Overview
The 8-day Tanzania safari includes Tarangire, Lake Manyara, two or more days in the Serengeti and a full day in Ngorongoro Crater.
It is a well-balanced itinerary for first-time visitors who want to see Tanzania’s headline parks without rushing.
Booking Your 8-Day Tanzania Safari
Every 8-day Tanzania safari we run is private and tailor-made. You travel in one of our own 4×4 Land Cruisers with an experienced driver-guide, and you can start on any date that suits you. The final price depends on your travel style (Signature, Classic or Adventurer), your group size and the season.
Park entry and permit fees are set by the official authorities: the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA). We book permits directly and confirm the current rates before you pay. Ask us for a quote and we will reply within 24 hours.
Full Itinerary
Day 1: Arusha Airport – Arusha Town
Our 8-Day Tanzania Northern Circuit Safari guide driver will greet and pick you up from Arusha Airport while helping carry your luggage and transfer you to your hotel in Arusha for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay. You will relax for the rest of the day at the hotel and the next day early in the morning, you will be picked up to start your beautiful journey.
Day 2: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
After an early breakfast, you will carry your lunch box, and start your beautiful journey to Tarangire National Park for a game drive. Later, you will transfer to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay.
Tarangire National Park is very famous for its elephant population. Here you will have a unique experience of seeing nature combined with the original way of life of Masaai. Tarangire offers unparalleled game viewing with elephants abounding during the dry season.
Day 3: Karatu – Central Serengeti National Park
You will wake up early and have breakfast. Afterwards, you’ll start your beautiful journey to Central Serengeti National Park for a game drive. You will experience the great wildebeest migration while enjoying your lunch inside the park. Later, you will transfer to your lodge/camp for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay. On the next day, you will enjoy a wonderful full-day game drive inside the park.
The Serengeti National Park is a wonder of nature shared between Tanzania and Kenya. Here you will experience and witness the great wildlife migration, which involves over two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes. It’s also an extremely large and wild national park and home to the Big Five of Africa.
Day 4: Central Serengeti – Northern Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast, you’ll carry your lunch boxes, and drive to Northern Serengeti for a game drive. Later, you will transfer to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay.
The Serengeti National Park is a wonder of nature shared between Tanzania and Kenya. Here you will experience and witness the great wildlife migration that involves over two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes. It’s also an extremely large and wild national park and home to the Big Five of Africa.
Day 5: North Serengeti – Central Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast, while carrying your lunch boxes, you will continue with a game drive in Northern Serengeti with special eyes on the great migration. Later, you will drive to Central Serengeti to your campsite for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay.
The Serengeti National Park is a wonder of nature shared between Tanzania and Kenya. Here you will experience and witness the great wildlife migration, which involves over two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes. It’s also an extremely large and wild national park and home to the Big Five of Africa.
Day 6: Central Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast, you will start your beautiful 8-Day Tanzania Northern Circuit Safari journey to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive. You will descend down into the crater while enjoying the majestic view of the crater and wildlife animals as well. You will be enjoying your lunch inside the park. Later, you will transfer to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and an overnight stay.
Travellers visiting the Ngorongoro Conservation Area can enjoy a number of incredible and unique experiences such as: exploring its volcanic craters (one of which is the largest unbroken volcanic caldera in the world) and viewing the dense wildlife populations including the Big Five.
Day 7: Karatu – Lake Manyara National Park
After an early breakfast, you will start your 8-Day Tanzania Northern Circuit Safari journey to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive. You will enjoy the wonders of tree-climbing lions while having your lunch and the beautiful sightings of flamingos near the lake. Thereafter, you will transfer to your lodge for dinner relaxation and an overnight stay.
Lake Manyara National Park is well known for the unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds. Also get ready to see the shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingos and other more than 400 species of birds, many of them waterfowl or migrants.
Day 8: Arusha City – Arusha Airport
After waking up and having your breakfast, you will decide the time you want to depart. Then your 8-Day Tanzania Northern Circuit Safari driver will drive you to Arusha Airport based on your flight arrangement, where your safari will end.
