3 Days Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara Safari

0800hrs: You will be picked up from your hotel and depart from Arusha for Lake Manyara National Park with a picnic lunch. After a 2 hr drive, arrive and take game drives in the park. Later in the afternoon depart for dinner and overnight at your lodge in Ngorongoro.

Dinner and overnight at the lodge (Country Lodge Or Ngorongoro Serena)

0630hrs: After early breakfast, you depart and descend into the crater for a full-day game drive in the crater with a picnic lunch.

The crater is said to have the densest concentration of wildlife in Africa. As such, Ngorongoro Crater has achieved world renown and attracts a growing number of visitors each year. Even if time is limited this natural but accessible small caldera ensures a rewarding safari.
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact caldera in an exceptional geographical position, forming a spectacular bowl of about 265 sq km with sides up to 600m deep. It is the stalking ground of 20 – 30,000 wild animals at any one time.
The crater floor consists of a number of ecological environments that include grassland, swamps, forests, and Lake Magadi, a central soda lake filled by the Munge River. All these various habitats attract various wildlife to drink and graze.
Although animals are free to move in and out of this contained environment, the rich volcanic soil, lush forests, and spring source lakes on the crater floor tend to incline both grazers and predators to remain throughout the year.
Ngorongoro Crater is also presently one of the most likely areas in Tanzania to see the endangered Black Rhino, as a small population is thriving in this idyllic and protected environment one of the only areas where they continue to breed in the wild.
The Crater rim, over 2,200 meters high, touches swathes of clouds for most days of the year, with cool high-altitude vapors that seem to bring a clean lightness to the air, and also a chill. These highlands wake up to a misty fog in most months.

Later in the afternoon ascend back and drive back to your Lodge (Country Lodge or Lake Manyara Serena).

After breakfast, depart with a picnic lunch heading back to Arusha with game drives en route. Arrive in Arusha later in the afternoon.