5 days Serengeti and Ngorongoro safari
Tanzania Safari: 5 Days in Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
The 5 days Serengeti and Ngorongoro safari is Tanzania’s best safari experience that offers you the chance to visit famous national parks, which are Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area, or Ngorongoro Crater. On this Tanzania safari, you will enjoy the wonderful attractions in the two national parks that are located in the northern region of Tanzania, which is also the famous northern Tanzania safari circuit.
Day 1: Pick up and transfer to the Ngorongoro Crater drive.
On the first day of the safari, you will be picked up from your hotel or from the airport, and then he will brief you about the safari and then start on your journey to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This is popular for hosting the Ngorongoro Crater, which is the largest intact caldera in the world. Along the journey, you will enjoy vistas of rolling hills, forest galleries, and coffee plantations.
Upon arrival, you will check into your lodge and enjoy lunch. After lunch, you will go for a game drive experience around the crater while watching many types of wildlife, like cheetahs, giraffes, cape buffaloes, rhinos, hyenas, lions, and others. After the experience, you will return to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay.
Day 2: Transfer to Serengeti National Park.
After breakfast, you will drive to the crater floor for a game-viewing experience. The crater floor is home to much wildlife, which offers you the chance to see many animal species and bird species, like pink flamingos, at the shores of Lake Magadi, found on the crater floor.
After the experience, you return to the lodge and enjoy lunch. After lunch, you will transfer to Serengeti National Park, which is Tanzania’s incredible and famous wildlife safari destination. Also, Serengeti National Park is famous for the Big Five mammals (lion, buffalo, elephant, rhino and leopard) as well as the annual wildebeest migration. You will arrive in the evening, check into your lodge and then relax as you prepare for tomorrow’s adventure. Later, have dinner and an overnight stay.
Days 3 and 4: Hot air balloon ride and full days in Serengeti National Park.
Days 3 and 4 are the days that you will spend exploring Serengeti National Park while enjoying full-day game drives, that is, morning and afternoon game drives with a hot air balloon ride experience.
On the 3rd day of the safari, after breakfast, you will transfer to the starting point for the hot air balloon ride, where you will be over the Serengeti plains while watching the spectacular sunrise and aerial views of the endless plains and animal species like wildebeest, zebras, leopards, and many more. A hot air balloon ride takes about 1 hour and is accompanied by a champagne breakfast in the bush. Immediately after the experience, you will go for a game drive.
On the 4th day of the safari, you have a full-day experience with a picnic lunch, and this is where you will have the opportunity to explore the rest of the park, which you were unable to visit on the previous day. During the game drives, you will have incredible and unique watching of the animal species like impalas, elephants, elands, wildebeests, lions, leopards, buffaloes, cheetahs and many others while grazing and as the predators are hunting for their prey. In the middle of the experience, you will enjoy your picnic lunch that will be in the middle of the wilderness at one of the picnic sites around the park, and then, after, you will go for another game drive. After the experience, you will go back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 5: Departure.
After your breakfast, you will check out from your lodge and then start your journey to Arusha with an en route game drive as you exit the park. Upon arrival, you will have lunch at the hotel, and then your safari driver will drop you off at your own reserved hotel or at the airport for your departure flight that will bring your safari to an end.
