Serengeti & Ngorongoro Safari: 3-Day Game Drives & Crater

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Duration3d

GroupUp to 7

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Three days of game drives across open plains, a collapsed volcano and the rift valley

A 3-day camping safari from Arusha takes you into Serengeti National Park and down into Ngorongoro crater on game drives led by a driver-guide, with nights at campsites inside the parks. You start with an afternoon drive into the Serengeti, spend a full day crossing the crater floor, and return to Arusha on the third day. Pickup from Arusha is included; meals and accommodation at Seronera and Simba campsites are part of the package.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Arusha to Serengeti National Park

Breakfast in Arusha
Drive from Arusha to Serengeti
Evening game drive in Serengeti
Dinner at Seronera Campsite
Overnight at Seronera Campsite

Day 2 — Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

Morning game drive in Serengeti
Early lunch in Serengeti
Drive from Serengeti to Ngorongoro
Dinner at Simba Campsite
Overnight at Simba Campsite

Day 3 — Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha

Early breakfast at Simba Campsite
Crater floor tour with picnic lunch
Drive back to Arusha

The Experience

The drive from Arusha to Serengeti takes three hours and ends with an evening game drive before dinner at Seronera Campsite. You wake early the next morning for a second game drive across the open plains, then head toward Ngorongoro. The route itself becomes part of the day—your driver explains the wildlife and landscape as you travel through Serengeti toward the crater rim, where you spend the night at Simba Campsite. On the final morning, you descend to the crater floor for a full day of driving inside the collapsed volcano, with a picnic lunch, before the return to Arusha.

The Ngorongoro crater holds a concentrated mix of animals—lions, elephants, monkeys—in a landscape shaped by geology rather than open savanna. The Serengeti plains stretch without obvious boundaries, and the rift valley appears as you move between the two. Camping means you stay inside the parks instead of returning to town each night, which shapes how the days feel and what you see at dawn and dusk.

Your guide is a driver who speaks English and leads the game drives from the vehicle. Meals and accommodation at both campsites are included. The itinerary is fixed, so the timing holds across all three days without needing to arrange transport or entry separately.

What’s included

Driver-guide in English.
pickup from Arusha.
accommodation at Seronera Campsite and Simba Campsite.
meals at both campsites including a picnic lunch on the crater floor.
game drives on all three days.

Good to know

Easy physical levelNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Suricata Safaris

Is this one for you?Three days is long enough to see both parks without rushing the crater—a full day inside Ngorongoro is what makes the wildlife viewing possible instead of a quick stop. The fixed schedule and included transport mean you do not build the itinerary yourself, which matters if you want the parks arranged and the timing held.