7-Day Private Tanzania Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

After arrival at the airport (Kilimanjaro / Arusha), your private driver-guide will pick you up and transfer you to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay, awaiting your amazing safari adventure to begin the following day.

Early in the morning, your private guide will pick you up from your accommodation and you will depart for Tarangire National Park. The park gets its name from the Tarangire River, which runs through it. This 'river of warthogs' is the only source of water for wildlife in the region during the dry season.

In places, the vegetation is quite dense, including elephant grass, acacia woodlands, and lush groundwater forest. The park is particularly famous for its elephant families, which you can often see congregating by the river. Furthermore, you may see giraffe, bushbuck, and hartebeest.

These animals are closely followed by a range of predators, including lions and leopards. It is especially compelling that there are more breeding species of birds found in Tarangire National Park than anywhere else on the planet.

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head to your lodge in Karatu for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will depart for Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti is truly spectacular and is famous for its vast open grasslands, which allow for excellent sightings of wildlife.

The Serengeti is Tanzania's oldest national park and also one of the oldest ecosystems on earth. Moreover, its climate and vegetation have remained largely untouched for millions of years. Whilst the Serengeti boasts abundant wildlife, it is perhaps best known for the annual Great Migration. Vast numbers of wildebeest, accompanied by large numbers of zebra and antelope, move in an annual pattern, constantly seeking fresh grazing. The precise timing of the migration is entirely dependent upon the rainfall patterns each year.

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head to your tented partner camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

After an early breakfast at your accommodation, you will head out for another game drive in Serengeti National Park. The Seronera Valley offers lots of wildlife throughout the year, including carnivores such as hyenas, lions, leopards, and cheetahs, which can often be found on and around the large rocky outcrops, as they offer a great vantage point over the plains in search of prey. You may also see ungulates including buffaloes, giraffes, hippopotami, impalas, topi, warthogs, and zebras.

You will have dinner and an overnight stay at your carefully chosen tented camp.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will continue with your en-route drive inside Serengeti National Park before departing for Ngorongoro Crater. Subsequently, you will arrive in Ngorongoro in the late evening, and upon reaching the crater, you will have a sight of what to expect the following day.

Arriving at your accommodation in the late evening, you will have dinner and an overnight stay at one of your carefully selected camps.

After an early breakfast, you will descend into the crater, which is almost 600 m deep.

The crater was created when a large volcano exploded and collapsed in on itself two to three million years ago. It is equally famous for its geological delights and for being a natural reserve that is home to some of the densest large mammal populations on the whole African continent.

Undoubtedly, the drive down into the crater is an adventure in itself, and when you reach the crater floor, you quickly find yourself among large numbers of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, and more than 500 bird species. Furthermore, the crater provides you with the best chance of seeing the endangered black rhino, which can sometimes be spotted in the open grasslands.

After lunch and an extensive game drive inside the crater, you will head to your comfort partner lodges in Karatu for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will depart for Lake Manyara National Park, which is an unspoilt paradise and is best known for its abundance of birds and tree-climbing lions. The dramatic western escarpment of the Rift Valley forms the park's western border. To the east is the shallow, alkaline Lake Manyara. The lake covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons, and is home to thousands of flamingos during the rains. The name Manyara comes from the Maasai word 'emanyara', a popular plant used to build the protective enclosure around a family homestead (boma).

The park's vegetation is diverse, ranging from savannah to evergreen forest. On your exploration of the park, you may see giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and, if you are lucky, lions lounging in the trees.

After lunch and an extensive game drive, you will head back to Arusha, where you will be dropped off at the airport in time to catch your flight to your next destination.

All in all, this marks the end of your amazing safari adventure.