8 Day Tanzania Camping Safaris

Distance: 130 km

Non game-viewing travel time: 2½ hours

After breakfast to your hotel the tour will depart to Lake Manyara. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions (rare), as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

• Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
• Accommodation:Fanaca Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation                        
• Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
• Kids allowed:3+
• Difficulties: Low

Distance: 205 km

Non game-viewing travel time: 6 hours

After breakfast you head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend 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. You head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, 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 in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.

• Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
• Accommodation:Serengeti Seronera Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
• Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
• Kids allowed:3+
• Difficulties: Low

• Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
• Accommodation:Ngorongoro Simba Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
• Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
• Kids allowed:3+
• Difficulties: Low

After breakfast you descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park 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 national park is its huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard. Evening head back to Karatu for Dinner and Overnight.

• Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
• Accommodation:Fanaca Campsite- Budge Camping Accommodation
•  Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
• Kids allowed:3+
• Difficulties: Low

Non game-viewing travel time: 3½ hours
Distance: 155 km

After breakfast you depart for the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. 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. Late evening drive back to Arusha to your hotel or drop off to the airport.