7-Day Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater Safari — Tanzania

Highlights: Meet and greet on arrival, transfer to your hotel, relax before the safari begins

Karibu Tanzania! Meet and greet on arrival — our friendly team warmly welcomes you at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport and transfers you to your hotel in Arusha, the bustling gateway town to Tanzania's northern safari circuit. Depending on your arrival time, relax by the pool, explore the leafy grounds, or simply unwind after your journey. This evening you'll meet your professional safari guide for a short briefing on the exciting days ahead, before enjoying a welcome dinner and a restful night's sleep as you prepare for your Tanzania safari adventure.

Accommodation

The Charity Hotel Hotel Mid-range

+7 +6

Highlights: Full-day game drive among baobabs and elephant herds, then transfer to Karatu

After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park, famous for its towering ancient baobab trees, seasonal swamps, and some of the largest elephant herds in Tanzania. Named after the Tarangire River that draws wildlife from miles around, the park offers superb, uncrowded game viewing. Enjoy a morning game drive, then a picnic lunch at a scenic site around 13:00, before continuing with an afternoon game drive in search of giraffe, zebra, buffalo, and predators such as lion and leopard, plus over 500 recorded bird species. Check out of the park at around 16:30 and head to the green highland town of Karatu, arriving at your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation

Omega View Hotel Hotel Mid-range

+6 +5

Highlights: Scenic drive through the Ngorongoro highlands, afternoon game drive into the Serengeti

After breakfast, depart Karatu and travel to the legendary Serengeti National Park, ascending through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with dramatic highland views over the crater and rolling green hills. Continue across the sweeping plains, passing Maasai country and, conditions permitting, the Oldupai Gorge area, before descending onto the vast golden grasslands of the Serengeti — whose name means "endless plains." Enjoy a picnic lunch around 13:00, then continue with an afternoon game drive in search of lion, cheetah, elephant, and plains game as you make your way to your luxury camp in the central Seronera region for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation

Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp (Central Serengeti) Tented Camp Luxury

Inside Park Serengeti National Park

+6 +5

Highlights: Full day across the Serengeti plains, picnic lunch, prime predator country.

Spend a full day exploring the Serengeti — central, eastern, or western — depending on wildlife movements and, in season, the position of the Great Wildebeest Migration. The Serengeti is the most famous safari destination on earth, and today you have time to explore it in depth. Your guide will track the park's legendary predators — lion, leopard, and cheetah — alongside elephant, giraffe, and vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle sweeping across the endless grasslands. Enjoy a picnic lunch out in the park around 13:00, then continue with an evening game drive as the light turns golden, before returning to your camp for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation

Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp (Central Serengeti) Tented Camp Luxury

Inside Park Serengeti National Park

+6 +5

Highlights: Morning game drive and scenic transfer back to the Karatu highlands

After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive as you gradually depart the Serengeti, making the most of your last hours on the plains and keeping watch for any wildlife you may have missed. Travel back towards the Ngorongoro highlands, taking in the sweeping change of scenery from open savannah to lush green hills, with a picnic lunch en route. Pass through Maasai country and enjoy the dramatic Rift Valley views before arriving in the cool highland town of Karatu in the late afternoon. Settle in at your lodge to relax, unwind, and enjoy dinner and overnight surrounded by the green highlands, ready for tomorrow's Ngorongoro Crater adventure.

Accommodation

Omega View Hotel Hotel Mid-range

+6 +5

Highlights: Full descent into the Crater, Big Five and black rhino, picnic lunch at Hippo Pool

After an early breakfast, descend approximately 600 meters into the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact volcanic caldera on earth and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This natural amphitheatre shelters an astonishing density of wildlife within its walls, making it one of Tanzania's most reliable Big Five destinations. Spend a full day on the crater floor searching for the endangered black rhino, dense lion prides, elephant, buffalo, and herds of zebra and wildebeest, with flamingos on the soda lake. Enjoy a picnic lunch near the Hippo Pool around 13:00, then continue game viewing before exiting during the evening hours and returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation

Omega View Hotel Hotel Mid-range

+6 +5

Highlights: Karatu coffee farm tour, then airport transfer or beach extension

On your final morning, enjoy a relaxing coffee farm tour in the fertile green highlands of Karatu, one of Tanzania's key coffee-growing regions. Walk among the coffee trees with a local guide and learn the full journey of the bean — how coffee is grown, hand-picked, pulped, dried, roasted, and ground the traditional way — before tasting a fresh cup brewed just for you. It's an authentic, community-based experience and a perfect, relaxed finale to your safari. Afterward, transfer to Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport for your departure flight, or continue seamlessly to a beach extension in Zanzibar, Kilwa, or Mafia. We're here to help — get a free quote.