6-day Northern Best Big Five Safari in Tanzania

Family-style Safari

This package will allow you to experience an everlasting safari visiting Lake Manyara National Park which is famous for it’s tree climbing lions and a abundance amount of beautiful birds. The next destination is Ngorongoro Crater which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Last but not least the endless plains of Serengeti National Park, which is well known for it’s wildebeest migration. 

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Duration

This tour is 6 days excluding eventual pre and after tour stay.

places / areas

Tour is entirely operated in Tanzania including Serengeti, lake Manyara.

min/max people

This tour require minimum 4 people booking and maximum 12 people.

age / conditions

All ages are welcomed .

Highlighted features on this tour

 
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Tarangire NP

Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania's Manyara Region. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season

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Serengeti NP

You have now entered one of the worlds most popular wild life spotting area! Here you have a huge amount of grass eating mamals along with great chances of spotting rare predators as chetahs, leopards etc. You are guaranteed to see Zebras, Elephants, Giraffes, Wilderbeasts, Lions etc.

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Ngorongoro NP

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area covers 8,292 square kilometers. Approximately 25,000 large animals, mostly ungulates, live in the crater. Now classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ngorongoro Crater was formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed around 3 million years ago.

 

Itinerary for this 6 day tour

 

Day 1 Arival Arusha

Arrive in Kilimanjaro International Airport, Arusha Airport from where our driver guide will transfer you to Arusha City. Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, Arusha has a temperate climate.

The city is close to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. Arusha City is a major international diplomatic hub. You will be given a briefing about your Wildlife & Wilderness Safari. Overnight at Planet Lodge.

Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire Park

After breakfast Depart with your naturalist guide for Tarangire, Tanzania’s third-largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them.

Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah, and up to six thousand elephants. Later evening drive to your lodge for Dinner and Overnight at Maramboi Tented Camp.

Day 3: Tarangire National Park - Serengeti National Park

After breakfast drive from Tarangire to Serengeti National Park, picnic lunch served en route. Many different landscapes can be found in the Serengeti: Savannah with the big plains to the south, hills & woods to the west, the Kopjes area to the east, and bushland to the north. Important rivers also run through the park. Many different species of mammals can be spotted during game drives, elephant, buffalo, giraffes, antelopes, hippo, and crocodile can also be found. Dinner and overnight Serengeti 

Kubu Kubu Tented Camp 

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

After breakfast morning and evening game drives through the Serengeti plains. Serengeti is perhaps the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world. These vast, seemingly unending plains are inhabited during the migration by enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah, impala, buffalo, birds and up to ten thousand elephants. Overnight at Serengeti KUBU KUBU TENTED CAMP 

  

Day 5: Serengeti National Park - Karatu Via Ngorongoro

After breakfast Proceed to Ngorongoro Conservation area, descend into the 100-square-mile Ngorongoro Crater to view game on the vast grasslands of the crater floor. The bottom of the crater dotted with watering-holes, shelters almost 30 000 animals in an area naturally enclosed by the slopes of the volcano. You will find the Big Five lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, leopard among others.

Ngorongoro crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world and surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 meters from the floor, it is considered to be one of the Wonders of the Natural World and is a veritable haven for wildlife. Spectacular animal life can be found throughout the year due to the permanent availability of grass and water. After picnic lunch drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight at Farm Dream Lodge 

 

Day 6: Ngrongoro Highland at Karatu – Arusha

After breakfast at the lodge, drive to Mto wa Mbu for cultural visit to the local women and learn how they do their daily activities including farming, small women financing groups, you will have local lunch with the local women to taste the local African food and proceed to Arusha Airport for your onwards flight.

 

included in this tour

Shorter days by flying to national parks and other destinations
Longer game drives
Hot Air balloon experiance ( Serengeti )

Selection of wines and beers
5 star lodges and tented camps
5 star meals

not included in this tour

International or Domestic flights before/after safari
Additional nights of accommodation
Travel insurance

Tip to drivers or park rangers

 

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