Experience the ultimate East African adventure on this 6 Days, 5 Nights Northern Circuit Safari, a journey that takes you through some of Tanzania’s most iconic and wildlife-rich destinations. This carefully designed itinerary offers an incredible blend of breathtaking landscapes, diverse ecosystems, and unforgettable wildlife encounters.
Your safari begins at the remarkable Tarangire National Park, famous for its vast savannahs dotted with ancient baobab trees and large herds of elephants. Here, you’ll witness a wide variety of wildlife gathering along the Tarangire River, especially during the dry season, making for spectacular game viewing opportunities.
Next, you’ll explore the lush and diverse Lake Manyara National Park, a scenic gem known for its tree-climbing lions, flocks of flamingos, and rich birdlife. The park’s unique combination of groundwater forests, open plains, and the alkaline lake creates a habitat teeming with biodiversity.
The journey continues into the world-renowned Serengeti National Park, home to the legendary Great Migration and an abundance of predators including lions, cheetahs, and leopards. Endless plains stretch as far as the eye can see, offering some of the most dramatic wildlife viewing experiences on the continent.
Finally, descend into the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Africa’s most unique natural wonders. This vast volcanic caldera shelters an extraordinary concentration of wildlife, including the endangered black rhino, within its lush floor.
Throughout this safari, you’ll enjoy expertly guided game drives, comfortable accommodations, and immersive experiences that bring you closer to nature. This tour is perfect for travelers seeking a comprehensive and unforgettable introduction to Tanzania’s Northern Safari Circuit, combining adventure, relaxation, and the raw beauty of Africa in just six unforgettable days.
After breakfast depart for Tarangire National Park. Full day game drive in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes to a variety of colourful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance of quietly observing many families of elephants interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to view animal’s drinking water in the river (and many times lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest), continue game viewing and finally return to the Camp or Lodge for Dinner and overnight stay.
Depart after breakfast and drive across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to a large numbers of buffalos, giraffes, elephants, impalas and a Hippo lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 different species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places where you’ll be able to see the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle. This park has become famous for the the climbing lions and the flamingos in the lake shore. The landscapes of these park are absolutely stunning, very different from the Serengeti for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground with the lake, flamingos and flat plains in the horizon. Great photo opportunities return to the Camp or Lodge for Dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast, a morning game drive will take you through the Serengeti National Park with a stop at the famous Oldupai Gorge, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made their discovery of the first man that walked the earth. After a short lecture describing the archeological digs and geology of the gorge, you will have time to visit the small museum and enjoy lunch. The afternoon game drive will take you further through the park to your overnight stay at the Seronera campsite.
Drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge takes about 3 to 4 hours. Olduvai George is an archaeological site located in the eastern Serengeti plains, in which early human fossils were first discovered. It has the amazing landscape that resulted from the tectonic forces which created the Great Rift Valley million of years ago. Then in the late evening the game drives to Serengeti and overnight at Serengeti Wild Camp full board.
After breakfast you will drive to the Ngorongoro Crater for a once in a lifetime safari tour. The jewel in Ngorongoro’s crown, this thick volcanic crater is the most significant unfolded and unbroken caldera in the world. Upon descending to the crater floor, you will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner of the crater, which is one of the crater’s leading features. A large number of flamingo, hippo and other water birds can be seen here. You will enjoy lunch near the lake and then embark on an afternoon game drive inside the crater before ascending back to the lodge fro dinner and over night stay.
Very early in the morning, descend down to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, drive up the steep road out of the crater and return to Arusha or airport drop off.
