6 Days Good Value Year-round Big Cats Camping Safari
6 Days Good Value Year-round Big Cats Camping Safari
Private Camping Safari
- Northern, Tanzania
Overview
These six-day safaris will allow you to explore the most famous four parks in Northern Tanzania and have a high chance of seeing all the big 5. This trip will take you to Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, and the Ngorongoro Crater.
Day by Day
Day 1:
Arusha to Tarangire National Park.
You leave Arusha after breakfast with a picnic lunch packed safely away. The Rift Valley landscape drifts past as your guide heads for Tarangire National Park, the least visited reserve on the itinerary but one capable of delivering fantastic game viewing. Home to Tanzania’s biggest elephant population, Tarangire supports large numbers of buffalo, giraffe, zebra, and many antelope species, most evident during the dry season when concentrations of animals at the life-giving Tarangire River are at their peak.
You stop at a picnic site and enjoy your lunch with breath-taking views of the park’s landscape and the river below you, and maybe in the company of elephants drinking and digging water from the sand River banks, lunch proceeds with game viewing and in the late afternoon drive to your Accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Main Destination: Tarangire National Park.
Accommodation: Nsya Lodge
Meal Plan: Lunch & Dinner
Day 2:
Full day exploring Lake Manyara National P ark
After breakfast leaves the camp and proceeds to Lake Manyara National Park for a day of game viewing an area Hemingway described as, “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. Lake Manyara National Park is a naturalist’s delight thanks to its diverse environments. Ranging from the underground-water forest and acacia woodlands to grasslands, swamps, marshes, and hot springs, the park is simply packed with wildlife. Over 400 species of bird have been recorded including large flocks of flamingos and migratory water birds. Manyara’s forests ring with the call of monkeys and birds while its acacia woodlands are home to Manyara’s infamous tree-climbing lions and slow-strolling elephants. The park is also home to the largest troops of baboons in Africa, zebra wildebeest, giraffe, hippos, leopard, and impala, and in the late evening drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park.
Accommodation: Nsya Lodge
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Day 3 - 4:
Manyara Area to Serengeti National Park (Central).
Have a relaxed breakfast at the lodge and depart to Serengeti with a nice packed picnic lunch to go with,
Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed as one of the seven wonders of Africa, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some 1: 5 million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 300,000 zebras and, Thomson’s gazelles join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, topi, impala, and Grant’s gazelle. Within the two days, we are going to explore the plains, water holes, kopjes, and Rivers for the big cats. The eastern plains of Namiri plains and the Gol-kopjes offer excellent cheetah and lion sightings. Our campsite is at the heart of it all, set on a high elevation offering an excellent view of the plains from your doorstep.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park.
Accommodation: Nguchiro Campsite
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Day 5:
Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
After breakfast, a game drive in Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch, until noon, where you will have again game drive to see the beauty of this great park. The afternoon after lunch game en- route to Ngorongoro conservation area for dinner, and Overnight at the Camp.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Accommodation: Simba Campsite.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Day 6:
Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Arusha
Leave your camp very early in the morning, and descend 610 meters down to the grasslands of the crater floor, an area of about 265 square kilometers. Despite its small size, the Crater is a Big 5 country and the openness of the terrain means easy and rewarding game viewing. You will spend the day exploring the crater floor, stopping to picnic on the grasslands amidst the grazing herds. Formed by a massive volcanic eruption, the world’s largest intact and un-flooded caldera provides a year-round home to an astonishing 25,000 large mammals including black rhino, wildebeest, and zebra along with Africa’s densest concentrations of hyena
The Crater’s forests shelter elephants and buffalo, and its wetlands are home to hippos and flamingos while lions, jackals, leopards, and caracals make up the full range of predators. Late afternoon you leave the crater behind and drive back to Arusha and you will be dropped at your accommodation, at Kilimanjaro international airport.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Accommodation: No Accommodation.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch
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Price Includes
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- Mineral water
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
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