5 Day Best of Tanzania Safari , Planning a Tanzania safari tour? Then a 5 Day Best of Tanzania Safari Tour is the ideal Tanzania safari package to see the highlights of the northern Tanzania circuit! During your Tanzania Safari, you will see Tanzania’s four most popular and well-known national parks: Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater Tanzania, Serengeti National Park, and Tarangire National Park.
You will appreciate seeing the many species in Tanzania, including the big five mammals, wildebeests, and zebras, among many more, as well as the breathtaking vistas of each Tanzania park visited.
Summary Highlights of 5 Days Best of Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Pick up, Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park Game Drive and Walking Safari
Day 2: Drive to Serengeti National Park
Day 3: Full day Serengeti National Nark
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater Drive
Day 5: Tarangire National Park and Departure
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Pick up, Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park Game Drive and Walking Safari
Your guide will get you up from your accommodation in Arusha and welcome you to the safari. After a briefing, you will begin your drive to Lake Manyara National Park. A game drive in Lake Manyara National Park will provide an excellent introduction to Tanzanian wildlife. After your picnic lunch, go on a guided nature walk to get closer to the park’s natural environs while also taking in the breathtaking vistas.
After the nature walk, you’ll be taken to the lodge for supper and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Hhando Coffee Lodge or Manyara Safari Lodge.
Day 2: Drive to Serengeti National Park.
You will enjoy an early breakfast at your lodge before heading to Serengeti National Park.
After lunch, you will go on a late afternoon game drive in the savannah plains in search of wildlife species such as the big five (elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, and rhinos), as well as enjoy the beautiful scenery such as the kopjes where lions can be seen watching their prey. You will head to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Central Serengeti, Tanzania. Bush camp or comparable meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 3: Full-day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park.
After an early breakfast at your lodge, your guide will take you on a morning game viewing excursion through the central Serengeti National Park, where you will search for wildlife such as lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos, wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, cheetahs, impalas, gazelles, kudu, and rhinos, among others.
After enjoying your picnic lunch in the bush, you will engage in an afternoon game drive across Serengeti National Park, looking for animal species, and then return to your lodge for supper and overnight stay as described above.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater Drive.
After breakfast at the camp, you will drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. With your packed lunch, you will descend 600 meters into the Ngorongoro crater for incredible wildlife watching possibilities and to take in the stunning environment, which includes the big five Ngorongoro species.
You will see wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and enormous African elephants, as well as predators like lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and leopards. After the wildlife drive, you’ll head to your lodge for supper and an overnight stay.
Hhando Coffee Lodge offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 5: Tarangire National Park and Departure.
On the final day of your 5 Days Tanzania Safari, you will eat breakfast at the lodge and then drive to Tarangire National Park for an excellent half-day wild game viewing experience before dawn. Other creatures in the park include zebras, giraffes, lions, the park’s famed elephant herds, and many more.
Enjoy lunch in the wilderness and another wildlife watching chance before leaving the park and being dropped off at the airport or hotel in Arusha. This concludes your five-day Tanzania safari.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch
End of 5 Day Best of Tanzania Safari
Includes 5 Day Best of Tanzania Safari
• 4×4 safari land cruiser with pop up roof
• Accommodation per itinerary
• Meals as per itinerary B=Breakfast, L=Lunch and D=Dinner.
• Services of an English speaking guide
• National park entrance fees as per itinerary.
• Mineral Water while on safari.
• Crater fees and concession fees
• Government taxes
5 Day Best of Tanzania Safari Excludes
• Flights
• Visas and related costs
• Personal expenses
• Alcoholic drinks, tips, laundry, telephone calls and other items of a personal nature
• International and local flights
• Optional excursions and activities not listed in the itinerary
• Anything else not included in the itinerary
