5 Day Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater Safari: Encounter Elephants in Tanzania's Top Parks
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Embark on a 5-day safari in Tanzania's top national parks, including Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Olduvai Gorge, and Ngorongoro Crater. Witness the Great Migration and capture stunning wildlife photos.
Duration: 5 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Tarangire National Park - The drive from Moshi to Tarangire National Park takes about three hours. This park is spectacular in the dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of the Tarangire River. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, elands, and Oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rain when they migrate again to good grazing areas. Overnight at the Highview Hotel.

What's Included
  • 24-Hour support during the safari
  • All park and entrance fees included
  • Daily game drives in a custom 4x4 Safari Land Cruiser
  • Professional English-speaking driver/guide
  • Bottled water on board
  • Full board accommodation
  • Ngorongoro Crater car supplement fee covered
  • Transportation with 4x4 vehicles featuring viewing roofs
  • Current Government taxes and levies paid
What's Not Included
  • Internal or International flights
  • Transfers to and from the airport
  • Balloon excursion (US$600 pp)
  • Entry visa to Tanzania.
  • Travel and health insurance
  • Gratuities to your guide, hotel staff, and porters
  • Meals, drinks, and excursions not described in the itinerary
  • Any other items of a personal nature, laundry, telephone and postage
Additional Information

Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Olduvai Gorge and Ngorongoro Crater are the most popular National Parks in Northern Tanzania. In this 5 days safari, you will get to know them all, With the Best of Tanzania Safari travel in custom designed 4x4 safari vehicles with open roofs for game viewing. This is a small group seat-in-vehicle safari with a maximum of 6 travelers per vehicle, all with window seats. Take this opportunity to witness the amazing event that wildlife enthusiasts and photographers around the world dream about. Join this safari to photograph the millions of wildebeests and zebras that make up the annual \’Great Migration\’ that creates an extraordinary spectacle of life, birth and death as nature plays out this series of awe inspiring events. One of the best times to view this incredible spectacle is during February and March each year when the calving season reaches its peak.

  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Jcab2023
May 31, 2024
Awesome trip with Zara - AWESOME EXPERIENCE. SARAH TOURS WAS PHENOMENAL! OUR GUIDES WERE HIGHLY KNOWLEDGEABLE SUPER FRIENDLY AND THE FOOD WAS EXCELLENT!
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Jeanettebq8731iu
Feb 29, 2024
Seeing animals in their right surroundings! - Just returned after 12 days of vacation, in paradise. Would never have been without this amazing holiday. Our guide and skilled driver, VINCENT who had a huge knowledge of all the animals and did everything to make sure we got to see so much. Thank you from the heart. Jeanette
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0pascaler
Jan 16, 2024
Amazing safari very good service great driver and very good French speaking guide - The magnificent landscape we saw the big fives and the chance to see the cheetah and its cubs it was incredible everything was perfect from the meal for the day until the transfer for departure from Arusha to Zanzibar
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Dadamsd2017
Oct 26, 2023
Absolutely the best a safari can be. - Zara Safaris was incredible Peter our eagle-eyed guide was knowledgable, humerous and professional. He went above and beyond to make sure we saw all the animals Serengeti had to offer, but also made the effort to ensure we got the best angles for our photo's too. We had so much fun laughing and learning and experienced nature at its finest. The staff in all three hotels were kind and helpful, and the food was great. We had comfortable beds and good showers. We can't thank Mama Zara, Benito our activity coordinator and Peter our guide enough for a trip of a lifetime. Highly recommend to go with Zara if you want to get the best possible experience for your safari.
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Yordan_boris
Oct 14, 2023
Great Unforgettable Adventure - We had an amazing experience and I highly recommend Zara Tours for the outstanding time. We were lucky to have guide Munsa with us, he is highly experienced and has a great sense of humor. He knew the expansive Serengeti very well, thus the game drives with him were very productive. We found many interesting sights and enjoyed great picnics. I have to commend their choice of accommodations, we stayed in Ngorongoro Wild Camp, Serengeti Wild Camp, Serengeti Wildebeest Camp. They were all quite luxurious and had top quality service. I highly recommend Zara Tours, they try very hard to make their guests happy.
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Wgoosetraveler
Jul 29, 2023
Awesome Family Adventure - What's not to love about the recent trip with Zara Tours. Our guide Mansoul made the trip incredibly awesome with his top guiding skills and likeable nature. We got to see all the animals in our wishlist including our first experience of the wildebbeest migration in Serengeti. The accommodations were really good. We loved the service, food and comfortable rooms. It was sad for my boys to say goodbye to Mansoul after the awesome adventure.
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Aberic0g
May 17, 2023
Fantastic Serengeti Safari - Highly enjoyable trip perfectly organized by Zara Tours. Brighton the guide was incredible finding animals where we would not have, had we been on our own. He was always punctual with spacious 4x4 jeep cleaned and a fully stocked fridge. It was fun moving from one wildlife scene to the next with him sharing his vast knowledge from past experiences. We were happy with the tented camps in the parks. They were excellent. Kudos everyone
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Devinbj1263nj
Apr 28, 2023
A Great Trip - This trip was phenomenal. Our guide Agostino worked tirelessly to make sure that we saw all the animals that were on our wish-list. All the facets of the trip were perfectly sequenced so that we had a very fulfilling trip. The hot air balloon ride was a great inclusion because Serengeti is so beautiful from above. I have to mention that accommodations were perfect. A big thank you to the whole team at Zara involved in making the trip tremendously successful.
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Negrucait
Feb 26, 2022
Awesome Trip Once Again - This was our second time with Zara Tours and it was perfect. Everything went seamlessly. From communication with reservations, payments, pick-up at the airport and the actual tour was seamless. We were very lucky that the company managed to get us guide Tarimo again. It was great to see him again . His effusive charm, vast knowledge and great driving skills impressive made the trip very special. At Lake Manyara we were lucky to see tree climbing lions and had an awesome time at Olduvai Museum. Zara organizes the best accoms and I better review them on their pages
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Martin
Aug 21, 2022
Fantastic Overall - Overall Zara was fantastic. Our Guide Willie was the best. He made us feel safe, secure and truly wanted us to have the best experience possible and he went out of his way to do so. Our only real issue was housing. We opted for the mid-level package and was ok with it for the most part. However, during our 8 day Serengeti tour we for some unknown reason were moved from our decent camp site to another one after just one night. The site we were told was equal, however, it was not at all. Physically similar but not near as together. Staff, food, and accommodation's were at much lower lever and no electric in the evening at all. I sleep with a Cpap machine and need that very much. So after a very bad night we are then moved to I assume a Luxury level to make up for it for one night. That was nice but would have rather just stayed where we originally were booked. So overall Zara was a great company to use. On another note: We booked 5 days in Uganda through Zara, but they subcontract out to another company which I understand. However, when thing went wrong there it was impossible to get Zara to help and we had no idea who to contact with the actual Ugandan tour group. We finally figured it out but that was strange. That trip as well went great with a fantast guide. However, they messed up the accommodations booking for the Gorilla trek to a mid level site that had no Idea we were arriving and was not prepared to have guests, it seemed closed. No electric and no war water to shower anywhere. We ourselves chose to leave the next day and find our own place to stay for the final night. That worked out great. We got 4 star place for under $90 including excellent food for dinner and breakfast included. Once again we did have a great time. I just suggest that if you have to use two different companies booked the yourself individually. Had the accommodations not got messed up twice this would be a 5 star review.
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