5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari Experience to Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater
This 5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari offers an exceptional opportunity to discover one of the most desirable locations for African safari tours: Northern Tanzania. You’ll embark on early morning game drives with our expert guide in a 4X4 Jeep to explore Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, and the Ngorongoro Crater.
5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari Highlights
- Day 1: Tarangire National Park
- Day 2: Serengeti National Park
- Day 3: Central Serengeti National Park
- Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater
- Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park
Detailed 5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari
Day 1: Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, our 5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari guide will pick you up from your hotel in Arusha and drive you to Tarangire National Park for a game drive and picnic lunch.
Tarangire National Park is named for the Tarangire River that crosses through it. The park is famous for its big herds of elephants, huge baobab trees, and high numbers of predators. There is a plethora to see and explore here!
- Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation: Fig Tree Lodge & Camp
- Meals & Drinks: Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included), Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 2: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will leave Karatu village and enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Serengeti where you will start the game drive for these days.
Activities: Game drive. Serengeti Park is the most famous park of all in Africa. It is more than 15,000 square kilometers of savannah full of lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, elephants, and many other wild animals. After game drives, you will drive to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation: Budget camping – Inside Central Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 3: Central Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you’ll depart from Karatu village and enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, making your way through the Ngorongoro Highlands until you reach the Serengeti gate. Once there, you’ll embark on a game drive, which will continue over the next two days.
Activities: Game drive. The Serengeti Park is one of the most renowned parks in Africa, encompassing more than 15,000 square kilometers of savannah teeming with lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, elephants, and countless other wild animals. Following your game drives, you’ll return to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main Destination: Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation: Budget camping – On the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, you will descend inside the Ngorongoro Crater for game drives with a picnic lunch. In the afternoon, you will drive back to Karatu for dinner and an overnight stay.
Activities: Game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is a must-see while on safari in Tanzania for its high density of wild animals. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a conservation project where the Maasai and their livestock live together with wild animals.
- Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation: Fig Tree Lodge & Camp
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Non-alcoholic drinks
Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park
Following breakfast, you will depart from the lodge, carrying packed lunch boxes, and head towards the entrance gate of Lake Manyara National Park. Once you complete the gate formalities, you will enter the park and be greeted by baboons in the initial forest. Continuing your 5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari journey, you might encounter elephants, gazelles, tree-climbing lions, and a variety of other wildlife. After lunch, you will make your way to either the airport or a hotel in Arusha.
- Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included), Non-alcoholic drinks
End of 5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari
5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari Inclusions and Exclusions
Included
Inclusions
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional 5-Day Best Tanzania Big5 Safari driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Excluded
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
