Overview
This 5-day Best of Tanzania Luxury Safari will take you through Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will have chances to witness the great migration, spot the Big Five, and marvel at the stunning landscapes. Accommodation is in lodges. An unforgettable luxury safari experience awaits you!
Tour Plan
Day 1: Arusha – Lake Manyara National Park
Morning departure from Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park
Game drive in the park with picnic lunch
This is one of the most diverse of Tanzania’s national parks, a tiny (325km2) combination of Rift valley lake, dense woodlands and steep mountainside. Manyara is a birding paradise (more than 380 species), especially for waterfowl and migrants and the forests are one of the best places around to see leopards. Lions hunt on the grassy shores of the
lake. Most visitors tailor a visit to Manyara to fit in with a trip to one of the Big Three parks (Serengeti, Tarangire and Ngorongoro).
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
Day 2: Lake Manyara – Serengeti National Park
After breakfast collect picnic lunch and drive to Serengeti National Park
Afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park
This park is renowned for being the location of the Great Wildlife Migration, which involves over two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes. It is also an extremely large and wild game park, and home to the Big Five of Africa.
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All meal included
Day 3: Game Drives in Serengeti National Park
After breakfast embark on a full day game drive in Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles or a pride of lions lounging in the shade. The Serengeti, one of the largest parks in Africa at 15,000 sq km, is home to some three million large mammals and is made up of a diversity of landscapes with the southern region being dominated by the lush grassy plains that draw about two million wildebeest, half a million zebra and some quarter million antelope to make the hazardous journey in search of pasture when the autumn rains come.
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All meal included
Day 4: Serengeti – Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After an early breakfast collect picnic lunch and depart for a morning game drive in the park.
The Great Migration (also referred to as “Serengeti Migration”) is arguably the greatest wildlife show on earth. It is the largest single movement of wildlife on earth in search of water, pasture, and breeding grounds. Other than the great migrating herds we seek, we may also see cheetah, lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, wildebeest, hartebeest, topi, eland, crocs, Thomson’s and Grant’s Gazelle, amongst many more. With over five hundred bird species identified, the park is a veritable ornithological paradise, ostrich abound, secretary bird, marabou stork, and the largest flighted bird on Earth, the kori bustard. We will seek out these creatures with the keen intuition and experience of our “Wild guide”
Mid-day drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Meals & Drinks: All meal included
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha
After breakfast embark on a morning crater tour with picnic lunch.
Descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the crater (more precisely a caldera). This 304 square kilometre enclosed ecosphere was formed some two or three million years ago in the massive explosion of a volcano once higher than Kilimanjaro, and offers the best game viewing opportunities in all of Tanzania.
Explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephant, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open savannah where the lions hunt for food. With some 25,000 large mammals within the caldera, you will have the opportunity to see, in addition to ‘the big five’ (elephant, lion, rhino, buffalo, and leopard), animals such as wildebeest, gazelle, reedbuck, bushbuck, hartebeest, hippo, antelope, both Grant’s and Thompson’s gazelle, impala, to name a few, as well as over 500 bird species.
After lunch drive back to Arusha and drop-off at your hotel at around 17:00hrs.
Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
