4 days mid-range tour
4 days: lake manyara/ Ngorongoro crater/ Tarangire national park
$1500-3000 USD
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Safari summary
Our 4-day Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park safari package was designed to offer visitors, with a budget constraint, the opportunity to experience a 4 day Tanzanian Northern Circuit wildlife safari at affordable rates. Experience the excitement of an African wildlife safari, or even a photographic safari in the Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro crater and Tarangire National Park located in the northern Tanzania.
This unforgettable African safari tour will take you to the Ngorongoro crater, rated as one of the top 10 safari destinations in the world. The Ngorongoro crater is a breath taking natural wonder, featuring one of the highest concentrations of wildlife in Africa and offering some of the easiest and most rewarding game viewing in Tanzania. You will also visit the Lake Manyara National Park, home to a myriad of birdlife, offering an impressive diversity of habitats for animals and birds – slopes of the rift valley, ground water forest, acacia woodlands, open grassland and the soda lake itself. You will also visit the Tarangire National Park that offer a wide variety of wildlife. During the dry season the Tarangire River offers the only permanent water source in the area and animals migrate to this park.
We are flexible to tailor this sample Tanzanian safari itinerary – it can be adapted to suite your own personal needs and preferences, to any seasonal changes or to migratory animal movements. As with all our African safaris, we have offered you a wide variety of accommodation options – directly impacting on the total safari costs – in order to offer you the widest possible tour budget options.
Please do not hesitate to contact one of our tours consultants directly, should you require any further assistance or more detailed information, regarding any of our safaris, tours, travel and other trekking packages.
About this tour
| Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
| Main focus | Game drives | |
| Activity level | Easy activity | |
| Best months | All months | |
| Countries | ||
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Fine details
Safari highlights
- Night game drives
What’s included?
- Airport transfers
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Hot air balloons
- Internal flights
- International flights
- Spa treatments
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Day 1
Lake Manyara
Travel time: 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 lodge. 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
Serena lodge, Sopa lodge, twiga lodge
Day 2
Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, collect packed lunch and transfer to the Ngorongoro crater. Upon arrival we will descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-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
Serena lodge, Sopa lodge, twiga lodge
Day 3
Ngorongoro Crater
Travel time: 3 ½ hours Distance: 155 km After breakfast we depart for the Tarangire National Park, we arrive in time for lunch at the lodge. After lunch, will we head into the Tarangire National Park for an afternoon game drive. 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.
Serena lodge, Sopa lodge, twiga lodge
Day 4
Tarangire
Non game-viewing travel time: 2 hours Distance: 90 km After breakfast do we head into the Tarangire National Park for a morning game drive. 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,
Serena lodge, Sopa lodge, twiga lodge
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