5 Days Tanzania Budget Safari

Tour Overview

This unforgettable Tanzanian safari journey will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. The tour will further take you to the Serengeti National Park, into the heart of wild Africa, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. You will visit the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. This is a suggested or sample Tanzanian Budget Camping Safari itinerary – it can be adapted to suite your own personal needs and preferences, as well as for any seasonal changes or migratory animal movements. As with all our African safaris, tours, travel and trekking packages, we have offered you a wide variety of accommodation options directly impacting on the total safari costs in order to offer you the widest possible tour budget options.

Highlights

Our 5-day Budget Camping Safari, tours packages, which specifically include 2 nights in Serengeti National Park, have been designed to offer you more time in the Serengeti to witness the wildebeest migration.
You will experience the excitement of game viewing in some of the most spectacular national wildlife game parks in Africa.
Tanzania is one of the best countries in Africa to witness the wildebeest migration.
This tour combines Serengeti wildebeest migration with a cultural tour as well as game drive viewing in Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire, and Lake Manyara National Park.

Tour Itinerary

You will be met at the reception of your hotel in Arusha and drive to Lake Manyara National Park. Not only is this park a bird-lover’s paradise with over 400 species of birds, but is also home to primates such as baboons and blue monkeys and many herbivores, such as elephants, hippos, wildebeest, impalas and giraffes. Through the pop-up roof of your safari vehicle you will see the landscape changing from lush acacia woodlands to grassy floodplains, where colonies of flamingos and other water fowls can be found on the alkaline Lake Manyara’s shoreline. After extensive game viewing you will leave the park and head to your campsite in the small town of Mto wa Mbu. The evening can be spent lounging at the pool or bar, before you have your evening meal and overnight. The night will be spent in tents.

After the breakfast plates have been cleared, you will continue toward the fertile highland where wheat, coffee and corn are grown by the Iraqw people. Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will be able to see the breath-taking Ngorongoro Crater before travelling onwards to the Serengeti National Park, which you will reach by midday. Here the biggest wildebeest and zebra migration takes place and depending on season you will have the opportunity to witness thousands of animals on their search for nourishment. You will camp the night in the Seronera area in central Serengeti.

Today you will explore the Serengeti National Park. Your guide will take you closer to where the migrating herds are to be found. Their exact location differ yearly as they migrate according to the rainfalls, but your guide will know where you will be able to see them best. Lurking close by you might even spot some leopards, cheetahs and lions. After an eventful day you will return to your campsite in the Seronera area for your evening meal and overnight.

Early morning you will set out on another game drive in the Serengeti before continuing towards the Ngorongoro Crater. Your campsite lies directly on the crater’s edge, offering a once in a lifetime view as the sun slowly sets over the crater. Nestled in your tent, thinking about the adventure the next morning brings, you will drift off to sleep.

Early in the morning you will head down the forested slopes into the crater on a steep and narrow path. Other animals present in the crater area include wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, warthogs, hippos and more than 500 species of birds. You will spend the entire morning exploring the park and after a picnic lunch in the crater, you will return to Arusha where you will arrive by early evening.

Includes

Park fees and concession

All activities

All accommodation as stated in the itinerary

A professional driver/guide

All transportation

All Taxes/VAT

Roundtrip airport transfer

All Meals

Drinking water on all days

Excludes

International flights

Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour

Tips for Guide

Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)

The government imposed an increase in taxes and/or park fees

Alcohol drinks

Optional Activities