Safari Tour: 9-Day Splendid Tour in the Northern Circuit - Tanzania Safari Tour

After being welcomed to Arusha, in the morning you will begin your safari to Arusha National Park. The entrance gate of Arusha National Park leads into the forest of inhabited blue monkeys and colourful turacos and trogon — the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey are easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog. While in Arusha National Park, you will be able to enjoy the view of Mount Meru by walking close to it for about 2 to 3 hours with armed ranger who will be accompanying you throughout. Although elephants are uncommon in Arusha National Park, and lions are absent altogether, leopards, spotted hyenas, giraffe, buffalo and many other animals may be seen. In the evening, you will be transferred back to Arusha.

Main Destination: Arusha National Park

Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

After breakfast in the morning, you'll board a 4x4 Land Cruiser safari vehicle and set off for a safari to Tarangire National Park. This park boasts the highest population density of elephants in Tanzania, with herds of up to 300 elephants digging into the dry riverbed for underground streams. You'll also encounter migratory wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, impalas, gazelles, hartebeests, and elands. Tarangire offers the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem, making it a prime hunting ground for predators. It's one of the few places in Tanzania where you can regularly spot dry-country antelope, such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and the unique long-necked gerenuk. After a full day of game drives, you will be transferred to your booked lodge in the evening for dinner, a warm shower, and your overnight stay.

Main Destination: Tarangire National Park

Accommodation: Kankari Lodge

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

After breakfast in the morning, your driver-guide will pack a picnic lunch in a 4x4 safari jeep. You'll then have a short drive to your destination for the day: Lake Manyara National Park. Although one of Tanzania’s smaller wildlife reserves, Lake Manyara boasts an incredible diversity of landscapes and wildlife. Bird lovers will especially enjoy the sight of hundreds of pink flamingos and yellow-billed storks flying around the lake. The park is also famous for its unique tree-climbing lions, large groups of baboons, blue monkeys, buffaloes, wildebeests, zebras, and giraffes. After a full day of wildlife viewing, you'll be transferred to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park

Accommodation: Kankari Lodge

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

Today, you will be heading to Lake Natron. After breakfast, you will start a 3 hours’ drive to the destination of the day, Lake Natron

This takes you to the road trip through northern Tanzania, it’s the ideal way to see different sides of Tanzania’s ever-changing landscapes. While going through the Rift Valley and driving within the destination, you will start seeing the lush green vegetation giving way to dry, arid, and dusty landscapes. The occasional Maasai villages passed en route become dots in the distant scenery.

Lake Natron has more than 2.5 million lesser flamingos, representing three-quarters of the world population, and most of them are hatched at Lake Natron. The activities include walks around the lake and to the streams and waterfalls along the nearby escarpment, making for a fantastic adventure off the beaten track.

Main Destination: Lake Bogoria National Reserve

Accommodation: Africa Safari Lake Natron

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

In the morning, after breakfast, at around 9 am, you will be escorted to a safari jeep that will be outside the lodge. You will pack your luggage. You will get in a safari jeep ready for a safari to the destination of the day, Serengeti National Park.

On your way to Serengeti, you will pass through several attractive points where you can stop for a photo or two.

Then, while heading to your destination, you will have lunch right there in the bush, then continue with your fascinating and tireless trip to the Serengeti. Your guide now takes you to Serengeti, undoubtedly one of the best-known wildlife sanctuaries in the world.

Very well known for its endless plains named by the Masai as ‘’serengit,’’ Serengeti National Park is most likely the best ever wildlife sanctuary in the world. It is the home to hundreds of lions, cheetahs, leopards, giraffes, elephants, buffalo, millions of wildebeest, thousands of zebras, gazelles, thousand birds to mention a few.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Nyikani Migration Camp Kogatende

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

Another day in Serengeti National Park, today you will go beyond the central Serengeti. Depending on the month you visit, you can visit a different area. For example, from December to March, you can go to the south Serengeti, from April to June west Serengeti, and from July to October, the North Serengeti. Nevertheless, depending on your interest, you can discuss with the guide about the animals you are interested in seeing so that he can transfer you to the areas with those animals. You can visit as far as you can. Later, you will be transferred to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Nyikani Migration Camp Kogatende

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

After an early breakfast, you'll proceed on a half-day wildlife viewing at the Mara River. You'll have the game drive till afternoon, when you expect that the wildebeests will have crossed the river the last time for that day, if they will be doing so. Later, you will start a safari heading to Central Serengeti for dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Shuhudia Tented Camp

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included

After an early breakfast, you'll proceed on a half-day wildlife viewing in the Serengeti. You'll have the game drive till afternoon, when you will start going to Ngorongoro. While heading to Ngorongoro, an optional activity on the way is visiting the Maasai village in Ngorongoro. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the lodge.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Safari Lodge (Tanzania Wildcamps)

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included with Drinks

On this day, you will be heading to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. After breakfast, you'll start a safari to your destination of the day with picnic lunch boxes. After registration, you descend to the crater for an enchanting game viewing drive. Known as ‘the eighth Wonder of the World', the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa's best-known wildlife arenas. The UNESCO World Heritage Site offers a unique biosphere, which has remained virtually unchanged since the dawn of time. Deep within the crater, enclosed by towering walls, some 25,000 large mammals wander the plains, lakes, and forests of the land. During your game drive inside the crater, you will most likely see black rhinos, leopards, wonderful black-maned lions, and many flamingos. Later, you will be transferred to Arusha.

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch Included with Drinks