5 Days Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Safari

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1Lake Manyara⌄

   The drive from the Springlands Hotel to Lake Manyara National Park takes about 4 hours. After having a picnic lunch in Manyara, you start a late afternoon game drive, which is the best time to view animals in this park. When you approach it from the east, the Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming an impressive backdrop to the lake. In the tall trees of the ground water forest, monkeys leap from branch to branch, and on the escarpment, elephants stand in the shade. Other animals frequently seen are zebras, impalas, monkeys, giraffes, buffalos, hippos, and others

   Meals: Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Highview hotel or similar

2. 2Serengeti⌄

   The drive to Serengeti National Park. Then in the late evening

   Meals: Breakfast · Dinner · Lunch

   Overnight: Serengeti Wildcamp or similar

3. 3Serengeti⌄

   After breakfast, venture into the Serengeti’s wilderness corners for a full day of game viewing in the park. With a picnic lunch beside you, take your leisure while exploring this world heritage site, where earth’s largest concentration of plain game still roams free! In the late evening

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Serengeti Wildcamp or similar

4. 4Ngorongoro Crater⌄

   After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive inside the crater. This is the best place in Tanzania to see black rhino as well as prides of lion that include the magnificent black-manned males. There are lots of colorful flamingoes and a variety of water birds. Other game that you can see includes leopard, cheetah, hyena, other members of the antelope family, and small mammals

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Highview Hotel or similar

5. 5Tarangire⌄

   The drive from the Highview Hotel to Tarangire National Park takes two hours. This park is spectacular in the dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of the Tarangire River. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, elands and Oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rain when they migrate again to good grazing areas.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch