5 Days Tanzania Wonder Safari | Adventure In The Wild Safaris

Private Safari Tour

5 DAYS, 4 NIGHTS: NGORONGORO CRATER – NDUTU AREA – LAKE MANYARA PARK

From Ngorongoro Crater to Enchanting Lake Manyara
Wildebeest Caving Safari (Mid December – Mid March)

Starts Arusha / Ends Arusha – We’ll pick you up from your hotel, residence, or the airport in your own private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep.

Here’s a fun way to celebrate the diversity of Tanzania’s pristine parks. In just five days we’ll bring you to the most diverse landscapes and wildlife in East Africa.

Enjoy this amazing safari in a customized open-sided Adventure In The Wild 4×4 Safari Jeep that includes: Cooler Box, long-range high-frequency radio, Power Outlets AC 230V, First Aid Kit, and above all, a professional multi-lingual safari guide who will ensure you have an unforgettable safari experience.

We created this safari to bring you up close to the wonders of Tanzania… wonders like the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera, and a wildlife universe unto itself, cut off from the rest of Africa.

The Ndutu Area is the engine of the Great Wildebeest Migration – it’s where the millions of wildebeests and other grazers settle for the calving season, from December through March, giving birth to up to half a million newborns every winter.

Entering the fresh, green grasses of these fields you’ll be astonished to witness the drama of these countless baby animals emerging into our world and their protective mothers, trying to shield them from the hordes of predators, attracted to these new vulnerable prey.

It’s an emotional spectacle with the newborns taking their first step, making their first sounds… and the advances of lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and other cats ready to pounce to bring back food for their own recently born young.

The Migration’s Seasons

But this time of birthing is just one of several seasons at Ndutu to watch the Great Migration’s cycles. In the later spring, the young animals learn to keep up with the herd and join as their vast numbers begin to migrate north on their seasonal trek in search of the fresher grasses.

You can witness these awe-inspiring natural cycles but remember, the Ndutu Area is still active year-round. The resident animal population of big cats, elephants, giraffes, monkeys, baboons, and more fill these fields every season, only awaiting your discovery.

Lovely Lake Manyara

“Lovely”, that’s what legendary writer and adventurer Ernest Hemingway called our next stop, Lake Manyara National Park. Its small size and deep colors standing in contrast to Ndutu, this pretty reserve will welcome you with its beautiful blue lake, home to thousands of bright pink flamingoes.

But don’t let Manyara’s compact dimensions fool you, this reserve is home to elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, impalas, leopards, warthogs, and tree-climbing lions! The park also supports the largest number of baboons in Africa.

This park too is another “wonder” to discover on our African safari and the perfect bookend to our earlier adventures at Ngorongoro and Ndutu.

Want to discover these beautiful landscapes and exciting natural parks? Please join us on this 5-day wonderous journey. Just let Adventure In The Wild Safaris know about any special requests you have for your safari experience and we’ll make them happen. Personalization is our specialty!

All-Inclusive:

Your 5-day Ngorongoro / Ndutu Area / Lake Manyara safari includes all transportation, park entrance fees, game drives, accommodations, and meals.

Adventure In The Wild Safaris always offers you the most in choice and flexibility. You can even customize the cost of your safari, depending on your choice of season, the number of travelers in your party, and your pick of accommodation. Depending on your style or budget, choose from economy, comfort, or luxury safari lodges or tented camps.

But it’s important to know… whatever level of accommodation you choose, your actual safari adventure with us will always be at our highest standards.

Your Guide:

For your 5-day journey, you’ll be guided, hosted, and looked after by your own experienced driver/guide.

Transportation to the parks and game viewing will be in a private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep – this vehicle is the safari standard with its higher seating and rugged all-wheel drive. Always included on our tours, the Land Cruiser Jeep is just another example of the value we offer you at Adventure In The Wild Safaris.

Customize Your Holiday:

If you’d like to customize your safari or have any special desires, please let us know. We’re here to make your safari wishes come true.

Please check the guide below for your African Safari Costs.

So that you may know

• Your safari can be extended to extra days if you prefer
• Driving times on your safari adventure are estimates and may vary depending on the state of the road and traffic
• You can take an air Safari using local flights to decrease driving time if desired (at additional cost)

Tour Highlights:

1 Night at Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Tanzania

• World’s largest intact volcanic caldera
• 8th Wonder of the World & UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Dense concentration and easily accessible wildlife
• Olduvai Gorge – site of prehistoric man

2 Nights at Ndutu Area – Tanzania

• Wildebeest calving fields
• Thousands of newborns of every species
• Lots of big and small cats
• Immense herds of the Great migration

1 Night at Lake Manyara National Park – Tanzania

• Varied landscape and wildlife
• Over 300 migratory birds – flamingo & long-crested eagle
• Rift Valley escarpment – dramatic landforms and spectacular backdrop to your visit

Daily Itinerary

Day 1
ARUSHA – NGORONGORO CRATER (190 KM / 4 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner

07:30 – Your driver/guide will pick you up from your Arusha area hotel, airport, or residence with your own private 4 x 4 safari Jeep. Jump in and we’ll head for Ngorongoro Crater.

Standing at the crater’s rim, you’ll take in the awesome view of the great blue/green expanse spread out before you, inviting your discovery.

Our 4 x 4 Jeep will take us down the steep crater walls to a land of incredible exploration – lions, leopards, giraffes, elephants, buffalo, hippos, pink flamingoes, and more!

We’ll spend an incredible day here, enjoying this universe of over 25,000 varied animals on the crater’s floor – a mixture of plains, marsh, and wooded forest.

Then toward late afternoon, we will ascend back up to the crater’s rim to catch one of the area’s blazing sunsets.

Day 2
NGORONGORO – NDUTU AREA (86 KM / 2–3 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

This morning, if we’re lucky, we just might catch a glorious sunrise at the crater’s rim. Then we’re on our way to the Ndutu Area. But first, we’ll make a stop at Olduvai Gorge, perhaps the world’s most important paleoanthropological site.

The deep ravines of Olduvai have brought forth a treasure of early man’s fossilized remnants and tools, giving us an invaluable record of our ancient history.

Ndutu is famous for its incredibly fluctuating wildlife population – especially from December to May. The first few months of the year are known as the calving season when up to 8,000 newborn wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle drop onto these rich, green fields every day.

But no matter what time of year you visit Ndutu, you can’t miss the thousands of resident animals, all the big cats, giraffes, buffalo, elephants, monkeys, baboons and so many others.

Day 3
FULL DAY AT NDUTU AREA

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

This will be a special day, a time when we can get to know the numbers and variety of Ndutu’s grazers and predators. Today, we can go on as many game drives as we want.

If you’re here during the calving season, you’ll witness thousands of wildebeests and their young. It’s an incredible scene of first steps and the baying of countless baby animals. Their mothers protecting them from the advances of the many predators drawn to the vulnerable newborns.

Later in the spring, the youngsters are big enough to join the adult animals as they start herding north, in the formation of the Great Migration.

There will also be plenty of animals that make their home here year-round. Plus, the region is especially rich in birdlife.

Day 4
NDUTU AREA – LAKE MANYARA (141 KM / 3 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

From the great plains of Ndutu, we head for the compact jewel of a park that awaits us at Lake Manyara. Though the reserve is not large, we will make discoveries of giraffes, elephants, wildebeests, impala, monkeys, warthogs, and an immense number of baboons.

But that’s just the beginning. The lake itself is a trove of fascinating birdlife – everything from cormorants to storks, spoonbills, egrets, and flocked at the water’s edge, a fluttering carpet of bright pink flamingoes.

More surprises? Leopards and sometimes, up in the acacia branches overhead, the park’s famous tree-climbing lions! And butterflies – hundreds of species filling the air about you with their fluttering comings and goings.

Day 5
LAKE MANYARA – ARUSHA (114 KM / 2 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch

It’s our final day on safari so what do you say we take a spin around the beautiful park to discover that last elephant, warthog, or baboon? Perhaps we’ll see a tree-climbing lion…

Then we’ll head back to Arusha and along the way, stop to admire the scenery and break for lunch.

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