5 Days Best of Tanzania Budget Lodge Safari

Day 1 Tarangire National Park

After breakfast drive to Tarangire National park. It is the vast number of baobabs that first capture the eye as you enter Tarangire Park. The gently rolling countryside is dotted with these majestic trees, which seem to dwarf the animals that feed beneath them. Picnic lunch along Tarangire River - Afternoon game drive along Tarangire River.

Day 2 Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater is the 8th wonder of the world. It hosts an estimated 30,000 large mammals on its floor, including large herds of buffaloes, wildebeests, elands, hartebeest elephants, hippos, lions and the endangered black rhino. The crater being 12 miles wide 2,000 feet deep, and covering an are of 102 square miles, it is the largest intact volcanic crater on the earth. Picnic lunch at the crater floor, afternoon game drive on the crater floor.

Day 3 Full Game Drive Serengeti National Park

Sunrise adventure in Serengeti National Park. It is the migration of large mammals for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over 1.5 million wildebeest and about 400,000 zebras take part in this migration which essentially involves three famous and important protected areas Serengeti and Ngorongoro in Tanzania and the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya.

Day 4 Serengeti Game Drive Half-Day

Serengeti Game Drive Half-Day. Early in the morning after breakfast you will have another game drive in the Serengeti National Park until lunch hours. You will have lunch box and thereafter drive from Serengeti National Park through Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Twiga Lodge near Lake Manyara Park. The drive will take about 4 hours drive. In the evening you will have dinner and overnight at Twiga Lodge.

Day 5 Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast drive to Lake Manyara National Park. The first view as you approach Lake Manyara National Park is very spectacular, regardless of direction. When you approach it from the east, the Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming impressive backdrop to the lake. If you come from the west and pause at the top of the escarpment, the park lies in a green strip below you and the lake glistening in the sunlight.

This beautiful park is at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment and comprises of forest, woodland, grasslands, swamps and part of Lake Manyara itself. Picnic lunch in the park.