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Tanzania Wildlife Adventure

A four day safari extension showcasing Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater.

Tanzania

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4 Days from

$1690 USD

Trip Code: TA4

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Essential Information

Extra trip options & supplements

*Prices listed are per person

Single Supplement

$140 USD

Solo Traveller Supplement

$890 USD

Duration

4 Days

Activities

Wildlife Safari
Game drives

Accommodation

2 nights permanent safari camp
1 night hotel

Meals

2 Dinners
3 Lunches
3 Breakfasts

Difficulty Grading

1 / 10

Discovery and Cruising

Carbon Footprint

89kg of CO₂-e PP per day

(268kg of CO₂-e PP entire trip)

Trip highlights

Choose your own start date on this year round safari extension featuring comfortable permanent tented camps
Explore three iconic northern parks: Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater

Overview

This four day safari extension combines perfectly with a Kilimanjaro or Mount Meru climb, or as a flexible addition to a wider East African journey. Starting and finishing in Arusha, it is available year-round with your choice of start date, allowing you to easily incorporate it into your main adventure.

Over four days, you explore three of northern Tanzania’s most rewarding parks: Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara and the Ngorongoro Crater, each offering distinct landscapes and wildlife habitats.

Tarangire is defined by sweeping savannah, acacia woodland and ancient baobab trees that punctuate the horizon, with large elephant herds and prolific birdlife.

Lake Manyara lies at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, where where famingos and other waterbirds gather along the lake shoreline and hippos congregate in the shallows.

The Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage listed volcanic caldera offers consistently high densities of animals, including lion, elephant, buffalo and, with luck, the endangered black rhino.

Accommodation is in comfortable permanent tented camps with ensuite facilities, well located for access to the parks and allowing you to experience the atmosphere of a traditional safari setting.

If you are short on time, see our three day Tanzania Wildlife Safari covering Lake Manyara National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater.

Itinerary

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Early this morning, your guide will pick you up from your hotel to depart for Tarangire National Park. Lunch will be provided on arrival followed by an afternoon of wildlife viewing. Tarangire covers an area of about 2850 sq km (1,096 sq miles) and supports a huge conentration of wildlife as a result of the permanent water source provided by the Tarangire River flowing through it. With environments ranging from swamps and flood plains to dry savannah exciting opportunities to see wildlife abound. Herds of up to 300 elephants, over 550 species of birds, antelopes and plains animals and of course many predators such as lions, leopards and cheetah can be seen. Accommodation this evening is at Crater Lodge permanent campsite which is located near the village of Mto Wa Mbu and within 5 mins of Lake Manyara National Park.

Meals: L,D

We drive up the Rift Valley escarpment this morning to the Ngorongoro Highlands. Our journey will take approximately two hours with wonderful views over the floor of the Rift Valley and passing through lush rainforest. On arrival at the crater rim (2300m) we descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for nearly a whole day of game viewing. We enter via the Windy Gap road, which is narrow, steep and twisting as it descends into this natural amphitheatre. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the last refuges in northern Tanzania for the endangered Black Rhino. With an extremely high density of animals in the 100sq km caldera, the Crater can be regarded as a “Garden of Eden”. Along with rhino, it is home to the largest density of lions anywhere in Africa with a plethora of antelope, hippos, other big cats, elephants, birds and much more. We return to Crater Lodge permanent camp in the late afternoon. (Please bring some warm clothing as it can be chilly on the crater rim.)

Meals: B,L,D

After breakfast we pack up and leave our camp to spend time game viewing in Lake Manyara National Park. The lake itself covers about two thirds of the park area, shrinking in the dry season to expose large areas of mud flats. The flood plains around the lake extend to drier acacia forest and these different habitats provide a haven for a multitude of wildlife including baboons, herbivores, big cats and migratory birds. We will have a picnic lunch and then leave Lake Manyara to return to Arusha (a drive of around 2 ½ hours), where we check into Ilboru Safari Lodge in the late afternoon.

Meals: B,L

After breakfast, our trip arrangements conclude. Additional nights in Arusha or transfers to the airport for onward travel can be arranged if required for additional cost.

Meals: B

Map

Elevation

The map and elevation chart are for illustrative purposes only and meant to provide general guidelines.

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What's included?

Included

3 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 2 dinners
2 nights in comfortable permanent safari camp on a twinshare basis
1 night in 3 star hotel in Arusha on a twinshare basis
Experienced local game driver-guide
Private safari vehicle
Park entrance and conservation fees valued at US$272

Not included

Flights
Travel Insurance (compulsory)
Visas
Arrival and departure transfers
Pre or post tour accommodation in Arusha
Bottled water and alcoholic drinks
Meals not specified in the itinerary
Items of a personal nature
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