Good value Lake Manyara, Crater & Serengeti Safari.
From $1,230 / per person
Overview
This authentic short 4-day safari itinerary takes you straight into three of Tanzania’s pristine wildlife areas. Kick-off your trip in the Lake Manyara and look for the famous tree-climbing lions, then move to Ngorongoro and Serengeti for the most reliable big five game-viewing areas. These two wildlife areas offer the best lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo, and leopard sighting opportunities in the whole of Africa and front-row seats to the Wildebeest Migration from about December to June every year.
Tour Highlights
- Keep your eyes peeled for the prolific bird-life of Lake Manyara.
- Experience the incredible wildlife and landscape of Tanzania in Ngorongoro and Serengeti
- Discover Africa’s big five on safari in Tanzania
- Game drives in the company of some of the best guides
Included
- Safari according to the itinerary
- Transportation on a well maintained 4×4 safari Land cruiser
- UNLIMITED Game drives
- Well- trained, English-speaking guide
- All accommodation as per itinerary
- Meals according to the itinerary
- Unlimited Mineral water while of safari
- All National Park Fees
- Local flight from Seronera to Arusha.
Excluded
- International flights
- Airport taxes
- All meals and drinks not specified
- Tips and gratuities
- Items of a personal nature
- Travel insurance
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Day 1:
Arrival Kilimanjaro international airport
Welcome to Tanzania
On arrival at the Kilimanjaro international airport, meet enticing journeys representatives for the drive to River trees country inn, set in a charming country estate that was once an old coffee farm, and still retains the nostalgic air of a well-loved homestead, elegantly rustic cottages are dotted along the river and in thickets of tall trees, while lush lawns and birdsong make for a peaceful and picturesque setting. Here you will start to understand what is safari all about.
Main Destination: Arusha
Meals: Breakfast, lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: River Trees Country inn
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Day 2-3:
Arusha –Ngorongoro conservation area (Ndutu)
Two days exploring short grass plains
You leave River trees after breakfast with a picnic lunch packed safely away. The Rift Valley landscape drifts past as your guide heads for Ngorongoro conservation, the least visited reserve during the months of May-October, but one capable of delivering fantastic game viewing. Home to Tanzania’s biggest calving arena, when the mother wildebeest come to drop their babies in the month of end of January-February. Home to the great migration from the months of December-March, if you are here during those month you are sure to see the migration, but even when the migration is not around it offers one of the best big cats sighting lion, cheetah and leopard and if lucky the rare wild dogs. Tanzania only place where off- road driving is allowed, other residence sightings include giraffe, hippos, hyena, elephants bat- eared foxes in the Lake.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro conservation
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Ndutu safari lodge
Day 4-5:
Serengeti National Park.
Two days exploring the Namiri plains
Full day game drive in Serengeti National Park with packed lunch till late evening. Then drive back to your Camp for Dinner and overnight. Serengeti does not disappoint when it comes to rich game-viewing. Annually, from May to December, Millions of animals embark on a migration which brings them from central Serengeti to Kenya’s Maasai Mara and back again in an incredible spectacle. Even during the ‘down-time’, vast herds of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle roam here, along with groups of elephant, giraffe, and buffalo. As the lions, leopard, cheetah, hyenas and jackals stalk there. Dinner and overnight at Mawe tented camp. Set in the Namira plains Swahili word for big cats you are sure of big time.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Mawe tented camp
Day 6-7:
Serengeti –Ngorongoro conservation Area.
One Day exploring the Ngorongoro crater
Leave Serengeti behind after a half day of game viewing and head to the Ngorongoro conservation area, the next day descend to the crater for a day of game viewing, ranked as one of the most spectacular wildlife destinations on Earth, this long-extinct volcano is the world’s largest intact caldera. Sheltering within its steep-sided walls are diverse habitats, including alkaline lake, swamps, marshes, rivers which support astonishing numbers of animals. Ngorongoro has long protected a thriving population of big game species: great-tusked elephants, black rhinos and famous black-mane lions. With a density of game rarely seen anywhere in Africa, combined with breathtaking scenery, the magic of Ngorongoro is evident long before you reach the crater floor. This is one of the few places in Africa where the Big 5 can be seen in a single game drive, and there is much more to observe. Herds of gazelle, wildebeest and zebra are resident here while smaller predators like caracal and serval cats are often seen along with lions and their eternal enemies, spotted hyena. The forests and marshes are the domain of elephants but the crater’s wetlands belong to hippos and thousands of flamingos.
After a full day of adventuring and a delicious picnic lunch on the crater plains, leave the crater and drive back to Arusha.
Main destination: Ngorongoro crater
Meal plain: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Rhino lodge
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