6 Day Tanzania Safaris Tour From Arusha

Duration : 5 Nights / 6 Days

Destination Covered : Arusha, Ngorongoro, Manyara

Tour Activities : Game Drives

Tour Themes : Wildlife, Safari Tours

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Arusha, Ngorongoro and Manyara Tour Overview

What’s Cool About These Parks?
Did we mention the tree-climbing lions at Lake Manyara? The park is known for this unusual sub-species, lazing about overhead on the acacia tree branches. Manyara is also home to over 400 bird species nesting in the trees and filling its colorful skies.

Everything about the Serengeti is immense, almost without limit. Over 3,000 lions grace its sweeping plains, the largest number of any park in Africa. It is here the wildebeests, zebra, and gazelle form the heart of the world’s greatest migration of wildlife – a timeless display of survival, moving in a seemingly endless train in search of water and taller grasses. It’s a spectacular sight, experienced nowhere else.

And for another unique experience, few parks can touch Ngorongoro. Consider this: it’s the world’s largest intact volcanic crater, home to over 25,000 animals, everything from lions to flamingoes, in a density of wildlife that ensures numerous sightings throughout our exploration into its deep reaches. Plus, the sunsets and sunrises at its crater rim are amongst the best in Africa.

Tarangire Park is especially delightful if you would rather see elephants than tourists, for the great pachyderms greatly outnumber its visitors in this sometimes overlooked reserve. What many don’t know is the park is home to its own mini-migration – zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, giraffe, lions, and especially elephants herd into the park from July to October.

Have you ever met a bushman? Not many have but at Lake Eyasi you’ll be witnessing an ancient culture that has barely changed over the millennium. The Hadzabi bushmen are hunter-gathers, inhabiting this area for over 10,000 years. They are welcoming and you can join their daily life and rituals.

The Extras
Depending on your choice of accommodation you can enjoy extras like traditional dances and music around the boma, spa, boutique, massage, swimming pool, children’s menu, same-day laundry service, Wi-Fi, special dietary menus, honeymoon suites, family cottages, and more.

The Details
No one is more important to the success of your safari than your guide. At Africa Kenya Safaris, we have the friendliest, most experienced driver/guides. They will guide, host, inform, and look after you like the special guest you are. That’s our guarantee.

You’ll safari in style out to the parks in your own private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep – the best way to experience Africa with its higher seating for better views and its rugged all-wheel drive.

We give you more at AKS – customization, flexibility, and lots of choices. Your safari includes park entrance fees, game drives, accommodations, and meals. Plus, we always offer economy, comfort, superior comfort, or luxury safari lodges or tented camps.

Please give us a shout at Africa Kenya Safaris to set up your personalized safari adventure for yourself, your family, and your friends.

Tour Highlights
Lake Manyara National Park
Tree climbing lions
Varied landscapes and wildlife
Over 300 migratory birds – flamingoes & eagles
Rift Valley escarpment – dramatic landforms surround your visit

Serengeti Park
The great migration – vast herds of wildebeest & zebra moving on to Masai MaraGame Reserve in Kenya
Famous for its dense and varied wildlife
The Big Five – largest population of lions in Africa

Ngorongoro Crater
World’s largest intact volcanic caldera
8th Wonder of the World & UNESCO World Heritage Site
Dense concentration of easily accessible wildlife
Olduvai Gorge – site of pre-historic man

Tarangire Park
Great numbers of elephants
Unusual baobab trees
Immense herds of zebra and wildebeest
Colorful birdlife – over 500 species

Trip Summary:
Tour code: TS04
Duration: 6 Days, 5 Nights
Operation: Daily departures
Difficulty level: Easy
Suitable for: Solo travelers, families, honeymooners e.t.c
Travel mode: Road on a standard 4×4 Land cruiser
Accommodation: Economy, Comfort or Luxury safari lodges and tented camps (you choose).
Activities: Game drives
Trip Flow:
Day 1: Arusha – Lake Manyara National Park.
Day 2: Lake Manyara – Serengeti National Park.
Day 3: Full day at Serengeti National Park
Day 4: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater (with visit to Olduvai Gorge)
Day 5: Ngorongoro – Tarangire National Park or Lake Eyasi (you choose).
Day 6: Tarangire OR Lake Eyasi – Arusha.
Possible extensions:
Combined Kenya & Tanzania safaris.
Zanzibar beach holiday extension.
Climb Africa’s highest mountain – Mount Kilimanjaro
Optional Extras (at an extra cost):
Masai Village visit
Hot Air Balloon over the wildlife-rich Serengeti plains

Arusha, Ngorongoro and Manyara Tour Itinerary

Day 1

Arusha – Lake Manyara 2 ½ Hour Drive

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

7:30 am: Let’s get this safari started – your Africa Kenya Safaris driver/guide will pull up to your hotel, residence, or another place of your choosing, in a private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep.

En route to Lake Manyara Park, we’ll be passing through Maasai country where we may spot the Maasai herders tending their flocks.

Get ready for the onslaught of colors that greets us at Lake Manyara – the cobalt alkaline lake, contrasting with vibrant flocks of feathery pink flamingoes, crowding its shores.

The deep greens of the park’s acacia forest hold all manner of wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, impalas, wildebeests, and active troops of baboons.

But it’s perhaps the tree-climbing lions that are a signature attraction of the park. You may spot them lazily napping way up on the branches of acacia trees, just waiting to have their picture taken.

We’ll enjoy our first safari evening at our Lake Manyara safari lodge or tented camp.

Day 2

Lake Manyara - Serengeti 4 Hour Drive

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

What’s the secret to an active and fulfilling safari? An early rise. This is the time to see the big cats when the air is cool and the park is just starting to come alive into the new day.

We’ll take a game drive, enjoy breakfast and head out to the great Serengeti.

This will be a scenic and fun journey – we’ll stop to enjoy the countryside and also have a picnic lunch.

And then, we will come upon the vastness of the Serengeti, stretching out to the horizon. Upon it… immense numbers of wildebeests, zebra, and perhaps the greatest collection of lions in Africa.

We will have the opportunity for unlimited game drives to discover the Serengeti’s many surprises and varieties of wildlife including topi, hartebeest, and waterbuck.

Our first of two Serengeti evenings will be at our tented camp or safari lodge.

Day 3

Full Day at Serengeti

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

There is nothing like the quiet of the early morning and the soft sunlight upon the trees and grasses on this new day.

This is a time of unlimited game drives and we’ll explore the massive savannahs of the Serengeti, taking in the wildebeests, the zebras, and the big cats in their huge numbers throughout the park.

Should you be here during February/March you’ll be astonished by the scene unfolding before you: up to half a million wildebeests and zebras calving across the immense reaches of the Serengeti.

Just a few months later, from July through October, the now young calves, along with the adults of the herd form the heart of what’s known as the Great Migration – millions of herding grazers in long processions moving across the plains and into the Masai Mara in their timeless search for food.

While here, we will also explore other areas of the park, such as forest and marshlands, where we will look for hippos and crocodiles

We’ll spend our second Serengeti evening at our safari lodge or tented camp.

Day 4

Serengeti – Ngorongoro 3 Hour Drive

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Up early again for another busy day – we’re headed for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

We’ll breakfast and set out in our private 4 x 4 Jeep, but along our route, we’ll make a stop at the world-famous Olduvai Gorge, perhaps the richest archaeological site on the planet. For here, the earth has opened up to provide a treasure trove of early humankind’s fossilized tools and artifacts, a veritable record of our ancient development.

Traveling on, we’ll come upon the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, a vast volcanic caldera of 263 sq km (101 sq mi), isolated from the rest of Africa. The world’s largest intact crater is its own universe of grassland, swamp, and woodlands, a dense habitat of tens of thousands of animals.

Our 4 x 4 Jeep will carefully negotiate the steep descent down the crater wall taking us to this magnificent ecosystem.

Every sort of wildlife inhabits this isolated world and we will be tracking for lion, leopard, buffalo, black rhino, zebra, antelope, and bird life such as pink flamingoes.

We’ll enjoy our lunch in this rich environment, marveling at the profusion of wildlife gathered in this special space.

Then as late afternoon approaches, we’ll head back up the crater wall for another African surprise, a signature Ngorongoro sunset.

Come evening, we’ll relax at our Ngorongoro accommodation.

Day 5

Ngorongoro - Tarangire (3 Hour Drive) OR Ngorongoro – Lake Eyasi (2 Hour Drive)

Ngorongoro - Tarangire
3 Hour Drive

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

You’re experienced safari-goers now so you know the drill: up early to take in the quiet of the new day. In fact, if we’re up early enough we can head back to the crater’s rim for a spectacular sunrise.

And now we’re off to Tarangire National Park, a lightly-touristed reserve where the elephants outnumber the safari-goers, and that just makes it so much more fun.

Along with the elephants, we’ll take in the park’s bizarre baobab trees – with their heavy trunks and short branches they appear as if planted upside down!

This out-of-the-way park even features its own migration of buffalo, zebra, antelope, big cats, and more – over 250,000 animals herd through its forests and fields.

On this, final safari evening, we’ll relax, enjoy dinner, and swap stories of our adventures at our Tarangire safari lodge or tented camp.

Ngorongoro – Lake Eyasi
2 Hour Drive

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Let’s get ready for a most unusual day. Lake Eyasi is home to the Hadzabe people, one of the last hunter-gather tribes in Africa. Think of this adventure as a trip back in time.

We’ll stay overnight here and see closeup, how these ancient people hunt, gather fruit, and we’ll learn about their daily lives and rituals. You can even accompany them as they go about their activities and enjoy their traditional dances.

Day 6

Tarangire - Arusha 3 Hour Drive

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Let’s get up early on our final safari day to enjoy the peaceful vibe in this special park. Our morning game drive will provide opportunities for last looks at the big cats, the zebras, rhinos, and of course, the elephants.

Soon, it’s time to begin our journey back to Arusha. We’ll have you back at your residence, hotel, airport, or another place of your choosing in the afternoon.

Or, from Lake Eyasi, we will journey back to Arusha.

Six days, four parks, and hundreds, if not thousands of our precious wild animals. We hope we’ve filled your mind and memory with unforgettable images, thoughts, and feelings from our incredible natural world. From everyone at Africa Kenya Safaris, thank you for your time, interest, and commitment to our special way of life!