+255615101626 · Ilboru, Arusha, Tanzania
13 Days / 12 Nights
North and south, ending on the open plains of Mikumi.
This is a safari for travellers who want to understand the country rather than visit one corner of it. You move from the northern highlands to the southern river systems and finish on wide, mountain-framed plains.
Flights link the circuits; drives handle the shorter southern legs.
This safari visits Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Nyerere National Park, Mikumi National Park.
You are met on arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your lodge in Arusha. Your guide joins you for a full safari briefing, and the rest of the day is yours to rest and adjust after your flight.
We drive through Maasai grazing land to Tarangire National Park, a landscape of enormous baobabs and a permanent river that draws great herds of elephant. Game drives follow the river valley, with excellent chances of lion, giraffe and a remarkable variety of birds.
We drive through Maasai grazing land to Tarangire National Park, a landscape of enormous baobabs and a permanent river that draws great herds of elephant. Game drives follow the river valley, with excellent chances of lion, giraffe and a remarkable variety of birds.
Lake Manyara sits beneath the Rift Valley escarpment, layering groundwater forest, open floodplain and a shallow soda lake. We look for tree-climbing lions, large baboon troops, hippo pools and — in the right season — flamingos along the shoreline.
The Serengeti opens out in front of you: short-grass plains, granite kopjes and horizon in every direction. We spend the day tracking predators and plains game with your guide, pausing for a picnic lunch in the shade before the light softens into a golden afternoon drive.
The Serengeti opens out in front of you: short-grass plains, granite kopjes and horizon in every direction. We spend the day tracking predators and plains game with your guide, pausing for a picnic lunch in the shade before the light softens into a golden afternoon drive.
The Serengeti opens out in front of you: short-grass plains, granite kopjes and horizon in every direction. We spend the day tracking predators and plains game with your guide, pausing for a picnic lunch in the shade before the light softens into a golden afternoon drive.
We descend more than 600 metres onto the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater, a contained world of grassland, forest and soda lake. The density of wildlife here is extraordinary — lion, elephant, buffalo, hippo and flamingo, with a genuine chance of black rhino.
In Nyerere National Park the Rufiji River shapes everything. Alongside game drives, we take to the water for a boat safari among hippo, crocodile and waterbirds, and where conditions allow, walk with an armed guide.
In Nyerere National Park the Rufiji River shapes everything. Alongside game drives, we take to the water for a boat safari among hippo, crocodile and waterbirds, and where conditions allow, walk with an armed guide.
In Nyerere National Park the Rufiji River shapes everything. Alongside game drives, we take to the water for a boat safari among hippo, crocodile and waterbirds, and where conditions allow, walk with an armed guide.
The open Mkata floodplain of Mikumi feels like a miniature Serengeti, framed by mountains. Game drives produce giraffe, zebra, elephant and lion, with hippo pools for an afternoon stop.
The open Mkata floodplain of Mikumi feels like a miniature Serengeti, framed by mountains. Game drives produce giraffe, zebra, elephant and lion, with hippo pools for an afternoon stop.
All meals on safari.
June to October
It covers a lot of ground, so we build in slower mornings and use flights for the long legs. We can also stretch it by a night or two on request.
Tarangire National Park • Lake Manyara National Park • Serengeti National Park • Ngorongoro Crater • Nyerere National Park
Northern circuit plus the river wilderness of Nyerere.
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Tarangire National Park • Lake Manyara National Park • Serengeti National Park • Ngorongoro Crater
Four parks, five nights and a genuinely varied wildlife week.
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Tarangire National Park • Lake Manyara National Park • Serengeti National Park • Ngorongoro Crater
Four northern parks, unhurried, with time to go deeper.
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