4 Days safari Tanzania | Four-day Tanzania safari – Express

Early in the morning after your breakfast at your hotel or lodge in Arusha you will be picked by your private safari guide who will be in charge of your safari for the next 4 days in Northern Tanzania. You will leave Arusha in a 4×4 safari Landcruiser and drive through the Masai Steppe and into the floor of the Great Rift Valley arriving at Tarangire’s main gate at around 10.00 Hrs. After registering at the gate, you will embark on your first game drives straight away from the park’s gate as your private safari guide helps animal spotting and identification. Tarangire National Park is famous for its large herds of elephants sometimes 300 strong as well as the massive baobab trees with some being over 1000 years old. The Tarangire River that cuts across the park provides the all too essential water supply and the river banks are a great place to explore because many animals comet to drink especially during the drier months.

You will spend the rest of the day doing game drives and expect to see animals like elephants, giraffes, at the lake, gazelles, impalas, dik diks, zebras, and many other animals. Depending on your luck you may also spot the rare species that can only be spotted here like the long-necked Gerenuk, and the oryx.  Tarangire is also a favorite place for bird watchers.

Lunch will be at a picnic site in the park. Late afternoon you will be taken to Karatu where you will check in at the Marera Valley Lodge for dinner and overnight. Breakfast and lunch included.

On this day you will wake up for an early breakfast at your lodge in the peaceful Karatu area in the Ngorongoro Highlands and after breakfast your safari drive will take you to the Loduare Gate (main gate to Ngorongoro Conservation Area) where you will register in order to traverse the NCAA exiting again by midmorning or noon at Naabi Hill gate where you will register to access the Serengeti National park. While crossing the Ngorongoro Conservation Area you will most likely spot animals on the way and expect to encounter giraffes, zebras, elephants and other animals.

You will most likely have lunch at the picnic sites at the Naabi Hill Gate then enter Serengeti for an afternoon of more safari in Tanzania’s most famous national park. Game drives will go on within the Serengeti’s endless pains until late afternoon when you will check in at a lodge or camp at around 6 PM for dinner and overnight. Overnight at Osinon Camp Serengeti. All meals included.

On this day you can do an early morning game drives at dawn if you wish. After breakfast at your lodge/camp in Serengeti, your 4 days safari in Tanzania proceeds with game drives inside the Serengeti for the better part of the morning.

Serengeti National Park is the most famous park, well known for the large herds of wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, impalas, buffaloes, lions, leopards and many other animals. More than 500 bird species have been spotted in this park making it a great place for birds lovers as well.  This afternoon you will be heading to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will check in at a lodge at the Crater rim or you may also go back to the same lodge at Karatu depending on room availability or preference. At Ngorongoro Conservation Area you may choose to visit a Masai Village (at an extra cost), please arrange that with your safari guide. Dinner and overnight will be at Rhino Lodge or Marera Valley Lodge  in Karatu just outside the NCAA.

This is the last day of your four day safari in Northern Tanzania and starting as early as possible in this last day is very crucial.  Animals in the Crater and especially the rare black rhinos can be easily spotted when they are closer to the game viewing tracks early in the morning as they like to shelter in the thicker forested areas during the day. With packed breakfast you are sure to be one of the first people at the Crater floor and that increases the chance to see many animals both diurnal but also nocturnal ones. Ngorongoro Crater is famous for the abundance of animals and birds that can be spotted at very close range. Expect to see many elephants, wildebeests, topis, zebras, buffaloes, elands, gazelles, impalas, prides of lions, cheetahs but if lucky, you also get to see Black Rhino and may be a leopard to close all the big Five animals. Later in the afternoon after lunch you will drive out of the Crater floor and driven back to Arusha, marking the end of express mid range option of your 4 Days Tanzania Safari.