7 Day Safari in Tanzania

When you touch down at Kilimanjaro International Airport, your private guide will be waiting to whisk you away to Acacia Retreat in Arusha. Nestled among coffee plantations and offering sweeping views of Mount Meru, this boutique lodge is the perfect place to shake off travel fatigue. After checking in, spend your afternoon settling into your spacious room, exploring the lush gardens, or lounging by the pool with a cool drink.
Accommodation: Acacia Retreat Arusha

Rise early for breakfast at Kahawa House, then embark on a scenic two‑hour drive to Tarangire National Park. Here, the landscape opens into baobab‑dotted plains where elephant herds congregate at the riverbanks and predators lurk in the tall grass. You’ll spend the morning and early afternoon on game drives, pausing for a picnic lunch beneath ancient trees.
Accommodation: The Castle at Ngorongoro

Following breakfast, depart for Lake Manyara National Park—just a one‑hour drive away—where dense acacia woodland gives way to marshy floodplains and the alkaline lake shore. Keep an eye aloft for the park’s famous tree‑climbing lions and flocks of flamingos painting the shallow waters pink.

Accommodation: The Castle at Ngorongoro

Prepare for a truly iconic day. After an early breakfast, you’ll enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and descend 600 meters into the vast, green bowl of the Ngorongoro Crater, often called "Africa's Garden of Eden." This UNESCO World Heritage Site hosts a staggering density of wildlife: lions, cheetahs, hyenas, elephants, hippos, wildebeests, zebras, and rare black rhinos all thrive here. Thanks to the permanent water sources and rich volcanic soils, the crater supports animals year-round, making sightings almost guaranteed.

Accommodation: The Castle at Ngorongoro

Today is dedicated entirely to wildlife viewing with both morning and afternoon game drives. Depending on the season, you might witness parts of the Great Wildebeest Migration — a breathtaking natural phenomenon involving over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles moving across the plains in search of greener pastures.

Your guide will help tailor the day’s game drives to what you most hope to see — whether it’s tracking leopards through the riverine forests, watching hippos in the pools, or photographing giraffes silhouetted against the sunrise.

Accommodation: Olkarien Eco Safari Camp

Awake to the chorus of the Serengeti at dawn. Today is a full day dedicated to continuing your exploration of the Serengeti. You’ll rise early and set out with the first light, when predators are often still active and the golden morning light makes for breathtaking photography.

Accommodation: Olkarien Eco Safari Camp

After breakfast and one last early morning game drive to soak up the last scenes of the Serengeti, you’ll start your journey back to Arusha. Today’s drive will take approximately 5 hours, passing through traditional Tanzanian landscapes dotted with Maasai homesteads, farmlands, and distant volcanic hills. You’ll stop en route for lunch and continue toward Arusha for your departure flight — or extend your trip to the beaches of Zanzibar if you wish.