4 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti & Lake Manyara Safari
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Tarangire · Ngorongoro · Serengeti · Lake Manyara
Stays are in camps or lodges.
Tanzania · Luxury · Big Time pick
4 Days Luxury Lake Manyara, Serengeti & Ngorongoro Safari
A 4-day luxury safari through Lake Manyara, the Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Accommodation is in lodges.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Route
- Lake Manyara → Serengeti → Ngorongoro
- Comfort
- Luxury
- Transport
- 4×4 Land Cruiser
- Accommodation
- Overnight at the lodge.
Price
Price on request
The way through.
- 01Lake Manyara
- 02Serengeti
- 03Ngorongoro
Places as named in the journey title. Nights in each are set out in your itinerary.
Day by day
Your itinerary, day by day.
Starts in Arusha · finishes in Arusha
The route, days and named stays are as planned. What is included at each stop, from food, park fees and drinking water to room types, permits and border arrangements, and any camp or lodge not named here, is set out in your written quotation. Game drives on travel days depend on arrival and departure times, timings can change with road and park conditions, and wildlife sightings are never guaranteed. Photographs illustrate each day’s destination; they are not pictures of a particular departure.
A leopard climbing through a tree in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Lovetza (CC BY-SA 4.0) Lake Manyara at the foot of the escarpment
Arusha → Lake Manyara
The safari begins in Arusha with the drive to Lake Manyara National Park, close to Mto wa Mbu on the northern circuit. The park is small but striking, with groundwater forest at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment giving way to the shores of a soda lake. A game drive looks for the lions known to rest in the trees, along with blue monkeys, bushbuck and lesser flamingos, and the park welcomes photography, so there is time to stop for pictures.
- Overnight
- Lodge at Lake Manyara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A Grant’s gazelle walking across the plains of Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Giles Laurent (CC BY-SA 4.0) Over the highlands to the Serengeti plains
Lake Manyara → Serengeti
Today the Land Cruiser crosses the highlands to the Serengeti. TANAPA calls the park home to more than a million and a half migrating wildebeest, moving with zebra and followed by the predators that depend on them. Where the herds are depends on the season, and in any month the park holds lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo and rhinos. A game drive in the afternoon leads on to the night’s lodge in the park.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Serengeti, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Light breaking through clouds over the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: epcp (CC BY 2.0) Serengeti morning, crater evening
Serengeti → Ngorongoro
An early drive in the Serengeti is the best chance of seeing its predators at their most active, and of birds among the more than 500 species the park records. Then the journey returns towards Ngorongoro, where lodges sit on and near the crater rim, and where views down into the caldera give a first sense of its scale. The NCAA describes the crater as roughly 20 kilometres across and about 610 metres deep, and tomorrow is spent on its floor.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Ngorongoro area, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Plains zebras and African buffaloes in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Rwebogora (CC BY-SA 4.0) Crater floor and the road to Arusha
Ngorongoro Crater → Arusha
The last day is spent on the crater floor, where the NCAA notes that animals are present throughout the year, among them elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions and leopards. Because only four-wheel-drive vehicles may enter, the Land Cruiser is well suited to the descent. After the game drive, the journey climbs out of the crater and returns to Arusha. Four days have covered a soda-lake forest, the Serengeti plains and the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera.
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Like the shape of these days? Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team will set out the stays, meals and inclusions in a written quotation.
Where you stay.
Overnight at the lodge. The camp or lodge is discussed with you during planning and confirmed with your itinerary, subject to availability. How accommodation works on our safaris
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