5 Days Upper-Midrange Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Lake Manyara Safari
Big Time pick
Tarangire · Serengeti · Ngorongoro · Lake Manyara
Accommodation is in lodges.
Tanzania · Budget · Big Time pick
4 Days Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti & Lake Manyara Safari
A 4-day budget safari through Tarangire, Ngorongoro, the Serengeti and Lake Manyara. Stays are in camps or lodges.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Route
- Tarangire → Ngorongoro → Serengeti → Lake Manyara
- Comfort
- Budget
- Transport
- 4×4 Land Cruiser
- Accommodation
- Other stops: overnight at a camp or lodge.
Price per person
- Per person
- USD 830
The way through.
- 01Tarangire
- 02Ngorongoro
- 03Serengeti
- 04Lake Manyara
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.
Plains zebras in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0) Arusha to Tarangire
Arusha → Tarangire
From Arusha the 4×4 Land Cruiser follows the good tarmac road via Makuyuni and Minjingu that TANAPA describes as the route to Tarangire, with graded park roads for the final approach. Tarangire is elephant country: TANAPA counts more than 3,000 here, Tanzania’s densest population, and in the dry months of June to October they are joined by large herds of wildebeest, zebra and buffalo along the Tarangire River. Giant baobabs, some of them centuries old, rise above the savannah.
- Overnight
- Camp or lodge in Tarangire, 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) Down into the Ngorongoro Crater
Tarangire → Ngorongoro Crater
Today the journey reaches the Ngorongoro Crater, which the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority describes as the world’s largest intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. The crater floor supports more than 25,000 animals, among them elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions and leopards, which is why many people choose it as the place to look for the Big Five. Only four-wheel-drive vehicles may enter, and walking is not allowed on the crater floor, so the day is spent on game drives among its grassland, swamps and woodland.
- Overnight
- Camp or lodge in the Ngorongoro area, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A male lion scanning the horizon in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Giles Laurent (CC BY-SA 4.0) Into the Serengeti
Ngorongoro → Serengeti
From the crater highlands the road descends to the Serengeti, the park that Tanzania National Parks calls home to the world’s last remaining large-mammal migration: more than a million and a half wildebeest moving with zebra and followed by predators. Where the herds are depends on the season and on the rain, so the drive is chosen accordingly. Beyond the migration, the Serengeti holds lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo and rhinos, and more than 500 bird species.
- Overnight
- Camp or lodge in the Serengeti, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Pelicans gathered on the shore in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CC BY 2.0) Lake Manyara and the road to Arusha
Serengeti → Lake Manyara → Arusha
The final day ends at Lake Manyara, a compact park at the foot of the Rift Valley escarpment, just south of Mto wa Mbu. TANAPA describes groundwater forest of mahogany and fig sheltering blue monkeys and bushbuck, lesser flamingos feeding on the soda lake and lions known for resting in the branches, though no sighting can be promised. After a drive from the forest to the lake shore, the Land Cruiser returns to Arusha on the tarmac road.
- 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.
Other stops: overnight at a camp or 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
Places along the way.
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