3 Day Wildlife Safari
A fast-paced introduction to the northern circuit — tree-climbing lions and flamingos at Manyara, the crater floor at Ngorongoro, and Tarangire’s huge elephant herds — ideal if you’re short on time or budget.
Extra nights in Moshi or Arusha before or after your safari can be arranged on request.
Meet your professional guide-driver in Arusha or Moshi for a short safari briefing, then travel to Lake Manyara National Park, arriving in time for lunch. This impressive park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, a massive but shallow soda lake at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The varied habitat draws one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions, and large flocks of flamingos feeding on the lake’s algae. Dinner and overnight per your chosen accommodation.
After breakfast we descend 600m into the Ngorongoro Crater for a morning game drive. It’s one of the most densely populated wildlife areas in Africa, home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last black rhinos, plus wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and elephant, supported by a year-round water supply. Predators are just as dense — lion, hyena, jackal, cheetah and the elusive leopard. We enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater before heading on to Tarangire National Park. Dinner and overnight per your chosen accommodation.
After breakfast we head into Tarangire National Park for a morning game drive. The park follows the Tarangire River across low-lying hills on the Rift Valley floor, its Acacia woodland and giant baobabs giving way to swamps that draw wildlife through the dry season. Tarangire is reputed to hold some of the largest elephant herds in Africa, alongside rarities like the Greater Kudu, Fringed-eared Oryx and Ashy Starling. We eat a picnic lunch before departing for Moshi, where we drop you at your hotel or the airport — the end of your safari.
