5 Days Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire & Manyara Lodge Tour

This tour, which guides you through the northern circuit, is among the most popular in the area. Travelers can look forward to encountering wildlife while enjoying comfortable accommodations.

Duration: 5 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Arusha to Tarangire National Park

Points of Interest

  • Tarangire National Park

  • Ngorongoro Crater

  • Seronera

  • Lake Manyara

What's Included
  • Use of binoculars
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Breakfast
  • All fees and/or taxes
  • Camping equipment
What's Not Included
  • On-board restrooms
Location
Tarangire National Park
Babati, tanzania
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Venture52847699203
Jul 30, 2024
Amazing Safari with Safari Soles - Our safari with Safari Soles was amazing! Innocent, our guide, was fantastic—so knowledgeable and friendly. We saw a cheetah eating a gazelle, which was incredible. We also spotted beautiful leopards and over 30 lions, including two adorable cubs. Innocent's skill in finding wildlife and sharing information made the trip unforgettable. Highly recommend Safari Soles for an incredible Tanzanian safari!
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Seve
Jul 5, 2024
Excellent service with amazing drivers! - This was one of the best experiences of our lives and thanks to our guide and driver Simon we managed to see a lot of animals and experience the nomadic culture of the Maasai. Safari Sole tours was excellent in terms of quality of service and attention to details. The choices of the lodge were a mix of luxury and budget friendly lodges but always prioritising sleep comfort which is very important during a Safari tour. Thank you for making our trip one of the best trips of our lives!
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Kirstenp856
Jun 25, 2024
Amazing safari ! - Absolutely amazing safari with Safari soles tours and with our guide a friend Innocent who we now call The Simba specialist! We managed to see 54 lions, the big 5 and also the ugly 5! His knowledge and experience was outstanding and showed us all sorts of wildlife including birds reptiles and also had a great knowledge of the trees and plants. The lodges were stunning and had everything we need including spectacular views. Would highly recommend Safari sole tours and thank you again to Innocent for providing us with an amazing once in a lifetime safari.
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Go625091
Jun 22, 2024
Wildlife Abounds: Great Team for an Incredible Safari - We had an incredible five day Safari with Safari Soles. We flew into the Serengeti and spent three days there, then one day at Ngorongoro, and one day at Tarangire National parks. I loved seeing all three parks with different terrain and animal highlights. I especially loved Tarangire for the Elephants! and Serengeti for the wide open plains and variety of animals. I recommend flying one direction if you can, it cuts way down on driving, which means more time for animal viewing! Our guide, Abdul, was incredible. He had a calm, friendly demeanor and was highly knowledgeable about all the animals in the parks (and even brought along bird & fauna books to share and look up details). He knew the parks really well and was a great driver, which meant that he was able to bring us all over the parks and spot LOTS of animals. We saw the big 5 plus so many more amazing animals. Laurent helped coordinate our tour. He was friendly, prompt, and patient with communication and very open to adapting the trip to our specifications. While we were in Arusha we had two drivers Frank & Eric who were both really awesome. Overall, I highly recommend this whole team. Finally, the lodging that Safari Soles chose was incredible. We were on a mid-range tour, but if felt like a luxury tour to us. I highly recommend the Embalakai Tented Camps.
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Daydream65484388842
Mar 11, 2024
We got an unforgettable experience with Safari Soles! 100% recommend! - This was an amazing and once in a life time experience for us with Safari Tours, more than what we have imagined and expected. We enjoyed very much the tour, the accommodation and even the food! Innocent is definitely the best guide, considerate, patient and knowledgeable! We’re impressed by what he showed us, taught us about the nature, the wildlife and the culture. He can always spot far away animals and his good driving made our trip smooth and unforgettable. Boniface who helped us arrange this 5-day Safari always put our satisfaction as priority. This trip was fully customized and everything exceeded our expectations. The transition drivers are all very friendly and considerate, always flexible to accommodate our needs. We enjoyed Moshi town and the hot springs as well 😄 We would never forget the safari experience with Safari Soles. 100% recommend!
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Passenger25819731778
Feb 27, 2024
Wonderful - Hello, great safari with Safarisoles and our great French-speaking guide Jonathan safari 6 days in Tanzania, Serengeti environments and south, Tarangire, and the Ungoro crater, followed by relaxation in Zanzibar at the Pearl boutique and villas, everything was put together wonderfully, travel agency great experience, I am a photographer our guide was patient and always placed himself at the right angle to take the hat image.
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Nivesp2016
Jan 22, 2024
Amazing first time safari - This wIt was our first safari ever. We booked it as a 5-day family trip for the New Year holidays. Our experience with Safari Soles was very positive from the first contact to the moment we said goodbye at the airport in Arusha, or when the boys dropped us off at our hotel in Zanzibar. Our guide Jonathan was wonderful. He knows the parks and the animals that live in them very well. From the moment we left the airport in the North Serengeti to the end we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We enjoyed seeing the animals roaming freely in their natural environment without restrictions. Lions, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, giraffes, zebras, ostriches, various birds, impalas...they were just a few meters away from us...crazy beautiful. We even saw live how a cheetah caught an imapala...crazy. The accommodations were also well chosen and very nice (we took the Luxury package).as our first safari ever and we
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Trail659393
Oct 20, 2023
7 day Safari in Tanzania - We did a 7 day Safari that included Tarangire, Serengeti x 3, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara. It was a lifetime experience. Everything was AMAZING. First and most important I want to thank Elias, our driver and guide. He was awesome in every sense. Warm, funny, educational and very experienced. He made our Safari unforgettable! The hotels and lodges were great, the food delicious and the staff was helpful and friendly. The parks are very well prepared with nice picnic sites and clean washrooms. 100% recommended.
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Getaway606378
Oct 14, 2023
AMAZING Adventure with Top Notch Guides - We just returned from a multi-day safari trip to Tanzania. Safari Soles was an amazing company to work with throughout the entire experience. Communication was exceptional while preparing for the trip. Upon arrival, each day was carefully planned and communicated to us. The accommodations and meals are off the charts at a very reasonable price. Happiness George built a custom itinerary that met our travel plans perfectly. Our guides Jonathan and Baltazar were exceptional. They were knowledgeable, personable, and super fun to tour with. Perhaps most importantly they know the areas and all of the people in the national parks, villages, and towns you will encounter. When you run into a bump in the road and a flat tire - and you will because everyone does, these guys have the connections and know how to get you back on the road and on schedule. I give Safari Soles my highest recommendation. They made our trip of a lifetime truly fun, educational, safe, and easy.
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H0l1daytime
Oct 26, 2023
An incredible safari! - We visited Tanzania in October 2023 as a group of 2 couples, and had a private safari arranged and conducted by Safari Soles. From the initial point of contact last year Bryson was very responsive to our emails and WhatsApps and tailored a safari with an itinerary, accommodations and budget that suited us. We paid a deposit by bank transfer, receipt of which was promptly confirmed. Unfortunately, we didn't hear a great deal from Bryson from that point onwards - all contact was initiated by us such as to confirm arrangements to be collected from the airport on arrival and to pay our balance. Bryson did promptly respond but I feel these things should have been confirmed prior to our trip and unprompted rather than being chased a couple of days before departure. Safari Soles arranged for one of their drivers, Chief, to collect us from Kilimanjaro airport and he was waiting for us on arrival. During the drive to Arusha where we were spending our first 2 nights Chief advised us that we weren't going to the hotel we had agreed upon and instead took us to Arusha Farmhouse. This was further out of town and much smaller than the hotel we'd expected but was brand new with great facilities and fabulous staff although the food needs some drastic improvement. Chief contacted us the next morning to offer us a complimentary city tour but as we had only arrived in the early hours, we weren't up for a full day tour. Instead, we arranged for him to collect us, take us to the Safari Soles office to pay our balance and to a few places we wanted to see. On arrival at the office Bryson wasn't around, we paid our balance and were then told that the guide we had pre-requested and who Bryson had agreed to wouldn't be taking us on safari. Not a huge deal but this combined with the last-minute change of accommodation without prior communication left us feeling disappointed and with little confidence that the rest of the trip would go according to plan. Chief then took us shopping and to change some money, to the Tanzanite Experience and at our request joined us for lunch. He is such a character and we never stopped laughing, we thoroughly enjoyed our time with him. We spent the rest of the day relaxing at the Farmhouse and after a disappointing dinner got some rest prior to embarking on our safari bright and early the next morning. After breakfast our guide Estomih arrived promptly in a well-equipped jeep and we were soon on our way. Our first day was spent in Tarangire, where we saw leopards, countless lions, cheetahs and cubs and had the most incredible experience with elephants eating all around our jeep. It was amazing and so peaceful being at such close proximity to these incredible animals and was one of the highlights of my trip. We then headed to Farm of Dreams where we spent the first 2 nights (this had been a change of itinerary requested by Bryson prior to departing as the accommodation we had requested wasn’t available in the order we would have liked). The accommodation was really nice, well-equipped, super staff and really nice food. It was my husband’s birthday and the cake and singing and dancing put on by the staff was fabulous, the chef was hilarious. Our next day was a full day at Lake Manyara – we initially request half a day here but due to the change in itinerary were allocated a full day and I wouldn’t repeat the experience, it was our least favourite park and truthfully felt like a long, wasted day. The next day we headed to the Serengeti where we spent 2 days and nights, touring Northern and Central Serengeti. We enjoyed every second, we saw so many cats, we had an incredible cheetah experience when she brought her kill to the shade of our jeep to enjoy her lunch. And we were treated to a viewing of a black rhino at the end of second day, as my favourite animal and being so endangered and shy it was unexpected and truly was the icing on the cake. Our accommodation here was Embalakai Authentic Camp and it was incredible, really nice tents with great amenities, it was much higher end than we expected and the staff, food and setting were awesome. It was an adrenaline fuelled experience lying in your (super-comfy) bed in your tent at night and hearing lions, hyena, hippos and who knows what else all around you. We absolutely loved it there and wouldn’t hesitate to return. Our last day was disappointingly rushed – our guide wasn’t aware this was the day we were catching our departing flight to Zanzibar after spending time in the Ngorongoro Crater (this was meant to be on day 2 but shuffled around due to the itinerary change). We tried to get a later onward flight to no avail and our wonderful guide started the day super early with both breakfast and lunch on the go so that we could get as much time as possible at the crater but it was nothing short of a whistlestop tour. It was beautiful there and we would so have loved to have spent more time enjoying the incredible wildlife and landscapes but sadly we couldn’t this time. Bryson met us at the airport to apologise for the mix up and kindly offered us a discount on a future trip should we go back – we would love to and hope to take him up on the offer. My constructive criticism would be to really improve on communication. And to ensure that any changes such as accommodation are communicated and agreed upon in advance. And last but my no means least – our wonderful guide Estomih whose knowledge of his country and its wildlife was staggering, we loved learning from him and spending time with him, he found everything on our wish list for us and so much more (even if only Estomih saw the serval cat!) The lion and cheetah cubs, the cheetah and it’s kill, the elephants and their rumbling, sooooo many lions and of course the rhino. And not forgetting the monkeys for Simon! So many laughs and wonderful memories, from the bottom of our hearts, Asante Sana Estomih, Twende!!!
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