Tanzania Midrange Safari

You’ll be picked up from your hotel in Arusha town or Kilimanjaro Airport. Your driver-guide will drive you to Tarangire National Park for a game drive. Enjoy an afternoon game drive through the park with a picnic lunch. This park is known for holding one of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Lions, giraffes, and zebras are commonly seen and there are over 500 different birds species. Later in the evening, you will drive to Ikumbi Lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

After breakfast at your lodge, you will start your safari at 8:00 am, as we drive to Lake Manyara with a picnic bush lunch. We will enter the majestic Lake Manyara National Park and embark on this Tanzanian safari. This small park is sandwiched between the Rift Valley escarpment and the large soda lake, Lake Manyara. It is a pretty location with a variety of game, including giraffe, elephant, baboon and the rarely seen tree-climbing lion. In the late afternoon, drive back to your lodge, for dinner and your overnight at Ikumbi Lodge.

After breakfast at your lodge, your driver-guide will pick you up and head to Serengeti National Park. This is one of Tanzania’s most famous parks. Great herds of wildebeest, buffalo, smaller groups of elephants, giraffe, topi, zebra, impala, and Grant’s gazelle are residents at any time of the year. Lions and leopards are easily seen all-year-round in Central Serengeti. You will enjoy a late afternoon game drive in the park. Later in the evening, you will drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight at Kisura Luxury Tented Camp.

After breakfast, you will travel back to the adventurous trail that takes you into the Ngorongoro Crater. Grass steppes and acacia forests are home to almost all of the species of animals found in the East African savannah. Only a few hours’ drive from Serengeti National Park, you will have the chance of spotting the Big Five—lion, elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros and leopard. After extensive game viewing and a picnic in the crater, you will leave the highlands of Ngorongoro in the afternoon and travel back to Karatu. You will spend a night at Eileen’s Trees Inn Lodge (mid-range accommodation).

Early in the morning after breakfast at 8:00am, your driver guide will pick you up for a village walk in Mto Wa Mbu. Here you can test the local banana wine and see how it’s made. Later drive to a Masaai village to learn the Masaai culture and after that drive back to Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport.