5 Days Group Safari
This is a well-planned tour, a surreal adventure through the best National Parks of Tanzania.it is a Safari to all of Northern Wildlife Sanctuaries. Home to Africa’s Big Five, Join a group of other adventure seekers and travel on your quest to see all of the Big Five animals.
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Departure/Return Location
Arusha, Tanzania -
Departure Time
Departure time at 7:30am -
Return Time
Approximately 17:50pm -
Dress Code
Casual, Comfortable easy to wash clothes. Stick to neutral or Khaki colors, avoid wearing dark blue or black clothes. Wide brimmed hats, sunglasses, sunscreen and insect repellant are necessary.
Tour Plan
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
After a short briefing in the morning, you will be taken to the Tarangire National Park. The park with its endless tree Savannah including the impressive baobab trees and seasonal marshes is also home to the largest elephant herds in northern Tanzania. In addition to elephants, you are also likely to spot giraffes, buffaloes, lions, zebras, gnus, and other types of antelopes and gazelles. Upon arrival at the park, your guide will open the roof of the vehicle and the extensive wildlife viewing will begin. Lunch will be taken at a picnic spot and in the afternoon you will get to see more of this amazing and beautiful park. In the late afternoon, you will arrive at the recommended accommodation outside of the park for your overnight stay and dinner.
Tarangire to Serengeti National Park
After breakfast you will depart towards the Rift Valley, passing through Mto Wa Mbu and Karatu, in the cooler regions of the crater highlands. You will enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and stop for a short look into the crater from a viewing point. Continuing your journey around the crater, you will descend the other side, enjoying your free “African massage” on the bumpy road, passing Masai villages on your way to the Serengeti National Park. At the Naabi Hill entrance gate you can walk to a viewpoint with spectacular views across the plains of the Serengeti Savannah. You will then continue towards the Seronera Area in the central part of the Serengeti. The park offers a multitude of wildlife including the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard. Later in the afternoon, you will arrive at the recommended campsite. Lunch will be enjoyed en-route.
Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
A morning game drive at Serengeti National Park, all three biggest cats are easily seen, lions are everywhere and are often found on a kill, cheetahs are very common in the Southeastern Plains, a leopard can often be found lazing in big trees along the Seronera River. Great heard of buffalo, small groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, and grants gazelle are resident of Serengeti by any time of the year, later after lunch, you will drive in the direction of Ngorongoro crater, As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater, you will have a remarkable view of this impressive natural wonder. Dinner and overnight stay at the recommended campsite.
Ngorongoro - Mto wa Mbu
After smelling early morning coffee all your senses will be involved and experiencing the thrill of kill to chill of a morning game drive, estimated 7000 wildebeest, 4000 zebras, 3000 elands, 3000 gazelles, 600 hyenas, 200-300 elephants, over 60 lions, 30 rhinos and many other, in all over 25000 wild creatures call the Ngorongoro Crater home. For friends of winged ones, look no further, within this caldera you will find 500 bird species, ostriches, Kory bastards, secretary bird, and more other. Visit from November to April and witness the Myriad migratory bird that takes up residence here, Indigenous tribes are permitted to live in a conservation area and local Masai graze their livestock in the crater floor in harmony with nearby heard of buffalo and wildebeest. Lunch will be enjoyed en-route, later after a game drive in Ngorongoro drive to Mto wa mbu for your overnight stay.
Lake Manyara - Arusha
Early morning following after breakfast drive to Lake Manyara National Park, the park has a variety of diverse habitats, rivers flowing off the escarpment, and perennial springs below the rift wall support tall, evergreen groundwater forests. Lake Manyara is known for a flock of thousands of flamingos that feed along the edge of the Lake in the wet season. Wildebeests exclusively graze the Alkaline grassland around the lake, and numbers are highest during the dry season, other common residents are zebra, waterbuck, grant’s gazelle, warthog, hippo, elephant, lion, leopard, African wildcat, hyena, jackal, bat-eared fox and other more. Lake Manyara hosts over 400 species of birds, it is a small park, a perfect place to rest and tranquility because it guarantees you relaxing ambiance to enjoy. Lunch will be enjoyed en-route at a chosen picnic site, later drive back to Arusha.