6-Day The Great Tanzania Safari Adventure

Welcome to Tanzania. At 07:00 AM, you will meet our professional safari guide at your hotel in Arusha, then depart for Tarangire National Park for your game drive. We recommend 1 night in Arusha before the safari, especially if arriving via Kilimanjaro International Airport, to ensure a smooth start to your journey. Tarangire National Park is renowned for its large elephant herds, iconic baobab trees, and the Tarangire River. You may also encounter lions, giraffes, zebras, buffalo, wildebeest, and a rich variety of birdlife. In the late afternoon, enjoy a scenic sunset game drive among the baobabs before heading to your tented camp for dinner and overnight at Tarangire Greenland Retreat, a beautifully located camp surrounded by untouched nature.

At 07:30 AM, rise with a beautiful sunrise at your camp and enjoy breakfast before departing. You will then drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. Lake Manyara National Park is a scenic and diverse park, known for its lush groundwater forest, large troops of baboons, flamingos along the lake, and the famous tree-climbing lions. The park also offers rich birdlife and stunning views along the Great Rift Valley escarpment. After your game drive, you will proceed to dinner and overnight at Manyara Escarpment Luxury Lodge, a luxury lodge set on the escarpment with breathtaking views over the valley.

Rise to great views of Lake Manyara and the sunrise, then enjoy your breakfast. At 7:30 AM, after breakfast, you will drive towards Serengeti National Park. The transfer to Serengeti takes about 3 hours. Along the way, you will make a 30-minute stop at a Maasai village to experience their culture, then continue the drive to Serengeti. During the journey, you may spot animals such as zebras, giraffes, antelope, and more. Serengeti offers one of the most amazing game-viewing safaris in Africa. It is home to large herds of buffalo, wildebeest, elephants, giraffes, eland, impalas, and Grant’s gazelles. Lions, leopards, and other wildlife are often seen. You will enjoy a game drive, break for a picnic lunch, and then continue with another game drive. Dinner and overnight will be at your tented lodge, which has a great swimming pool, where you may spot animals like zebras and elephants passing nearby.

The exciting adventure through the northern park will continue to Serengeti National Park. At around 6:30 am, our guide will pick you up from your lodge to start the drive to Serengeti National Park, stopping at the Olduvai Gorge Museum in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area along the way. The drive to the Serengeti gate may take up to three hours. We'll stop for lunch at Naabi Hill Gate, then continue with an afternoon game drive until evening. Serengeti is one of Africa's most iconic wildlife reserves, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We will have a chance to witness the Big Five animals of Africa – the powerful lion, elusive leopard, majestic elephant, rhino, and mighty buffalo.

Enjoy breakfast before heading out on a morning game drive through the Serengeti, soaking in the sights of wildlife one last time. You also have the option to add an early morning hot air balloon safari in Serengeti National Park. This unforgettable experience allows you to witness the sunrise from the sky and observe wildlife roaming freely across the plains below. After your picnic lunch, you will continue with a game drive transfer from Serengeti National Park to the Ngorongoro Highlands, heading to your accommodation located about 20 minutes from Ngorongoro Crater. This will ensure a more relaxed schedule and allow sufficient time for a full crater game drive the following day, thanks to the shorter distance from Serengeti to Ngorongoro.

Early in the morning, you will enjoy a breathtaking view of the Ngorongoro Crater from your lodge located on the crater rim, offering one of the most spectacular natural panoramas in Africa. This will be followed by breakfast at the lodge, overlooking the misty crater floor as the sun rises over the landscape. After breakfast, you will descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a full-day game drive. The crater is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the best places in Africa to see a wide variety of wildlife in a single area. You will have excellent opportunities to spot lions, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, hippos, hyenas, and the rare black rhino, all within the stunning scenery of the crater floor, which features grasslands, forests, and soda lakes. You will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the crater while continuing your game viewing experience. In the afternoon, after the game drive, you will ascend from the crater and drive back to Arusha.