7 Days Tarangire, Manyara, Serengeti, and Ngorongoro Big Five Budget Safari in Tanzania

Day 1: Arrival

Arrive at Kilimanjaro/Arusha Airport, meet our representative and drive to Arusha for an overnight stay at the Ambassador Hotel.

Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, your guide will come and pick you up at 08:30 am from your Hotel and then a safari briefing. Afterward, you will depart for Tarangire National Park. Your first experience of safari will be the thrilling game drive through the vastness of Tarangire National Park, arriving in good time for lunch. After having lunch, you will have an afternoon game drive through the park. Later, depart Tarangire and drive to Manyara for Dinner and overnight at Sunbright Campsite.

Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park

Following breakfast, you'll be transferred to Lake Manyara National Park. There is a profusion of wildlife in this small national park and the amazing bird watching experience will certainly be rewarding to both a devote and first-time bird watcher.

It is as well among the few places on the African continent to see the tree-climbing lions that will be your main quest for the day. Manyara, in addition, prides in a large flock of beautiful pink flamingoes found near the lake. You will have lunch at the picnic site. Overnight at Sunbright Campsite.

Day 4: Lake Manyara National Park to Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will have a game drive en route to Serengeti National Park via Ngorongoro. Afterward, you will visit the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world - Serengeti National Park. The word ‘Serengeti’ means ‘endless plains’, which describes the park’s 5,600 square mile boundary. Yet for its sprawling area, the Serengeti does not disappoint when it comes to rich game-viewing.

Annually, from May to December, millions of animals embark on a migration which brings them from central Serengeti to Kenya’s Masai Mara and back again in an incredible spectacle. Even during the ‘down-time’, vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle roam here, along with groups of elephant, giraffe, and buffalo.

As the lions, leopard, cheetah, hyenas, and jackals stalk their meals, you will enjoy a picnic lunch in this open arena. Dinner and overnight at Seronera Campsite.

Day 5: Serengeti National Park

Today will be the "Serengeti game viewing day". After breakfast this morning, enjoy an amazing game drive. The great diversity of Serengeti wildlife is evident here. Look for buffalo, hippopotamus, elephant, giraffe, antelope, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle, and lions. If you are there during the spectacular wildebeest migration, you will be more than astonished. In the late afternoon, you will venture out in another game drive.

Everywhere there are animals, monkeys and, yes, birds… but look closely and you will be thrilled to see the huge jungle cats - lion, leopard, and cheetah - watching the world go by. And go by it does. Rhino, gazelle, antelope, and massive elephants by the hundreds. Animals in the trees, flying, camouflaged in the bush, in rivers, and in streams. This is the adventure of a lifetime!

Day 6: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, you will have a game drive in Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch until noon, where you will have again game drive to see the beauty of this great park. In the afternoon after lunch, you'll have a game drive en route to Ngorongoro Crater. You will have dinner and overnight at Simba Campsite.

Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha

After an early breakfast at around 05:50 a.m., you will descend down crater at 6 a.m. for a six to seven hours game drive, with picnic lunch. You will venture onto the crater floor for an up close at the residents of this UNESCO World Heritage Site and enjoy a picnic lunch here.

The Ngorongoro Crater provides great game-viewing all year-round. The wildlife here makes up a permanent population because grazing and water supplies are plentiful throughout the seasons. In the afternoon, drive back to Arusha to be transferred back to the Ambassador Hotel. End of Service!

This safari will take you from Arusha to Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.

Tarangire National Park

With 2,600 square kilometers wide, Tarangire National Park is the sixth largest national park in Tanzania after Ruaha, Serengeti, and Mikumi. Tarangire National Park is most likely the least visited northern Tanzanian game parks, and preserves a real air of Africa mainly in the south of the park. It lies in the south east of Lake Manyara.

The name of the park comes from the Tarangire River. Tarangire is a park for the natural world travelers who want to step off the beaten track to experience a truly wild area. It is is one of Africa’s most excellent secrets for a great Tanzania Safari Tours.

Tarangire National Park possesses large herds of elephant and buffalo and an incredible concentration of big cats. This national park in northern Tanzania offers some supreme elephant sightings. It is estimated that the park is home to the largest elephant population in northern Tanzania. Home to greater than 550 species, the park is a sanctuary for bird fanatics who want to see dozens of species in the dry season.

The best time to visit Tarangire National Park will be the year round but dry season normally June to September for total numbers of animals. From August to October during the dry season, Tarangire has the highest concentration of mammals than any of Tanzania’s national parks. Tarangire game viewing is an evident highlight, and it is amazing during the dry season with some of the extreme number of animals in the country.

Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara National Park is a national park in Arusha Region in northern Tanzania. The entrance gate lies 126 kilometers

/ 80 miles or two and a half hours west of Arusha along a newly surfaced road, close to the ethnically diverse market town of Mto wa Mbu and there is also an airport, Lake Manyara Airport (LKY), located at the top of the rift wall.

The majority of the land area of the park is a narrow strip running between the Gregory Rift wall to the west and Lake Manyara, an alkaline or soda-lake, to the east. The park consists of 330 square kilometers (127 square miles) of arid land, forest, and a soda-lake which covers as much as 200 square kilometers (77 square miles) of land during the wet season but is nearly nonexistent during the dry season.

The best time to visit is during the dry season (July to October) to see the large mammals, wet season (November to June) for bird watching, the waterfalls, and canoeing.

Lake Manyara National Park is known for the flamingos that inhabit the lake. During the wet season, they inhabit the edges of the lake in flocks of thousands but they are not so present during the dry season. More than 400 species of birds inhabit the park and many remain throughout the year.

Because of this, Lake Manyara National Park is a good spot for bird watching. Visitors to the park can expect to see upwards of 100 different species of bird on any day. Leopards, lions, elephants, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelle, hippo, giraffe, impala, and more inhabit the park and many can be seen throughout the year.

There is a hippo pond at one end of the park where visitors can get out of their cars and observe from a safe distance. The leopards and lions are both known to lounge in the trees while not hunting for prey.

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park is one of the large national parks in Tanzania with an area of 14,763 square kilometers, best known for a huge number of animals and the great wildebeest migration. So it is definitely the best-known wildlife haven in the world, unique for its natural beauty and for the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa.

Regarded as the home of the famous Great Wildebeest Migration, the Serengeti become identical with the African safari experience. The Serengeti National Park is a necessity for any Tanzania safari tours. It is the opportunity to spot the wildebeest migration and offer the chance to spend time in the national park encircled by nature and animals for the perfect Tanzania safari option!

It can easily accessible by scheduled and charter flights from Arusha, Lake Manyara, and Mwanza or driving from Arusha, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, or Ngorongoro Crater. The Serengeti is the background for so many wildlife options for a good reason. Travelers are almost guaranteed to glimpse an exciting array of wildlife.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 180 kilometers (112 miles) west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area between Lake Manyara and Serengeti National Parks.

Covering approximately 8,288 square kilometers, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area consists of the Ngorongoro Crater itself, the Olduvai Gorge and Ndutu, the Empakai crater and the Oldonyo Lengai Mountain.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a pioneering experiment in multi-purpose land use where people (the Maasai), their livestock and wildlife coexist and share the same protected habitat. Best time to visit is all year round except the rainy season that is between November and May.

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You will be provided with daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner during this safari. Two bottles of beer and two cans of soda per day are also included. Cocktail/Wine

• 9 game drives
• Transportation in a 4×4 safari vehicle
• Services of a professional, English-speaking guide
• 6 nights accommodation
• Camping equipment (tents, mattress, and sleeping bag)
• Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Beers (two bottles per person per day)
• Sodas (two cans per person per day)
• Mineral water
• All national park fees

• Additional flights
• Optional activities
• Alcoholic and soft drinks
• Visa fees
• Tips
• Personal spending money for souvenirs and others
• Travel insurance

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.