5 Days Best of Tanzania Safari

After breakfast you will be picked up from your hotel and then depart for Lake Manyara National park arriving in time for lunch at the lodge. Explore the park in the afternoon, the main attractions here are the tree climbing lions. The park is small in size but the terrain is diverse. The vegetation comprises groundwater, forest, open grassland, swamp and acacia woodland with giant mahogany and fig trees. The park is home to a wide variety of mammals and birds. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

On this day you will have early breakfast as early as 0630am, then depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area, on arrival you will check in the crater and the whole day will be spent down the crater. You will do a full day crater tour with picnic lunch. The crater is a home to all the big five and hence the same may be seen. Hippos, cheetah, antelopes and the spotted hyena abound as well as flamingos in the crater lakes. In the evening ascend steep and narrow crater walls for dinner and overnight at the Lodge..

After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro conservation area for Serengeti National park via the pre – historic site at Olduvai Gorge, which was discovered by the famous archeologist Dr. L.S.B Leakey. The park covers 12,944 square km of open plains making it one of the largest in the world. The rocky out-crops referred to as Skopje in the eastern part of the park are of scenic beauty and occasionally various cats can be seen lazing on them. The park contains very vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and other antelopes. After your game drive you will retire for the night at the Lodge.

Morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge in the mid afternoon. The term “Serengeti” means endless plains in the Maasai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like lion, leopard, hyena and cheetah. This park is normally the scene of the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra, which occurs between the Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara. Variety of bird species can be seen in this park. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

After breakfast, have the final game drive as you check out the park, then drive back to Arusha arriving for lunch. You will be dropped at the airport or hotel as per your choice.