This 5 days circuit wildlife safari in Tanzania offers you a great adventure to Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire National Park is drafted to offer you a short but intense Tanzanian Northern Circuit wildlife experience, in a short and constrained period of only 5 days. You will experience the adventure of game viewing in three of the most scenic national game reserve in Tanzania. This memorable African wildlife safari adventure will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, which is one of the most sought conservation areas with a sizeable wildlife population in Africa which includes thousand of wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, the famous big fives such as lions, elephants, leopards, Buffalos and Rhinos among others. Here you will witness amazing scenes of African wildlife inside a self-contained world teeming with bird and wildlife species. This 5 days adventure will also take you to Lake Manyara National Park which has a wide range of biodiversity ranging from a shallow but huge soda lake to the foot of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, vast savanna landscape, and a sizeable number of wildlife and bird species. And finally, your African adventure safari will also take you to the Tarangire National Park, which arguably has the highest concentration of wildlife in Tanzania nearly to the Ngorongoro Crater with the best African wilderness moments and its natural beauty is still intact. The uncontested numbers of wildlife and natural beauty of the selected Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, and Tarangire National Parks, make them a perfect choice for our 5 days circuit wildlife safaris in Tanzania. This safari is available throughout the year and can be tailor-made depending on your needs and preference for your best African experience.
Tour highlights
Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to the Hotel
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park
Day 3: Whole Day to Ngorongoro Crater Tour
Day 4: Game Drive in Tarangire National Park and Transfer to Arusha
Day 5: Airport Transfer
- Airport transfer
- Hotels in Arusha city
- Transports
- Accommodation at the lodge
- Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle
- Professional, English-speaking guide
- Meals according to the itinerary
- Mineral water
- All mentioned activities
- All national park fees
- Sleeping bag
- Flights
- Optional activities
- Alcoholic and soft drinks
- Visa fees
- Tips
- Personal expenses on souvenirs, etc.
- Travel insurance
Day1
After arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport we will transfer to Arusha city for overnight.
Day2
After a short briefing in the morning, you will travel to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of the smallest but most diverse parks in Tanzania. The shallow and alkaline Lake Manyara covers a large area of the park and it is the seasonal home to thousands of flamingos – an awesome (pink) sight. However more than 500 other bird species are also found here as well as some wonderful mammals. Troops of monkeys live in the forests, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras and wildebeests on the grassy plains and elephants and lions in the acacia woodlands. From the open roof of the vehicle you will be able to watch the animals and absorb the landscape. After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch, you will leave the park to make your way to the cooler regions of the Ngorongoro highlands.
Day3
After an early start you will drive into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and down into the crater. The Ngorongoro Crater is almost 600 m deep, approximately 20 km wide and the massive caldera is home to an amazing variety of animals. On your game drive you have the possibility of seeing all different kinds of mammals ranging from the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard – to Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles and mountain reedbucks. You might also see spotted hyenas, rare wild dogs and some of the more than 500 bird species of the area. After a picnic lunch in the crater and some more game viewing, you will leave the crater in the afternoon and travel back to Karatu.
Day4
After breakfast you continue to another park on the Northern Circuit, the Tarangire National Park. This park with its endless grasslands, huge baobab trees, the perennial Tarangire River and seasonal swamps is home to the largest elephant herds in northern Tanzania. Animals gather at the river and you should be able to see elephants, giraffes, bushbucks, hartebeests, dik-diks, waterbucks, warthogs and reedbucks all year round. Furthermore, the park is also home to buffaloes, zebras and wildebeests which are always closely followed by a range of predators such as lions. Leopards are seen every once in a while but cheetahs are rarely spotted. After an extensive game drive, you will leave the park in the afternoon and return to Arusha by early evening
Day5
Our transfer driver will return back to Kilimanjaro Airport to back to your home.