4-day Tanzania Safari | 4-day lodge safari in Tanzania

On the first day of this itinerary, you will be picked up from your hotel or lodge in the city of Arusha or directly from Arusha Domestic Airport in case you are flying in from Zanzibar. You may request your guide to make a brief stop for last-minute supplies if you wish or change money to local currency. You will take a two hour drive through the Arusha – Dodoma Highway to the Tarangire National Park where you will stop briefly at the gate for registration.

Tarangire National Park is home to many animals including large herds of elephants, lions, buffaloes, leopards, cheetahs, zebras, giraffes, lots of impalas, Grant and Thompson gazelles as well as rare species like the gerenuk and the beisa oryx.

Picnic lunch can be serves in one of the picnic sites within the park or at the picnic site that is located at the park’s gate. You will go on a guided wildlife safari in the Tarangire until later in the afternoon around 16.30 Hrs or 17.00 hrs, then transfer to your lodge within the park or a midrange lodge at Karatu in the Ngorongoro Highlands for dinner. Overnight will be at the Marera Valley Lodge in Karatu or similar lodge. Picnic lunch and dinner is included.

The second day of this 4-day Tanzania safari adventure, we are heading to the most famous park in Tanzania and Africa; the Serengeti National Park. Pick up from your lodge after an early morning breakfast and your private guide will take you across the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and enter Serengeti through Naabi Hill Gate, where you will stop registration. On your way to Serengeti, you will get a chance to make several stops on the way to view animals as you traverse the Ngorongoro Conservation Area which itself is a wildlife area with many animal species.

Visiting the Olduvai Gorge an important archeological site is an option and so is a visit to a Masai Boma (village) at an extra cost.

Once you enter the Serengeti you will go on your first safari game drive in search of the animals. Serengeti is famous for the wildebeests herds but the park is home to many other animal species including large prides of lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, topis, zebras, gazelles, impalas, warthogs, rhinos, jackals, elands and the list is endless.

Later in the afternoon, your guide will take you for check-in at your lodge or tented camp within the Serengeti. Overnight at Tukaone Serengeti Camp. All meals included.

This 4-days safari in Tanzania is an express tour because it includes only one night at Serengeti. You will wake up for an early morning safari game drive (recommended) if you wish). Your safari guide will try to show you as much wildlife in this sunrise safari, before taking you back to your lodge/camp for breakfast.

You will depart after breakfast with packed lunch and go for one more safari game drive on the way back towards the Naabi Hill Gate where you will exit the Serengeti and head back to Ngorongoro Highlands with game viewing on the way. You will have your picnic lunch at a picnic site at Naabi Hill Gate where you are also allowed to alight from your jeep and even stretch your legs a little bit.

Your guide will drop you off at your lodge within Ngorongoro Conservation Area or at a nice lodge in Karatu near the NCA. Overnight at Marera Valley Lodge or similar midrange lodge.  All meals included.

Waking up very early is very recommended on this last day of your safari. The earlier you descend to the Crater floor the better the chances of spotting many animals including the rare ones like black rhinos that live at the Ngorongoro Crater floor. After an early breakfast at your lodge in Ngorongoro or Karat, you will descend to the floor of the ‘Africa’s Garden of Eden’; the Ngorongoro Crater. Descending the 600-meter-high walls of the Ngorongoro is a spectacle in itself, but when you arrive at the Crater’s floor you will be amazed by the abundance of animals that line up close to the tracks. An estimated 20,000 animals live in this small area. You expect to spot gazelles, elands, topis, zebras, warthogs, topis, wildebeests, jackals, caracals, baboons, as well as the big five with a little bit of luck.

Picnic lunch will be taken at the picnic site at the Hippo poolside or Elerai forest where you will also get a chance to use the bathrooms. After lunch and according to your schedule, you will proceed with your afternoon game drives until later when your guide will take you back to Arusha where your 4-day Tanzania lodge safari ends.  Breakfast and Lunch included. All meals included.