5 Days Cheetah and Wildlife Safari in Northern Tanzania

Day 1: Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park

Leave Arusha in the morning. You will leave with packed lunch and mineral water, upon arriving at the national park gate, there will be a quick formal registration in this magnificent park. You will do the game drive until 5:00 p.m. then drive to your accommodation for your dinner and overnight.

• Travelling distance: 130 km from Arusha
• Travelling time: 2.5 hours maximum
• Accommodation: Lake Manyara Wildlife Lodge
• Meals plan: full board (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) - arrive for dinner

Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park - Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, en-route game drive. The drive towards Seronera area where animals such as leopard, prides of lion, packs of spotted hyenas, the fleetest cheetahs, and many plain animals like buffaloes, topi, hartebeest, wildebeest, waterbucks, elands, zebras, gazelles, warthogs, just to name a few, and numerous number of birds can be seen. Continue to the lodge for dinner and a good night.

• Travelling distance: 230 km
• Travelling time: 4.5 hours
• Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camp
• Meals plan: full board

Day 3: Full day at Serengeti National Park

Full day game drives starting at dawn in Serengeti National Park - with unlimited game drives putting you in the best locations to view wildlife away from the madding crowds, dinner, and overnight at the lodge.

• Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camp
• Meals plan: full board

Day 4: Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Crater

Wake up for breakfast and then at around 7:30 a.m., start driving to the Ngorongoro Crater. You will leave with packed lunch. Formal registrations in this magnificent landscape - Ngorongoro gate. Afterwards, start entering the crater and drive towards the descending route-stop at the view point and have a perfect view of the crater before ascending after picnic lunch continue with a game drive until late afternoon, then you will ascend the crater and drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

• Travelling distance: 220 km
• Travelling time: 3 hours
• Accommodation: Rhino Lodge
• Meals plan: breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha

Wake up in the morning for breakfast at 8:00 a.m., then at 9:00 start driving to Arusha. (Optional cultural activities, walking tours, town tour, snake park tour this day at an extra cost on request.)

• Travelling distance: 130 km
• Travelling time: 2.5 hours

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Your guides are the best, local trained professionals, who live, eat, and breathe their passion which is their work. They know Tanzania in and out and are always ready to impart their knowledge to all customers to satisfy all aspects of their curiosity on their trip.

Starting off and ending at Arusha, this tour will take you through Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, the Seronera Area, and Ngorongoro Crater.

Lake Manyara National Park

Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views.

Located on the way to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park is worth a stop in its own right. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobab strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds.

The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands colorful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Even reluctant bird-watchers will find something to watch and marvel at within the national park.

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa.

The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania was established in 1952. It is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth - the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive. There’s a wide variety of accommodation available, from luxury lodges to mobile camps. The park covers 5,700 sq miles, (14,763 sq km), it’s larger than Connecticut, with at most a couple hundred vehicles driving around.

The Park can be divided into three sections. The popular southern/central part (Seronera Valley), is what the Maasai called the “serengit”, the land of endless plains. It is a classic savannah, dotted with acacias and filled with wildlife. The western corridor is marked by the Grumeti River, and has more forests and dense bush. The north, Lobo area, meets up with Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve, is the least visited section.

Ngorongoro Crater

The jewel in Ngorongoro’s crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20kms across, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder.

The Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s most famous sites and is said to have the highest density of wildlife in Africa. Sometimes described as an ‘eighth wonder of the world’, the Crater has achieved world renown, attracting an ever-increasing number of visitors each year. You are unlikely to escape other vehicles here, but you are guaranteed great wildlife viewing in a genuinely mind-blowing environment. There is nowhere else in Africa quite like Ngorongoro.

The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera. Forming a spectacular bowl of about 265 square kilometers, with sides up to 600 meters deep; it is home to approximately 30,000 animals at any one time. The crater rim is over 2,200 meters high and experiences its own climate. From this high vantage point it is possible to make out the tiny shapes of animals making their way around the crater floor far below. Swathes of cloud hang around the rocky rim most days of the year and it’s one of the few places in Tanzania where it can get chilly at night.

• Game viewing in land cruiser 4x4 (open roof)
• Fuel and unlimited kilometer
• Services of English-speaking safari driver/guide
• Parks entrance fees
• All government taxes and levies
• Lunch boxes
• Mineral water during your safari
• Value Added Tax (VAT, 18%)
• 4 nights’ accommodation

• Visa
• Personal expenses such as personal insurance or excess baggage fees
• Accommodation before and after your safari in Arusha
• Optional activities
• International flights

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 31 days before arrival.