7-Day The Luxury Northern Circuit
OVERVIEW
WILD BY DAY. BEAUTIFUL BY NIGHT.
A week across northern Tanzania, with enough time to experience the wilderness without surrendering the pleasures of travelling well.
Begin among Tarangire’s baobabs and elephants, move into the cooler Ngorongoro Highlands and descend into its extraordinary crater before continuing to the Serengeti for three nights on the plains.
Your days belong to you. A private vehicle means no fixed game-drive circuit and no need to leave an extraordinary sighting because someone else’s schedule says so.
Then evening arrives.
A beautiful camp, a hot shower, dinner beneath the stars and another African night unfolding beyond the canvas.
That is our kind of luxury.
DAY 01 / ARUSHA - ARRIVE BEAUTIFULLY.
Welcome to Tanzania.
A Wildpack representative will meet you on arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport for your private transfer to Arusha.
Settle into your lodge and let the journey begin gently.
Depending on your arrival time, spend the afternoon relaxing in the gardens, enjoying the property or simply recovering from your flight.
Later, meet your guide for a private safari briefing over drinks.
No alarms tonight.
The wilderness can wait until morning.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge, Arusha
MEALS
Dinner, depending on arrival time
DAY 02 / TARANGIRE - WHERE GIANTS WALK BENEATH GIANTS.
After breakfast, leave Arusha with your private guide and travel toward Tarangire National Park.
The landscape changes quickly.
Ancient baobabs rise above woodland and savannah while elephants move between the river and surrounding plains.
Spend the day exploring at your own pace, searching for large elephant families, giraffes, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo and predators including lions and leopards.
There is no shared vehicle and no rigid departure schedule.
If the elephants stay, so do you.
Later, arrive at your luxury lodge or tented camp and settle in for sundowners and dinner.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge / Tented Camp, Tarangire
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 03 / NGORONGORO - FROM BAOBABS TO THE HIGHLANDS.
Enjoy a relaxed morning in Tarangire, with the option of an early game drive before breakfast or a slower start at camp.
Later, travel toward the Ngorongoro Highlands.
Dry savannah gradually gives way to greener farmland and cooler air as the road climbs.
Arrive at your lodge with the afternoon deliberately left unhurried.
Depending on your accommodation, enjoy the gardens, take in views across the highlands or simply settle in with a drink and nowhere else you need to be.
Tomorrow morning, the landscape drops away beneath you.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Lodge, Ngorongoro / Karatu Highlands
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 04 / NGORONGORO CRATER - INTO AN ANCIENT WORLD.
Start early and descend approximately 600 metres into Ngorongoro Crater.
Spend the morning exploring the caldera’s grasslands, forests and wetlands in search of lions, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, hippos, hyenas and the endangered black rhino.
A private vehicle means the morning remains flexible. Stay with an interesting sighting, explore quieter areas and let your guide read the landscape rather than follow a fixed circuit.
Enjoy a private-style picnic lunch at a scenic location before climbing back toward the crater rim.
From here, continue west toward the Serengeti.
As the highlands disappear, the horizon takes over.
Arrive at your luxury tented camp toward evening.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Tented Camp, Serengeti
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 05 / SERENGETI - NOTHING BETWEEN YOU AND THE WILD.
Wake to coffee and the sounds of the plains.
Head out early while temperatures are cool and predators may still be active.
Your guide will shape the day around wildlife conditions rather than a predetermined route. Search rocky kopjes for lions, riverine woodland for leopards and open grassland for cheetahs.
Depending on the season, wildebeest and zebra from the Great Migration may also be moving through the wider ecosystem.
Choose between a picnic lunch in the bush or returning to camp for a leisurely meal and afternoon rest.
Later, head out again as the heat fades and the light turns golden.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Tented Camp, Serengeti
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 06 / SERENGETI - STAY LONG ENOUGH TO FORGET THE TIME.
Today has deliberately been left open.
Perhaps begin before sunrise with an optional hot-air balloon safari, drifting above the plains as the Serengeti wakes below.
Or take a slower morning, enjoy breakfast at camp and head out when you’re ready.
Spend the day following whatever caught your attention yesterday, exploring a different area or simply stopping more often.
This is what an extra Serengeti day buys you.
Not another checklist.
Freedom.
Return to camp for your final evening on the plains, with sundowners followed by dinner beneath the African sky.
OVERNIGHT
Luxury Tented Camp, Serengeti
MEALS
Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
DAY 07 / SERENGETI → ARUSHA - LEAVE THE PLAINS FROM ABOVE.
There is no long road home today.
Enjoy breakfast overlooking the wilderness and, depending on your flight schedule, take one final game drive toward the airstrip.
Board a scheduled bush flight back to Arusha.
From above, watch rivers, tracks and grasslands turn into patterns beneath the aircraft before the wilderness gradually gives way to the city.
On arrival, your private transfer will take you to Arusha, Kilimanjaro International Airport or your onward connection.
Seven days later, the suitcase is roughly the same weight.
You probably aren’t.
MEALS
Breakfast
END POINT
Arusha / Kilimanjaro International Airport
$4,650
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