5 Days - Big Five Private Safari in Green Season

About this tour

With this safari, we offer a budget entry-level safari experience for solo travelers, couples, families, friends, or groups in three of the most famous national parks in northern Tanzania and the unforgettable experience of a game drive in the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater. Meet the “Big Five” (lion, elephant, leopard, buffalo, and rhino). Marvel at Tanzania’s varied landscapes and visit a Maasai village.

Customization

This tour can be customized

Duration

5 Days

Minimum Age

5 years

Countries

Tanzania

Comfort Level

Budget

Maximum Group Size

Any group size

Physical Level

Easy

What to expect

Tarangire – unique African landscape and the largest elephant herds in Tanzania

Serengeti – Animal encounters from up close that you would never expect

Ngorongoro Crater, in the biggest zoo in the world you you spot the Big Five

Manyara NP – for many the most beautiful garden in Africa

Best time

  • March
  • April
  • May
  • November
  • December

Best for

  • All Traveller Types

You will visit

  • Arusha
  • Central Serengeti
  • Karatu
  • Kilimanjaro International Airport
  • Lake Manyara National Park
  • Ngorongoro Crater
  • Tarangire

Getting There

  • This Tour starts in Arusha, Ends in Arusha
  • Your flight should arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)

Transport details

  • Game drive transport is by 4×4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle
  • Transfer between destinations is by 4×4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle
  • Airport transfer is by 4×4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle

Day 1:

Arusha

Today, at best in the morning we welcome and greet you at Kilimanjaro Airport. Your guide and driver for this week will take us to Arusha in your first accommodation. We will accompany you to check in, discuss your travel plans with you, and answer your questions. Arrive first and relax. In the afternoon, you can get your first impressions of African life on a walking tour in Arusha, do some small shopping, or experience local handicrafts in the Maasai Market. Today you will spend the night in Arusha.

Main Activities

  • City Tour, Cultural Tour, Historical Sites Tour, Relaxation

Transport

  • 4x4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle

Meals

  • Full Board

Drinks

  • Mineral Water, Coffee

Accommodation

Day 2: Tarangire

Tarangire National Park is famous for its concentration of elephants and giant baobab trees. Named after the Tarangire River, the park is a unique source of fresh water in the park area. With open grasslands, acacia forest, marshes, and hills, it provides the habitat for lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, impalas and many other antelope species. For bird watching, the park has about 450 species of birds.

 

After breakfast, we drive over well-developed roads to Tarangire National Park for game drives with packed warm lunches. Here you will see your first gazelles, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, and elephants of all sizes. After the game drive, we will make our way to your accommodation in Karatu. Enjoy the sunset by the pool with a sundowner, dinner, and a relaxing night’s sleep.

Main Activities

  • Game Drive

Transport

  • 4x4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle

Meals

  • Full Board

Drinks

  • Mineral Water, Coffee

Accommodation

Day 3: Central Serengeti

Serengeti is the main wildlife ecosystem for wildebeest migration, migrating from the southern plains of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Nature Reserve to the northern Maasai Mara in search of grazing land and water. The Serengeti is home to predators such as cheetahs, jackals, hyenas, and lions, while along the rivers is the territory of hippos, crocodiles, and leopards. Large herds of elephants, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, wildebeest, gazelles, impalas, and hartebeest, populate the landscape.

After enjoying your tea or coffee in the early morning, we take a short drive to the Ngorongoro highlands and follow the road to the Serengeti National Park. On our way, you will have the opportunity to visit a Maasai village. The villagers will greet you with singing, while the young warriors will compete with their famous jumps from a standing start. Before we reach Serengeti Park, we stop at a nice picnic area where you will have the opportunity to use spotlessly cleaned washrooms for refreshment and eat food from lunch boxes. We are already on a game drive on the way to your accommodation in the Serengeti. Today you will spend the night in the heart of the Serengeti

 

Main Activities

  • Game Drive

Transport

  • 4x4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle

Meals

  • Full Board

Drinks

  • Mineral Water, Coffee

Accommodation

Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Crater in the Ngorongoro Nature Reserve is a volcanic caldera inhabited by a variety of wildlife species. The crater is 610 m deep, has a diameter of 19 to 21 km and is home to over 30,000 large animals. Ngorongoro is an iconic unique place to see rare black rhinos, as well as other species such as lions, cheetahs, hyenas, serval cats, zebras, gazelles, wildebeest, hippos, buffaloes, elephants, monkeys and bird species such as crowned cranes, eagle pelicans and flamingos. The Ngorongoro Nature Reserve covers the total area of 8300 km² and is known to be the cradle of humanity. In the Olduvai Gorge, millions of years old fossil remains of human ancestors have been found. This is where the term “Africa, Cradle of Humankind” originated.

This morning you enjoyed a breathtaking sunrise in the Serengeti. We leave the Serengeti with a game drive and make our way to the Ngorongoro Sanctuary. When we arrive at the Ngorongoro crater, you might notice that no giraffes are living there, instead, with a bit of luck, you will have the opportunity to take photos of the rare black rhinos. In the late afternoon, arrive back at your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Transport

  • 4x4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle

Meals

  • Full Board

Drinks

  • Mineral Water, Coffee

Accommodation

Day 5: Lake Manyara National Park

Manyara National Park is a 330 square kilometre biosphere reserve. The area around the eponymous Lake Manyara provides habitat for thousands of pink flamingos, other water birds and over 300 other tropical bird species. The landscape varies between groundwater and acacia forests, open grasslands and marshlands. You will encounter large baboons and look out for elephants, giraffes, impalas, bushbucks, waterbucks, warthogs and blue monkeys in the green of the forests. With a bit of luck you will see lions resting in acacia trees. A behavior for which the lions of the park are famous.

After a relaxed breakfast, we say goodbye to your lodge. Our next destination is a half-day game drive in Manyara National Park. After lunch in the shade of the large umbrella acacias, you will see the impressive surroundings near the lake. Pure green nature with many ancient baobab trees and the largest bird nests in the world, built by small hammerhead birds.

In the afternoon our safari adventure ends and we make our way back to Arusha. Your guide will make sure that you reach your flight home or connecting flight to Zanzibar

Main Activities

  • Game Drive

Transport

  • 4x4 Closed pop-up roof vehicle

Meals

  • Full Board

Drinks

  • Mineral Water, Coffee
End of this tour

2025 Rates and Prices

PAX

Price per person sharing

1 Peson (Solo)

US 2860

2 People

US

3 People

US

4 People

US

5 People

US

6 People

US

Please note:

  • Prices are per person sharing (Ask a tour organizer for more price information)
  • Accommodations listed on this tours are subjected to availability, it may change depending on the time of booking
  • The price for this tour may also depends on government imposed charges. Please be in touch with the organizer of this tour at the moment of enquiring this tour.

Price Includes

  • A professional guide
  • All Accommodations
  • All activities
  • All meals
  • All taxes
  • All transport

Price Excludes

  • Additional Accommodation after Safari
  • Additional excursions
  • Alcoholic Drinks
  • Domestic Flights
  • International Flight
  • Personal Item expense
  • Pre-arrival accommodation

Payment Terms

  1. With the binding booking confirmation, the customer will be informed of the bank details of TANGER SAFARIS, including the payment details. Due to local requirements in the destination country, TANGER SAFARIS maintains a bank account on a US-$ basis. Accordingly, the invoice amount shown in the customer invoice is also in US Dollars.
  2. After conclusion of the contract, an immediate down payment of 50% of the invoice amount is due. Decisive for this is the receipt of payment within 5 working days on the account of TANGER SAFARIS.
  3. The final payment is due 30 days before the start of the trip, provided that the trip can no longer be cancelled for the reason stated in § 9. If there are less than 30 days between booking and the start of the trip, the total price is due for payment immediately. Also in this case, the payment must be received within 5 working days on the account of TANGER SAFARIS.
  4. If the customer does not pay the deposit and/or the final payment in accordance with the agreed payment due dates, TANGER SAFARIS is entitled to withdraw from the travel contract without prior warning and to charge the customer with cancellation costs in accordance with § 6.

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