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Best Lake Manyara Serengeti Ngorongoro and Tarangire Tour

6-Day Lake Manyara Serengeti Ngorongoro and Tarangire Tour

Start & EndDay 1Day 2-4Day 5Day 6

What you should expect

Highlights

Start Arusha (Day 1)
Day 1 Lake Manyara NP
Day 2-3 Serengeti NP
Day 4 Central Serengeti NP
Day 5 Ngorongoro Crater
Day 6 Tarangire NP
End Arusha (Day 6)

Overview

This is a 6-Day Lake Manyara Serengeti Ngorongoro and Tarangire Tour budget camping safari of visiting Lake Manyara, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire National Park. Your accommodation will be on a budget campsite during the safari. Most of the campsites are inside the national parks except for Lake Manyara and Tarangire.

Itinerary Details

Day-by-Day


Day 1 Pick from Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast from Arusha, you will proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive with picnic lunches. Later you will proceed to Lake Manyara Fanaka Lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundreds of baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside. Blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.

Meal Plans

Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)

Accommodation Plans

Fanaka Lodge
Day 2 Proceed to Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, proceed to Serengeti National Park for a game drive with picnic lunches. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Seronera Campsite.

A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life. They go on a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating. It's survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. The replenish the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

Meal Plans

All meals included

Accommodation Plans

Budget camping Inside Serengeti NP
Day 3 Game Drives in Serengeti National Park

Today will be the "Serengeti game viewing day". After breakfast this morning, enjoy an amazing game drive. The great diversity of Serengeti wildlife is evident here—look for buffalo, hippopotamus, elephant, giraffe, antelope, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle, and lions. If you are there during the spectacular wildebeest migration, you will be more than astonished. In the late afternoon, we'll venture out in another game drive.

Everywhere there are animals, monkeys and, yes, birds…but look closely and you will be thrilled to see the huge jungle cats—lion, leopard and cheetah—watching the world go by. And go by it does. Rhino, gazelle, antelope and massive elephants by the hundreds. Animals in the trees, flying, camouflaged in the bush, in rivers and in streams. This is the adventure of a lifetime!

Meal Plans

All meals included

Accommodation Plans

Budget camping Inside Serengeti NP
Day 4 Serengeti National Park then go to Ngorongoro

After breakfast in the morning, have a game drive in Serengeti National Park and see the beauty of this great park with a picnic lunch. In the afternoon after lunch, have a game drive en-route to Ngorongoro Crater for dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Simba Campsite.

Meal Plans

All meals included

Accommodation Plans

Budget camping Inside Central Serengeti NP
Day 5 Continue to the Ngorongoro Crater

After early breakfast at around 5:50 am, descend down crater at 6:00 am for 6-7 hours game drive with a picnic lunch. We venture onto the crater floor for an up-close view of the residents of this World Heritage Site. Enjoy a picnic lunch here. The Ngorongoro Crater provides great game-viewing all year-round. The wildlife here makes up a permanent population because grazing and water supplies are plentiful throughout the seasons. In the afternoon, drive back to Mto wa Mbu at Fanaka Lodge & Campsites for dinner and your overnight stay.

Meal Plans

All meals included

Accommodation Plans

Fanaka Lodge
Day 6 Tarangire National Park to Arusha

You'll be picked up from Fanaka Lodge & Campsite at 7:30 am. You'll then have a safari briefing and afterwards, we depart for Tarangire National Park. Your first experience of safari will be the thrilling game drive through the vastness of Tarangire National Park. You'll arrive in good time for lunch. In the afternoon, have a game drive through the park and later drive back to Arusha.

Meal Plans

Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)

Accommodation Plans

No accommodation (End of tour)

Booking Form

Payment Methods

Inclusions

Park fees (For non-residents)
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
Camping equipment
A professional driver/guide
All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Sleeping bag
Bath towels

Exclusions

International flights (From/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
Personal items (Souvenirs travel insurance visa fees etc.)
Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees

Sustainability Commitment

This tour is 100% sustainable. We encourage our travelers to minimize their carbon footprint by choosing eco-friendly practices.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made more than 60 days before departure qualify for an 80% refund of the deposit paid. Cancellations made between 30 and 59 days before departure qualify for a 50% refund of the deposit. Cancellations made less than 30 days before departure are non-refundable. Gorilla and Chimpanzee permits are non-refundable once purchased. Guests are advised to purchase comprehensive travel insurance for unforeseen circumstances.

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