Best of safari 10 days
Duration
10 Days
Type
Budget
Capacity
Private group of up to 6 people per vehicle
Languages
English
Itinerary
Your adventure begins now: your Tanzanian safari starts here. An exciting journey awaits and we will start your trip as soon as we give you an introduction to our team and explain what lies ahead.
Arusha serves as the gateway to an incredible safari experience here in northern Tanzania and most travelers pass through at some stage. Whether you’re on your way out on safari or here for a little longer, you’ll catch a glimpse of streets filled with energy and color.
Meal Plan – Day 1
Dinner
Olerai Lodge
You'll be based at Olerai Lodge for your visit to Arusha. It's a good place to return to at the end of the day.
Your next safari stop is Lake Manyara, a fantastic and relatively compact park. There is so much to look forward to here. To start with, there's the dramatic scenery of cliffs, forest and lake all in a relatively small area. You will enjoy it when it comes to wildlife. Lake Manyara is famous for its elephants that roam the forests, its gregarious troops of olive baboons, and its lions which sometimes climb trees. It's a unique combination that offers something a little different to the other parks in Tanzania's north.
Activity Day 2
Participate in a guided game drive through the forests in Lake Manyara, where sightings of the park's elephants and tree-climbing lions are the main prize.
Activity Day 3
Join our guided exploration to discover elephants, tree climbing lions and other wildlife on a guided game drive through Lake Manyara National Park.
Meal Plan – Day 2 & 3
Jungle pearl resort
There's much for you to enjoy at Jungle Pearl Resort. It's a good place to stay in a good location.
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
High in the Ngorongoro Highlands, you can expect beautiful views, dense forests and cool temperatures. Apart from Ngorongoro Crater, there are plenty of dramatic land formations, with steep-walled craters and high, rocky summits a feature. Watch for wildlife also in the forests, including elephants, buffaloes and, if you're lucky, leopards.
Activity Day 4
Leave the crowds behind and join us for a guided game drive through the Ngorongoro Highlands. It's a chance to see and learn what this remarkable landscape has to offer.
Activity Day 5
You'll be heading down more safari trails in search of animals in Ngorongoro Highlands when we take you on a guided game drive. This is the best thing about many safaris, and you'll hopefully see many animals.
Meal Plan – Day 4 & 5
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Overnight Safari Camp
Your accommodation will be at Pakulala Safari Camp while you're in Ngorongoro Highlands. It's a nice place to return to at the end of your safari day.
There's nowhere in Tanzania where you have a better chance of seeing big cats than in the Central Serengeti. You'll also see lots of other animals as you explore the savannah grasslands and silhouetted acacia trees with us. This is the Serengeti's heartland and it is the most popular area of the park, for a very good reason.
Activity Day 6
You never quite know what you'll see on your guided game drive in the Central Serengeti as your guide takes you through some of Tanzania's best wildlife country.
Activity Day 7
Come and see the best of Central Serengeti National Park as we take you out on a guided game drive. It really is a terrific way to feel a part of Africa with the wind in your hair as we drive you around looking for animals.
Meal Plan – Day 6 & 7
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Intimate Camp Seronera
At Intimate Camp Seronera, you're staying inside Central Serengeti National Park and you'll have time to experience all that the camp and its location can offer.
Welcome to the Unesco World Heritage–listed Serengeti, one of Africa’s top safari destinations. While you’re here, there’s an excellent chance that you’ll see leopards along the dry riverbanks, cheetahs out on the grasslands, elephants, giraffes and all kinds of antelopes everywhere across the park. Watch also for the Serengeti’s famous lion prides. And that’s just the start. Some of the largest and most diverse wildlife populations on the planet roam the Serengeti, not to mention millions of wildebeest and zebras who migrate across the plains every year.
Meal Plan – Day 8 & 9
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Camp Zebra
Camp Zebra will be your base in the central Serengeti. This excellent tented camp has a dining and lounge tent, and you'll sleep in large safari tents that look out across the savannah grasslands and acacia trees. If you're lucky, an elephant might pass by right next to your tent, or you'll hear a lion roar while you're lying in bed at night.
Even the best safaris must come to an end. We're sure that you will travel home with a suitcase full of happy memories, and we hope that you will join us again soon.
Activity Day 10
Transfer by Road, Camp Zebra to Arusha
Meal Plan – Day 10
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Tour Map
Duration
10 Days
Type
Mid-range
Capacity
Private group of up to 6 people per vehicle
Languages
English
Itinerary
Welcome to the start of your safari and welcome to Tanzania! You've chosen a fantastic place for your safari journey and we'll get you started with an introductory briefing before we head out to begin the trip you've been dreaming of.
The streets of Arusha are fantastic places for you to learn a little more about local life in a northern Tanzanian. Apart from the endless fascination of life on these busy streets, there are museums, markets, and a rewarding local food scene for you to experience.
Meal Plan – Day 1
Dinner
The African Tulip
Getting a good night's sleep is not hard at the African Tulip, even though this boutique hotel is close to the center of busy Arusha. It has a quiet side-street location and excellent rooms are perfect for a relaxing stay. Enjoy also the swimming pool, restaurant serving good local and international specialties, and the bar.
Almost everyone who visits Lake Manyara National Park falls in love with this unique park. Lake Manyara is most famous for being one of the few parks in Africa where its lions climb trees. It's not unusual to look up into the branches of Lake Manyara's forest canopy and find yourself face-to-face with a lion (or even an entire pride). Large populations of elephants and olive baboons are further highlights, while the backdrop to all wildlife sightings here is the dramatic Rift Valley escarpment which rises over the park's western boundary, or pretty Lake Manyara which dominates the east.
Activity Day 2
Participate in a guided game drive through the forests in Lake Manyara, where sightings of the park's elephants and tree-climbing lions are the main prize.
Activity Day 3
Join our guided exploration to discover elephants, tree climbing lions and other wildlife on a guided game drive through Lake Manyara National Park.
Meal Plan – Day 2 & 3
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Escarpment Luxury Lodge
You'll find it almost impossible not to relax at Escarpment Luxury Lodge, high on the cliffs of the Great Rift Valley and with views out over northern Tanzania. The rooms are wonderful places to stay with plenty of space, luxury decor, large private terraces and hardwood floors. Enjoy also the swimming pool, bar, restaurant, and being close to Lake Manyara National Park.
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.
Activity Day 4
You're in for one of the best safari experiences you can have on your guided game drive through Ngorongoro Crater. As you explore the crater floor, your guide will help you look for lions, black rhinos, spotted hyenas and so much more.
Activity Day 5
You'll spend the best part of a day exploring Ngorongoro Crater on your guided game drive. There's always lots of wildlife to see, and this could include lions, hyenas and black rhinos.
Meal Plan – Day 4 & 5
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Ngorongoro Serena Safari 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.
There's nowhere in Tanzania where you have a better chance of seeing big cats than in the Central Serengeti. You'll also see lots of other animals as you explore the savannah grasslands and silhouetted acacia trees with us. This is the Serengeti's heartland and it is the most popular area of the park.
Activity Day 6
You never quite know what you'll see on your guided game drive in the Central Serengeti as your guide takes you through some of Tanzania's best wildlife country.
Activity Day 7
You'll be heading down more safari trails in search of animals in Central Serengeti National Park when we take you on a guided game drive. This is the best thing about many safaris, and you'll hopefully see many animals.
Meal Plan – Day 6 & 7
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Camp World
Stay in one of the best parts of the Serengeti for seeing lions and other wildlife at Dunia Camp, which is close to the famous rocky outcrops known as Simba and Moru Kopjes. The tents are the kind of accommodation where you can relax in luxury but still watch animals pass by from the comfort of your own bed.
Discover just why so many safari visitors fall in love with the Serengeti. Keep an eye out for big cats, even bigger elephants, and almost every kind of safari wildlife you can imagine. You might also see giraffe, impala, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, hundreds of species of birds, and that may all just be before breakfast. You’ll never forget watching these animals interact, whether you see a hunt, a vast herd or a mother protecting her cub or calf. The Serengeti’s scenery is also unforgettable – observe Africa’s iconic acacia trees, the park’s golden grasslands and great piles of boulders known as kopjes.
Activity Day 8
Come and see the best of Central Serengeti National Park as we take you out on a guided game drive. It really is a terrific way to feel a part of Africa with the wind in your hair as we drive you around to look for animals.
Activity Day 9
You'll enjoy the safari experience of a lifetime on your guided game drive through Serengeti National Park. A guide will help you look for big cats, elephants and more as you drive through so many classic safari landscapes
Meal Plan – Day 8 & 9
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Lemala Mara & Ndutu Tented Camp
When you stay at Lemala Mara & Ndutu Tented Camp inside Serengeti National Park, you're wonderfully well placed for exploring all that the area has to offer. Facilities here include A bar, a restaurant and an outside fireplace.
Much as we'd like your tour with us to last forever, sadly today marks the end of your safari. After an incredible journey together,, it's time to say goodbye and look back together on an amazing safari. We hope that you'll come back to travel with us again one day.
Activity Day 10
It's time for you to fly into Arusha Airport, a small domestic airport used for smaller planes. It's 8km, or 5mi, west of town.
Meal Plan – Day 10
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Tour Map
Duration
10 Days
Type
Luxury
Capacity
Private group of up to 6 people per vehicle
Languages
English
Itinerary
Welcome to the start of your safari and welcome to Tanzania! You've chosen a fantastic place for your safari journey and we'll get you started with an introductory briefing before we head out to begin the trip you've been dreaming of.
The streets of Arusha are fantastic places for you to learn a little more about local life in a northern Tanzania city. Apart from the endless fascination of life on these busy streets, there are museums, markets, and a rewarding local food scene for you to experience.
Activity Day 1
Today you arrive in Tanzania.
You will be transferred from the Kilimanjaro Airport.
Transfer time; about 90 minutes
Meal Plan – Day 1
- Dinner
- Drinking water
- Non-alcoholic drinks
- Beer and Wine in Vehicle
Lake Duluti Lodge
Nicely separate from the big-city noise of Arusha and close to a lake east of the town center, the fourstar Lake Duluti Lodge has attractive rooms with elegant bathrooms with freestanding bathtubs. The onsite restaurant and public areas are similarly excellent, and there's a swimming pool in the quiet gardens.
Almost everyone who visits Lake Manyara National Park falls in love with this unique park. Lake Manyara is most famous for being one of the few parks in Africa where its lions climb trees. It's not unusual to look up into the branches of Lake Manyara's forest canopy and find yourself face-to-face with a lion (or even an entire pride). Large populations of elephants and olive baboons are further highlights, while the backdrop to all wildlife sightings here is the dramatic Rift Valley escarpment which rises over the park's western boundary, or pretty Lake Manyara which dominates the east.
Activity Day 2
Participate in a guided game drive through the forests in Lake Manyara, where sightings of the park's elephants and tree-climbing lions are the main prize.
Activity Day 3
Morning & Noon
Join our guided exploration to discover elephants, tree climbing lions and other wildlife on a guided game drive through Lake Manyara National Park.
Afternoon
This afternoon we'll be taking you to the next stage of your safari, but you'll also get to enjoy one last game drive along the way.
Transfer time; 1 to 2 hours
Meal Plan – Day 2 & 3
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Drinking water
- Non-alcoholic drinks
- Beer and Wine in Vehicle
Gibb’s Farm
Start your day with the inviting aroma of fresh coffee at Gibb's Farm, between Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro, as it has its very own coffee plantation. The historic buildings here, all lovingly restored, date back to the 1920s and the rooms are superb. The views, the peace and quiet, and the swimming pool will also be highlights of your stay here.
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 hippofilled waterways.
Activity Day 4
You're in for one of the best safari experiences you can have on your guided game drive through Ngorongoro Crater . As you explore the crater floor, your guide will help you look for lions, black rhinos, spotted hyenas and so much more.
Activity Day 5
Morning & Noon
You're in for one of the best safari experiences you can have on your guided game drive through Ngorongoro Crater . As you explore the crater floor, your guide will help you look for lions, black rhinos, spotted hyenas and so much more.
Afternoon
Transfer Game Drive, Ngorongoro Crater to Central Serengeti National Park
Transfer time; 2 to 3 hours
Meal Plan – Day 4 & 5
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Drinking water
- Non-alcoholic drinks
- Beer and Wine in Vehicle
&Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
Wake up to one of the most beautiful views in Africa, here at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, high on the crater rim. Everything about this lodge is excellent, from the food and the views, to the high-class, luxury accommodation. The only thing blocking your view out over the crater might be some zebras grazing in the foreground. Find out about the lodge's partnership with local lion conservation programs. The private butler is typical of the fine service.
There's nowhere in Tanzania where you have a better chance of seeing big cats than in the Central Serengeti. You'll also see lots of other animals as you explore the savannah grasslands and silhouetted acacia trees with us. This is the Serengeti's heartland and it is the most popular area of the park.
Activity Day 6
You never quite know what you'll see on your guided game drive in the Central Serengeti as your guide takes you through some of Tanzania's best wildlife country.
Activity Day 7
You'll be heading down more safari trails in search of animals in Central Serengeti National Park when we take you on a guided game drive. This is the best thing about many safaris, and you'll hopefully see many animals.
Activity Day 8
Participate in a guided game drive through the fabulous wildlife country of the Central Serengeti. It's an experience you'll never forget.
Activity Day 9
Early Morning
Go on an early morning game drive in Central Serengeti National Park, and you’ll soon discover why it’s the favorite activity of the day for many safari-goers.
Meal Plan – Day 6 & 9
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Drinking water
- Non-alcoholic drinks
- Beer and Wine in Vehicle
Camp World
Stay in one of the best parts of the Serengeti for seeing lions and other wildlife at Dunia Camp, which is close to the famous rocky outcrops known as Simba and Moru Kopjes. The tents are the kind of accommodation where you can relax in luxury but still watch animals pass by from the comfort of your own bed.
Your memorable Tanzanian safari concludes here. We hope that you have had the most fabulous trip and we can't wait to help you plan your next safari.
Activity Day 10
Transfer by Road, Central Serengeti National Park via Arusha to Kilimanjaro Airport
Transfer time; 3 to 4 hours
Meal Plan – Day 10
Dinner
Tour Map
What's included
- Fully equipped 4x4 safari vehicle
- English-speaking guide
- Activities and transfers as per itinerary
- All national park fees
- Accommodation as per the program
- Meals as per the program
- Window seats and drinking water during the safari
- Airport pickup and transfers
- Flying Doctors insurance (AMREF) during the safari
What's excluded
- International and domestic flights
- Entry visa fees
- Tips for the safari guide/driver (USD 10–15 per person/day)
- Zanzibar tourist tax (USD 3–5 per person/night)
- Alcoholic beverages and additional soft drinks
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