5 Days 4 Nights Itinerary
Day 1 : Drive to Ngorongoro:
12:30 pm – Lunch in Arusha, Tanzania’s tourist hub. Arusha is a city located in Northern Tanzania, at the foot of Mount Meru. 2:00 pm – Drive to Ngorongoro. Travel time/distance is approximately (4 Hrs / 210 kms) 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Ngorongoro.
Day 2: Drive from Ngorongoro to Serengeti:
6:30 am – Breakfast 7:30 am – Half-day Crater game drive down the Crater floor with picnic lunch. This is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage site, also known as “the eighth wonder of the world”. Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s most popular wildlife sanctuaries. It offers a unique biosphere which has remained virtually unchanged since the beginning of time. Deep within the Crater, enclosed by towering walls, some 25,000 large mammals wander the plains, lakes and forests of “the land that time forgot” dominated by enormous bull elephants, rhinos and lions. 2:00 pm – After lunch, its en-route game drive to Serengeti National Park, one of the world’s greatest wildlife sanctuaries. Serengeti means “endless plains” in the Maasai language, the Serengeti continues to be an ongoing source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers and photographers alike. Travel time/distance is approximately (3½ Hrs / 140 km) 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti.
Day 3 : Full day in Serengeti National Park.:
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Game drive in the Serengeti National Park commences. Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value. With more than two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson’s gazelle, and a quarter of a million zebra, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. The wildebeest and zebra moreover form the star cast of a unique spectacular – The annual Great Serengeti migration. The name ‘Serengeti’ comes from the Maasai language which means an ‘extended place or in clear words endless plains’. The National Park has an area of 12,950 square kilometres, is as big as Northern Ireland, but its ecosystem, which includes the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Game Reserve and the Maasai Mara Game reserve (in Kenya), is roughly the size of Kuwait. This park offers the most complex and least disturbed ecosystem on earth. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Serengeti.
Day 4 : Drive to Tarangire
6:00 am – Breakfast 7:00 am – Drive to Tarangire National Park. Travel time/distance is approximately (6 Hrs / 330 km) 12:30 pm – Lunch in Tarangire at the Lodge/Camp. 2:00 pm – Half-day Game drive at the Tarangire National Park which is the sixth largest National Park in Tanzania. The name of the Park originates from the Tarangire river that crosses through the park, being the only source of water for wild animals during dry seasons. The swamps are the focus of the largest selection of breeding birds anywhere in the world. The park is also famous for the termite mounds that dot the landscape. Those that have been abandoned are often seen to be home to dwarf mongoose. 7:30 pm – Dinner and overnight in Tarangire.
Day 5 : Drive back to Arusha:
7:00 am – Breakfast 8:00 am – Drive back to Arusha. Travel time/distance is approximately (2½ Hrs / 130 kms)
