5 Days Tanzania Serengeti Explorer Safari

Summary (5 Days Safari)

Tarangire - Serengeti - Lake Manyara

• Day
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  TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

  After breakfast in your Arusha Hotel depart for Tarangire National Park with packed lunch boxes for full day game drives. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes to a variety of colorful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance of quietly observing many families of elephants interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to view animals drinking water in the river (and many times lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest), continue game viewing and finally drive to Lodge or Tented Camp for dinner.

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  SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

  After breakfast you depart to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti mean ``endless plains`` in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson's gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds. You will spend two nights at Lodge or Tented Camp.

• Game DrivesDay
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  SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

  After breakfast you will go for morning game drives exploring more of Central Serengeti Central Region with fresh lunch in your Lodge or Tented Camp with afternoon game drives with overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

• Boat RideDay
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  SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK & NGORONGORO CRATER

  Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning game drive before breakfast, to spot the animals when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sun rise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return to the camp for late breakfast. You will then drive to Ngorongoro crater rim, the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you'll ever see in your life. On arrival in Ngorongoro you descend down to the crater floor with picnic lunch for afternoon of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing, you will drive up the steep road out of the crater and drive to Karatu for dinner and overnight at lodge or Tented Camp.

• Boat RideDay
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  LAKE MANYARA MTO WA MBU AND ARUSHA

  After early breakfast you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park with picnic lunch for half day of wildlife viewing. After a stop for a picnic lunch and more wildlife viewing, you will back to Arusha and you still have an option of doing a cultural tour at Mto Wa Mbu or do some walking as option to entering Lake Manyara National Park as the same rate will apply either game drives of cultural and walking tour or biking tour. In the afternoon you will drive back to Arusha and on arrival in Arusha you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International airport for your outbound flight to your next destination.