5 Day Serengeti Ngorongoro and Lake Eyasi

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Safari Highlights

Experience an unforgettable 5 day group camping safari in Tanzania, exploring three of the country’s most iconic destinations: Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Eyasi.

This budget-friendly adventure takes you through breathtaking landscapes and world-famous wildlife مناطق. The Ngorongoro Crater, often called the “Garden of Eden,” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site teeming with diverse wildlife, including lions, elephants, rhinos, and flamingos.

Continue to the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania’s largest and most renowned park, famous for the spectacular Great Migration, where over 1.5 million white-bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebras cross the plains in search of fresh grazing. The Serengeti is also home to predators like lions, cheetahs, and leopards, as well as unique species such as Nile crocodiles and honey badgers.

Your journey also includes a cultural and nature experience at Lake Eyasi, where you can meet indigenous communities like the Hadzabe and Datoga tribes and learn about their traditional way of life.

Day By Day Program

Day 1: Serengeti National Park

Pick up from Arusha hotel at 7.30 am and drive to Serengeti, which will take 7 to 8 hours to reach Serengeti National Park. On the way, you will be able to view the beautiful Rift Valley View of Ngorongoro Crater and reach Serengeti around 3 pm.

You will have an evening game drive in central Serengeti, where you will be able to see the sunset, and after that, you will have dinner and overnight at Seronera campsite inside Serengeti.

The major attractions in Serengeti are the endless plains and the great Serengeti wildebeest migration, which involves 1.5 million herbivores and their followers; predators used to move from one area to another in almost all parts of Serengeti because of drought. Our driver guide will ensure you can see part of the wildebeest migration. The movement of vast numbers of the Serengeti’s wildebeest, accompanied by large numbers of zebra and smaller numbers of Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, eland, and impala, can be able to seen in Serengeti.

Dinner And Overnight at Nyani Public Campsite

Day 2: Serengeti National Park

Spend A Full Day In Serengeti National Park

Day 3: Ngorongoro Crater

You will wake at 5.45 for an early breakfast and see the Sunrise inside Serengeti; after you finish your breakfast, you will do an early morning game drive up to 11.30 am, then you will head back to the campsite for a hot lunch and pack your stuff in the jeep. Serengeti National Park has the highest concentration of large mammals in the world, so you’re bound to spot giraffes, elephants, hippos, and, of course, lions. You’ll also come across more than 500 species of birds, including ostriches and flamingos; our driver will do his best to cover the main parts ofthe central Serengeti.

This time, after finishing your hot lunch, you will proceed with a game drive in Serengeti while heading to Ngorongoro Crater in Simba campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 4: Ngorongoro - Lake Eyasi

You will wake up around 5.30 am for your breakfast, after breakfast you will descend to the Ngorongoro Crater floor, where you will be able to see all the big five. Also you will see different types of birds, black rhino available inside the crater. On this day you will have your lunch inside the crater while watching nature and high concentrations of flamingos. Animals available there are over 6,000 wildebeest at the crater, 4,000 Black spotted Hyenas, 2,000 zebras, 2,000 Elands, 3,000 Gazelles, 200 Elephants, over 30 Lions, 30 black Rhinos, and many small animals like Kobs, Antelopes, Jackals, and Hippos, and different species of birds. This highly visited African attraction is the world’s largest inactive, unbroken, and unfilled volcanic caldera, and this explosion created a caldera of approximately two and a half million years ago.

Later, after 6 to 7 hours of enjoying your game drive inside the crater floor, you will start to ascend from the crater, passing through the campsite to pack all luggage inside the jeep, ready to drive back to Lake Eyasi for an overnight.

Day 5: Lake Eyasi – Cultural Interaction

After breakfast, we traverse the rough road to Lake Eyasi, another soda lake in the Rift Valley. We arrive in the afternoon for a cultural interaction with the Tatoga tribe (a fascinating tribe). Our Tatoga guide at the village will lead the tour. On foot, we explore the dry and rugged landscape area, which is still
inhabited by a small group of bushmen: the Hadzabe or Watindiga. These tribes still live in bands, hunting with bows and arrows, gathering roots, tubers, and wild fruits, just as humans did to survive 10,000 years ago. Another exciting tribe in this area is the Datoga (also called the Barabaig or Mang’ati). Initially, they exercised a lot of rivalry over grazing land with the Maasai tribe. Later in the Evening, drive back to Arusha