4 Days Camping Safari
This 4-day camping safari covers the same route as our 4-Day Tanzania Lodge Safari, Tarangire National Park, the central Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, at a lower price point by swapping lodge accommodation for public campsites. You’ll sleep in a dome tent on a proper camp bed for all three nights, with all meals cooked by our crew, while still getting the same private 4×4, driver-guide and park access, including a night inside the Serengeti itself, as the lodge version.
This is the shortest camping itinerary that still gives a complete Big Five circuit, with one night inside the Serengeti for predator coverage and a full crater game drive on the final day. If comfort matters more than budget, our 4-Day Tanzania Lodge Safari covers the identical route with lodge accommodation. Travelers who want more time in the Serengeti should look at our 5-Day Tanzania Camping Safari, which adds a second full day inside the park.
Details
- Tarangire's large elephant herds and ancient baobab woodlands
- One night camping inside the Serengeti itself, around the predator-rich Seronera Valley
- Full crater floor game drive at Ngorongoro on the final day, with strong black rhino sighting chances
- Budget-friendly format, same parks and game drives as our lodge safari at a lower price
- Dome tent with proper camp bed at public campsites, all meals cooked by our safari crew
- Private 4x4 safari vehicle with pop-up roof and English-speaking driver-guide throughout
Morning pick-up from your hotel in Arusha or Moshi for the drive to Tarangire National Park, famous for large elephant herds, ancient baobab trees and a high concentration of wildlife along the Tarangire River. You'll enjoy a full game drive with a picnic lunch inside the park, then continue in the afternoon to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, you drive west through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, pausing at the crater rim viewpoint for your first sight of the caldera floor, then descend onto the Serengeti plains via Naabi Hill Gate. The drive itself is part of the game viewing, with giraffe and zebra often visible along the access road. You'll reach the Seronera area by mid-afternoon for your first Serengeti game drive before dinner and overnight inside the park.
An early morning game drive, the best window for predator activity as lions return from overnight hunts, before you exit the park at Naabi Hill and retrace the route through the highlands toward Ngorongoro. You arrive at a lodge in the Karatu area or near the crater rim in the afternoon, with time to relax before dinner ahead of the next morning's crater descent.
After an early breakfast, you descend over 600 metres into the Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the best wildlife-viewing areas in Africa. The crater floor hosts lion, elephant, buffalo and hippo, with flamingos around the soda lake and one of the highest chances in Tanzania of spotting the endangered black rhino. After a picnic lunch near the hippo pool, you ascend the rim road and drive back to Arusha or Moshi, or transfer to the airport as arranged.
