5 Days Lake Manyara, Serengeti & Ngorogoro Crater Safari

Non game-viewing travel time: 5 hours
Distance: 205 km

After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species.
We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park.
Dinner and overnight in the Seronera area campsite.

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

Today game drive will be a long the Sogore River Circuit which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River and which is good for viewing Lion, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings.
In the afternoon we will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes, which usually attract a number of lion and some formidably large cobras.

Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops, scattered around the plains, most of which are miniature ecosystems, providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This makes the kopjes particularly good for spotting wildlife in the dry seasons – including lions, which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink!

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

Distance: 145 km

After breakfast at the camp we depart for Ngorongoro Conservation area. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time.

It was here that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution.

After lunch descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a safari tour. Water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog and giant African elephants. A big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, like 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 in the southwestern corner which is one of the main features of the crater.
Overnight at the camp.

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

Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
Distance: 190 km

Enjoy breakfast, after which we will transfer back to Arusha. Upon arrival in Arusha will we have lunch and then we will end tour. You will be driven to your hotel, which ends our safari services.

*It is possible to have an additional half day game drive at Ngorongoro conservation area if you are not restricted to an early departure time from Arusha, please note additional cost will apply.

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