5-Days Tanzania Luxury Safari

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS

The Northern Safari Circuit is explored during the 5 days Tanzania Luxury Safari. Throughout this safari adventure, you will see incredible wildlife in various kinds of landscapes. The Northern Safari Circuit is a spectacular destination with diverse landscapes and incredible wildlife. During the safari trip, visitTarangire, known as the elephant’s home

Furthermore, your trip includes Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara National Parks, both of which are known for their beautiful scenery and abundant wildlife. You will be staying in luxury lodges throughout this safari adventure, ensuring a comfortable and memorable experience.

ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrival Tanzania Via Kilimanjaro Airport

Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by one of our experienced driver guides. Greeted and escorted to your hotel in Arusha. Check-in will be handled, and the rest of the day is yours to relax at leisure in the town.

Accommodation: Gran Melia Arusha

Meal: Breakfast and Dinner

Day 2: Tarangire National Park

After a delicious breakfast, embark on a 2–3-hour drive to Tarangire National Park. The park, nestled along the Tarangire River, boasts stunning landscapes with low hills and vast valleys. Its distinctive flora includes magnificent baobab trees and lush swamps that attract a multitude of wildlife, especially during the dry season. Witness some of the continent’s largest elephant herds, along with rare animal like the greater kudu and Fringed-eared oryx. Enjoy a memorable day tour with a picnic lunch.

Accommodation: Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge

Meal: Breakfast, Picnic Lunch and Dinner

Day 3: Lake Eyasi: Experience life of Hadzabe and Datoga

In the morning you have breakfast then you will pick up the packed lunch boxes ready for the game drive to Lake Eyasi.

In Lake Eyasi you will visit the cultural and natural heritage of the Hazdabe and Datoga. You will reach the remote plains where the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers live.

You learn about their hut creation and how and why they move and go for a walk learning Hadzabe bush lore and their uses of different plants

In the afternoon you will have lunch at the picnic site, and after lunch drive to the Datoga tribe.

They are skilled and are known for their blacksmithing, beadwork, brass bracelets, and necklaces, as well as for supplying the Hadzabe tribe with arrowheads.

Cattle are their most important domestic animals, though they also herd goats, donkeys, and sheep, and raise chickens.

After your once-in-a-lifetime adventure, your guide will transport you to Kilimanjaro Airport, where you will connect to your international aircraft back home. We recommend booking a flight that departs after 6 p.m. on this day so that you have ample time to spend with the Hadzabe and Datoga tribes.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Oldeani Mountain Lodge

Meal: Breakfast, Picnic Lunch and Dinner

Day 4: Game Drives Ngorongoro Crater

Right after breakfast, around 8 am, you’ll leave the lodge and head to Ngorongoro Crater. It takes about an hour to get to the main entrance gate. Once you’re registered, you drive up to the rim of the crater, and from there, you’ll descend into the crater. The crater is big, more than 20 kilometers wide and around 600 meters deep. Ngorongoro Crater is famous because you can find the Big Five there: buffalos, black rhinos, elephants, lions, and leopards. It’s also home to many other animals like cheetahs, zebras, hippos, serval cats, hyenas, and wildebeests.

While you are on the safari, your guide will take you to a place where you can have a picnic lunch.

Accommodation: Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge

Meal: Breakfast, Picnic Lunch and Dinner

Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park / Airport

After breakfast, check-out from lodge ready for safari to Lake Manyara National Park. You travel through the beautiful views of rift Valley Escarpments. While driving you will see Masai herding their cattle and goats just before the park entrance you drive through the small but busy village of Mto wa Mbu, famous for its population of up to 120 tribes and its lively, colorful atmosphere.

Arriving at Lake Manyara, you will enter the park and start your game drive, first through lush forest and then out to open grassland and the lake edge. The birdlife in this park is a bird-watchers’ paradise, with many endemic species. You can also expect to see a variety of animals, such as impala, elephants, dik-dik, bushbuck, hippos and, if you’re lucky, you might see the famous tree climbing lions of Manyara. In the afternoon drives to the airport or Arusha proceed with your own arrangement.