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4 Days Tanzania Camping Safari

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$930

Duration

4 days

Tour highlights

This short camping safari is perfect if you want to see the top highlights of northern Tanzania in just a few days. The journey takes you to Tarangire National Park, the legendary Serengeti, and the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater—three of the country’s best safari destinations.

You’ll start in Tarangire, known for its giant baobab trees and large elephant herds. From there, it’s a long but rewarding drive to the Serengeti, where you’ll spend a full 24 hours exploring its endless plains and incredible wildlife. The adventure ends inside Ngorongoro Crater, a unique natural wonder packed with animals in a breathtaking setting.

All overnights are at public campsites where animals are free to pass through, adding to the thrill of the safari. Don’t worry—they won’t disturb the tents, and your guide will explain safety procedures. This itinerary is a great way to experience the very best of Tanzania in a short amount of time.

Max Guests

6

Min Age

4

Tour Location

Languages Support

Itinerary idea in detail

You will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your chosen hotel in Moshi. You will meet your driver guide who will brief you on your upcoming safaris, then relax for the rest of the day.

  • Hotel is Bed & Breakfast basis.
  • Non game-viewing travel time: 1:40 hours
  • Distance: 110.33km

After breakfast, your driver/guide, will be ready at your hotel to pick you head into the Tarangire National Park for a game drive. The park has great landscapes including plains known as "Little Serengeti". The Tarangire River draws many animals to its river banks, especially during the dry season. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals – the greater kudu, the fringed-eared oryx, as well as a few Ashy starlings.

The park also offers a large number of buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, lions, cheetahs, leopards, impalas, gazelles, warthogs, and wild dogs which are occasional seen. The park is also enriched with birds with more than 400 species present. During mid-day we will stop at a designated picnic site for lunch and continue with the game drive until the evening when we drive to the camp for dinner and overnight rest.

Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Campsite.

  • Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
  • Distance: 242 km.

After breakfast, we exit Tarangire and head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu and the across the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (but not through the crater this day). During the drive we will pause to enjoy a picnic style lunch then drrive into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park, with its endless plains rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to central Serengeti known as the Seronera. This is one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. We arrive will enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti. Dinner and overnight rest will be inside of the Serengeti at one of its public campsites.

Dinner and overnight at Tumbili Public Campsite 

  • Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
  • Distance: 147 km, 91 miles

After breakfast, we continue with game viewing as we work our way east, back toward the Ngorongoro Conservtion Area (NCA). Once in the NCA we can enjoy a picnic style lunch before we continue the drive. There will be options (at additional charge) of visiting a Maasai village or stopping at Olduvai Museum. The day will end at Simba Campsite, near Ngorongoro Crater where dinner will be served before your night's  sleep. Note that this location tends to be cold and windy (its elevation is 2300m above sea level), so bring an extra clothing layer. Even a knit cap and light gloves might feel welcoming.

Dinner and overnight at Simba Campsite 

  • Non game-viewing travel time: 3 hours
  • Distance:181.21 km.

After early breakfast we will descend over 600 meters into the crater for a half-day game drive. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Crater supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque destination is its dense population of predators which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard. This is one of  the few remaining locations where you might see black rhino. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake, frequented by hippos and flamingoes. Here we will enjoy a picnic lunch. As wonderful as the crater is, it is only 20km in diameter. So 4 - 5 hours is plenty to see all. We then ascend out of the crater and drive back to Arusha (or we can drop you off at Kilimanjaro Airport).

Hotel is Bed & Breakfast basis.

INCLUDES & EXCLUDES

  • Pick-up at Kilimanjaro Int. Airport (JRO);
  • Transfer to a hotel in Moshi and back to the airport;
  • Accommodation before and after safari
  • New Land Cruiser 4x4 with pop-up roof;
  • Experienced English-speaking safari guide;
  • All park fees;
  • All accommodation under your program;
  • Three meals per day on safari;
  • AMREF Flying Doctors;
  • Thermos with hot tea/coffee;
  • Medical kit;
  • Binocular (1 per SUV);
  • International or Local Flights
  • Visa fee;
  • Optional Activities
  • Lunch and dinner in hotel (only before and after safari);
  • Insurance;
  • Tips to your safari guide ($30-50 per day per car).

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