Best 3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari; A focused Tanzania wildlife tour

3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari overview

On this 3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari with options using road means or domestic flights to the park, into one of Africa’s largest wild eco systems and also most populated game park per square kilometer. You are therefore to the best sceneries of Africa’s big 5 game, hundreds of bird species, wildebeest migration, wilderness game drives, predator-prey chase drama, air balloon tours, wilderness bush breakfasts/ romantic dinning, culture tours among other activities.

Top 3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari highlights

Arrival & departure: Kilimanjaro

Day 1-2- Serengeti national park & wildebeests migration
Day 3- Ngorongoro crater & wilderness

Consider affordable luxury 3 days flying Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater safari itineraries

Alternative 3 days flying safaris to Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater for luxury style travelers make the Tanzania wildlife tours more swift and time saving for tourists who want to enjoy adventure on short time travel in Africa. Cost of flying safaris in Africa’s most concentrated game park (Serengeti national park) start at $800 per person per day with the 3 days safari total cost starting at $2,400 for luxury travelers. Summary options for flying 3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari experience;

-3 days luxury Serengeti & Ngorongoro safari with one way flight.

Day 1- Starting from Arusha with a flight to the park. Reaching you will be taken to the your lodge and late enjoy a slow safari game drive in savannah wilderness.
Day 2- the day will start with an early morning game drive/ hot air balloon tour if on itinerary, bush breakfast and later with an evening game drive as you head towards Ngorongoro crater
Day 3- will find you in the Ngorongoro crater conservancy where you will enjoy game drives around the crater watching numerous wildlife. Following the game drive will be departure back to Arusha for your flight.

-3 days luxury Serengeti & Ngorongoro safari with return flight

Day 1- Will see you board a flight from Arusha airport to Ndutu airstrip and begin with the Ngorongoro crater conservation game drives.
Day 2- you’ll wake up to early morning game drives as you head out to explore Serengeti plains and wilderness all day on safari game drives.
Day 3- Hot air balloon tours will get you to very early morning excursions followed by bush break fast and game drives before boarding your returning flight for departure.

Detailed 3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari itinerary

Day 1-2 Serengeti national park (wildebeests & Africa's big 5 game)

On arrival, you head out to Serengeti national park, the home of the great wildebeest migration and the world’s highest number of recorded lion population. Never disappointing right from the time of entry till exit, the park is one of those with the highest concentration of wild game per square km in the world ranging from the Africa’s big 5 to the ugly 5 and more than 500 bird species.

Wilderness safari game drives have numerous lion prides, elephant herds, wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, leopards, cheetahs, waterbucks, gazelles, kobs, reptiles, wild dogs, foxes, vultures, eagles, turacos, secretary birds a few but to mention this endless list. The tour around this park will leave you satisfied by its nature and habitats.

Accommodation: Serengeti safari lodge (or a similar one)

Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner

Day 3 Ngorongoro crater wilderness

An extensive tour at the world’s largest crater and its vegetation that gets look like the “garden of Eden” will leave you amazed with the large number of wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, hippos, elands, kobs, bush bucks, waterbucks, rhinos among others and numerous bird species such as turaco, great kingfisher, abdim’s stork, white-backed vulture among others; along with various features such as Ndutu plains, Gol mountain, Endoro waterfalls, Olduvai gorge, shifting sands among others. Later in the afternoon of the day, you will set out of the park to prepare for your departure.

Accommodation: N/A

Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner

Inclusions

Park entry fees
Domestic flights
Transport 4×4 safari landcruiser
Government taxes
Driver & guide
Airport transfers
Bottle drinking water
All activities on the itinerary

Exclusions

Travel insurance
International flights
Visa fees & processing
Extra activities, meals, alcohol/ liquor not on itinerary
Extra luggage on domestic flights
Tipping & gratitude
Souvenirs & snacks
Any changes to the itinerary
Accommodation after end of the trip
Anything not mentioned

When is the best time for a 3 days Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater safari?

A 3 days Serengeti & Ngorongoro crater safari is best done during Tanzania’s summer/ dry seasons of June to August and December to February when the roads passable making safari swift. Wildebeest migration focused safari is best done in June before all migrating ungulate herds cross to Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve. December to February season gets you to the calving season of these ungulates in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti plains when more than 500,000 wildebeests are born before the start of the next migration cycle.