6 Days Thrilling Wildlife Camping Safari in Tanzania

Welcome to the Serengeti!

We arrive in the afternoon and take our lunch, then begin our adventure with an afternoon game drive. In late afternoon, we return to the campsite for our evening meal and overnight stay.

Today Tour Briefing

Today you wake up early morning for the safari briefing, then follow a long journey from Arusha to Central Serengeti. We will provide you with all the essential information! If you have never seen the Serengeti before, the thrilling vastness of this place will blow you away!

You will enjoy the road trip and along the tarmac road you may witness Maasai herders leading cattle to the pasture. Then, you will start a drive on rough road as you approach Serengeti Naabi Hill gate and start spotting some animals such as zebra, giraffe, monkey, and wildebeests.

Road Trip: Drive from Arusha to Central Serengeti

We start our long road trip from your stay in Arusha in the morning westward toward Serengeti National Park on tarmac road, followed by a rough road as you approach the conservation areas.

Safari in Serengeti

At an early start, you will travel along adventurous dirt tracks with breathtaking views as your vehicle climbs out of the Rift Valley to reach the grassy plains of the Serengeti by midday. Serengeti means “endless plains” in the language of the Maasai, and you will see the grassland savannah stretching to the horizon.

The Serengeti is the most famous park in Tanzania and it is home to the largest animal migration on the planet – hundreds of thousands of animals trek to find fresh grass and water. You will overnight at a campsite in the northern or central part of the park.

Meal Plan: Breakfast; Lunch; Dinner

Accommodation

The campsite is as popular with the local wildlife as it is with the guests; expect to hear the noise of the nearby monkey troops, hyena, or the scrambling of the rare black and white colobus monkeys on the thatched roofs! In season, the Great Migration passes by, but here the wildlife is year-round – attracted by the waters of the Seronera River.

Meal Plan

Breakfast will be provided by your Arusha hotel. Lunch will be a delicious, nutritious, and balanced meal, served to you by our master safari cook. Your evening meal will be a delicious, hot, full, well-cooked dinner provided at Seronera Campsite.

The entire day is dedicated to game viewing in the Serengeti National Park. You will either go on a full day game drive or join early morning and afternoon drives in the Seronera area, depending on last day game watching and the season of your visit. Between December and May, huge herds of wildebeests and zebras will be seen in Central Serengeti, with calves and foals being born between January and March.

Otherwise, we will head to other parts of Serengeti, perhaps to the Northern or Southern Serengeti, looking for more impressive areas.

The Seronera area is also the best place to spot wildlife throughout the year, perhaps even seeing the shy and nocturnal leopard. You will spend the night at Pimbi campsite in the Seronera area.

Today, we will get our first sight of the spectacular, incomparable Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and the heart of the Conservation Area of the same name. But before that, we have another morning game drive in the amazing Serengeti, marveling at its animal inhabitants.

Game Watching in Serengeti

The morning is set aside for another game drive in the Serengeti and you might spot some creatures that you haven’t seen yet. Animals tend to be more active in the morning before the temperatures soar around midday. After lunch, you will leave the plains of the Serengeti and travel to the highlands of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

You will camp at a campsite directly on the Ngorongoro Crater’s edge with a view over the collapsed volcano. It is a perfect spot to enjoy a sundowner at sunset.

Road Trip: Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Conservation Area

After a morning game drive and lunch, this afternoon we are heading south-east, following a straight road that passes Simba Kopjes towards Ngorongoro, a distance of 145 km which will take us around 3 ½ hours.

Meal Plan

Breakfast is enjoyed at the Seronera Campsite. In the afternoon, enjoy a nutritious picnic meal at Serengeti. Your dinner will be a delicious, balanced, and well-cooked meal at the Simba A Campsite located at the crater rim.

Day’s Highlight

Like nothing else on Earth, the stunning crater of Ngorongoro is a unique home for many species of Tanzania’s wildlife. With some luck, you may even see a black rhino here.

Game Spotting in Ngorongoro

Rise and shine! It is up at daybreak to take on the steep path leading down into the 600 m deep crater. The slopes are forested but soon the landscape changes to savannah with the occasional acacia tree here and there.

The wildlife in the crater is just breath-taking and with a little luck you might spot the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard. You should also see warthogs, wildebeests, zebras, hippos, and some of the more than 500 bird species of the area.

After an entire morning of game spotting and a picnic lunch in the crater, you will travel to Arusha where you will overnight in the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast; Lunch; Dinner

Road Trip: Ngorongoro – Arusha

After our morning visit to the incomparable crater and lunch, we will have a 3-hour journey, covering the 205 km back to Arusha on a tarmac road and maybe do some shopping before we get back to our stay.

After breakfast, you will start your return trip to the Airport.

Meal: Breakfast