4-Day Tanzania Medium Safari Tour

Tour Overview

This 4 days Tanzania Medium Safari allows us to experience the highlights of the Northern safari circuit. We’ll experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of diverse landscapes. See cheetahs, lions on trees, monkeys in the forest, elephants amongst the acacias, and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. Also we’ll visit the Serengeti, home to some 3 million animals. These spectacular grass plains offer the best opportunity of viewing cheetah, leopards and lions in the true wild.

Route

Start	Arusha (Day 1)
Day 1	Tarangire National Park
Day 2-3	Serengeti National Park
Day 4	Ngorongoro Crater
End	Arusha (Day 4)

Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Tarangire National Park

Have an early breakfast, your driver will pick you up at your hotel at 07:30. When all your bags are packed into the jeep you set off for Tarangire. From Arusha, it is a 2-2.5 hour drive to Tarangire along a tarmac road. When you arrive at the get your guide will handle the formalities while you can visit the toilet and the curio shop. The rest of the day is spent in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire is a huge area of thorny bush and savannah. The park is home to large numbers of herbivores, and most know it to be one of the best parks in Africa to see elephants. Other animals that you have an excellent chance to see in Tarangire include lions, leopards, hyenas, jackal, ostrich, wildebeest, zebra, impala, baboon, warthog, and many others. Late in the afternoon you leave Tarangire and drive along a tarmac road to your camp close to Ngorongoro.

Overnight: Karatu Safari Camp Lodge

Budget lodge located in Karatu (Town)

Meals & Drinks:

Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
Drinks not included

Day 2: Serengeti National Park

Early breakfast and then departure for Serengeti. The drive goes via the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater and you make a quick stop at the crater rim on a viewpoint. After about two hours you arrive in Serengeti and National Park and the rest of the day is spent game driving in the park. Serengeti is home to many animals and on your game drives here you may see, among other animals, lion, hyena, jackal, leopard, cheetah, serval, giraffe, Thomson’s gazelle, Grant’s gazelle, dik-dik, impala, warthog, hippo, crocodile, baboon, vervet monkey, waterbuck, topi, hart beast, klipspringer, rock hyrax and many more. In the evening you arrive at your campsite, in the heart of Serengeti for Dinner and Overnight.

Overnight: Budget camping

Inside Serengeti NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 3: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro

You get up before sunrise this day and go out for a two-hour game drive before breakfast. In the first hours of the day your chances of seeing predators are the best. You may also get a chance to see nocturnal animals like the striped hyena, bush baby, and caracal. Breakfast on the lodge then another game drives in Serengeti before you in the afternoon drive to Ngorongoro Crater. You arrive at your campsite, in the mountains just beyond the rim of the crater, at dusk. Dinner and overnight at campsite.

Overnight: Budget camping

Inside Serengeti NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 4: Ngorongoro crater

Early breakfast and then you drive down to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater. The crater is a crater by name only, geologically it is a caldera, a collapsed volcano. Ngorongoro is the world’s largest unbroken caldera with a diameter of about 21 km. Inside the crater, the climate is perfect for animals with water available all year round and cooler temperatures than the surrounding savannah. Ngorongoro Crater is your best chance to see rhinos and you may also see lions, hyenas, elephants, hippos, cheetah, wildebeest, zebra, and many kinds of birds and monkeys. Mid-afternoon you leave Ngorongoro and drive back to Arusha where your guide drops you at your hotel / Airport.

Meals & Drinks: