7 Days Wildlife Safari in Tanzania

  Wildlife Safaris in Tanzania - If you only have a week to spare then these options are the best for you. We have a sample of safaris that families, couples or groups can escape for a week and still make a fabulous safari in Africa. Tanzanian northern parks are reputed for being close to one another and the furthest one can drive is at most 3.5 hours. The rest are an hour and a half apart and if planned well; a week is enough to get the best of an African safari in Tanzania.

You can choose to visit the Lake Manyara or Tarangire National Park In addition to the usual hotspots of Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. If you need recommendations please ask our safari consultants and we shall advise you; which option is best at which period of the year and depending on when you are planning to travel to Tanzania.

Please sample our itineraries here below and let us know which one interests you the most. If you arrive via a different airport other than Kilimanjaro, we can always arrange your private transfer by vehicle, shuttle bus or connection flights. Please see Flights to Tanzania for more on getting to Tanzania.

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7 Days Lodge Safari: Manyara/Serengeti /Ngorongoro                                                                                                  

Day 01:                               Arrival                                                                                                                                                                   When you arrive at the Kilimanjaro International Airport our representative will be waiting for you and after meet and greet , he will take you to a lodge in Arusha where you will take dinner and stay for your first night in Tanzania. Overnight is at Mountain Village Lodge or a similar hotel in town or around Arusha.

Day 02:                         Lake Manyara National Park                                                                                                                                Wake up early for breakfast and at around 08.00 AM you are off for your firs safari day. You will drive to The Lush Lake Manyara National Park  where you will do full day game drives until in the late afternoon time to drive to your lodge for overnight. If you are lucky you might see the legendary tree climbing lions, otherwise many another animals including impalas, zebras, giraffes, dikdiks, water bucks, baboons, and elephants can be spotted easily in this park. You can overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge or the nice Kirurumu Tented Camp. If you are on honeymoon please request for the Honeymoon Tent at Kirurumu. It comes with a supplement but it is the fantastic!

Day 03:                    Lake Manyara – Serengeti National Park                                                                                                             Drive to the Serengeti National Park in the morning after breakfast at your lodge. You will be crossing the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and it is worthy making a brief stop at Olduvai Gorge the perceived Cradle of Mankind where important discoveries of hominid fossils was done by Dr Leakey and Mary his wife. You will then proceed with game drives slowly in the Serengeti plains as you head to your lodge or tented camp for tonight’s overnight. You can choose between staying at  Serengeti Sopa Lodge  or at a luxury Safari Tented Camp; Mapito Tented Camp. The camp is located out of the park so you can even take walking safaris and night game drives from the camp. This can be arranged spontaneously or as we plan your safari. 

Day 04 - 05:                   Two days Serengeti National Park                              On these two days that you will spend in the Serengeti you will have all the flexibility to choose between going for an early morning game drive then back to the lodge/camp for breakfast, or go for a full day out in the plains after breakfast. You will expect to spot so many animals in the Serengeti; lions , cheetahs, hyenas, baboons, name it….  Depending on which time of the year you are traveling to Tanzania; you will get the chance to witness the largest movement of animals on earth;The Great Wildebeest Migration. More than a million and a half herds of wildebeests also referred as the gnus on the move accompanied by hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles. Two full board overnights at either the Mapito Tented Camp or Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Day 06:                      Ngorongoro Crater.                                                                                                                                                        In the morning we take breakfast and leave the lodge/camp with a lunch box headed to the Ngorongoro Conservation Crater. On arrival we go through the registration process and descend to the floor of the world’s largest unbroken caldera for the most wonderful day of game viewing. We will have lunch at the designated picnic site at the side of the hippo pool and go ahead with gamed rives in the evening until later in the afternoon when we drive up the Crater Rim. No lodges are inside the Crater so overnight is at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

Day 07:                    Ngorongoro –Arusha                                                                                                                                                   Last day of the safari and it is time to visit the Masai people in their village around the Ngorongoro. These people have managed to live for hundreds of years very harmoniously with nature and still keep their culture and traditional which are also key conservational practices. If you do not wish to visit them you can also choose to go for a ranger guided nature walk in the Ngorongoro Forests. You will there after drive to Arusha town and there after transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for departure.

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7 Days Lodge Safari: Tarangire/Serengeti /Ngorongoro

Day 01:                         Arrival                                                                                                                                                                        You will be met at Kilimanjaro International Airport (arrival point) by our Representative who will help you with your luggage to the transfer car and take you to Mountain Village Lodge or a similar lodge. AT the lodge you will have a short briefing session with our safari Manger, then left to have dinner and relax.

Day 02:       Arusha – Tarangire National Park.                                                   The tour starts with a drive to the third largest national Park in Tanzania and that is Tarangire. With a lunch box carried from Arusha you will have that chance to do game drives the whole day. This day will be spent on the savannah plains in search of wild animals including zebras, elands, impalas, gazelles, and the rare species of Kudus. Large herds of elephants are also one of Tarangire highlights as well as the large baobab trees. Overnight will be at either  Tarangire River Camp  or Tarangire Safari Lodge with an amazing view over the Tarangire River that draws hundreds of animals. 

Day 03:                     Tarangire – Serengeti National Park                                                                                                                      After an early morning breakfast you are off to Serengeti National park. Driving through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will enter the Serengeti via the Naabi Hill gate and go ahead with game viewing en route to the lodge or tented camp. If you are interested; you will have a brief stop at The Olduvai Gorge to witness the excavations of the Leakey’s family who discovered some human fossils of the Australopithecus Boisei, a discovery that led to the belief that indeed first man dwelt in Africa. Your overnight will be at Mapito Tented Camp or Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Day 04 - 05:                    Two more days at Serengeti National Park                                                                                                   These days are spent at the Serengeti plains doing game drives. Here you have the choice to do the early morning game drives if you so wish. This will give you the chance to see nocturnal species retire from a night out as well as the diurnal majority waking up for a new day. Overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge or at Mapito Tented Camp.

Day 06:                           Serengeti – Ngorongoro                                                                                                                                    After breakfast we drive back via the Naabi Hill gate to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. On arrival we will descend 600 mts down the Crater wall to the floor of the World’s greatest unbroken Caldera for a wonderful day of game drives. The Ngorongoro Crater is world renowned for the highest concentration of animals and it is here where you get the greatest chance of spotting the Big five in one day. A world biosphere reserve the Crater was declared a world heritage site by the United Nations body UNESCO. Among other animals you will see lions, cheetahs, zebras, warthogs, silverback jackals etc. Later in the afternoon before dark we drive to the Crater rim to check in at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

Day 07:                         Back to Arusha                                                                     If you like being active it is time to go for a nature walk in the Ngorongoro Crater forests guided by an armed ranger, or go for a dance with Masai people at their village while you learn something about their culture and traditions.  Depending on your schedule you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for departure.

Apart from these two options it is also possible to do a combination of Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Park as well as the Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park. Please contact our safari specialists for a combination of all the famous highlights of the Northern Tanzania Circuit.