7-Day Tanzania Luxury + Premium Safari

7-Day Tanzania Luxury + Premium Safari

7-Day Tanzania Luxury + Premium Safari, This 7-day Tanzania luxury + premium safari allows you to experience the highlights of the Northern Safari Circuit. You will experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of some of the most diverse landscapes. See monkeys in the forest, lions in trees, elephants amongst acacias and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. You will also visit the world-famous Serengeti. The landscapes are breathtaking and the variety and volume of wildlife you will see are unforgettable.

Day 1: Arrival in Arusha

You will be picked up from the airport by a Lion King representative and conveyed to your accommodation in Arusha where you will spend the night, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come. Gran Melia is a luxury hotel of calm and aesthetic pleasure.

Main Destination: Arusha (City)

Accommodation:

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)

Day 2: Tarangire National Park

In the morning you will be collected from your lodgings in Arusha by our personal safari guide. We’ll set out for Tarangire National Park on a good tarmac road across gently rolling Maasai plains with scattered acacia trees. As we zip along we’ll pass many Maasais in their colourful dresses walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding cattle and driving donkey carts. Tarangire, well known for its large elephant herds, is also host to a multitude of other creatures. From the open roof of our state of the art safari jeep, we will experience the seasonal swamps, savanna and life giving Tarangire River. Endeavour to encounter a multitude of creatures, from zebra to wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and giraffe, to name a few. It is possible we will glimpse lions stalking prey or leopards watching, relaxing in the trees above.

You will drive to one of our carefully selected luxury partner lodges for dinner in a tasteful restaurant, a pool at hand to soothe us, and a most capacious room.

Main Destination: Tarangire National Park

Accommodation:

Meals & Drinks: All meals included

All drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

Day 3: Gibb’s Farm to Serengeti

After breakfast, you will continue towards the fertile highlands where wheat and corn are grown by the Iraqw people. Along the way, we’ll pass through the mist-shrouded rainforests of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you might be lucky enough to see baboons or even leopards and elephants in the dense undergrowth. Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will be able to see the breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater before travelling onwards to the Serengeti National Park, which you will reach by midday. The Serengeti National Park is the largest park in Tanzania with diverse landscapes and habitats, such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannah and mountains. After an extensive game drive, you will drive to your accommodation where you will enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation:

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast and lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

You will spend a full day in this incredible place, exploring the park, its animals and incredible landscapes. The Serengeti is the habitat for an abundance of wildlife, such as impala, buffalo, crocodiles and hippos, but is more well-known for its great migrating herds of zebras and wildebeest. The animals’ trek is determined by the rainfall and varies from year to year. Apart from the migrating herds, you may see predators, such as leopards, cheetahs and lions.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation:

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast and lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 5: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Conservation Area

After breakfast, you will embark on a final game drive in the Serengeti before travelling to the Ngorongoro Crater. Arriving at the edge of the crater in the afternoon, you will have your first glimpse of what awaits you the following day—glistening streams, open grassland and an infinite number of animals.

You will spend the night at a nearby lodge on the Crater rim.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Highlands

Accommodation:

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast and lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater to Karatu

After breakfast, you will drive to the Ngorongoro Crater; the world’s largest volcanic caldera. It is almost 20km wide, approximately 610 m deep and is known for its large variety of wildlife. In addition to the Big Five, various springs attract animals such as wildebeest, gazelles, reedbucks and more than 500 bird species. At a picnic site, you will have lunch before enjoying some more game viewing in the crater.

After an extensive game drive, you will drive to your accommodation in Karatu for dinner and your overnight stay.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation:

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast and lunch as well as Dinner

Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 7: Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha

After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park, a small but diverse park 120km west of Arusha. The park’s namesake is a shallow, salt lake. It covers a large area of the park, flooding and drying with the seasons, and is home to thousands of flamingos and over 500 other bird species. On your exploration of the park, you will see monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalos, elephants, and with some luck, lions lounging in the trees. In the afternoon, you will return to Arusha.

Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park

Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)

All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

We believe in value for money. Every guest would like to have the most reliable and comfortable vehicles on safari. In response to the clients’ needs, we have a very strict vehicle replacement policy that ensures a young fleet at all times. We have a total fleet of 225 well-maintained motor vehicles, predominantly 4-wheel drives. This does away with the problem of sub-contracting vehicles and driver-guides, which may compromise the quality of services. Our safari vehicles are specifically converted for maximum space and comfort. All of them have hatched roof and sliding windows to facilitate good viewing and convenient photography during game drives and sight seeing.