4-Day Budget Safari Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro & Tarangire National Park

Day 1 – Arusha – Lake Manyara Travel time: 2 ½ hours Distance: 130 km Meet our professional tours guide/driver in Arusha town, who will deliver a short safari info briefing, after which, we travel to the Lake Manyara National Park. We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge. After lunch we head into the Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 2 – Lake Manyara National Park – Ngorongoro Crater Non game-viewing travel time: 2 hours Distance: 60km After breakfast, collect packed lunch and transfer to the Ngorongoro crater. Upon arrival we will descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Crater supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater. Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 3 – Ngorongoro Crater – Tarangire National Park Travel time: 3 ½ hours Distance: 155 km After breakfast we depart for the Tarangire National Park, we arrive in time for lunch at the lodge. After lunch, will we head into the Tarangire National Park for an afternoon game drive. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 4 – Tarangire National Park – Arusha Non game-viewing travel time: 2 hours Distance: 90 km After breakfast do we head into the Tarangire National Park for a morning games drive. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings. We return to the lodge for lunch after which we will depart for Arusha town and we will end our African safari adventure. The group should tip the tour guide around $ 20 to $ 30 a day for all our safaris. You will be taken to your hotel, which ends our safari packages services.