5 days camping safari in Tanzania

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Includes park fees, accomodation, meals and transportation

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This 5-day camping safari with Nurtured Wildlife Safaris, starting from Arusha, Tanzania, immerses you in Tarangire National Park’s elephant-rich savannas, Serengeti National Park’s vast plains with Big Five sightings, and Ngorongoro Crater’s wildlife-packed caldera. Enjoy guided 4×4 game drives, cozy tented camps with fresh meals, and expert insights into conservation. The trip includes all essentials—camping gear, meals, park fees, and binoculars—for a sustainable, unforgettable adventure in Tanzania’s iconic wilderness.

Tarangire National Park: Spanning 2,850 sq km, Tarangire is celebrated for its massive elephant herds, iconic baobab trees, and the Tarangire River, which supports a rich variety of wildlife, including lions, zebras, and giraffes, particularly vibrant during the dry season.

Serengeti National Park: Covering 14,750 sq km, this UNESCO World Heritage site is famed for the Great Migration and its expansive savannas, teeming with lions, cheetahs, wildebeest, and diverse birdlife, creating a timeless wildlife spectacle.

Ngorongoro Crater: A 260 sq km UNESCO caldera within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, it hosts over 25,000 animals, including black rhinos, lions, and flamingos, within its volcanic walls, offering a compact, vibrant ecosystem.

Comfortable tents, sleeping bags, and mattresses
Daily fresh meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner; vegetarian options)
Unlimited mineral water and soft drinks
Park fees and conservation contributions
Expert English-speaking guides and drivers
4×4 safari vehicle with pop-up roof
Shared binoculars and first-aid kit
24/7 support from Arusha base

Itinerary

Day 1:Arusha to Tarangire National Park

You arrive in Arusha and are then picked up by our friendly crew in your hotel or at the airport after which you are set off in a well-equipped 4×4 car that is specific to Tanzanian roads. The two-hour ride to Tarangire National Park transports you out of the busy life of the city and into open savannas where acacia trees and termite mounds announce your entry into the wild. Within the 2,850-square-kilometer area of Tarangire, we will spend a complete day on game drives, where you will marvel in the herds of famous elephants, some with hundreds of individuals, congregating around the Tarangire River. This water source supports a rich diversity of wildlife, including zebras and giraffes, as well as lions that like to rest in the sun. Our experienced guides tell us tales of how the park has contributed to migration of the elephants and anti poaching activities in the area which make every sight a bit more interesting. You will be relaxing into picturesque campsites in the park as the sun goes down, in large tents filled with cozy bedding. Dinner, prepared by our camp cooks, is a combination of grilled meat with local spices, and your first night is a magical mixture of adventure and relaxation.

Day 2:Tarangire to Serengeti National Park

The second day will see you leaving Tarangire after a breakfast of fresh fruits and coffee and taking a four-hour drive to the famous Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site occupying an area of 14,750 square kilometers. The drive goes across hilly terrain and through Maasai villages, giving the view of herders and their cattle grazing alongside wild zebras. When you arrive at the Serengeti, you will go on a full-day game drive into the plains of the park, where the sheer immensity of life, with lions hunter-killer, wildebeest stamping the ground in herds, and cheetahs racing wild, will almost seem like a scene in a classic tale. Even when not in peak season, our guides show us subtle evidence of the effect of the Great Migration, and how the multiplicity of habitats available in the park contributes to such plenitude. By evening you will reach a well chosen campsite in the Serengeti, where the roaring of lions is heard in the distance. By the time you finish a full meal of Tanzanian foods such as ugali and veggie stew, you will have contemplated the wonders of the day, and you will be in the middle of the grandeur of this world-famous wilderness.

Day 3:Explore the Serengeti

The third day will be spent exploring the endless horizons of the Serengeti, beginning with a morning game drive when beasts are most active. You may see a leopard relaxing in an acacia tree or hyenas prowling in the early morning, and our guides can give you tips on the interpretation of animal tracks and behavior. The open savannah and the rocky kopjes of the Serengeti provide the perfect setting to view the Big Five lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino plus the colorful birdlife of the park (ostrich to the lilac-breasted roller). Picnic lunch in the bush lets you enjoy the quietness of the plains and then afternoon drive to reveal more secrets of the park. Our guides introduce us to the role that the Serengeti has played in the world of conservation, emphasizing the attempts to preserve the delicate balance of the area. The golden colors of sunset fall upon the landscape as you head back to your campsite and dinner around the campfire is like a gathering of the things you discovered throughout the day and the star-filled night sky is the perfect canopy overhead.

Day 4: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

On the fourth day you will drive three hours to the Ngorongoro conservation area after a final morning game drive in the Serengeti, passing rift valley escarpments and pastoral scenes. On reaching the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, you will plunge into this 260-square-kilometer caldera, a natural fenced-in area that is teeming with more than 25,000 creatures. Game drives also unveil an existent stage of the great game; black rhinos mowing grass, flamingos striding in the soda lake, and cats strolling around with silent strength. We explore a very tight-knit ecosystem, and our guides tell us about the ways in which the volcanic walls of the crater form an exclusive, self-contained ecosystem. Following picnic lunch along the banks of a hippo pool, you will climb to a camp at the rim of the crater, where the colder air of the highlands cools you. Locally-themed dinner is accompanied by tales of the geological formation of the crater and as the place where endangered species can be found, which makes the evening not only tasty but also very informative.

Day 5:Ngorongoro to Arusha

The fifth day is a last opportunity to visit the Ngorongoro Crater, where a morning drive can be made in the game park or a guided safari to immerse yourself in its unique beauty. You could see the black-maned lion or the hippos wallowing, as the morning mist thins away. Our guides will give you some concluding remarks on the conservation issues at the crater relating your experience to the wider aim of conserving wildlife in Tanzania. Once you have spent a satisfying morning on the mountain, you will climb the crater and start the scenic drive back to Arusha or Moshi and get there towards the end of the afternoon. This reverse gives you the time to look back at what it was like to travel with Nurtured Wildlife Safaris: the elephant sanctuaries of Tarangire, the vast plains of the Serengeti, the colorful bowl of life in the crater, knowing you have done your part in eco-friendly travel and local communities.

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Moshono, Arusha Tanzania.
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