Discover Tanzania’s wildlife in 5 days: Tarangire’s elephants, Serengeti’s big cats, and Ngorongoro’s black mane lions. Experience Maasai culture too.
Discover Tanzania’s wildlife in 5 days: Tarangire’s elephants, Serengeti’s big cats, and Ngorongoro’s black mane lions. Experience Maasai culture too.
Arusha-Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park - In the morning, you’ll be picked up at 07:30 am from your hotel. After a brief orientation, you’ll head to Tarangire National Park. This park, with its vast tree savannah, impressive baobab trees, and seasonal marshes, is home to the largest elephant herds in northern Tanzania. Besides…
Arusha-Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park - In the morning, you’ll be picked up at 07:30 am from your hotel. After a brief orientation, you’ll head to Tarangire National Park. This park, with its vast tree savannah, impressive baobab trees, and seasonal marshes, is home to the largest elephant herds in northern Tanzania. Besides elephants, you may also see giraffes, buffaloes, lions, zebras, gnus, and various antelopes and gazelles. Upon arrival, your driver will open the vehicle’s roof for extensive wildlife viewing. Lunch will be at a picnic spot, and in the afternoon, you’ll explore more of this stunning park until late afternoon.
On clear days, the lodge offers spectacular sunrise and sunset views from the restaurant deck, and in the morning, you can enjoy good views of Kilimanjaro.
Activity: Game viewing
Tarangire Area-Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park - After breakfast, you’ll head towards the Rift Valley, passing through Mto Wa Mbu and Karatu in the cooler regions of the crater highlands. You’ll enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and stop briefly to view the crater from a platform, passing Maasai villages en route to Serengeti National Park. At the Naabi Hill entrance gate, you can walk to a viewpoint with spectacular views across the Serengeti plains. You’ll then continue to the Seronera Area in central Serengeti. The park is teeming with wildlife, including lions, elephants, buffaloes, and leopards. The next day will be spent exploring the area’s rich habitat, searching for more big cats.
Activities: Game viewing
Serengeti Full Day Game Drive
Serengeti National Park - On this day, you’ll have a full-day game drive tracking the large prides of lions that dominate the plains. We recommend starting at 6:00 am, as it’s the best time to see active cats. You’ll search for lions, cheetahs, and leopards, stop for breakfast, and continue your drive. In the late afternoon, you’ll explore the riverine areas for hippos, elephants, baboons, and water birds. From December to May, you might witness the great wildebeest migration.
Serengeti-Ngorongoro
Ngorongoro Crater - After breakfast at the camp, enjoy a morning game drive in Serengeti, followed by a picnic lunch under the acacia trees in the endless plains. In the afternoon, you’ll proceed to Ngorongoro.
Note: From December to March, you’ll spend the day in Ndutu, where the migration occurs, offering excellent sightings of big cats. It’s the only area where off-road driving is allowed, making it a photographer’s paradise.
Activities: Game viewing
Ngorongoro Crater-Arusha
Ngorongoro Crater - After an early breakfast, descend into the 19 km diameter caldera for a day of exploration. This World Heritage site is home to over 25,000 large mammals, including predators like lions, spotted hyenas, and jackals. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the Ngoitokitoki spring with hippos in the background.
Note: The crater is one of the best places to see the endangered black rhino. It features diverse habitats, including open plains, marsh areas, forests, rocky outcrops, swamps, salt pans, underground springs, streams, rivers, and a lake, all offering excellent animal and bird sightings. Around 2:00 pm, you’ll ascend from the crater and drive back to Arusha.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
Prime location for incredible wildlife observation.
Start off in Tarangire and survey the region’s lavish environment that hosts herds of elephants and the seasonal transit of wildebeest and zebras during the period of (June- October)
Unearth the majestic views of large predatory feline species in Serengeti, along with the region’s captivating…
Prime location for incredible wildlife observation.
Start off in Tarangire and survey the region’s lavish environment that hosts herds of elephants and the seasonal transit of wildebeest and zebras during the period of (June- October)
Unearth the majestic views of large predatory feline species in Serengeti, along with the region’s captivating expanses.
A trip to a Maasai village is set for you to immerse in their local traditions, followed by a day in the crater for wildlife spotting and an opportunity to view the black maned lions.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.