Experience the best of the Northern Safari Circuit on a 6-day Midrange Private Safari. Encounter diverse wildlife in stunning landscapes, including lions in trees and elephants among acacias. Visit the iconic Ngorongoro Crater and explore the world-famous Serengeti National Park for unforgettable wildlife encounters. Explore the breathtaking landscapes of northern Tanzania’s national parks, including the world-famous Masai cultural experience.
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Pick up from Kilimanjaro Airport
Our Nyumbu Beyond Journeys safari guide will greet you at Kilimanjaro or Arusha airport and transfer you to your hotel in Arusha. Depending on your arrival time, you can opt for an Arusha city tour, including visits to the Cultural Heritage art gallery, local markets, and the Maasai Market for souvenirs.
Day 2 : Lake Manyara or Tarangire National Park
In the early morning you will meet your guide and pile into your very own 4×4 safari vehicle for the start of your adventure. This itinerary starts with a day in either Lake Manyara or Tarangire, depending on the time of year. Enjoy a half-day’s game drive inside this park, set beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, a jewel known for its primates, hippos and infamous tree-climbing lions. With its varied ecosystems, you will be able to observe forest creatures, large baboon troops in addition to other animals like giraffe and elephant. Vast flamingo populations dot the lakeshore and interact with an array of bird species. As the sun sets, you will make your way to your lodge or tented camp for the evening.
Enjoy a half-day’s game drive inside Tarangire, known for its bulbous baobab trees and savannah woodland habitat heavily populated with herds of elephants and a variety of migratory zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, impala, buffalo and more. The park’s annual perennial river serves as a water source for these migrating herds during the dry season, making the game viewing spectacular, the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem. In the late afternoon, you will retreat to your lodge or tented camp for the evening.
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast you will head to Serengeti National Park, the largest park in Tanzania. The Serengeti, a world heritage site, is known for its famous migration during which six million hooves pound the plains as zebra and Thomson’s gazelle travel alongside millions of wildebeest looking for fresh grazing. Even when the migration is quiet, Serengeti offers unmatched game and predator versus prey viewing of the over 4 million animals that reside there. Overnight inside the park.
Day 4: Serengeti National Park
Experience a full day’s game drive in the Serengeti, driving across vast plains, observing daily wildlife patterns or in search of the great migration. For all full days in the Serengeti, you have the options of taking a full-day game drive with a packed lunch, or heading back to your camp/lodge for lunch and a rest, with game drives in the early morning and late afternoon when the animals are most active.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Serengeti National Park
Enjoy another full day game drive across the sun-kissed savannahs of the Serengeti.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Crater Rim
Spend the morning game driving in the Serengeti, after which you will depart for the crisp air of the Ngorongoro Highlands. Spend the night atop the Ngorongoro Crater rim, where you will have an awarding view of the crater floor.
Transfer Time: 2-3 hours
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport
Wake early and descend into the crater by dawn for a half-day’s game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater, a small haven of 300 km², is bestowed with wildlife, an estimated 35,000 in number, comprising zebra, buffalo, lions, old bull elephants and so much more. It is also one of the best places to spot the rare black rhino. After a picnic lunch on the crater floor, you will drive back to Arusha or on to the airport for an early evening arrival.