10-Day Tanzania Luxury Safari Tour Package: Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire

Our airport transfer driver welcomes you outside the international arrivals door at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) and carries your bags to your private vehicle. We drive you 55 kilometers (34 miles) west along the paved main road to your luxury coffee lodge in Arusha, which takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

You have the rest of the day to rest in your garden cottage, swim in the estate pool, and recover from your flight. Dinner (D) is served at the lodge restaurant while our safari director provides an evening review of your flight and camp schedule.

After an early breakfast, we drive you to Arusha Airport (ARK) for your 8:00 AM scheduled flight to Kogatende airstrip in the northern Serengeti. The scenic flight lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes, offering wide views of the Great Rift Valley before landing on the bush runway where your private guide awaits.

We spend the afternoon driving along the rocky banks of the Mara River, watching for hippos in deep pools and large crocodiles sunning on sandbars. By 5:30 PM, we bring you to your permanent tented camp where our hosts welcome you with a cold drink and carry your luggage to your private tent.

• Flight and drive details: 1 hour 15 minute bush flight plus 40 kilometers (25 miles) of afternoon river tracking
• Habitat and wildlife: Granite kopjes and river gorges with lions, leopards, crocodiles, and giraffes
• Daily meals and lodging: Breakfast (B), Picnic Lunch (L), Dinner (D) at a luxury camp near the Mara River

We set out at 6:30 AM to track big cats while the morning air is cool and animals are moving. Lions often climb flat rock kopjes to watch for zebras, while leopards rest in leafy trees along small drainage streams.

We stop at a shaded picnic table at 1:00 PM to serve your freshly prepared lunch before exploring open grassland ridges in the afternoon. We return to camp before sunset so you can enjoy a hot rainfall shower and a warm three-course dinner.

Today covers roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) over 6 hours of relaxed game driving across hilly savanna and granite outcrops. Common sightings include lions, cheetahs, topis, and hyenas, with full-board dining (B, L, D) at your northern luxury camp.

We pack your bags after breakfast and drive south through the heart of the national park toward the central Seronera valley. The land shifts from wooded northern hills into wide, flat grasslands dotted with umbrella acacia trees.

We search along the central rivers where resident lions and leopards live year-round, stopping for a boxed lunch along the way. By 4:30 PM, we check you into your premier central Serengeti tented lodge where you can unpack for a two-night stay.

• Travel distance: 150 kilometers (93 miles) of cross-country dirt roads over 5 hours
• Landscape: Wooded hills flattening into open grass savannas
• Wildlife observed: Giraffes, impalas, elephants, baboons, and lions
• Meals: Breakfast (B), Picnic Lunch (L), Dinner (D) at your central luxury tented lodge

Today is an intentional non-driving day designed for rest and personal recharge. You can sleep in as late as you wish, order breakfast to your private veranda, and enjoy views of gazelles grazing right outside your tent.

Spend your afternoon swimming in the lodge pool, booking a massage treatment at the spa tent, or reading on your shaded deck. Our hospitality staff serves a freshly cooked lunch at the lodge dining tent, and in the evening, you gather around the open fire for drinks before a seated dinner.

Transit distance is 0 kilometers with no required vehicle driving, allowing complete rest within the camp grounds. Resident zebras, impalas, and colorful birds frequently walk through the unfenced camp area, with all meals (B, L, D) served at your luxury lodge.

After a relaxed breakfast, we depart the Seronera valley and drive south into the open Ndutu plains on the border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This region features mineral-rich volcanic soils, shallow soda lakes, and open acacia woodland.

Because Ndutu allows regulated off-road driving, our guide tracks across the open grassland to view cheetahs hunting in short grass. We arrive at your luxury seasonal mobile camp by late afternoon, where our team greets you with warm towels and prepares your private tent.

• Drive summary: 90 kilometers (56 miles) over 3.5 hours on sandy tracks and open plains
• Animals and meals: Cheetahs, bat-eared foxes, lions, and giraffes, with meals (B, L, D) at your luxury Ndutu camp

We spend our morning driving along the marshy shores of Lake Ndutu to watch flamingos feed and hyenas return from night hunts. After a bush breakfast under an umbrella thorn tree, we drive east toward the green highlands of Ngorongoro.

We climb the steep outer slopes of the volcanic mountain, reaching your luxury rim lodge by 3:00 PM. The lodge sits high on the crater edge, giving you the entire afternoon to look down into the huge volcanic caldera from your heated room or viewing deck.

• Route details: 95 kilometers (59 miles) taking 3 hours on volcanic dust and mountain gravel roads
• Landscape: Dry alkaline plains rising into cool mountain forests
• Meals and stay: Breakfast (B), Picnic Lunch (L), Dinner (D) at a luxury lodge on the Ngorongoro Crater rim

We descend 600 meters to the crater floor at 6:00 AM to see animals while morning temperatures remain cool. The flat crater floor holds endangered black rhinos, large elephant bulls with heavy tusks, and pride lions hunting along the lake shore.

At 11:30 AM, we drive out of the crater, eat a warm lunch in the farming town of Karatu, and continue southeast to Tarangire National Park. We reach your luxury safari lodge inside Tarangire before sunset, where you can unpack for your final two nights.

Today covers 155 kilometers (96 miles) taking roughly 4 hours of road transit plus 4 hours of crater floor driving. Animals seen include black rhinos, hippos, buffaloes, and lions, with meals including breakfast (B), lunch (L), and dinner (D) at your Tarangire lodge.

We spend a full day exploring the river circuits and the wide Silale Swamps in Tarangire National Park. The park is famous for massive elephant herds that feed beneath giant baobab trees and drink along the sandy riverbed.

Our guide sets up your warm picnic lunch at a designated river viewpoint where you can watch waterbucks and zebras approach the water. We continue tracking through baobab ridges in the late afternoon before returning to your lodge for dinner and drinks around the campfire.

• Drive range: 80 to 110 kilometers (50 to 68 miles) of park tracking
• Terrain: Baobab forests, seasonal swamps, and sandy river banks
• Wildlife: Elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, and impalas
• Dining: Breakfast (B), Picnic Lunch (L), Dinner (D) at your luxury lodge in Tarangire

We enjoy a calm morning breakfast before taking a short drive to Kuro airstrip inside Tarangire National Park. You board a scheduled bush flight at 10:30 AM, flying northeast for 30 minutes to Arusha Airport (ARK).

Our airport transfer driver waits for you on the tarmac at Arusha Airport, collects your luggage, and drives you directly to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) for your flight departure.

The bush flight takes 30 minutes, followed by a 55-kilometer (34-mile) paved road transfer of 1 hour and 15 minutes to Kilimanjaro Airport. Meals include breakfast (B) and a packed lunch box (L) for your onward flight.