8-Day Fantastic Safari of Tanzania — Mid-range Tour

Safari Overview

This fantastic safari of Tanzania tour is an enchanting expedition covering the top wildlife destinations in the Northern Tanzania safari circuit. This definitive safari is all about getting more out of your time in Africa. Guided walks in Tarangire give you a perception of Africa’s fauna and flora. You will get an opportunity to visit the spectacular Serengeti plains, home to the great migration. Let us create unforgettable experiences for your once-in-a-lifetime safaris experience in Tanzania.

Day 1 Arusha- Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, embark on a day-long safari to Tarangire National Park. Your knowledgeable guide will prepare a hot lunch amidst the wilderness. Enjoy an afternoon game drive, then head to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. This tranquil park in Northern Tanzania is renowned for its elephant migration, birdlife, and genuine safari ambiance, often overlooked by most travelers on the typical safari route.

Day 2 Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast, embark on a morning walking safari and game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Your guide will prepare a delicious hot lunch with refreshing beverages. In the evening, head to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. Manyara is a birdwatcher’s paradise with over 400 species, and you may even spot tree-climbing lions and majestic elephants in the acacia woodland.

Day 3 Lake Natron

After breakfast, you’ll depart for Lake Natron, with stops at Engaruka Ruins, a lakeside walk, waterfalls, and a village visit. A hot lunch will be served, followed by an overnight stay at the lodge. These Tanzanian saline lakes in the Great Rift Valley, known as the East African Halophytics, are harsh for most life due to extreme salinity, heat, and rapid salinity fluctuations after rain. Nonetheless, they host vast flamingo colonies breeding on surrounding mud flats.

Day 4 Serengeti National Park — Central Seronera

Depart after breakfast for Serengeti National Park, enjoying an afternoon hot meal lunch and embarking on a Central Serengeti game drive. Check into camp for dinner and an overnight stay. The Serengeti offers captivating game-viewing year-round, showcasing buffalo, elephants, giraffes, and diverse wildlife in varied habitats. February witnesses wildebeest calving for about 3 weeks, where the vulnerable young become prey, although they quickly gain strength and agility.

Day 5 Serengeti National Park — Central Seronera

After breakfast, embark on a morning game drive in Serengeti Central. Enjoy a hot lunch prepared by your guide amidst the wilderness. In the evening, return to camp for dinner and your overnight stay. Witness a mesmerizing spectacle as a million wildebeest, guided by ancient instincts, engage in a frenzied three-week cycle of territorial conquest, mating, and survival, crossing crocodile-infested waters in their annual 1,000km pilgrimage, resulting in a rapid population boom of over 8,000 daily calves.

Day 6 Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, you’ll depart Serengeti for a full-day game drive in Ngorongoro Crater. Your guide will arrange a delightful lunch served at a fully-set table. Enjoy an afternoon safari before heading to the lodge for dinner and overnight. Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest unflooded caldera, spans 20km, plunges 600m deep, and covers 300sq km. Visit Lake Magadi, a shallow alkaline lake in the southwest, home to flamingos, hippos, and diverse waterfowl.

Day 7 Lake Eyasi

After breakfast, you’ll depart for Lake Eyasi, embarking on a bushmen tour. Enjoy a hot meal lunch during the day. Later, check into a lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. Lake Eyasi hosts small groups of Hadzabe bushmen whose language shares similarities with Kalahari’s click languages. Their population faced threats, especially during Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa policy implementation in Tanzania.

Day 8 Lake Eyasi- Arusha

You will wake up early in the morning, and go hunting with the bushmen. Then, you will get back to the lodge for breakfast. Afterwards, you will depart and drive back to Arusha where lunch will be served en route. You will arrive in Arusha for the drop-off.