6 Days Northern Tanzania Safari

Full Itinerary

• Day 1: Tarangire National Park
  After breakfast, you will depart from Arusha City for Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, which meanders through the park, attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, and antelopes to a variety of colorful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania. Therefore, during your tour, you will observe many elephant families interacting. You will have a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to see animals quenching their thirst in the river (and sometimes lions attacking thirsty zebras or wildebeests). After your trip, we will take you back to your campsite for dinner. 

• Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park
  We will pick you up from your hotel at 8:00 AM and you will embark on an amazing journey across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. Although small in dimension (205 square miles), the park has breathtaking scenery and is famous for its lush acacia forest, giant figs, and mahogany trees, as well as for a growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Permanent residents of this park also include giraffes, elephants, impalas, and many buffaloes. The lake is also home to many hippos. Some unique facts about this park include tree-climbing lions, flamingos on the lake shore, as well as Ground Hornbills and Crested Eagles. During your visit, some extra tours are possible, including a bike tour or a boat excursion. In the afternoon, we will take you back to the campsite for dinner. 

• Day 3: Serengeti National Park
  After an early breakfast, you will depart your hotel for the most famous National Park in the World, the Serengeti. The driving itself, although long, is spectacular. You will drive up the crater highlands, making a quick stop at the rim for an out-of-this-world view of Ngorongoro Crater. This is an unforgettable moment for any visitor. As you go further into the Serengeti National Park, you will discover why the name means, in the local language, "endless plains". The park covers 6,900 square miles (18,000 square kilometers) and for most of it, the plains will stretch to the horizon defying your senses and perception of distances. Serengeti National Park is home to 2 million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of zebras, and all kinds of antelopes, including the impalas and the Thomson's gazelles. The Great Migration takes place in this unique park. It teems with big cats and large predators, and it is the best place where visitors can see lions, cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas. Smaller animals like foxes, mongoose, honey badgers, jackals, monkeys, baboons, rock hyrax, and African hares, together with more than 500 species of birds, also inhabit this park. 

• Day 4: Serengeti National Park
  Full day in the Serengeti National Park. We are very flexible with your preferences as far as this day is concerned, and we will plan it according to your wishes. You and your guide will discuss the best times for you, including the game drives and the wake-up time. For example, you could do a morning game drive, return to the campsite for lunch and relaxation and finish the day with an afternoon game drive. Alternatively, you could do a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch box offered for free. 

• Day 5: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro National Park
  On that day, you will wake up early to do an early morning safari before breakfast, spot animals when they are very active, and have a fantastic sunrise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, we will take you back to the campsite for brunch, followed by a transfer to Ngorongoro, the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls 2,000 feet high and a crater floor that covers 102 square miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa, including the rare black rhino. The crater has the greatest concentration of wildlife on the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest, and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusks, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you will ever see in your lifetime. You arrive in Ngorongoro late in the afternoon. 

• Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater
  Early in the morning, you will descend to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the Hippo Lake, and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, we will drive you up the steep road out of the crater and return to Arusha City.