Classic Tanzania Safari

This Tour in a custom Safari Jeep with pop-up roof accompanied by a guide/driver. This tour takes you around the famous north circuit parks. Serengeti being the largest and famous for over a million wildebeest migrating alongside over 800,000 zebras. The Ngorongoro Crater with its beautiful landscapes and surreal view of the crater, it is easier to see animals here as it is crater floor. The lake Manyara National famous for its tree-climbing lions and various birds like flamingoes.

Highlights

Serengeti National Park

Lake Manyara National Park

Ngorongoro Crater

Tarangire National Park

Olduvai Gorge

Map

Tanzania

Start Point: Arusha

Day 1

Arusha Arusha Planet Lodge

Day 2

Tarangire NP Eileen's Trees Inn

Day 3 - 4

Serengeti NP Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti

Day 5

Ngorongoro Crater Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Day 6

Lake Manyara NP Arusha Planet Lodge

Day 7

Arusha (No accommodation)

End Point: Arusha

Day 1

Arusha

This is the moment you've been waiting for: your Tanzanian safari starts here. You have so much to look forward to and we'll get your trip underway as soon as we give you an introduction to our team and explain what lies ahead.

Spend some time in Arusha, both the gateway city for most safaris in northern Tanzania and a fascinating place to explore. Enjoy good restaurants, streets filled with energy and so many snapshots of vibrant Tanzanian city life. It’s everything you look for in an urban pit stop.

Activity Day 1

Evening

Arrival/ Meet & Greet, Kilimanjaro Airport

Accommodation Day 1

Arusha Planet Lodge

Lodge

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Arusha Planet Lodge
Amenities

Spa • Swimming Pool • Souvenir Shop • Fitness Center • Tanzanite Shopping • Walking Trail

Meal Plan Breakfast

Day 2

Tarangire National Park

Wherever you go in Tarangire National Park, you’ll come across the park’s famous and larger-than-life baobab trees and elephants. These are the twin elements that give this park so much personality. There is, of course, so much more. We don’t just mean the huge populations of wildebeest, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, baboons, vervet monkeys and zebras. Or the rugged landscape of rocky hills and rivers, swamps and savannah plains. You also have an excellent chance of seeing lions here – Tarangire is a real lion stronghold – and keep an eye out for leopards and cheetahs as well.

Activity Day 2

All Day

You'll be going on a guided game drive to look for Tarangire's lions, elephants, cheetahs and more. It's one of the best places to go looking for animals in northern Tanzania.

Accommodation Day 2

Eileen's Trees Inn

Lodge

Eileen’s Trees Inn in the ‘Crater Highlands’ town of Karatu. Eileen’s Trees Inn is owned and managed by Tanzanians who have been in the safari and hospitality business for many years.
Our mission is to provide our Safari visitors with a comfortable accommodation at a good value and a reasonable price point.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Drinking water

Day 3

Karatu – Olduvai Gorge – Serengeti National Park

After a hearty breakfast at your lodge in Karatu, your journey continues westward, descending into the mighty Ngorongoro highlands and then slowly climbing toward the world-famous Serengeti. As you leave the lush vegetation of the crater's outer slopes behind, the landscape opens up into vast golden plains — a prelude to the dramatic wilderness ahead.

En route, you will make a stop at the legendary Olduvai Gorge, often referred to as the "Cradle of Mankind." Here, you'll explore the museum and view the excavation site where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered some of the earliest human remains. The short visit offers not only a glimpse into human evolution but also a deep appreciation for the rich geological and anthropological significance of this ancient land.

Continuing the journey, you'll officially enter Serengeti National Park — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and arguably Africa’s most iconic wildlife sanctuary. Almost immediately, the landscape transforms into endless rolling plains dotted with acacia trees and granite outcrops known as kopjes. This is classic big-game country — the land of lions, cheetahs, giraffes, and vast herds of wildebeest and zebra.

Your afternoon is dedicated to a leisurely game drive en route to your lodge, maximizing wildlife viewing along the way. Depending on the time of year and movement of the herds, you may encounter migrating wildlife or dramatic predator-prey interactions. Every turn reveals something unexpected: a pride of lions lounging under a tree, elephants crossing the road, or gazelles bouncing through the grass.

As the sun begins to set, painting the Serengeti in gold and crimson hues, you'll arrive at your lodge or tented camp. A warm welcome awaits, followed by a delicious dinner under the stars. This is Africa at its most raw and beautiful — wild, vast, and unforgettable.

Activities Day 3

Afternoon

Visit Olduvai Gorge & Museum, Olduvai Gorge

Evening

Our transfer this evening to the next part of your safari is also a game drive which means looking for animals as we go.

Accommodation Day 3

Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti

Tented camp

Feel like a part of the ecosystem at Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti where the canvas tents are surrounded by wildlife and sweeping savannah views. The tents have sofas, desks and wooden chests, and you may even hear lions roar while you're eating dinner in the dining tent. At night, the stars glow overhead, and you're well-placed for exploring the park.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Drinking water

Day 4

Serengeti National Park

There’s no such thing as too many days in the Serengeti – today you’ll get to enjoy it all over again.

Activities Day 4

All Day

Full Day game drive in serengeti national park, Serengeti National Park

Around Lunchtime

Join us for a picnic in Serengeti National Park, where you get to eat great food while surrounded by nature.

Accommodation Day 4

Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti

Tented camp

Sleep again surrounded by the wild Serengeti at Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Drinking water

Day 5

Ngorongoro Crater

Your first sight of Ngorongoro Crater is likely not one you’ll easily forget. As seen from the crater rim, this natural bowl, both vast and intimate, is one of Africa’s most beautiful natural features, stretching 19 green kilometers (12 miles) from one side to the other. Down in the crater itself, you’ll explore an astonishingly rich, self-contained ecosystem that is protected by high crater walls. Here, lions and hyenas hunt wildebeest and Grant’s gazelle within sight of elephants and black rhinos. Your day spent here will reveal a surprising variety of habitats, from the Lereal Forest and salty Lake Magadi to the plains that rise and fall gently all across the valley floor.

Activity Day 5

Morning & Afternoon

Your day in and around Ngorongoro Crater could just be one of the most memorable of your whole safari. You’ll explore the crater rim and then drive down onto the crater floor, where the critically endangered black rhinos are the stars of an astonishing wildlife show. You’ll almost certainly see large-tusked elephants, at least one of the Ngorongoro’s four lion prides, and wandering clans of spotted hyenas. It also just happens to be one of Africa’s most beautiful corners, a hidden world where you’ll be surrounded by steep, deep-green crater walls, a salt lake, forests and hippo-filled waterways.

Accommodation Day 5

Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Lodge

The vastly experienced Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge is a superb choice. Combining bright, modern rooms with time-honored traditional safari decor, the stone-built lodge puts a premium on comfort and the warmth of its welcome. But the views here (from the rooms and from the restaurant) are simply extraordinary, taking in the crater in all its glory. There's also a busy bar with occasional Maasai cultural performances.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Drinking water

Day 6

Lake Manyara National Park

You're going to love Lake Manyara National Park because it promises experiences you just can't get elsewhere. For example, this is one of the most compact parks in Tanzania's north: the park consists of a narrow strip of forest shadowed by vast Lake Manyara on one side and the cliffs of the Rift Valley escarpment on the other. The park is known for its large elephant and baboon populations, and part of the excitement of visiting here is never quite knowing when you're going to come face-to-face with an elephant. And then there are the tree-climbing lions for which the park is famous: this is one of very few places in Africa where lions routinely climb (and spend much of their time up in) trees.

Buffaloes in the shallows of Lake Manyara

Activities Day 6

Morning & Afternoon

Come with us on a guided game drive through Lake Manyara National Park. The park is famous for its elephants and tree-climbing lions, and we hope you'll see both.

Half Day Tour Village tour and coffee tour, Karatu

Evening

Transfer by Road, Karatu to Arusha

Accommodation Day 6

Arusha Planet Lodge

Lodge

Spend another night in Arusha Planet Lodge.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Drinking water

Day 7

Final day with us

This is where your safari in Tanzania will end. We hope that you have had the most fabulous trip and we can't wait to help you plan your next safari.

Activity Day 7

Evening

We hope to see you again. Departure is today.

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Highlights

Arusha

Activity Day 1

Evening

Arusha Planet Lodge

Tarangire National Park

Activity Day 2

All Day

Eileen's Trees Inn

Karatu – Olduvai Gorge – Serengeti National Park

Activities Day 3

Afternoon

Evening

Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti

Serengeti National Park

Activities Day 4

All Day

Around Lunchtime

Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti

Ngorongoro Crater

Activity Day 5

Morning & Afternoon

Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Lake Manyara National Park

Activities Day 6

Morning & Afternoon

Evening

Arusha Planet Lodge

Final day with us

Activity Day 7

Evening

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