4 Safari vehicle
- Mineral water
- Fresh cooked meals
- High quality binoculars
- Camping equipments (Sleeping bags, mattress & tent)
Included in the price
- Tips for the driver and cook
- All items of personal nature
- International and Domestic flights