3 Days Lake Manyara, Ngorogoro Crater & Tarangire Safari

Non game-viewing travel time from Arusha: 2 ½ hours
Distance: 130 km
Meet our professional tours guide/driver in Arusha town, who will deliver a short safari info briefing, after which, we travel to the Lake Manyara National Park. We arrive in time for lunch at the camp.

After lunch we head into the Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.
Dinner and overnight at the camp.

Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
Accommodation: Budget camping
Meals & Drinks: Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included), Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Then proceed to Bachuma gate of the Tsavo East National Park. Together with your safari guide, continue with a game viewing en-route to Ashnil Aruba Safari Lodge for your early lunch.
Spend the afternoon at leisure by the swimming pool as you wait for the sun to cool down for a late afternoon game viewing in Tsavo East National Park.

This day you have an opportunity of viewing the ’red elephants’ of Tsavo, lions, cheetahs, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, and numerous species of wildlife. Visit Aruba Dam, where a number of aquatic birds could be seen. Return to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

After breakfast we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a morning, half-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino.

Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Crater 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 it’s 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 enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater, after which we travel to the Tarangire National Park for an overnight. Dinner and overnight the camp.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Budget camping
Meals & Drinks: All meals included,  Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast do we head into the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season.

The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings.

We return to the camp for lunch after which we will depart for Arusha town and we will end our African safari adventure.
You will be driven to your hotel, which ends marks the end of the safari.

Main Destination: Arusha
Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Drinking water (Other drinks not included)