3-day safari (Ngorongoro Crater / Lake Manyara National Park)

3 day tour overview

Our 3-day African safaris, tours, travel and trekking packages, which specifically include the Lake Manyara National Park, have been designed to offer you a short but intense Tanzanian Northern Circuit safari experience, for a shorter and time constrained period of 3 days / 2 nights. You will experience the excitement of game viewing in two of the most spectacular national game parks in Tanzania.

This unforgettable African safari tour will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife - inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. Your tour will also take you to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania's most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment. The size of both the selected Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater national parks, make them a perfect choice for our shorter safaris, tours, travel and trekking packages, or even an African photographic safari.

This is a suggested or sample Tanzanian safari itinerary - it can be adapted to suite your own personal needs and preferences, as well as to any seasonal changes or to migratory animal movements. As with all our safaris, tours and trekking packages, we have offered you a wide variety of accommodation options - directly impacting on the total safari costs - in order to offer you the widest possible tour budget options. Please do not hesitate to contact one of our tours consultants directly, should you require any further assistance or more detailed information, regarding any of our African safaris, tours, travel or trekking packages.

Day 1 - Arusha - Ngorongoro crater

Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
Distance: 190 km

The tour starts with lunch in Arusha town at 12:30pm. After lunch at around 14:00pm are you met by our professional tours guide/driver, who will deliver a short safari info briefing, after which, we travel to the Ngorongoro Crater, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro National Park and Conservation Area. Dinner and overnight on the Ngorongoro Crater Rim, as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 2 - Ngorongoro crater - Lake Manyara National Park

Non game-viewing travel time: 2 hours
Distance: 60 km

After breakfast we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a morning, half-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 it's dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will enjoy lunch at the lodge, after which we travel the Lake Manyara National Park. Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.

Day 3 - Lake Manyara National Park - Arusha

Non game-viewing travel time: 2½ hours
Distance: 130 km

After breakfast we head into the Lake Manyara National Park. This impressive 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) 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, Manyara's famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Midmorning we will depart for Arusha town, where we will enjoy lunch, after which we we will end our African safari adventure. The group should tip the tour guide around $20 a day for all our safaris. You will be taken to your hotel, which ends our safari packages services.

Departure dates

The departure dates for all our African safaris, tours, travel and trekking packages are totally flexible according to your own personal needs. Please contact us for further and more detailed information, as well as information on photographic packages, safaris, tours, travel and trekking packages into Tanzania.

Safari prices

Link: 3 day safari package prices.