You’ll begin your journey with a welcome and private transfer from Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport to our exquisite hotel in Arusha. You’ll get a taste of Tanzania with this safari itinerary, visiting three of the country’s best wildlife-watching destinations. Witness the Calving Migration across the Southern Serengeti and explore the incredible natural phenomenon of the UNESCO-protected Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park.
Life on Safari
Upon arrival at the airport, you will be warmly welcomed by our representative and transferred to your accommodation in Arusha. Enjoy a comfortable drive to the hotel, check in, and take the rest of the day to relax and recover from your journey. This evening is at leisure as you prepare for the exciting safari adventure starting next morning.
Main Destination: Arusha (City)
Accommodation: Gran Melia Arusha
Meals: At your own expense
You’ll be picked up from your hotel at 8:00 am and start a beautiful journey across the Great Rift Valley for a full-day game drive. Although small in dimension (205 sq miles), the park has breathtaking scenery and is well-known for its lush acacia forest, giant figs, and mahogany trees, as well as a growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Permanent residents of this park also include giraffes, elephants, impalas, and a huge number of buffalo. The lake is also home to a large number of hippos. The game drives along the lake provide stunning photo opportunities of giraffes and buffalo in the foreground and the lake in the background. Some extra tours are possible, including a bike tour or a boat excursion. In the afternoon, you’ll return to the camp for dinner.
There is the possibility to downgrade or upgrade your accommodation level.
Main Destination: Tarangire National park
Accommodation: Lake Burunge Baobab Tented Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
The Ngorongoro Crater is a unique natural phenomenon and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Crater is undoubtedly one of the most breathtaking wildlife safari sites in the world, with the 600-meter-high crater wall offering incredible wildlife viewing opportunities. You can expect to see a diverse range of wildlife, including buffalo, warthog, wildebeest, zebra, hippo, and elephant. There’s also a huge population of predators: lion, hyena, jackal, cheetah, and leopard. The resident population of black rhinos is a real treat, as they’re very difficult to spot elsewhere in Tanzania.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Ndutu Under Canvas
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
After an early breakfast, you’ll depart for the most famous national park in the world, the Serengeti. The driving itself, although long, is spectacular. This will be an unforgettable moment for anyone seeing it for the first time. As you progress well into the Southern Serengeti, you will see why the name means, in the local language, “endless plains”. The park has 6,900 sq miles (18,000 sq km), and for most of it, the plains will stretch to the horizon, defying your senses and perception of distances. It is the home of the Calving Migration and to 2 million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of zebras, and all kinds of antelopes. As for big cats and large predators, it’s the place of choice to look out for lions, cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas, with many television scenes like the famous River Crossings having been filmed in this park.
There is the possibility to downgrade or upgrade your accommodation level.
Main Destination: Ndutu (Southern Serengeti NP)
Accommodation: Ndutu Under Canvas
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
You’ll enjoy your final safari trip in the Serengeti during a game drive south through the Soit le Motonyi region.
Today, you’ll enjoy a full day in the Central Serengeti on morning and afternoon wildlife viewing drives with your private guide. You can dictate the structure and focus of the day with your guide. You can even stay out on safari all day, should you wish, with a picnic lunch from the lodge.
Apart from the Selous, this is the largest of all the Parks in Tanzania, summed up as ‘one of the most unique areas in the world’. The Serengeti contains the largest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, on a scale that has no parallel anywhere in the world.
Main Destination: Ndutu (Southern Serengeti NP)
Accommodation: Kubu kubu Tented Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive in the Serengeti, taking the opportunity to spot wildlife and enjoy the beautiful scenery. Later, you will have a delicious bush lunch in the heart of the wilderness. After lunch, you will be transferred to Seronera Airstrip for your domestic flight to Zanzibar. As you board your flight, your unforgettable Serengeti safari comes to an end, marking the beginning of your next adventure in Zanzibar.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
Accommodation: End of Tour
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
High demand: This safari books 4–8 weeks ahead during peak season (June–October).
- All national park entrance fees and conservation levies
- Accommodation as specified
- All meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Soft drinks and bottled water (minimum 3 litres per person per day)
- Transportation in a custom 4×4 safari jeep with pop-up viewing roof and guaranteed window seating
- Expert English-speaking guide/driver (15+ years Tanzania experience)
- Vehicle inverter for device charging, FM radio communications, electric cooler and filtered water
- Government taxes and VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Tips for guide
- International and domestic flights
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tanzania e-visa
- Travel insurance (strongly recommended)
- Hot-air balloon safari in Serengeti ($600/person add-on)
- Personal purchases, laundry and phone calls
- Alcoholic beverages
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
Note: We have a discount for kids under 15 years old
"Our guide Emmanuel was incredible — he spotted a leopard and two lion cubs that three other vehicles completely missed. The most magical experience of our lives."
"The private setup meant we could spend 45 minutes with a cheetah and cubs without feeling rushed. The lodges were far beyond what we expected."
"As first-time safari travelers, we were nervous. From the moment we arrived, Serengeti African Tours took care of everything. The Ngorongoro Crater literally took our breath away."
"Booked through SafariBookings and couldn't be happier. Every detail was handled perfectly. Guide Abouh is extraordinary — his knowledge of wildlife is encyclopaedic."





