4-Day The Short of Tanzania Safari (Come, Watch & Go)

In the morning, you will start your safari with a drive to the Tarangire National Park. The park is roughly the size of Luxemburg and covers an area of about 2,600 km². Bush savannah, seasonal swamps, and giant baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve and the park is probably one of the best places in East Africa to see elephants. From the open roof of the safari vehicle, you will be able to watch them and absorb the landscape. Apart from elephants, the park is also home to Masai giraffes, various gazelles, antelopes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, baboons, and more than 500 types of birds. After an extensive game drive, you will leave the park and drive to Marera Valley Lodge for overnight.

After breakfast, you will make your way to Serengeti National Park for a full-day game drive (and picnic lunch). A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfill their instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life here. Serengeti has really special sights, sounds, and smells of Africa with stunning scenery, ever-changing light, and entertaining wildlife. In this park, the animals don’t walk to any schedule, so we may find lions, leopards, elephants, zebras, cheetahs, antelopes, gazelles, hippos, and many species of birds and reptiles during our game drive. Here you might spend your day in the Central Park area, or your guide will know where to take you according to the season (migration of the animals). For dinner and overnight at Into Wild Africa Luxury Tented Lodge.

Enjoy a half-day game drive in Serengeti National Park. Before we exit the park, we visit the Serengeti Visitor’s Center for more information about the park. We'll follow the trails of wildebeest and see some animals very close to us such as rock or tree hyrax, porcupines, and lizards. After that, we will have lunch, exit the Serengeti and drive to the Ngorongoro Highlands for dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Wild Tented Camp.

After an early breakfast, you will enter the Ngorongoro crater on a steep and narrow road. The slopes are forested, but the landscape changes to savannah, dotted with the occasional acacia tree. The wildlife here is absolutely breathtaking and if you are lucky you might spot the “Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard. The crater is also home to warthogs, wildebeests, zebras, hippos, hyenas, and many more. After a morning full of game viewing and a picnic lunch, you will leave the crater in the afternoon and head to Arusha.

Some interesting facts about crater

The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest volcanic caldera, formed during the massive explosion of the volcano once higher than Kilimanjaro some 2 to 3 million years ago. The crater has a total area of 304 km², is 600 m deep, and has a diameter of 20 km.

After the wonderful game viewing in Ngorongoro Crater, you will be driving to Arusha/ Airport.