5 Days 4 Nights Tanzania Safari

We will collect you from your hotel in Arusha and following a 2-3-hour drive, you will arrive at the Tarangire National Park. In this region, Hemingway often went on big game hunting safaris. After the formation of the national parks in 1970, they turned the seasonal marshes and the endless savannah that one sees today into, once again, profitable hunting grounds. Today however, cameras thankfully have replaced the elephant guns. Tarangire National Park has the highest density of elephants in North Tanzania and you can view these animals all year round, in which the herds often can reach an impressive number of 300 animals. The Tarangire River has water all year round also and during the dry season, between July and October, many animals from the surrounding areas come to the river for drinking. If you visit the park during the dry season, you will witness an unforgettable natural wonder as you can observe wonderful creatures such as lions, giraffes, buffaloes, wildebeests and zebras as well as various types of antelopes and gazelles and with a little luck, you can also spot a python! This area is also a haven for bird watchers during the dry season, with over 550 different species including the Masai Ostrich -the world largest bird. Around lunchtime, you will stop at a suitable picnic place before the afternoon is dedicated to more wildlife watching. 

Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge 

Meal plan: full board 

Website: 

https://www.sopalodges.com/tarangire-sopa-lodge/the-lodge  

After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, with an en-route game drive, picnic lunch and an afternoon short game drive in Serengeti National Park. O

Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge

Meal plan: full board 

Website: https://www.sopalodges.com/serengeti-sopa-lodge/the-lodge

After breakfast, spend a full day in Serengeti National Park (early morning, mid and afternoon game drives). Return to your accommodation for a welcome rest. The Serengeti covers an area of 14,763 sq. km. It is the largest national park in Tanzania. The park is located about 320 km north-west of Arusha, lying in a high plateau between the Ngorongoro highlands and the Kenyan-Tanzanian border, and extending almost to Lake Victoria to the west. 

Accommodation: Serengeti sopa Lodge

Meal plan:  full board

Website: https://www.sopalodges.com/serengeti-sopa-lodge/the-lodge

After breakfast, drive and descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a full day of game viewing. A picnic lunch will be taken on the crater floor.

The crater supports up to 25,000 large mammals. Grazers dominate: zebra, wildebeest – accounting for almost half the animals – gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and wart hog are also plentiful. Giraffe, for example, stay away because there is insufficient food at tree level; topi (an antelope subspecies) because they compete directly with wildebeest. An odd feature of the crater elephants is that they are almost exclusively bulls. Breeding herds – comprising large numbers of females and young with a few attendant older males – are probably unable to find enough quality food in the crater. Ngorongoro has carnivores in quantity, drawn by the large herds of prey animals. It has the densest population of large predators, mainly lion – about 60 – and more than 400 spotted hyenas, living in eight clans of up to eighty individuals. Both lions and hyenas will scavenge from each other, depending on weight of numbers and of course, hunger.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House 

Meal plan: full board 

Website: http://twctanzania.com/accommodation/ngorongoro-farm-house/

Sadly, departure is after breakfast when we will drive back to Arusha where you will have chance for shopping before we go to The Arusha Hotel for hot lunch. dayroom is held to allow you to relax and check out later in the day. A vehicle is on hand to transfer you to Kilimanjaro International airport to connect with your international flight back home.