4 Days Serengeti & Ngorongoro Safari Tour

Itinerary in Detail

Day 1: Arusha to Serengeti – Into the Open

The day begins early with a breakfast. The sun hasn’t yet risen above Mount Meru when your guide pulls up and depart for a swift transfer to the famed Serengeti. As you transfer, you shall witness as the road stretches ahead, leading north through dusty towns and grazing cattle, past Maasai herders wrapped in red shúkàs.

After several hours of road transfer, you enter the Serengeti as you see the land widens and by mid-day, the bush opens into golden grasslands.

Wildebeest graze in shadowed clusters. A tower of giraffes crosses ahead. Somewhere in the distance, a lion calls.

Just before you begin the encounter, you shall have your picnic lunch under an acacia tree experiencing the dry and warm air in the silence of the wild. This is your welcome treat form the Serengeti.

After that, proceed for an afternoon game drive lets you ease into the rhythm—elephants bathing in shallow water, hyenas nosing the breeze, and the sharp silhouette of a vulture perched above.

By dusk, your camp glows softly under the wide sky. Fires crackle, and night sounds rise.

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Options:

Camping: Seronera Public Campsite
Budget: Osinon Tented Camp
Standard: Serengeti Heritage Camp
Luxury: Four Seasons Serengeti / Melia Serengeti Lodge

Day 2: Serengeti to Ngorongoro – From Hunt to Highlands

With an early morning wakeup call when the plains are still pale blue at dawn. You head out early, the engine low, the air sharp and begin your morning game viewing.

Expect to meet a lion pride as they move slowly through the grass, half-hidden. Gazelles scatter. Jackals sniff along the road’s edge and other countless wildlife.

As light filters through the clouds, the Serengeti reveals its secrets—striped, spotted, and silent.

After the morning encounter, you exit the park mid-morning, as you begin a transfer to Ngorongoro.

By late afternoon, you’re standing at the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater awaiting to experience the very best of Ngorongoro crater the next day.

Proceed to your accommodation sleeping above one of Earth’s oldest calderas.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Options:

Camping: Simba A Public Campsite
Budget: Rhino Lodge
Standard: Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge
Luxury: The Highlands / &Beyond Crater Lodge

Day 3: Ngorongoro Crater

Today, you descend the crater. The descent begins as mist curls over the edge. Within minutes, you’re deep inside the crater and just in a blink of an eye, you see buffalo lift their heads lazily. Hippos jostle in the shallows. Lions nap beside the track like they own it. And they do.

Every corner of this sunken world teems with life—zebra, hyena, flamingos shifting on pink legs. You stop for a quiet lunch near the lake.

By early afternoon, after a tremendous adventure, you’re climbing out and turning southeast, exiting towards Karatu.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation Options:
Budget: Karatu Safari Camp Lodge
Standard: Africa Safari Karatu
Luxury: Tarangire Treetops / Nimali Tarangire

Day 4: Ngorongoro to Arusha – The Elephant Trail

You wake up early morning and enjoy the best of Ngorongoro before setting off. Choose from walking safari, cycling tour around Ngorongoro just before departing for Arusha. You linger as long as you can, but by mid-morning, the wheels turn toward Arusha. The road feels shorter now. You arrive in the late afternoon, dust still in your boots, memory full.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Not included (can be arranged on request)