4 Days Serengeti safari with hot air balloon experience
4-day Serengeti safari with hot air balloon experience maintains the high impact game viewing of Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater while adding the exceptional luxury of a Hot Air Balloon Safari. This early morning flights provides a unique, birds-eye perspective of Serengeti’s vast landscapes and wildlife, followed by a celebratory bush breakfast. This significantly changes the entire safari experience, offering unforgettable moments both on the ground and from above.
Tour Highlights.
Day 1: Arusha to Ngorongoro crater Descent and Transfer to Serengeti.
Day 2: Hot Air Balloon Safari and Full day Serengeti exploration.
Day 3: Full day game drives in Serengeti.
Day 4: Final Serengeti Drive and Departure.
Detailed itinerary.
Day 1: Arusha to Ngorongoro crater Descent and Transfer to Serengeti.
On the first day of the safari, your safari begins with an early start from Arusha, and then you will drive towards Ngorongoro Highlands. The mornings main event is to drive down into Ngorongoro Crater, which is the largest intact volcanic caldera in the world. This natural experience in an ecological experience that is famous for its high concentration of resident wildlife, offering the best chance in the Northern circuit to spot the entire Big five, including the critically endangered black rhino. You will conduct an extensive game drive across the crater floor, ensuring maximum time for wildlife photography and viewing the huge herds of grazers and their predators.
After a picnic lunch within the crater, you will ascend the wall and drive westward, entering the immense plains of Serengeti national park. The transition provides stunning scenery, and the drive to your centrally located, best-level tented camp or lodge will serve as your first game drive in Serengeti. You will check-in enjoy a wonderful dinner, and prepare for an even earlier start the next morning.
Day 2: Hot Air Balloon Safari and Full day Serengeti exploration.
On the second of the safari, today’s safari has incredible highlight; the Hot Air Balloon Safari. You will be woken before morning and driven to the launch site. As the sun rises, you will be gently lift off in the balloon, drifting silently over Serengeti plains. This unique view offers a different perspective allowing you to appreciate the size of the landscape and spot animals often the massive herds of the migration from above. It is a moment of a natural beauty.
The balloon flights end with a champagne toast and a bush breakfast, set up right on the plains, that adds a touch of romance and luxury to the adventure. After breakfast, you will meet your safari vehicle and immediately begin a full-day game drive. Focusing on the central Seronera Valley and its abundant wildlife, the day ensures game viewing, utilizing your guide’s expertise to track big cats and locate the main herds, before returning to your camp as the sun sets.
Day 3: Full day game drives in Serengeti.
On the third day of the safari, is for entirely to the traditional safari experience, allowing you for exploration of the Serengeti’s diverse ecosystems. You will spend the morning and afternoon conducting extensive game drives, with a packed picnic lunch to increase time in the park. Depending on the season, your focus will be tracking the Great Migration, exploring the hippo pools, or stalking out the rocky Kopjes where lions and cheetahs often rest and hunt.
This day offers you understanding of Serengeti’s environment and the incredible density of its resident wildlife, providing plenty of opportunity for the spectacular photography of elephants, giraffes, leopards and hyenas. By the end of the day, you will have understanding of the park’s dynamics. You will return to your best camp for the final night, enjoying the high standards of hospitality and cuisine.
Day 4: Final Serengeti Drive and Departure.
Your final morning in Serengeti begins with one last optional early morning game drive, a final chance to catch the predators active at a first light. After a delicious breakfast at the camp, you will go on a scenic game drive through the park, heading towards a central Serengeti airstrip (such as Seronera).
4-day Serengeti with a hot air balloon safari experience ends with a scheduled flight back to Arusha Airport (ARK) or Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). This flight provides a final, and a unique Serengeti safari and thus ensuring you depart well and on time for your international connection.
End of 4 Days Serengeti safari with hot air balloon experience