Tanzania Safari from Arusha: Serengeti, Ngorongoro & Tarangire

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Duration7d

GroupUp to 6

LanguagesEN · DE +1

PickupAt your hotel

Five parks, one guide, the wildebeest migration and black rhinos in a single week.

This seven-day safari from Arusha covers Tarangire National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and Lake Manyara with a live guide in English, French or German, a 4×4 vehicle with a roof hatch, all accommodation and meals, and airport transfers. You arrive at Kilimanjaro, drive to Arusha, then move through five protected areas over five days of game drives before returning. The itinerary is fixed, so transport, park entry, timing and meals are arranged; you choose your guide's language at booking.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Arrival and transfer to Arusha

Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport
Drive to Arusha
Check in at Gran Melia Hotel
Dinner and overnight stay

Day 2 — Tarangire National Park visit

Breakfast at hotel
Drive to Tarangire National Park
Game viewing in Tarangire
Drive to Tarangire Kuro Treetops Lodge
Dinner and overnight stay

Day 3 — Olduvai Gorge and Serengeti

Breakfast at lodge
Drive to Olduvai Gorge
Visit Olduvai Gorge archaeological site
Drive to Ole Serai Luxury Lodge
Dinner and overnight stay

Day 4 — Full day Serengeti game drive

Breakfast at lodge
Full day game viewing in Serengeti
Picnic lunch in the park
Return to Ole Serai Luxury Lodge
Dinner and overnight stay

Day 5 — Ngorongoro Crater game drive

Breakfast at lodge
Drive to Ngorongoro Crater
Game drive inside Ngorongoro Crater
Drive to Ngorongoro Serena Lodge
Dinner and overnight stay

Day 6 — Lake Manyara and return to Arusha

Drive to Lake Manyara National Park
Picnic lunch in Manyara
Late afternoon game drive in Lake Manyara
Drive back to Gran Melia Hotel in Arusha
Dinner and overnight stay

Day 7 — Departure from Kilimanjaro Airport

Morning leisure time
Transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport
Flight home

The Experience

You arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport and drive to Arusha for your first night at Gran Melia Hotel. The next morning, the safari begins with a two-hour drive to Tarangire National Park, where the dry season brings massive herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, elands and Oryx to the Tarangire River's permanent water. You spend the afternoon on a game drive and overnight at Tarangire Kuro Treetops Lodge.

Day three takes you through Olduvai Gorge—an archaeological site where early human fossils were first discovered—on the way to Serengeti National Park, a three- to four-hour drive through landscape shaped by the same tectonic forces that created the Great Rift Valley. You arrive at Ole Serai Luxury Lodge in the late evening. The next full day is spent entirely in the Serengeti's wilderness: a morning and afternoon of game viewing, a picnic lunch beside you in the park, and the chance to witness the world's largest concentration of plain game still roaming free.

Day five moves to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where you descend into the crater for a game drive. This is the best place in Tanzania to see black rhinos and prides of lions with magnificent black-maned males, plus flamingoes, water birds, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas and antelope. You overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge. On day six, you drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a late-afternoon game drive—the best time to spot animals—with the Rift Valley escarpment as a backdrop. Monkeys leap through the groundwater forest, elephants stand in the shade, and you'll see zebras, impalas, giraffes, buffalos and hippos before returning to Gran Melia Hotel in Arusha. Your final morning is at leisure before transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport.

What’s included

Transport in a 4×4 vehicle with a viewing roof and a qualified driver-guide.
full board accommodation (breakfast, lunch and dinner) at all lodges.
all national park entry fees and taxes.
airport transfers to and from Kilimanjaro.
a bush lunch in the Serengeti.
24-hour support from the operator's office during the safari.

Good to know

Moderate physical level

Operated by World Adventure Tours

Is this one for you?Book this safari if you want the northern circuit's five major parks and sites—Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara and Olduvai Gorge—without arranging transport, lodges, meals or park entry yourself. The fixed itinerary and included guide mean you arrive and the safari is already built.