Touch of Wilderness
4 days / 3 nights
- Lake Manyara National Park or Tarangire National Park
- Serengeti National Park
- Ngorongoro Crater
If you only have 4 days but still want to visit the most famous parks of Tanzania (Serengeti and Ngorongoro, plus Manyara or Tarangire) this is the perfect tour for you. It only spends one night in Serengeti, which we usually think it’s too little, but if your timeframe is short and you really want to visit this amazing park, then it is the right choice for you.
Day by day itinerary
LAKE MANYARA & TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
Our guide will pick you up at the airport / accommodation and drive you to Lake Manyara or Tarangire National Park (recommended from June to October).
Tarangire National Park is renowned for its diverse scenery with nine distinct vegetation zones. The landscape is abounding in Ancient Baobas, making you feel belittled when staying next to them. And the river is full of wildlife, allowing you to spot the Big 5! It’s also in Tarangire that you can find the highest concentration of elephants in the whole country, You will have the opportuniyy to observe their behaviors and interactions between families.
Lake Manyara National Park is truly breathtaking, with its luscious acacia forest, giant figs, and mahogany trees. Here you can find plenty of wildlife, including giraffes, elephants, impalas and a large number of buffaloes. The lake is alfo the habitat for lots of hippos! The most distinctive characteristics of this national park are the tree.climbing lions, flamingos in the lakeshore, as well as the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle.
In the afternoon, transfer to the camp for dinner.
SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After an early breakfast, depart towards the most famous National park in the World, the Serengeti. The driving itself, although long, is spectacular. You will drive up the crater highlands, making a quick stop at the rim for an out of this world view of Ngorongoro Crater. This will be an unforgettable moment for anyone seeing it for the first time. As you progress well into the Serengeti, you will see why the name means, in local language, “endless plains”. The park has 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) and for most of it, the plains will stretch to the horizon defying your senses and perception of distances. It is the home of the Great Migration and to 2 million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of zebras and all kinds of antelopes including the abundant impalas and Thomson’s gazelles. As for Big Cats and large predators, it’s the place of choice to look out for lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, with many television scenes like the famous river crossings having been filmed in this park. Smaller animals like foxes, mongoose, honey badgers, jackals, monkeys, baboons, rock hyrax and african hares, together with more than 500 species of birds, also inhabit this park.
On the way to the park you will have the option to stop for a visit to Olduvai Gorge, a famous place where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the remains of the first man who walked on Earth. This tour includes a short lecture describing the archeological digs and geologic characteristics of the gorge, as well as a visit to their museum.
SERENGETI TO NGORONGORO
On this day we suggest a very early wake up in order to do an early morning game drive (when the animals are more active) and see one of the best sunrises you’ll ever witness. It’s really one of the most beautiful experiences to have. After the game drive, we return to the camp for a rewarding brunch and then we’ll proceed to Ngorongoro, the 8th wonder of the Natural World. The crater spreads for 102 sq. miles and has 2.000 ft high walls, making it virtually a Noah’s ark and inhabiting almost every species of wildlife that is indigenous to East Africa. It’s one of the very rare locations in the whole continent where you can witness the black Rhino. The concentration of African wildlife if the greatest in the continent. The crater has a river, several swamps, a soda lake with a great concentration of flamingos, a forest and open plains. It’s also famous for its elephants which are the largest in the world and have huge tusks. This is due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. Ngorongoro Crater is truly a Wonder of the Natural World.
You will reach Ngorongoro in time for a sundowner.
