There is no better way to connect with the bush than by making camp and falling asleep under the African Stars. A camping safari is a truly immersive African experience that brings the wilds of Africa all the way to your doorstep. There is no surround-sound quite like the African bush under an endless star-studded sky.
Our broad selection of African Camping Safaris has been cherry picked by our intrepid safari experts and is representative of the best African camping tours available on the continent.
Most of the Camping Safaris are conducted with the use of walk in two man dome tents. These tents are specifically designed with the African Bush in mind. Each tent is large, spacious and well ventilated. It is often expected that you will bring along your own sleeping bag, however on several of the Safaris listed a sleeping bag will be provided (or one will be available for hire).
Please see the itinerary tab for details of the day-by-day activities on this wonderful Safari in Tanzania.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Camping, Hotel, Tent
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Lake Manyara National Park, Ngor
Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Simba Camp, Arusha
This 7 Days safari is designed to give you an opportunity to tour the three most famous national parks in Tanzania, namely Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and finally two days in Serengeti National Park.
The safari will start from Arusha town and then head towards Lake Manyara National Park, famous for its tree climbing lions and dense population of African elephants, among others. From Lake Manyara National Park we will head to the Ngorongoro Crater, famous for having one of the most dense wildlife populations around the world, assuring a lot of great wildlife opportunities. Finally, you will spend two days in Serengeti National Park, known to be the world's best safari park. Serengeti National Park will surely give you a rare chance to observe, smell, touch and hear what a real African safari offers.
This safari package is sure to make you see all the big fives; Leopard, Elephants, Lions, Rhino and Buffalo.
The Ngorongoro Crater as well as Serengeti National Park are UNESCO world heritage sites. In other words, an African safari is incomplete if you have not visited Ngorongoro and Serengeti.
We kindly refer to the Itinerary for a Day-by-Day description of the happenings on this great safari!
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Hotel, Lodge, Eco Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
This private tour, designed for a minimum of 2 people, offers an unforgettable safari experience in Kenya’s Maasai Mara and Tanzania’s Serengeti. Both the Maasai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park were the setting for the iconic movie *The Lion King*. Voted one of Africa’s top safari destinations, the Maasai Mara is renowned for its incredible wildlife, including the famous wildebeest migration every August, often referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. Expect guaranteed sightings of lions and other members of the Big Five. This tour also includes visits to the stunning Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, and Lake Manyara in Tanzania, making it a comprehensive and unforgettable wildlife adventure.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Lodge, Eco Lodge, Camping, Hotel, Tent
Age Range
2-99 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Nairobi, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Nairobi, Serengeti
Migration tracking in Serengeti safari will be main focuses on tracking the migration .A little after this, in late November and December, the herds of the wildebeest migration arrive on the short-grass plains of the Serengeti. These are south and east of Seronera, around Ndutu and include the north of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Dispersed across these plains, wildebeest and zebra are everywhere – feeding on the fresh, nutritious grasses. They stay here through January, February and March, with most wildebeest calves born in a short window around February. Gradually they spread west across these plains, then around April they start their great migration north.
May the Serengeti’s wildebeest all seem to be moving north, migrating to seek fresh grazing and water. The area around Moru Kopjes and west of Seronera is then hectic with a series of moving columns, often containing hundreds of thousands of animals – joined by many zebra, and a scattering of Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelles.
Some of the migration then head due north of Seronera, but most are usually further west. Around June the wildebeest migration is often halted on the south side of the Grumeti River, which has some channels which block or slow their migration north. The wildebeest then congregate there, in the Western Corridor, often building up to a high density before crossing the river. The river here is normally a series of pools and channels, but it’s not continuous – and so whilst they always represent an annual feast for the Grumeti River’s large crocodiles, these aren’t usually quite as spectacular as the crossings of the Mara River, further north.
The wildebeest migration continues moving northwards during July and August, often spreading out across a broad front: some heading through Grumeti Reserve and Ikorongo, others north through the heart of the Serengeti National Park.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Camping, Hotel, Lodge, Eco Lodge, Hut
Age Range
5-99 yrs
Operated in
english, french
Destinations
Arusha, Serengeti National Park
Arusha, Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
Lights on Africa Destinations & Safaris gave us a tour that was incredibly rich in time. On the very first day I saw elephants, lions on trees, and innumerable colorful birds in Lake Manyara. Then Sarangeti - it was like a dream to see lions hunting live here. The moment when Ngorongoro descended into the crater on the last day will be remembered forever. The knowledge and sincerity of the guide are excellent.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Camping, Tent
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
Our 5-day Tanzania safaris, tours, travel and trekking packages, which specifically include 2 nights in Serengeti National Park, have been designed to offer you more time in the Serengeti to witness the wildebeest migration. Experience the excitement of game viewing in some of the most spectacular national wildlife game parks in Africa.
This unforgettable Tanzanian safari journey will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals.
The tour will further take you to the Serengeti National Park, into the heart of wild Africa, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. Visit the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Hotel, Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
Experience the authentic "wild Africa" on this budget-friendly 4-day Tanzania camping safari to Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park. This trip is perfect for nature lovers and those who are looking for a break from civilisation and its comforts.
On our adventure camping safari, you can immerse yourself in the Tanzania wilderness. Travel on rough and adventurous roads, pass tiny rural settlements and witness fascinating landscapes and abundant wildlife. All your senses will feel alive – smelling early morning coffee, experiencing the thrill of a kill and feeling the chill in the air of a morning game drive. Fall asleep to the hooting of an owl and wake up to the roaring of a lion. When you are camping, the safari experience is all the more intense as you are ‘right in the middle’ of it all. The nearness to nature compensates for the luxury of a lodge.
See a huge variety of wildlife such as water birds, antelopes and noisy troops of baboons in Lake Manyara National Park, and experience a collapsed volcano filled with predators and prey in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Book your adventure safari today.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Camping, Tent, Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
Our 4-day Tanzania safari package specifically includes the Serengeti National Park and the world famous Serengeti plains. It is one of our more popular safari tours and is most frequently booked as an add-on by Kilimanjaro climbers or Zanzibar divers. Experience the excitement of an African wildlife safari in some of the most spectacular national game parks in East Africa, all teeming with animals.
This unforgettable tour will take you to the Serengeti Plains National Park, a massive wilderness of 14500 square kilometres and the heart of wild Africa. Here, every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure.
Your African safari will also take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game on the continent. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife inside a self-contained world featuring an unbelievable number of animals.
Lastly, you will go to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The size of this national park makes it perfect for a one-day game drive and the park is famous for its unique tree-climbing lions.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Hotel, Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
Our 2-day Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater safari package is designed to offer visitors with a time constraint a short but a very intense Tanzanian northern circuit wildlife safari experience. Experience the excitement of an African wildlife safari in two of the most spectacular national game parks in Tanzania.
This unforgettable African safari tour will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world, teeming with animals.
Your tour will also take you to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The size of both the selected Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater national parks make them a perfect choice for our shorter safaris or a photographic safari.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Hotel, Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area
This tour is the perfect way to enjoy the fascinating beauty on display in East Africa's national parks. The Maasai Mara and Serengeti are two of the biggest and most famous parks in Africa, and when you combine the two in the same adventure, you're sure to have an adventure of a lifetime. Known for their Great Migration phenomenon, both parks introduce you to more than millions of wildebeest as they make their annual journey in search of greener pastures.
Explore with a wildlife tracking guide, take a hot air balloon ride in search of wildlife. Exploring the UNESCO heritage site in Ngorongoro crater, the crater acts as a water keeper for most of wildlife during the dry season. Gets opportunity to see the tree climbing lions at Lake Manyara, as well as the chance to experience canoeing activities on the lake.
On this tour, you'll have the ability to stay within the borders of the national park at a time when animals are scavenging for food, with fewer tourists to scare them away, this is set to be an action-packed and truly memorable tour.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Lodge, Hotel, Eco Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Nairobi, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Amboseli National Park, Masai Mara National Reserve, Ngorongoro Conservation Area
This six-day, guided trip to Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Lake Manyara National Park is for travelers with a passion for wildlife who want to explore some of the most spectacular national parks in Tanzania's northern circuit.
We will pick you up from your hotel in Arusha and proceed to Tarangire National Park, home to Tanzania’s largest elephant population. The elephants are drawn to the Tarangire River from which the park gets its name. In addition to these large elephant herds, the park’s distinctive landscape is dotted with beautiful baobab trees and it has one of the greatest concentrations of game in Tanzania.
Next comes the iconic Serengeti, Tanzania’s most famous national park known throughout the world for its annual wildebeest migration. Then head for Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a natural wonder that is also one of the best places in the country to see the endangered black rhinoceros and is home to the Big Five.
The final destination on the itinerary is Lake Manyara National Park, where you will go out on a game drive as well as explore the surrounding villages. We will drive you back to Arusha after the tour is over.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Hotel
Age Range
1-90 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Lake Manyara National Park, Sere
Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire, Arusha
This 6-day tour showcases the best of Tanzania wildlife and will take you through the Northern Safari Circuit in Tanzania. It includes Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, and the Ngorongoro Crater Conservancy.
A visit to the Ngorongoro Crater is an experience of a lifetime. There are few places that have wildlife densities and variety at this level. It is not unusual to see the big five in one day! It also boasts the most amazing setting with a backdrop of the 600m/1968ft high crater wall.
Lake Manyara National Park provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded here and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large waterbirds such as pelicans, cormorants, and storks.
There is more to the Serengeti than large mammals. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite koppies. A full 100 varieties of dung beetle have been recorded, as have 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
Please refer to the itinerary to find out what you'll be doing each day on this safari tour.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Camping, Tent, Hotel
Age Range
5-99 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Tarangire National Park
Arusha, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp, Ngorongoro Crater
This eight-day budget Tanzania Safari has been designed to offer a total Tanzanian northern circuit safari experience! This itinerary gives you more time to spend in the Serengeti National Park and also specifically includes Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, home to the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater. We don’t forget Tarangire National Park, where you’ll see many stunning baobab trees and a wide array of animal and birdlife.
This safari adventure is a great choice for visitors with more time on hand for a longer safari and more wildlife options, while still keeping non-game-viewing travel time to a minimum.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Camping, Eco Lodge, Lodge
Age Range
4-80 yrs
Operated in
english, german, spanish
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Natron, Lake Eyasi
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Our 3-day African safari, which specifically includes visits to the Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park has been designed to offer you a short but intense Tanzanian northern circuit safari experience. Experience the excitement of game viewing in three of the most spectacular national game parks in Tanzania.
This unforgettable African safari tour will take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. Your tour will also take you to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. Finally, your African safari tour will also take you to the Tarangire National Park, which features some of the greatest concentration of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and unspoilt – possessing a wild beauty.
The size of the selected Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks, make them a perfect choice for our shorter safaris.
Wildlife safaris and game drives
Tour Type
Private Tour
Accommodation
Hotel, Lodge
Age Range
5-79 yrs
Operated in
english
Destinations
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Pa
Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater