3 Days Safari to Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro crater

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Safari Overview

3 Days Safari to Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro crater

Only three days allow you to visit famous locations and will undoubtedly leave you with wonderful memories to take home. The vast Lake Manyara National Park, which is gorgeous, diverse, and teeming with wonderful wildlife, will be our first stop after leaving Arusha. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with its unrivalled crater, comes next. Wildlife thrives in each location, and you are in for an unforgettable experience.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Type of Tour: Private tour
  • Level of the tour: Comfort Level
  • Destination visited: Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater
2 Days Budget Safari to Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro crater

Trip Itinerary

Itinerary Details - Day-by-day

DAY 1 | Kilimanjaro airport – Arusha city

Driving Distance: 55kms/1hr

Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport and be greeted by a Tecomate Tours and Safari driver. Your driver will keep your bags in the vehicle’s luggage compartment and then transfer you to your hotel in Arusha city for leisure and overnight.

Accommodation: Kibo Palace Hotel on Bed and Breakfast

DAY 2 Arusha city – Lake Manyara National Park - Karatu

Distance:200km/4-hrs

After a leisurely breakfast, our driver-guide will pick you up and drive you to Mto wa Mbu village for a cultural experience, followed by a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park.

Activity 1: Village walks in Mto wa Mbu: Mto wa Mbu is a well-known village in Africa’s Manyara region, home to over 120 ethnic groups. A local guide leads the tour, which includes a 1- hour 30-minute walk to various cultural sites in the village. Among the many things to observe and learn during the walk are local farms (banana, coffee, and rice farms), local houses, socio-cultural and economic practices of locals, local markets, local products, local schools, and daily movement of locals within the village. Following the tour, we will enjoy a traditional village lunch prepared by village mamas. After that, we’ll drive about 5 kilometres to Lake Manyara National Park.

Activity 2: Game drive:

Lake Manyara National Park is a stunning park located in the Great Rift Valley, with a wide variety of wildlife and landscapes to admire. name a few, there are many monkeys, Zebras, Wildebeests, Hippos, Giraffes, Waterbucks, Dik-diks, Impalas, and Tree climbing Lions. It is best known for its more than 5,000 recorded species of birds, including migrant flamingos and numerous water birds drawn to the park’s alkaline lake, which covers a large portion of its area. Flamingos typically feed along the lakeshore, though during the dry season, flamingos and other water birds can be found in small numbers.

After the game drive, proceed to our reserved lodge for relaxation.

Accommodation: Marera Valley Lodge on Full Board Basis

DAY 3 | Ngorongoro Crater – Kilimanjaro Airport

Driving distance: 248km/5hrs

Enjoy an early breakfast at the lodge.

With our packed lunch, we depart from our lodge for a game drive on the Ngorongoro crater floor.

The Ngorongoro Crater is a Caldera, the world’s largest unflooded one, measuring more than 1600 feet deep and 102 square miles in size. Game viewing is excellent because most of the animals stay in this area all year. Lake Magadi’s lakeshore is home to lions, Cape buffalo, hippos, elephants, zebras, and antelopes, as well as numerous bird species, including flamingos. You might even see a Black rhinoceros if you’re lucky. The big five animals can be seen at the crater in a single game.

Following our enjoyable game, we ascend and drive to Kilimanjaro airport for an onward flight.

End of our services

Includes

  • 1- Arrival and 1- departure airport transfer
  • Professional English-speaking driver guide
  • 4×4 Toyota land cruiser throughout
  • All Park fees and game drives as per itinerary
  • Picnic lunch box
  • All Government taxes and 18% VAT (Value added tax)
  • 2-ltrs drinking water per person per day during safari
  • Accommodation and meals as per the itinerary

Excludes

  • Any changes which attract an extra charge
  • Travel Insurance
  • Visa ($100 for USA citizens and $50 for other nationalities)
  • Tip for the driver guide and the accommodations
  • Things of a personal nature
  • Laundry services
  • Drinks in the accommodations

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