A Detailed 5 Days Tanzania Safari: Tarangire, Serengeti & Ngorongoro
A Detailed 5 Days Tanzania Safari Itinerary takes you to Tarangire, Serengeti, and Ngorongoro Crater. 5 Days Tanzania Safari is a perfect Tanzania luxury safari package allowing you to experience some of the highlights of the Northern Tanzania safari circuit in the most comfortable luxury lodges, the highlight Tanzania wildlife destinations to visit are Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, and Ngorongoro conservation area. These destinations are home to a variety of wildlife including the Big 5 (leopards, elephants, rhinoceros, and Cape buffalo), which will make your game viewing experience more delightful.
Safari in Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park and the Ngorongoro crater
The Luxury Lodges to stay at during this 5 Days Tanzania Safari include Sanctuary Swala Camp in Tarangire national park, and Serengeti Bushtops camp in Serengeti national park, and Serena Ngorongoro Lodge in the Ngorongoro Conservation area. 5 Days Tanzania Lodge Safari starts from Arusha and Ends in Arusha.
What we’ll cover in this Itinerary
Quick Tour Details
Number of People: Tailored
Start/End: Arusha, Tanzania
Availability: All year throughout
Activities: Wildlife viewing
Destinations: Serengeti National Park, and Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater Area
Price: Request a Quote for this Trip
Detailed Itinerary of 5 Days Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Tarangire National Park
On the 1st day of 5 days Tanzania Lodge Safari, you will be picked up from your hotel in Arusha by your safari driver guide at 08:00 am, after a short safari briefing by your safari driver guide you will embark on a journey to Tarangire national park. The park is a wonderful destination famous for its diverse landscape composed of 9 different vegetation zones and famous for the abundance of the Ancient Baobab trees –the largest tree on the African continent. When you arrive in the park you will check into your lodge for lunch then go on an afternoon game drive, on the game drive you will enjoy watching the largest concentration of elephants in Tanzania, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes, and many more. After the experience, you will head back to your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: Sanctuary Swala camp
Meal Plan: lunch and dinner
Day 2: Transfer to Serengeti National Park
On the 2nd of 5 days Luxury Tanzania safari, you will have morning breakfast and head to the park for a morning game drive together with your belongings for another game drive watching many animals, after the game drive you will exit the park and embark on a journey to Serengeti National Park the most famous safari destination in Tanzania. Serengeti national park is home to the largest concentration of wildlife species in Tanzania with many animals such as gazelles, zebras, lions, leopards, cheetahs, wildebeests, elephants, elands, and many more. On your arrival in the park, you will check into your lodge for lunch and rest as you prepare for an afternoon game drive on which you will explore the park from your vehicle with a pop-up roof and open windows. You will have an opportunity to watch many animals such as black rhinos, wildebeests, hyenas, leopards, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, cheetahs, impalas, topi, and many more. In the evening you will head back to your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: Serengeti Bushtops camp
Meal Plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day #3: Full Day in Serengeti National Park
On the 3rd day of 5 days, Luxury Tanzania safari you are to participate in full-day game drives on morning and afternoon game drives, after morning breakfast at your lodge you will leave together with your packed lunch for a full day of game drive. On this full-day game drive, you will have an opportunity to watch many animals as you visit various regions of the park, animals to look out for include wildebeests, cheetahs, leopards, lions, elephants, buffaloes, elands, giraffes, and many more. At lunch, you will have a picnic lunch set at some of the scenic picnic sites in the park where you will enjoy your mouthwatering meals and the scenic views of the park, then go for another game drive. In the evening you will return to your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: Serengeti Bushtops Camp
Meal Plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day #4: Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater
On the 4th day of 5 days Luxury Safari Tanzania you will wake up early for an early morning game drive in the rolling plains of Serengeti, early morning game drive is the best game viewing experience for witnessing the spectacular sunrise and watching many predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, African wild dogs and many more. After the game drive you will head back to your lodge for breakfast then check out and embark on a journey to the Ngorongoro conservation area – the 8th wonder of the Natural World with a crater of 102 square kilometers and 2000ft high walls making it the world’s largest intact caldera. Ngorongoro Crater is composed of several rivers, swamps, a soda lake with a large concentration of flamingoes, forests, open plains, and a variety of animals. When you arrive in the crater you will check into your lodge for lunch then go for an afternoon game drive on which you will enjoy many animals such as black rhinos, leopards, lions, elephants with huge tusks and many more. In the evening you will head back to your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: Serena Ngorongoro Lodge
Meal Plan: lunch and dinner
Day #5: Transfer back to Arusha
On the 5th and last day of 5 days Tanzania Lodge safari you will have breakfast at your lodge, then descend back into the crater for an early morning game drive on which you enjoy watching hippos, giraffes, impalas, elephants, hyenas, cheetahs, golden and black-backed jackals residing in the crater. At lunch, you will have a picnic lunch set at one of the picnic sites on the lake then exit the crater heading on a drive back to Arusha where you will be dropped off either at your hotel or the airport for your departure flight back home.
End of 5 Days Tanzania safari
Tour Inclusions
- Professional Guide
- 4×4 safari vehicle
- Full Board Accommodation
- All activities detailed in the safari
- Park entrance fees
- Drinking water on the safari
- Airport transfer
Tour Exclusions
- Tanzania hotel fees( the eve of the safari and the night after the safari),
- Tips,
- Laundry services,
- Beverages/ drinks,
- international flights,
- Visas,
- Items of a personal nature,
- optional activities and any other extras not detailed in the above itinerary
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