5 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Wildlife Safari

5 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Wildlife safari is a wildlife viewing experience in the northern part of Tanzania starting with pick up in Arusha and then continuing to the open savannah plains of Serengeti national park and Ngorongoro crater.

You will enjoy searching for wildlife species like lions, leopards, rhinos, buffalos and elephants which can be seen both in Serengeti national park and also in Ngorongoro conservation area during the 5 days Ngorongoro and Serengeti safari.

During the 5 days Ngorongoro and Serengeti safari, you will engage in morning and afternoon game drives in Serengeti national park. You will also enjoy seeing attractions around the destinations you will visit on your safari such as the Seronera valley in the central part of the national park.

Your 5 days Serengeti and Ngorongoro safari will start in Arusha and after your wildlife viewing experiences in Serengeti national park and Ngorongoro conservation area, your guide will drive you back to Arusha.

Safari highlights of the 5 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Wildlife safari

Detailed itinerary

Day 1: pick up and drive to Serengeti national park

Your guide will pick you up and welcome you for your 5 days Ngorongoro and Serengeti safari. After your short briefing, you will be driven to Serengeti national park. You will enjoy views of the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and also see the endless plains, rolling into the distance. Serengeti national park has over 4000 lions as well as many other wildlife species.

You will have a safari in the central part of Serengeti national park which has a high concentration of wildlife species like lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos, rhinos (big 5) as well as wildebeests, elands, antelopes, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, antelopes among others. During your safari, you will also see attractions such as the Seronera river among others, hippo pool. You will proceed to check in at your lodge where you will have lunch. After lunch, you will have rest and later in the day you will have another game drive in the plains of Serengeti national park. After the game drive, you will return to your lodge for dinner and overnight at Osinon tented camps and lodges.

Day 2 and 3: full day in Serengeti Plains

On the 2nd and 3rd day of your 5 days Ngorongoro and Serengeti safari, you will have an early breakfast at your lodge ahead of a full day adventure of wildlife viewing in Serengeti national park in search of different wildlife and bird species. You will explore attractions around the national park as you look out for various wildlife species in their natural habitat in the open savannah plains of Serengeti such as wildebeest, zebras, buffalos, elands, warthogs, giraffes, rhinos, hyenas, antelopes, gazelles, impalas, and hartebeest among others.

You will also have lunch after your morning game drive in Serengeti national park and after lunch, you will engage in another game drive in Serengeti national park to search for other wildlife species within the national park and also enjoy the beautiful scenery in the national park. You will be driven to your lodge for dinner and overnight at Osinon tented camps and lodges.

Day 4: drive to Ngorongoro crater

After breakfast at the lodge, you will prepare to drive from Serengeti national park to Ngorongoro Conservation area for more wildlife viewing experiences during your 5 days Serengeti and Ngorongoro safari. You will have lunch before descending 600 meters into the Ngorongoro crater for amazing wildlife viewing opportunities and to enjoy the beautiful scenery around the crater which is also referred to as the world’s largest in active caldera. You will also look out for various wildlife species which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants as well as predators such as lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, leopard.

You will also enjoy seeing attractions like Lake Magadi which is a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner and is among the main features of the Ngorongoro crater. Along the lake shores of Lake Magadi, there are a large number of flamingos, hippos as well as other bird species which can be spotted during a safari. You will later be driven back to your lodge for dinner and overnight at Hhando coffee lodge.

Day 5: Transfer to Arusha

On the last day of the 5 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Wildlife safari, you will have an early breakfast at your lodge and then check out of the lodge. After checking out of your lodge, you will proceed to drive to Arusha where your guide will drop you off at your preferred location which will mark the end of your safari.

End of the 5 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Wildlife safari

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