Overview
Experience a personalized 4-day budget safari to Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Tarangire, where you can indulge in game drives exclusively in your private vehicle alongside your partner, friend, or family. This unique opportunity grants you the freedom to select your preferred areas of interest within the national parks and set your desired start and end times for the game drives, without the need for coordination with other fellow travelers.
Itinerary
Arrival
You’ll be collected from the airport.
Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
| Â | 2 People | 3 People | 4 people | 5 people | 6 people |
Price Per Person (USD) | 1300 | 1150 | 950 | 850 | 800 |
Today our safari adventure begins! After breakfast, you’ll be picked up from your hotel and driven for 2 hours to Tarangire National Park. The park is well known for its large elephant herds and abundance of ancient baobab trees (the largest trees in the continent). From the open roof of the vehicle, we will experience the seasonal swamps, savanna and Tarangire River, which is full of wildlife ranging from a large variety of birds to giraffes, impalas, zebras, lions, leopards, elands, warthogs and elephants. The picnic site also has a spectacular view. We will have our picnic lunch there and proceed with game viewing. We will then continue to Fig Tree Lodge, where we will be able to relax, enjoy dinner and have an overnight stay.
Main Destination:
Tarangire National Park
Accommodation:
Fig Tree Lodge & Camp
Budget hotel located in or near Mto wa Mbu
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
After breakfast, we will depart for Serengeti. It’s a long and bumpy road that will take you about 4-5 hours of a fascinating game on route, driving up the crater highlands towards the vast plains of Serengeti. We will stop for a picnic lunch before we check into the park for an afternoon game drive. After catching the sunset, we will proceed to Seronera Campsite for dinner and your overnight stay.
Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Budget camping
Inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
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Today we will wake up very early in the morning (at around 6 am) for a sunrise game drive and to spot the animals when they are most active. We will then stop at a picnic site to enjoy breakfast in the bush and continue with the game drive before returning to the camp (at around noon) for hot lunch. Afterwatds, we’ll load the vehicle, depart camp and continue to Ngorongoro where we will have dinner and an overnight stay at Simba Campsite.
Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Highlands
Accommodation:
Budget camping
On the crater rim of Ngorongoro Highlands
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)
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Today we will have an early breakfast and descend to the crater immediately. This stunning place will offer you with almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino and if we are lucky, we might spot one. You will choose whether to have picnic lunch at the Hippo Lake or hot lunch at the camp. We will then head back to Arusha. We expect to be back in town around 5 pm. However, we are flexible in case there is a flight to catch.
Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
Drinks not included
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