2 Days Tarangire & Ngorongoro Budget Mid-range Camping Safari Tour Tanzania

Unforgettable experience. Our guide Omary very was very nice and tried time again and again to find the big 5s, he did an awesome job making our experience amazing. Thanks for everything

I joined up with a group on a two day budget safari. My guide Simion picked me up from my hotel in Arusha at 7 am the first day. It was just the two of us from Arusha to the meet up point. He helped me learn some Swahili, and we got to know a bit about each other’s lives and ambitions. Simion is a great guy. After we met up with the rest of the group, it was a short drive to Tarangire National Park. Simion knew his way around the park really well, and he got us up close to so many elephants! He scanned the radio and without his diligence and guidance I don’t think we would have been so lucky to see the prize sighting of the day - a leopard lounging in a baobab tree! After we had lunch (which was amazing), we started on our way out of the park. Again, Simion was scanning the radio for mentions of sightings of cheetahs, which we were all very eager to see! A few minutes later he pulled off of the main park road on to a bumpy dirt road and then we witnessed a pair of cheetahs hunt and kill a bushbuck(kind of like a big deer). It was a wonderful day, all made possible by Simion’s warm and friendly guidance. The second day was equally amazing. I joined with a different group and we had a different driver/guide. His name was Matcha. Another lovely, warm, and knowledgeable guide. He picked me up from the lodge in Mto wa Mbu very early, and then we were on our way to Ngorongoro. We had luck on our side again, and we got an up close sighting of a pair of lions as we were just reaching the floor of the crater. Matcha had answers to all of our questions about the dizzying profusion of wildlife we saw throughout the day. We were even lucky enough to get a sighting of black rhinos (albeit from a long distance away). I’d go on another safari with these guys any day. It was a pleasant and comfortable experience, and everyone involved was friendly and helpful.

I booked the trip from home, my contact person Mohamed was always helpful and answered my questions quickly! Finally arrived in Tansania everything worked out well, Airport pick-up, Hotel Booking in Arusha, Breakfast and pick-up for the tour the next day. The hotel in Arusha is really budget but the staff is friendly and you get what you pay for. So our tour started early the next morning with our great guide Kindu to the Tarangire National Park - with his help and knowledge we could see Elephants, Giraffes, Zebras, Buffalos, Pumbas and even Lions! On the way there we picked up a picnic basket with very good cooked local food and had a picnic in the park. Then we spent the night in a budget lodge near the park very everything was organized again - good local dinner and breakfast and friendly staff again! The next day we started to the Ngorongoro Crater which you have to see once in a lifetime - lush greens, stunning views and last but not least a vast number of animals just walking around - we saw Antilopes, Buffalos, Gnus, Zebras, Hippos, Lions and even Rhinos. All in all it was a great trip and I won’t miss it - thank you Africa Travel Safari & Team!