This 3-Day Tanzania Safari with Wildicon Safaris is carefully designed for travelers who want a short yet impactful wildlife experience across two world-famous destinations: Lake Manyara National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater. Beginning with an arrival day in Arusha, this itinerary is perfect for those seeking a balanced, comfortable, and immersive safari within a limited schedule.
From the lush forests and soda-lake ecosystem of Lake Manyara to the breathtaking volcanic landscapes of the Ngorongoro Crater, this safari offers incredible biodiversity, scenic beauty, and excellent Big Five viewing opportunities. Your accommodations during the tour include comfortable mid-range lodges or tented camps featuring ensuite bathrooms, hot showers, delicious meals, and exceptional hospitality.
Your safari begins the moment you arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport, where a friendly Wildicon Safaris representative will meet you and provide a warm welcome. After a smooth transfer to your hotel in Arusha, you will have time to relax, refresh, and settle in after your journey.
Later in the day, your safari guide will meet you for a full briefing covering your itinerary, wildlife expectations, safety guidelines, and essential safari tips. Arusha is known as Tanzania’s safari hub—green, calm, and the ideal starting point for your adventure into the Northern Circuit.
Accommodation: Mid-range Arusha hotel
Meals: Dinner
After breakfast, your guide will pick you up for the drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful park offers a mix of forests, floodplains, and shimmering lake views, making it one of Tanzania’s most picturesque wildlife areas. Highlights include large baboon troops, elephants, hippos, giraffes, and an extraordinary variety of birds.
Upon entering the park, you’ll explore forested trails where blue monkeys leap between branches, and hornbills call from above. As you move deeper into the park, you will reach the open plains and lake shoreline, where flamingos, pelicans, zebras, and buffalo gather.
Lunch will be served at a scenic picnic site overlooking the lake. The afternoon offers more game viewing as your guide helps you track animals and explains the rich ecology of this unique environment.
In the evening, you’ll travel to your lodge in Karatu or Manyara for dinner and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Mid-range lodge / tented camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After an early breakfast, you depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Upon reaching the crater rim, you’re greeted with one of Africa’s most breathtaking sights—the vast caldera stretching across the horizon.
A 600-meter descent takes you onto the crater floor for a half-day game drive in one of the most wildlife-rich environments in the world. Here, you may witness lions, hyenas, elephants, buffalo, wildebeest, hippos, and a diverse array of birds. Ngorongoro Crater is also one of the best places in Tanzania to encounter the elusive black rhino.
Lunch will be served near the hippo pool, offering a perfect blend of scenery and wildlife. After your exploration, you ascend the crater walls and begin the journey back to Arusha. Upon arrival, you will be dropped off at your hotel or transferred directly to the airport to conclude your safari experience.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
