6-Day Private Tanzania Mid-Range Safari: Tarangire, Manyara, Serengeti & Ngorongoro

Your 6-day private Tanzania mid-range safari begins with a morning pickup from your hotel in Arusha. Travel through the scenic countryside toward Tarangire National Park, one of northern Tanzania’s most distinctive wildlife areas. After entering the park, begin your first game drive through a landscape of ancient baobab trees, open woodland and seasonal wetlands. Tarangire is particularly well known for its large elephant population, while the park also offers opportunities to see giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, antelopes, lions and a rich variety of birdlife. Enjoy a relaxed picnic lunch or lunch at the selected accommodation, depending on the day’s schedule, before continuing your afternoon game drive. Your private safari guide will adjust the route according to wildlife activity, road conditions and the pace of your experience. As the afternoon progresses, continue deeper into the park before arriving at your mid-range accommodation inside Tarangire National Park. Enjoy dinner surrounded by the atmosphere of the African wilderness and settle in for your first night in the park.

Where you'll stay tonight

Mid-Range

Safari haven tarangire camp

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive in Tarangire National Park before leaving the park and continuing toward the Lake Manyara area. The morning drive provides another opportunity to observe Tarangire’s wildlife in a quieter setting, with chances to see elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, antelopes and birdlife depending on current conditions. Continue toward Lake Manyara National Park, a scenic park set beneath the Great Rift Valley escarpment. After entering the park, enjoy an afternoon game drive through groundwater forests, open woodland and seasonal wetlands. Lake Manyara is home to elephants, giraffes, zebras, buffalo, baboons, hippos and numerous bird species, with the lake itself attracting a variety of waterbirds. As the afternoon game drive comes to an end, leave the park and continue to your mid-range accommodation in the Manyara area. Enjoy dinner and relax after a day of exploring two distinctive wildlife landscapes in northern Tanzania.

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Mid-Range

Naibala Manyara Lodge NAIBALA MANYARA LODGE

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, leave the Lake Manyara area and begin the scenic journey toward Serengeti National Park. Travel through the highlands and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with changing landscapes leading from the Rift Valley and cultivated areas toward the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. Continue toward the Serengeti entrance and enter the park, where the journey becomes part of the safari experience. Begin an afternoon game drive as you travel toward the Central Serengeti and Seronera area, keeping an eye out for wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, elephants, buffalo, antelopes and predators that may be encountered along the route. Your professional safari guide will choose suitable areas for wildlife viewing based on current conditions and recent sightings. Take time for photography and enjoy the changing scenery as the open plains of the Serengeti unfold around you. Continue toward your accommodation in Central Serengeti and arrive later in the afternoon or early evening. Settle into your comfortable tented accommodation, enjoy dinner and relax for your first night in the Serengeti.

Where you'll stay tonight

Mid-Range

Sightseeing Luxury Tented Lodge

Luxury

Lala salama serengeti luxury camp

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Start the day with an early breakfast at your tented lodge before heading out for a full-day private game drive across Central Serengeti. The Seronera area is one of the most productive wildlife regions of the Serengeti, with open grasslands, rocky kopjes, river valleys and seasonal water sources creating a variety of habitats. Spend the day exploring these landscapes in search of lions, cheetahs, elephants, buffalo, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, gazelles and other wildlife. Your professional safari guide will choose the day’s route according to wildlife activity, recent sightings and road conditions. With a full day available, there is time to pause for photography, observe animal behaviour and explore different areas without rushing between sightings. Enjoy lunch during the day before continuing the afternoon game drive. As the sun begins to lower over the plains, make your way back toward the lodge and enjoy the changing colours of the Serengeti landscape. Return to Sightseeing Luxury Tented Lodge for dinner and your second night in Central Serengeti.

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Mid-Range

Sightseeing Luxury Tented Lodge

Luxury

Lala salama serengeti luxury camp

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, begin your final morning game drive through Central Serengeti as you gradually make your way toward the park exit. This last drive offers another opportunity to experience the Serengeti plains and observe wildlife before leaving the park. Travel through the changing landscapes toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with the scenery gradually rising from the open plains into the cooler and greener highlands. Along the way, your guide will make suitable stops for wildlife viewing and photography according to current conditions. Enjoy lunch during the journey before continuing toward the Ngorongoro Crater rim. Arrive at your comfortable accommodation overlooking the highland landscape and take time to relax after the day’s drive. Later, enjoy dinner at Ngorongoro Rim Lodge and prepare for an early start the following morning for your Ngorongoro Crater game drive.

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Mid-Range

Ngorongoro Rim lodge

Luxury

Melia ngorongoro lodge

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Begin your final safari day with an early breakfast at Ngorongoro Rim Lodge before descending into the Ngorongoro Crater for a private game drive. As you enter the crater floor, explore a remarkable landscape of open grasslands, seasonal wetlands, woodland and wildlife-rich areas surrounded by the dramatic crater walls. Your professional safari guide will look for lions, elephants, buffalo, zebras, wildebeest, hippos, gazelles and a variety of bird species. With favourable conditions, there may also be an opportunity to see the endangered black rhinoceros. Enjoy a picnic lunch at a designated picnic site while taking in the scenery of the crater. Continue the game drive before ascending the crater walls and beginning the journey back toward Arusha. Arrive in Arusha in the afternoon or evening, depending on wildlife viewing time, crater conditions and road conditions. Your 6-day private Tanzania mid-range safari ends with a convenient drop-off at your hotel or another agreed location in Arusha.

Where you'll stay tonight

Mid-Range

Venus premier hotel

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch