Overview of the 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

This 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour is a private 5 days Serengeti national park wildlife safari in Tanzania, lake Manyara and a tour to Ngorongoro crater. This is one of the popular Tanzania wildlife safari trips to the best safari destinations in the northern circuit of Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro crater. This safari features a game drive at Lake Manyara, game drives in Serengeti, a visit to the Ngorongoro crater, visiting the kopjes and olduvai gorge.

Your professional Tanzania wildlife tour guide will pick you up at the start of your safari from Arusha, and start the drive to Lake Manyara National park where you will do 2 game drives one in the evening and another in the morning the next day. You will later on in the evening drive to Serengeti national park where you will do a full day game drive and another game drive the next morning before you transfer to Ngorongoro crater for a tour then be driven back to Arusha the next day. On the fourth day of your safari, you can choose to camp at the Ngorongoro crater rim or spend the night in the nearby lodge. Driving through the plains of both Serengeti and Ngorongoro, a 4×4 safari land cruiser will be used to keep you comfortable throughout the trip with your preference of the nature of the accommodation.

Highlights of the 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

Day 1: Your professional Tanzania tour guide will pick you up from your accommodation facility in Arusha as early as 7:00am and drive to Lake Manyara national park for an evening game drive.

Day 2: You will do an early morning game drive at Lake Manyara national park with several wildlife and bird sightings then transfer to Serengeti national park.

Day 3: You will spend the whole day in the plains of Serengeti national park sighting different wild species and kopjes.

Day 4: Half of the day will be spent on a morning game drive in the parks central region then drive to Ngorongoro conservation area in the evening.

Day 5: A descend into the Ngorongoro crater is done in the morning then return to Arusha.

Day by day details of the 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

Day 1 of your 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

A professional Tanzania safari guide will pick you up from your lodging facility and then start the drive to Lake Manyara national park.  After lunch, you will go for an evening game drive in the varied plains of Lake Manyara national park where you sight concentrations of wildlife including elephants, monkeys, antelopes, giraffes, tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. You will later be transferred to your preferred hotel or lodge for dinner and a night’s stay.

Day 2 of your 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

After a hearty breakfast at lake Manyara national park, you will drive towards Serengeti national park passing via the beautiful plains. With several sightings, you will descend to Seronera area in the Serengeti plains, have lunch and later go for a short evening game drive in the Serengeti plains. You later check in to your preferred hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 3 of your 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

Expect to spend a whole day in the wilderness of Serengeti national park spotting the beauties in the wild. You will start the day with a pick up from your lodging facility by your driver guide to the park headquarters for the start of your whole day game drive. The game drive will take you along the Sogore River Circuit which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River, have a relaxed lunch under a shade in the park and then continue with the drive following the kopjes circuit to the Maasai Kopjes. Throughout the day you will see several wildlife species especially around the kopjes then return for dinner and an overnight as per your choice of accommodation in Serengeti national park.

Day 4 of your 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

You will wake up to yet another game drive in Serengeti starting at 7:00am at the park headquarters as you get into the wild to sight the early risers in action. This increases chances of seeing other animals that you missed seeing the previous day during and especially the big five in action. The game drive will take half day where after you return to the accommodation facility for a meal and relaxation. In the evening, your driver guide will ensure to drive you safely to the plains of Ngorongoro conservation area where you will have dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 5 of your 5 days Tanzania wildlife safari Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro crater tour

You will wake up early to start a new adventure in the Ngorongoro conservation area. Here you will sight migratory birds of Eurasia and Africa including vultures, storks and the beautiful flamingoes. Wild animals likely to be spotted here include the leopards, lions, cheetahs, wildebeest, elands, gazelles, giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos, antelopes and buffaloes. Descending into this crater 20kms, 600m deep and 300sqkm in size is an experience of its own. After this amazing wildlife tour Tanzania experience, you will be driven back to Arusha marking the end of your safari.

This 5-day wildlife safari to Serengeti national park offers you the best opportunity to sight the big 5 wild animals including the spectacular wildebeest. The wildebeest roam within the savannah plains of northern Tanzania Serengeti and extending to Kenya and one the great attractions for Kenya wildlife safaris.

Spend just 5 days on Serengeti, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro crater tour and have the most out of a wildlife safari in Tanzania.