Book this 7-Day Tanzania Safari for one of the best trips to Tanzania’s top parks. This package comes in budget and luxury options, so you can pick what suits you. It combines a Serengeti safari with other top parks. You can also add Zanzibar to turn it into a Tanzania and Zanzibar trip.
This 6 night, 7 day safari starts and ends in Arusha. You will visit Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park, and Lake Manyara National Park, all in Tanzania’s Northern Circuit.
Lake Manyara National Park is one of the few places in East Africa where you can see tree-climbing lions. Because the park is small, you can see the lions and other animals in just one day. This is different from Serengeti National Park, which covers 14,500 sq. km, or the large Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Detailed 7-Day Tanzania Safari Itinerary
Day 1: Travel to Lake Manyara National Park, 130km from Arusha
After breakfast, your guide will pick you up and give you a short briefing. Drive 130km, about 2 hours, to the Northern Circuit. Have lunch at the lodge on arrival.
In the afternoon, go on a game drive through Lake Manyara. You may see tree-climbing lions, elephants, giraffes, antelopes, and monkeys, plus birds. The park has about 400 bird species, including flamingos.
Day 2: Explore the Serengeti Plains
Start the day with tea or coffee, then check out and join an early game drive. Look for more animals, including tree-climbing lions resting in fig trees.
Return for an early lunch, then head to Serengeti National Park, home to wildebeests and the Big Five. Arrive early, check into your lodge, then take a short afternoon drive on the Serengeti Plains. Look for elands, birds, giraffes, and gazelles.
Day 3: Serengeti Plains Tour, Full Day
After breakfast, spend the full day exploring Serengeti National Park. Look for elephants, buffaloes, rhinos, leopards, and lions, along with the wildebeest migration, zebras, gazelles, and birds.
Have a picnic lunch under acacia trees, then continue through the Kopjes area, known for good lion sightings.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater Expedition
Wake up early for breakfast, then drive 145km from Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater. On the way, stop at Olduvai Gorge, where the skulls of Handy Man and Nutcracker Man were found by Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey.
Continue to your lodge in Ngorongoro for lunch.
Day 5: Explore Ngorongoro Crater, Full Day
After breakfast, descend 2,000ft to the crater floor. Spend the day seeing lions, rhinos, zebras, hyenas, buffaloes, reedbucks, gazelles, elephants, birds, and warthogs.
Return for lunch at your lodge, then go on a sunset game drive.
Day 6: Tarangire National Park Safari
After breakfast, leave Ngorongoro on a 155km drive to Tarangire National Park. The park has the scenic Tarangire River, big swamps, acacia woodland, and baobab trees. Look for the ashy starling, greater kudu, elephants, and fringe-eared oryx.
Have a picnic lunch, then go on an afternoon game drive.
Day 7: Departure
Have coffee or tea, then drive 120km back to Arusha, with lunch at a hotel on arrival. Your guide will drop you at the airport if your flight is the same day.
Book this 7-Day Tanzania Safari today and see the best of Tanzania’s Northern Circuit.
