5 Days Tanzania Camping Safari

After breakfast meet our safari driver guide & start the safari, you will firstly stop in Arusha town for the last-minute shopping if any. Afterwards, drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful Park nestling at the base of the Great Rift Valley is blessed with rich overlapping habitats, swamps and a lake. All these support a large number of animal and bird species. The park has a big number of baboons found nowhere in the world, Lake Manyara tree-climbing lions and huge flocks of flamingos are some highlights of this park. You May expect to spot giraffes, zebra, elephants, wildebeest, hippos, buffalo and predators like leopards, hyenas, jackals and countless number of bird species.

In the afternoon depart for Lake Eyasi for some cultural encounter. The driving is up and across the Great East African Rift Valley, the driving to Lake Eyasi is of about 1.5 hours. On arrival, you will visit the Datoga tribe who will take you around their homes and you will interact with them & ask as many questions as you can. After you will visit the blacksmith & Later afternoon you will go for a sunset walk along the Lakeshore before driving to the campsite for dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
• Overnight at Bushman Campsite close to the Lake

On this day we take you for an early morning hunting with (Hadzabe) the bushmen, the hunting is with bows & arrows & it will include tuition on survival skills. Bushmen at Lake Eyasi are divided into three clans of Hadzabe, Tindiga & the Datoga living in hunting & gathering of eggs, wild fruits & root tubers pretty much the same as humankind who lived in the Stone Age. After the hunting, you will return back to your Campsite for a full breakfast before starting your way to the vast Serengeti plains via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Your 5 Days Tanzania Camping Safari continues as you drive to Serengeti National Park, the driving is along the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu up to Ngorongoro gate. After check in you will drive up & around the Crater rim. You will have a brief stop at the viewpoint of the Crater for some nice photos.  On the way you will visit one of the Masai villages for some more cultural encounter, the Masai worrier will invite you & take you in and around their houses where you can meet kids & other family members, you may ask questions & have some pictures with them. Later they will sing & dance their favourite songs which involve high jumping. If you wish you can join the dancing.

Afterwards, drive down into the heart of the “wild Africa” Serengeti National Park with its endless rolling plains. Break for picnic lunch at Naabi Hills Gate or at the Copjes (Rocky outcropping) when heading to the Central Serengeti area called Seronera. This is one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park endowed with the Seronera River the valuable water supply in this area hence attracts a vast number of wildlife around the Serengeti. Afternoon game drive in searching of the big cats & the Great Serengeti Wildebeest Migration (depending on traveling dates). Late afternoon before or during sunset drive to your campsite for dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
• Overnight at Seronera Public Campsite at Central Serengeti

On this day of your Tanzania Camping Safari in the vast Serengeti plains, we take you for an early morning game drive with a packed breakfast box and lunch box. Early morning game drive gives you a chance to spot some cat families on the road as they try to avoid morning mist. You may also see other nocturnal predators coming back from their long night of hunting or a group of lionesses organizing morning ambush or eating along the road. Later break for breakfast somewhere in the bush & after if the Great Wildebeest Migration will be packed in Serengeti which you will have already know, you will start early & go straight to where they are & spend much time with them in anticipation of experiencing some animal actions like fighting, hunting, eating even killing.

You may expect to spot predators like lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals & others. Herds of buffalo, elephants, giraffe warthog, zebra & many antelopes can also be seen wandering around the Serengeti plains. Late afternoon during or before sunset drive back to the campsite for dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
• Overnight at Seronera Public Campsite at Central Serengeti

This is your last day in Serengeti, if you wish you can do another early morning game drive & spend much time in Serengeti Game Drive then you will have an early hot lunch before start your way to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Reaching Ngorongoro for a wonderful sunset at the crater rim then dinner & overnight.

• All meals included – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
• Overnight at Ngorongoro Simba Public Campsite at the Crater rim

On this last day of your 5 Days Tanzania Camping Safari, you will have an early breakfast and descent into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a wonderful game drive (picnic lunch will be served in the Crater floor). As very few animals migrate in and out of the Crater with its 600 meters high walls you may expect to spot herds of African elephant, zebra, buffalo, warthog, hippos & the rare black rhinos in their natural habitat

Another big draw card in this big caldera is the denser population of predators which include lion, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs & the ever- illusive leopard which sometimes needs binoculars eyes to spot.

You will visit Lake Magadi large but shallow Salt Lake on the southwest corner of the crater floor frequently visited by flocks of flamingos & other aquatic birds. Some hippos and other animals can also be seen around the Lake.

Later afternoon drive out & back to Arusha for drop off at Kilimanjaro International Airport or for overnight in Arusha. (Accommodation on this day can be included upon request at extra cost).

• Breakfast & Lunch Included