5-Day Lake Manyara-Serengeti-Ngorongoro Crater (Midrange)

Enjoy a 5-day 4-night luxury tented camp wildlife viewing safari with a professional English-speaking driver guide. Have a full day in Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro crater, and Serengeti National Park. Experience Maasai culture and daily life. (Halal food for Muslims is available). You have to request other languages speaking guides if you need them.

DAY 1:KILIMANJARO AIRPORT TO ARUSHA AT MC ELLYS HOTEL

Meet your professional driver guide at Kilimanjaro Airport and drive to Arusha at Mc Elly,s Hotel, for 1hr driving from Kilimanjaro Airport. On the way, you will be able to have a view of Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru, banana and coffee plantation. Drop off at Mc Elly's Hotel for overnight, bed and breakfast basis.

Main Destination: Arusha (City)

Accommodation: Mc Ellys Hotel

Budget hotel located in Arusha

Meals & Drinks:

Meals at own expense
Non-alcoholic drinks

DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK - GAME VIEWING

After breakfast pick up from Mc Ellys Hotel at 9:00 am. Meet your professional driver guide, drive with a picnic lunch to Lake Manyara National Park, which is about a 135 km drive, for a full day of game viewing.

Lake Manyara is home to giant fig trees, acacia woodlands, mahogany trees, and grassy flood plains. The contrasts of this area are simply breathtaking, with the open plains, huge escarpment, soda lake, dense woodlands, and distant volcanic peaks. Animals such as lions, elephants, hippos, impalas, giraffes, warthog, wildebeest, blue monkeys, buffaloes, dik-dik, etc. can be seen. This park is also home to the famous tree-climbing lions and leopards. Lake Manyara National Park provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife with over 400 species having been recorded within the park’s boundaries. Highlights include pink-hued flamingos, herons, storks, and pelicans.

Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s Trees Inn.

Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park

Accommodation: Eileen’s Trees Inn

Mid-range lodge located in or near Karatu

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

DAY 3: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK - GAME VIEWING

Early morning at 06:00 am, have a cup of coffee and drive to Maasai Boma where you will experience the rhythm of this nomadic tribe’s daily life. Subject to the season, witness the livestock movement in the early morning before meeting the Elders, Moran warriors, and women and children with full explanations’ into the status and ranking within the families as well as their traditions and beliefs.

Afterward, drive back to the lodge for a full breakfast.

After breakfast, have a game drive en-route to Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch box, and drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation area.

The vast Serengeti Plains is home to a huge variety of animals and birds. Search among the trees and Kopjes for the elusive leopards and cheetah. It is also home to the Wildebeest Migration. Dinner and overnight will be at Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp

Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti

Double room

Main house

King size room

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

DAY 4: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK - NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA

Early in the morning at 05:45 am, take your breakfast box and proceed for sunrise game drive until 09:00 am.

Thereafter, take your luggage and picnic lunch box then proceed for a full-day game drive en-route with a picnic lunch to Rhino Lodge at the Ngorongoro Crater rim. Visit the small but very interesting Dr. Leakey Museum at Olduvai Gorge. Dinner and overnight at Rhino Lodge (on the crater rim).

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Rhino Lodge

Mid-range lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater

Rhino Lodge is situated a few hundred metres from the Crater Rim

View from Rhino Lodge deck

Rhino Lodge room interior

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks

DAY 5: NGORONGORO CRATER - GAME VIEWING INSIDE THE CRATER

Wake up early in the morning at 06:00 am, have breakfast, and drive into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a 6-hours game drive.

The crater is 20km in diameter, 600m high, and is the largest intact crater in the world. An estimated 30,000 large mammals live in the crater, which features a salt lake at its center. This is one of the most densely populated wildlife areas in the world. The Maasai people live together in harmony with the animals that also call this place home.

From the edge, you will look out over the impressive crater and all of its wonderful inhabitants. In the late afternoon, we will drive back to Arusha.

Main Destination:

Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks: