8-Day Wild Tanzania, Refined
OVERVIEW
WILD ENOUGH TO DISAPPEAR INTO.
This journey isn’t built around how many parks can fit into eight days.
It’s built around how eight days should feel.
Begin slowly in Arusha before moving through the baobab country of Tarangire, beneath the Rift Valley escarpment at Lake Manyara and into the ancient Ngorongoro Crater. Then trade the highlands for the enormous skies of the Serengeti.
Your private guide, carefully chosen luxury camps and flexible game drives allow the journey to unfold without unnecessary rush.
Beautiful rooms are part of it.
Having enough time to enjoy where you are is the real luxury.
DAY 01 / ARUSHA - ARRIVE. THERE’S NO RUSH.
Meet your Wildpack representative on arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transfer privately to your lodge in Arusha.
Today asks very little of you.
Settle into your room, enjoy the gardens or terrace and recover from your journey.
Depending on your arrival time, meet your private safari guide over drinks for a relaxed briefing about the week ahead.
Dinner follows.
Then sleep.
The wilderness starts tomorrow.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge, Arusha
MEALS
Dinner, depending on arrival time
DAY 02 / TARANGIRE - BENEATH THE BAOBABS.
After breakfast, leave Arusha and travel south toward Tarangire.
The first giant baobabs appear almost theatrically.
Then come the elephants.
Spend the day exploring Tarangire’s river valleys, woodland and open savannah with your private guide. Large elephant families are a signature of the park, while giraffes, zebra, buffalo, wildebeest and numerous antelope species move through the surrounding landscape.
Predators are never far from where prey gathers.
Enjoy lunch before continuing through the afternoon.
Later, settle into your luxury camp and watch the landscape change as evening arrives.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge / Tented Camp, Tarangire
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 03 / LAKE MANYARA - FOLLOW THE RIFT SOUTH.
Take a relaxed breakfast before travelling toward Lake Manyara.
Set beneath the dramatic Great Rift Valley escarpment, this compact park feels entirely different from yesterday’s dry baobab country.
Explore groundwater forest, acacia woodland, wetlands and open areas along the lake.
Look for elephants moving through dense vegetation, troops of baboons, giraffes, buffalo and abundant birdlife.
After lunch and further exploration, climb toward the Ngorongoro Highlands.
The temperature drops.
The landscape turns greener.
And your lodge waits somewhere above it all.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge, Ngorongoro / Karatu Highlands
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 04 / NGORONGORO - A WORLD BELOW YOUR FEET.
Start early for one of the journey’s defining days.
From the crater rim, descend roughly 600 metres into the enormous Ngorongoro caldera.
Spend the morning moving through grassland, woodland and wetlands in search of lions, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, hippos, hyenas and the endangered black rhino.
Your private vehicle allows you to linger where the wildlife deserves it.
Enjoy a beautifully prepared picnic lunch before continuing through the crater.
Later, climb back toward the highlands and return to your lodge.
Tonight, there is nowhere else you need to be.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge, Ngorongoro / Karatu Highlands
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 05 / SERENGETI - FROM THE HIGHLANDS INTO THE ENDLESS.
After breakfast, continue west toward the Serengeti.
The transformation happens gradually.
Green highlands give way to open grassland. Roads become tracks. Horizons stretch.
Enter Serengeti National Park and spend the afternoon game driving toward your luxury tented camp.
Look for lions resting around kopjes, cheetahs scanning the plains, elephants moving between woodland and open country and giraffes silhouetted against the horizon.
Depending on the season, migrating wildebeest and zebra may add another dimension entirely.
Arrive at camp in time for evening drinks and dinner.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Tented Camp, Serengeti
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 06 / SERENGETI - FOLLOW NOTHING BUT THE WILD.
Start early while the plains are cool and wildlife is active.
There is no fixed route today.
Your guide will use tracks, recent sightings, animal behaviour and instinct earned from years in the bush to decide where to explore.
Perhaps lions occupy the morning.
Perhaps a leopard appears in the branches above a river.
Perhaps the migration changes everything.
Stop for a picnic in the wilderness or return to camp for lunch and a little quiet before heading back onto the plains.
End the afternoon with a sundowner.
No agenda.
Just horizon.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Tented Camp, Serengeti
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 07 / SERENGETI - STAY FOR THE SECOND STORY.
One full day in the Serengeti shows you something.
Two begins to reveal the place.
Wake before dawn for an optional hot-air balloon safari, or start slowly with coffee at camp before heading out with your guide.
Explore a different part of the ecosystem, revisit an exceptional sighting from yesterday or spend the day following the movements of predators and herds.
Because there is nowhere else to reach, there is no reason to leave something extraordinary too soon.
Return to camp for your final evening.
Dinner.
Stars.
Canvas.
The occasional sound from somewhere beyond the firelight.
Perfect.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Tented Camp, Serengeti
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 08 / SERENGETI → ARUSHA - ONE LAST LOOK FROM ABOVE.
Enjoy your final morning on the plains.
Depending on the flight schedule, take a short game drive toward the airstrip before boarding your scheduled bush flight to Arusha.
The Serengeti looks different from above.
Tracks disappear into grassland. Rivers twist through empty country. Places that felt enormous yesterday become patterns beneath the wing.
Arrive in Arusha for your private onward transfer to your hotel or Kilimanjaro International Airport.
The journey ends.
The wild has a habit of following people home.
MEALS
Breakfast
END POINT
Arusha / Kilimanjaro International Airport
$5,250
MAKE THIS JOURNEY YOURS
Safari Includes
- All Park Fees
- All transportation
- Professional private safari guide
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Private 4×4 safari vehicle with pop-up roof
- Accommodation as specified in the itinerary
- Government taxes and VAT
Safari Excludes
- International flights
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips
- Personal items
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Some Meals