Overview
Early in the morning after breakfast drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful Park nestling at the base of Great Rift Valley is blessed with rich overlapping habitats, swamps and lake. All these supports a large number of animal and bird species. The park has a big number of baboons found nowhere in the world, Lake Manyara tree climbing lions and huge flocks of flamingos are some highlights of this park. You May expect to spot giraffe, zebra, elephant, wildebeest, hippos, buffalo and predators like leopard, hyena, jackal and countless number of bird species. Later drive to your campsite for dinner & overnight.
Itinerary
Early in the morning after breakfast drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful Park nestling at the base of Great Rift Valley is blessed with rich overlapping habitats, swamps and lake. All these supports a large number of animal and bird species. The park has a big number of baboons found nowhere in the world, Lake Manyara tree climbing lions and huge flocks of flamingos are some highlights of this park. You May expect to spot giraffe, zebra, elephant, wildebeest, hippos, buffalo and predators like leopard, hyena, jackal and countless number of bird species. Later drive to your campsite for dinner & overnight.
After breakfast drive along the Great Rift Valley and across beautiful high lying farmlands of Karatu and along the Crater rim of Ngorongoro. Stop at the viewpoint of the Crater for some nice photos. Visit one of the Masai villages for some cultural encounter, some Masai worrier will invite you & take you in and around their houses you will meet some kids & other family members. Later they will sing & dance their favorite songs, which involves high jumping. If you wish you can join the dancing. Afterward, drive down into the heart of the “wild Africa” Serengeti National park with its endless rolling plains. Break for picnic lunch before heading to the Central Serengeti area called Soronera. This is one of the richest wildlife habitat in the park endowed with Soronera River the valuable water supply in this area hence attracts a vast number of wildlife around the Serengeti. Afternoon game drives to your campsite for dinner & overnight.
Early morning game drive with packed breakfast box and lunch box. Early morning game drive gives you a chance to see nocturnal animals coming from night hunting or a group of lioness organizing an ambush and some other animal waking up ready to start their new day. If the wildebeest Migration is packed in Serengeti go straight to where they are & spend time with them, you may also expect to spot lion, leopard, hyena, cheetah, jackals & others. Herds of buffalo, elephants, giraffe warthog, zebra & many antelopes will be wondering in the Serengeti plains. Drive back to the campsite for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast we will depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. Stop at Olduvai Gorge, a history museum. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of Nutcracker Man and Handy Man, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution, We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch we will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half day game drive. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Late in afternoon drive back to the campsite for dinner and overnight.
On this last day of your 5 Days Tanzania camping safari itinerary you will have an early breakfast and descent into Ngorongoro Crater floor for a wonderful game drive (picnic lunch will be served in the Crater floor). Very few animals migrate in and out of the Crater with its 600 meters high walls you might spot from elephants, zebras, hippos, rhinos, antelopes, lion, jackals and many bird species including the flamingos. Late in afternoon drive back to Arusha for drop off at the airport or overnight.