5-Day Best Camping Manyara Serengeti Ngorongoro Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Arrival in Arusha

You will be picked up from the airport by a Lion King representative and conveyed to your accommodation in Arusha where you will overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come. Our partner lodge, Outpost Lodge, is an oasis of calm and aesthetic pleasure.

Main Destination:

Arusha (City)

Accommodation:

Outpost Lodge

• Budget lodge located in Arusha (City)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Lake Manyara National Park

In the morning you will be picked up from your accommodation in Arusha by your personal safari guide. The drive to Lake Manyara National Park is on a good tarmac road, across the gently rolling Masai plains with scattered acacia trees. En route, you will pass many Maasai's in their colourful dresses walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding their cattle and driving donkey carts.

The park’s namesake is a shallow, salt lake. It covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons and is home to thousands of flamingos and over 500 other bird species. On your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffalo, elephants and with some luck, lions lounging in the trees. After an extensive game drive, having experienced the various sights and sounds of the wilderness, you will leave the park and head to a nearby campsite, where you will enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Lake Manyara National Park

Best Time To Visit June to October (Easier to spot animals)

High Season July to March (The northern section gets crowded)

Best Weather June to October (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP

ElephantCommon

GiraffeCommon

BuffaloCommon

ZebraCommon

WildebeestCommon

HippoCommon

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LionOccasional

HyenaOccasional

LeopardRare

Wild DogVery Rare

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

CheetahNone

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Just outside Lake Manyara NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, we'll set off for the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the great migration. The views are spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, spread out before you, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti means 'endless plains' in Maa, the Maasai tongue. This 6,900sq mile (18,000sq km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than 1.5 million wildebeests and 250,000 zebras, as well as both gazelles and impalas. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, leopards and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrates through the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyraxes, bat-eared foxes, mongooses, honey badgers, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds.

After your extensive game drive, you will arrive at your campsite and enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Serengeti National Park

Best Time To Visit January to February and June to October (Different areas are best at different times)

High Season July to March (The Seronera area is crowded)

Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Serengeti NP

ElephantCommon

LionCommon

CheetahCommon

BuffaloAbundant

ZebraAbundant

WildebeestAbundant

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GiraffeCommon

HippoCommon

HyenaCommon

LeopardOccasional

Black RhinoVery Rare

Wild DogVery Rare

White RhinoNone

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Serengeti NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area

After an early breakfast, we'll head out for another game drive on the Serengeti National Park. We may be afforded the opportunity to spot the “Big Five”—lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard—before embarking on our journey to the Ngorongoro Crater. The animals roam freely through the unfenced reserves offering us an uninterrupted game-viewing experience. Arriving at the edge of the crater, we'll have our first glimpse of what awaits us the following day—glistening streams, open grassland and a myriad number of animals. We'll spend the night at Simba Campsite, directly on the crater’s edge with the orange glow of sunset surrounding us as we drift off to sleep.

Main Destination:

Ngorongoro Highlands

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Ngorongoro Highlands

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Ngorongoro Crater and Return to Arusha

Very early in the morning, after a quick stop at the viewing point high up on the caldera's edge, giving a birds-eye view of this teeming land of beauty, we'll descend down onto the crater floor. Enjoy a full day of wildlife viewing in one of the seven wonders of Africa and one of the most incredible places on Earth. The caldera, formed with the massive explosion of a volcano three million years ago, is home to 25,000 ungulates and makes a paradisiacal roaming ground for the Big Five along with over 500 species of bird. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, we'll drive up the steep road out of the crater, passing through different climatological zones. We'll then return to Arusha.

Main Destination:

Arusha (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Non-alcoholic drinks

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.