4 Day Serengeti National Park Safari and Ngorongoro Crater: Big Five and Wildlife

Full Itinerary

Day 1: Transfer to Serengeti National Park for an evening game drive

Early morning pickup from you hotel in Arusha and head to Serengeti National Park. The park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world with over 3 million large mammals, unbeaten for its natural beauty and its greatest concentration of plain games in Africa.

The Serengeti is home to the world’s largest populations of Wildebeest, Zebra, Cape Eland, Lion, Cheetah, Hyena and Gazelles. The scenic beauty of the sky with cool nights and warm days makes your visit to this remaining home for great migration of large mammals incredible. It is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth – the great migration of wildebeest and zebra.

The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive. The Park also has more than 500 species of birds most notably, ostriches.

On arrival, we check in at our lodge and then go for an evening game drive in the park

Dinner and overnight at our lodge

Day 2: Full Day in Serengeti

After breakfast head out with your packed lunch for a full day game drive in the wilderness in search of the big five animals amongst other animals like giraffes, thousands of elands, Topi, kongoni, impala, Grant’s gazelle, Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite kopjes, not forgetting different species of birds.

The climate of the Serengeti National Park is subtropical, with rain season from November to April and dry season from May to October. A world-renown, World Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site that has many attractions than any other national park in Africa.

The great migration, the big five, unique bird collections, endangered species, highest concentration of carnivores and herbivores, scenic and spectacular landscapes are some of the attractions one will encounter! Later in evening head back to the camp. 

Day 3: Morning game drive and transfer to Ngorongoro crater

After breakfast collect packed lunch and with a morning game enroute depart for Ngorongoro and on arrival descend into the crater where you will spend the rest of the day exploring. At sunset ascend back and proceed to your cap for check in.

The Crater was a huge volcanic mountain, rivaling Mt Kilimanjaro in size. This changed when the top of the mountain collapsed in on itself, creating the biggest volcanic caldera in the world. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests.

Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera.

The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles, and other animals into the northern plains.

The north of the Crater is, overall, much drier and consists of the open grasslands which characterize the Crater floor; this is where most of the resident game resides. You are guaranteed to see large concentrations of game on any Ngorongoro safari. Break for picnic lunch and continue with the expedition.

Day 4: Ngorongoro crater and transfer back to Arusha

After an early breakfast and with lunch boxes have a morning game drive and depart for Arusha where you will be dropped off at your hotel .