3 Day Camping Safaris

Duration

3 days

Tour Type

Overview

Our camping safaris are designed to show off the best Africa has to offer at a more affordable price while allowing you the unique opportunity to stay within the National Parks.

This tour option provides you with a unique adventure experience where you can get close to nature. After a day’s game drive you will be greeted at the campsite with refreshment drinks. At night our local African cooks will delight you with a beautifully prepared dinner made with local, fresh produce. After enjoying your meal you can retire to the campfire where you will have the unique opportunity to watch and listen to the nocturnal sounds of the African night. As you can see, our budget camping safaris really are the best way to get up close and personal with East Africa.

These tours are fully serviced safaris where the guides and support staff put up the tents and strike the camp, taking care of every detail so that you can simply relax and enjoy yourself under the stars. If you like the sound of being able to enjoy the best that East Africa has to offer, contact us and ask about our budget camping safaris today!

Tour Plan

Day 1: Lake Manyara National Park

Meals: Lunch, Dinner Jambo!! Welcome to Tanzania! You will be greeted at your accommodation by our guides, who will provide you with a safety talk and a rundown of the day's itinerary. You will then enjoy a panoramic morning drive to Lake Manyara National Park. This park is a must to visit and boasts a diverse and varied terrain in a relatively small area. The park stretches along the base of the 600 meters high Rift Valley escarpment. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park. Incredibly, the other third of the park homes a variety of animals, which are supported by open savannah grassland with rocky outcrops, marshes and acacia woodland. The park is famous for tree-climbing lions and a huge variety of birds including flamingos. Other animals found here are buffalo, zebra, hippo, leopard, elephant, and giraffes. Dinner and overnight stay at Jambo Campsite.

Day 2: Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner After breakfast head back into Lake Manyara National Park to enjoy a morning of game viewing. After lunch makes your way to the Ngorongoro Crater rim in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will camp at Simba Campsite for the evening.

Day 3: Ngorongoro Crater

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch In the early morning, we will depart for the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. With an estimated 25,000 mammals, you are sure to be overwhelmed at the abundance of wildlife that exists within the crater at any one time.

Lake Magadi is a saline lake found on the Crater floor. The saline waters of this lake attract both lesser and greater flamingos, with flocks of several thousand forming when the lake is low. Other bird species that inhabit the Crater floor are ostrich and the Kori bustard, the world’s heaviest flying bird. It may also be possible to spot cheetah, who are nomadic and move in and out of the Crater.

Leopard is highly elusive creatures, however, they are most likely encountered in the Lerai Forest. After enjoying lunch we will head back to Arusha where your safari concludes. You may wish to add one of our optional activities as your next destination. Maybe a gorilla trek or you may just like to spend a couple of days relaxing on the white sandy beaches of Zanzibar.