8-Day Tanzania Safari with Serengeti 2027

Highlights

• Arusha: Join your Driver Guide and your small group for dinner at Lake Duluti Lodge, your exclusive small-group hotel near Arusha. Set on a working coffee farm beside Lake Duluti, the lodge brings together private chalets, indigenous trees and the slopes below Mount Meru as you begin your journey through Tanzania.
• Tarangire National Park: Enjoy a private bush breakfast served in an exclusive wilderness setting. With your small group, there’s time to relax over breakfast in the open air, take in the sounds of the landscape and watch for wildlife moving through the surrounding bush.
• Karatu: Enjoy lunch at Gibb’s Farm, a historic coffee estate founded in the 1920s on the fertile slopes outside Karatu. During your visit, explore the gardens, coffee fields and working farm that have shaped the property for generations, and see how the produce grown here continues to define the meals served at one of northern Tanzania’s long-established guest estates.
• Ngorongoro Crater: Picnic on the floor of Ngorongoro Crater, with open grassland, lake water and the steep caldera walls around you.
• Serengeti: Gather for dinner in a traditional boma, where the open fire and enclosed setting bring everyone together after a day in the Serengeti. Shared with your small group, the evening centers on good food, conversation and the atmosphere of dining out in one of Africa’s great safari landscapes.
• Arusha: Visit a social enterprise that trains and employs Tanzanians with disabilities, supporting meaningful employment, skills development and a long-running community project in northern Tanzania. You’ll see weaving, glassblowing, beading, paper making and metalwork, and learn how recycled materials are used across many of the products made here. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.
• Tarangire National Park: Explore Tarangire in the late afternoon, when the savannah begins to change with the falling light and wildlife moves through the bush in the cooler hours. As the sun lowers, stop for a sundowner in the wilderness and watch the day shift across one of northern Tanzania’s most celebrated safari landscapes.
• Lake Eyasi: Meet the Datoga, a pastoral community of the Lake Eyasi region known for cattle keeping and blacksmithing. Learn more about the metalworking traditions for which the Datoga are well known, and how these long-established skills continue to shape daily life in this part of northern Tanzania.
• Ngorongoro Crater: Descend into Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive across the world’s largest intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. Year-round water and grazing draw wildlife onto the crater floor, making this one of Tanzania’s most concentrated and rewarding safari settings.
• Serengeti: Spend time on game drive in Serengeti National Park, where open plains, kopjes and river lines support one of Africa’s richest wildlife ecosystems. Look out for lion, elephant, giraffe, zebra and antelope as you continue exploring a landscape shaped by movement, season and the constant search for water and grazing.
• Serengeti: Board your flight from the Serengeti to Arusha, leaving from one of the safari circuit’s remote airstrips and rising above the plains as you depart the park.
• Lake Eyasi: Meet the Hadzabe near Lake Eyasi and learn more about one of East Africa’s last hunter-gatherer communities. See how hunting, gathering and food preparation remain part of daily life, hear their distinctive click language and gain a clearer understanding of the skills and knowledge tied to this landscape.