5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience to Tarangire, Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater

Discover the 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience to Tarangire, Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater. The first day you visit the beautiful Tarangire and overnight at Suricata Boma Lodge where you can relax at the swimming pool. On the second day, we go to Lake Manyara and overnight in Suricata Boma Lodge. For the next 2 days, you’ll be on the endless plains of the Serengeti, exploring nature. You overnight in the Tented Lodge in the middle of the park, quite adventurous! The last day of 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience you visit the amazing Ngorongoro crater.

5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience Highlights

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park
Day 2: Lodge to Lake Manyara National Park
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
Day 4: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater

Detailed 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

The first 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience Day we will pick you up from your hotel in (or around) Arusha. During the 2,5-hour drive, you will enjoy the beautiful nature and landscapes. In Tarangire, we’ll do a game drive before lunch. After lunch at the picnic site, we’ll do a game drive all afternoon. Tarangire National Park is located 115 km south of Arusha and is a long and narrow park that covers 2850 km2 and runs along the Tarangire River.

The name of the park is also coming from the Tarangire River, which is the only source of water for wild animals during the dry season. The park is famous for its large number of elephants, baobab trees, and tree climbing African pythons. During the dry months, the concentration of animals around the Tarangire river is almost as diverse and reliable as in the Ngorongoro Crater. At the end of the afternoon, we will arrive at Suricata boma lodge where you can relax the swimming pool.

Main Destination: Tarangire National Park
Accommodation: Suricata Boma Lodge – Mid-range lodge located 1-2hr drive from Tarangire NP
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, all drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

Day 2: Lodge to Lake Manyara National Park

In the morning we’ll be heading to Lake Manyara where we do a game drive all day. Lake Manyara is known for its breathtaking panoramic views, waterfalls, babbling brooks with clear water and hot springs. Lake Manyara National Park is located between the rocks of the Great Rift Valley and Lake Manyara. The beauty of this park is partly due to a large variety of wildlife, grasslands, forests, and water. Lake Manyara has one of the largest populations of water birds, over 400 species, including flamingos and pelicans. But also, large herds of elephants, giraffes, hippos, water buffalos and of course the impalas. At the end of the afternoon, we will arrive at the Suricata Boma Lodge.

Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
Accommodation: Suricata Boma Lodge – Mid-range lodge located just outside Lake Manyara NP
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, all drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

Day 3: Serengeti National Park

This day of 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience, we will leave after breakfast and head towards the Serengeti. After a 4-hour drive, we will arrive at the Serengeti. After lunch, we’ll do a game drive all afternoon in this beautiful park. The Serengeti is known for its endless plains of savannah and forest landscapes. An area of about 30,000 km2 in the north of Tanzania and Kenya, of which 80 % is located in Tanzania.

The park is famous for the migration involving about 1.5 million herbivores and followers, thousands of predators are moving because of the drought in the northern hills to the southern plains. After the rains in mid-April, they go back via a detour through the western part. At the end of the afternoon, we’ll arrive at Matawi Serengeti Camp where you can enjoy the beautiful sunset in Serengeti.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
Accommodation: Matawi Serengeti Camp – Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, all drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

Day 4: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

The fourth day of 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience, we spend all morning in Serengeti and in the afternoon, we’ll be heading to the Ngorongoro conservation area. We overnight at Rhino Lodge which is a few hundred meters away from the crater rim. The lodge offers amazing views of the untouched high montane forest with Mount Oldeani and Mount Makarot.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Rhino Lodge – Mid-range lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, all drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater

We will wake up early in the morning and after breakfast, we will drive into the Ngorongoro crater. The Ngorongoro crater has a diameter of about 20 kilometers and a 600-meter-high crater wall. The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. The crater life estimated 30,000 larger mammals. In the center of the crater is a Salt Lake. This is one of the most densely populated wildlife areas in the world. It is a unique area where animals and humans as the authentic Maasai and Hadza live together. From the edge of the crater, you look out over the impressive crater and its wonderful inhabitants. In the afternoon we’ll drive back to Arusha where we arrive before dinner time.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, all drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

End of 5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience

5-Day Tanzania Big5 Private Safari Experience Inclusions and Exclusions

Included

Park fees (For non-residents)
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
A professional driver/guide
All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)

Excluded

International flights (From/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees