Tanzania Safari 6 Days: Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Tarangire

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Duration6d

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Six Days Across Tanzania's Greatest Parks, Starting from Arusha

You spend six days in a private 4x4 with a professional guide, moving through four major parks and staying at tented camps. You see the Serengeti's plains, the Ngorongoro Crater's wildlife concentration, Tarangire's elephants, and Lake Natron's hot springs and flamingos. Hotel pickup from Arusha is included, as are all accommodations, meals, and game drives — you arrange nothing except what time you want to leave.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Drive to Lake Natron and hike

Breakfast at hotel in Arusha
Drive to Lake Natron (5 hours)
Lunch at the lodge
Hike to waterfalls
Watch sundown at the lake
Dinner at the lodge

Day 2 — Visit hotsprings and Maasai boma

Breakfast at camp
Drive to Lake Natron hotsprings
Swim in hotsprings
Lunch at guesthouse
Visit Maasai boma
Dinner at camp

Day 3 — Serengeti game drive begins

Early breakfast
Drive to Klein's gate, Serengeti
Game drive in Lobo area
Overnight at tented camp
Meals at camp

Day 4 — Full day Serengeti game drive

Breakfast at camp
Full day game drive in Serengeti
Observe lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes
Dinner at tented camp

Day 5 — Ngorongoro Crater exploration

Breakfast at camp
Leave Serengeti for Ngorongoro Crater
Descend into Ngorongoro Crater
Game viewing in crater
Overnight inside conservation area
Meals at lodge

Day 6 — Tarangire game drive and return

Breakfast at lodge
Drive to Tarangire National Park
Full day game drive
Lunch overlooking river
Drive back to Arusha

The Experience

"The animals here don't follow a schedule — you follow them," our guide will tell you on the first morning, and that's the whole thing right there. This six-day Tanzania safari starts in Arusha and moves through four distinct landscapes: Lake Natron with its hot springs and flamingos, the Serengeti's endless plains where you might see lions or cheetahs on any given drive, the Ngorongoro Crater (locals call it the Ark of Noah because of how many animals live inside it), and Tarangire National Park where elephants gather at the river. You're in a private 4x4 with a pop-up roof, so you can stand and shoot without the vehicle moving, and your guide knows where to look. The whole thing takes six days, five nights, moving between tented camps.

The first day is a long drive from Arusha to Lake Natron — about five hours, with the last three on rough road — but the landscape shifts as you go, and you'll spot wildlife from the vehicle. After lunch at the lodge you hike to the waterfalls, then watch the sun drop over the lake. Next morning you're out early to the hot springs (yes, you can swim while small fish nibble your feet), and in the afternoon you visit a Maasai boma to see how they live. Then comes the Serengeti: two full days of game driving through the park, staying at a tented camp in the wilderness. You might see hundreds of zebras and wildebeest in one afternoon, or spend hours tracking a single pride of lions. The guide reads the landscape — where the water is, where the grass is thick — and that's where the animals are.

The Ngorongoro Crater is the pivot point. You descend into a crater so dense with wildlife that your eyes genuinely get tired by the end of the day — lions, zebras, elephants, birds, all in one contained space. You stay inside the conservation area that night. On the final day you drive to Tarangire National Park for a full game drive along the river where animals come to drink, then head back to Arusha by afternoon. All meals are included at the camps, and the operator accommodates vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free diets if you tell them when you book.

What’s included

Your six days include hotel pickup from Arusha, private 4x4 transportation with a professional guide throughout, all accommodations at tented camps (Lake Natron, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Tarangire), all meals at the camps, game drives at each park, a hike to the Lake Natron waterfalls, a swim in the hot springs, and a visit to a Maasai boma on day two. You return to Arusha on the afternoon of day six.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by Migration Venture Africa Ltd

Is this one for you?This works well if you want to see Tanzania's major parks without arranging transport, guides, or camp bookings separately — the fixed itinerary and private vehicle mean you move at your own pace and stop where your guide spots animals, rather than following a group schedule.