3 Days Tanzania Big 5 Budget Safari

Trip Overview & Highlight

Itinerary

3 Days Tanzania Big 5 Budget Safari

Overview:

Experience the thrill of tracking Africa’s iconic Big Five lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino — across three of Tanzania’s most renowned national parks. This affordable camping safari offers exceptional wildlife viewing and scenic landscapes, ideal for travelers seeking a short but rewarding adventure.

Safari and Tour Highlight:

Day 1: Game drive in Tarangire National Park

Day 2: Full-day safari in Ngorongoro Crater

Day 3: Game drive in Lake Manyara National Park

Price per Person:
Prices are Per Person and Valid for Trips All around the year

# People in Group:	1	2	3–5	6+
Budget Camping:	$730	$700	$630	$550
Mid-Range Lodging:	$1,100	$900	$850	$800

Included

Excluded

All Park entrances & taxes
Accommodation during safari(camping)
All Meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner),
soft drinks & water (bottled water 3litres or more a day)
Camping equipment (sleeping bag, sleeping mattress & Tent)
Transportation in a custom safari 4×4 with a viewing roof and guaranteed window seating
Safari vehicles have an inverter for charging batteries, communications radio, electric cooler, and filtered water

Tips for guides, cook
International and domestic flights
Tanzania Visa fee

Tour Plan

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

We will pick you up from your hotel and after being familiar with the guide & chef we will drive to Tarangire National Park (2hr drive) famous for its diverse landscape. The park is particularly known for the abundance of Ancient Baobab trees & having the largest concentration of elephants in the whole country and provides unique chances to observe the interaction between elephant families. We will do a game drive through the park depending on where there are reported sightings of animals (mostly predators, lions, cheetahs & leopards as they are harder to spot) as herbivores (giraffes, wildebeest, zebras, etc. are plenty to see through the park.

Later on, will go to the Tarangire River picnic site and enjoy the beautiful view of the river & animals while having lunch, small monkeys & baboons will try to scare you of your lunch but there is nothing to worry about

After lunch will proceed with the game drive and exit the park around 4:30 pm

After the tour will head to our accommodation in Mto Wa Mbu to the campsite

Meals included: Lunch, Dinner

Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha

The Ngorongoro crater is the best wildlife park in Tanzania, this is due to its beautiful landscape being a crater & easier to see wildlife

After early breakfast will head to the Ngorongoro viewpoint and look at this amazing view, the view is surreal it will definitely take your breath for a while

Will then proceed to descend the crater on a journey to find the black rhinos, rhinos are the hardest to spot in the beautiful crater as most animals will be easier to spot from this park due to it being a floor crater

The Ngorongoro crater is the highlighted park in Tanzania, it is the most beautiful in scenery and it is populated with a lot of animals, the crater itself is self-sufficient for the animals inside so they don’t migrate out of the crater

Meals included:

Breakfast
Lunch
Diner

Day 3: Lake Manyara to Arusha

After breakfast will go to Lake Manyara National Park famous for the large number of flamingoes in the lake & its tree-climbing lions (though they are rarely seen)

We will do a game drive viewing plenty of birds, lucky enough you can spot these famous tree-climbing lions(though they are rarely seen)

, visit the hippo pool for a close look at hippos and the hot spring all this while doing a game drive, and view plenty of animals (buffaloes, wildebeest, warthogs, vultures, eagles, monkeys, etc.)

After the tour will head back to Arusha (your hotel)

Meals included: