5-Day Best Of Tanzania Safari Northern Circuit

Package Overview

This 5 Day Tanzania Lodge and Tented Camp Safari allows us experience the highlights of the Northern Safari Circuit. We experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of diverse landscapes; monkeys in the forest, lions in the trees, elephants amongst the acacias, and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. We also visit The Serengeti National Park, home to some 3 million animals. These spectacular grass plains offer the best opportunity of viewing cheetah, leopard, and lion, in the true wild.

Itinerary:

Day 1: NAIROBI Arrival in Arusha

You will be picked up from the airport or the hotel staying in Nairobi and transferred to board your flight to arusha. On arrival you will be by picked from the Arusha airport by our Deeper Serengeti Safaris representative and conveyed to your accommodation in Arusha where you will overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come

DAY 2: ARUSHA - TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

We depart from Arusha in the morning and drive to Tarangire National Park. Tarangire is famous for its herds of Elephants and ancient Baobab trees. This park is also well known for its high concentration of game and fantastic bird life. Other animals to be spotted include leopards, giraffes, zebras, lions, etc.

We enjoy a game drive until late afternoon and then drive to Karatu for Overnight 

DAY 3: KARATU TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

We depart after breakfast to Serengeti via the Ngorongoro conservation area where we have a picnic lunch. We arrive for an afternoon game drive on the northern side of Serengeti, entering the park.

Serengeti offers the most enthralling game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo and wildebeests, groups of elephants and giraffes, eland, impala and Grant's gazelle, lions, leopards, and many others. Dinner and overnight stay at the accommodation at Tukaone Tented Camp.

DAY 4: FULL GAME DRIVE IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

Breakfast at around 0800am. Proceed with morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the Luxury tented camp in the mid-afternoon. The term Serengeti means endless plains in the Masai language. In the central plains, there are carnivores like leopards, lions, hyenas, and cheetahs. This park is normally the scene of the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra that occurs between the Kenyan Mara and the Serengeti.

Varied bird species can be seen here including eagles, ducks, geese, egrets, vultures, secretary birds, ibis, storks, herons, kites, pelicans, cranes, and guinea fowl. The Serengeti National Park is arguably the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world with over 3 million large mammals. About 35 species of plains animals can be seen there including the "big 5"

- Elephant, Rhino, Lion, Leopard, and Buffalo. Other common species found here include hippo, giraffe, eland, impala and other antelope types, baboons, monkeys, and a profusion of over 500 species of birds. In May or early June, huge herds of wildebeest, gazelle, and zebra begin their annual spectacular migration northwards. In their wake follow predators, lions, cheetahs, and wild dogs with vultures circling overhead! Come back to the tented camp for dinner and overnight.

DAY 5: SERENGETI, NGORONGORO CRATER TO ARUSHA

After breakfast, with a picnic lunch packed, we depart for a game drive to the Ngorongoro crater. A real-life Eden, you will be amazed by its abundant wildlife that gets very close to the vehicle. The crater floor supports more than 25000 large mammals including the remaining Black Rhinos, Zebras, Gnus, Gazelles, Buffalos, Lions, Hippos, Elephants, Elands, Hyenas, and several aquatic birds. We explore the crater till late afternoon drive back to Arusha and take your flight back to KENYA 

End of our safari