5 Day Serengeti Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Arusha
We will pick you up from Arusha airport or Kilimanjaro airport overnight in your accommodation in Arusha city.
Day 2: Arusha to Serengeti2
Pick up from Arusha hotel at 7.30 am and drive to Serengeti, which will take 7 hours to 8 hours to reach Serengeti National Park. On the way, you will be able to view the beautiful Rift Valley View of Ngorongoro crater and reach Serengeti around 3. pm.
You will have an evening game drive in central Serengeti, where you will be able to see the sunset, and after, you will have dinner and overnight at Seronera campsite inside Serengeti.
The major attractions in Serengeti are the endless plain and great Serengeti wildebeest migration, which involves 1.5 herbivores and followers; predators used to move from one area to another in almost all parts of Serengeti because of drought. Our driver guide will ensure you can see part of the wildebeest migration. The movement of vast numbers of the Serengeti’s wildebeest, accompanied by large numbers of zebra and smaller numbers of Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, eland, and impala will be able to see them in Serengeti.
Day 3: Serengeti to Ngorongoro crater
You will wake at 5.45 for an early breakfast and see the Sunrise inside Serengeti; after you finish your breakfast, you will do an early morning game drive up to 11.30 am, then you head back to the campsite for the hot lunch and pack your stuff in the jeep. Serengeti National Park has the highest concentration of large mammals in the world, so you’re bound to spot giraffes, elephants, hippos and, of course, lions. You’ll also come across more than 500 species of birds, including ostriches and flamingos; our driver will do his best to cover the main parts inside central Serengeti.
This time, after finishing your hot lunch, you will proceed with a game drive in Serengeti while heading to Ngorongoro Crater in Simba campsite for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha
You will wake up around 5.30 am for your breakfast, after breakfast you will descend to Ngorongoro crater floor where you will able to see all the big five. Also you will see different types of birds, black rhino available inside crater. On this day you will have your lunch inside the crater while watching nature and high concentrations of flamingos. Animals available there are over 6,000 wildebeest at the crater, 4,000 Black spotted Hyenas, 2,000 zebras, 2,000 Elands, 3,000 Gazelles, 200 Elephants, over 30 Lions, 30 black Rhinos, and many small animals like Kobs, Antelopes, Jackals, Hippos
and different species of birds.This highly visited African attraction is the world’s largest inactive, unbroken and unfilled volcanic caldera, and this explosion created a caldera of approximately two and a half million years ago.
Later, after 6 to 7 hours of enjoying your game drive inside the crater floor you will start to ascend from crater passing through the campsite to pack all luggage inside the jeep, ready to drive back to Lake Eyasi for an overnight.
Day 5: Lake Eyasi – Cultural Interaction
After breakfast, we traverse the rough road to Lake Eyasi, another soda lake in the Rift Valley. We arrive in the afternoon for a cultural interaction with the Tatoga tribe (a fascinating tribe). Our Tatoga guide at the village will lead the tour. On foot, we explore the dry and rugged landscape area, which is still
inhabited by a small group of bushmen: the Hadzabe or Watindiga. These tribes still live in bands, hunting with bows and arrows gathering roots, tubers, and wild fruits, just as humans did to survive 10,000 years ago. Another exciting tribe in this area is the Datoga (also called the Barabaig or Mang’ati). Initially, they exercised a lot of rivalry over grazing land with the Maasai tribe. Later in the Evening, drive back to Arusha