11 Days Tanzania Walking Safari

When you arrive at Kilimanjaro International you’ll be met by a Discover Africa representative and briefed before the start of your safari. Enjoy a late dinner at Arusha Coffee Lodge and relax before your safari adventure begins.

Today you’ll drive to Tarangire National Park for your first two days on safari. Stop enroot for a warm lunch before continuing south along the Tarangire River during the afternoon. Overnight at Kirurumu Tarangire Camp, with your meals included.

PThis is your first full day on safari so get out early to explore the river system all the way to Siale swamp, where you’ll find elephant herds, birds and some cats. Overnight at Kirurumu Tarangire Camp, with your meals included.

You’ll drive towards the Great Rift Valley’s Gregory Rift to visit Lake Manyara National Park, famous for its tree-climbing lions. There’s wonderful rain forest vegetation and good primate species, pelicans and flamingo. Enjoy lunch at Kirurumu Manyara Camp and an afternoon drive at Lake Manyara before driving up the escarpment in the late afternoon and up the rim of Ngorongoro Crater. Overnight on the Crater rim at Kirurumu Ngorongoro Crater Camp, with meals included.

You’ll spend a full day on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater (caldera), exploring the area and trying to find the endangered Black rhino as well as lion and cheetah. Overnight again at Kirurumu Ngorongoro Crater, with your meals included.

The Great Migration should be just north-west of Ngorongoro Crater and you’ll drop down onto the southern Serengeti/Ndutu plains. With a packed lunch, you’ll spend the whole day driving and looking for herds and some predator interaction. It’s hard to take in the vast numbers of wildebeest dotting the green plains of the southern Serengeti. Overnight at Kirurumu Ndutu Camp, with your meals included.

On your last day on the plains, you’ll venture further west towards Matiti Hill to look for more migratory plains game and spotted hyena. If needed, you can enter into the Serengeti side of the plains because our park fees include the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park. Overnight at Kirurumu Ndutu Camp, with your camp fire and meals included.

Your safari in the south-western Serengeti ends at Moru. The top end of the migration might be here towards the end of March and it’s a wonderful area – with or without the migration. If you’re lucky you might bump into rhino, but good lion and leopard sightings are likely all year round at Moru. Overnight at one of our favourite camps, Dunia, with your meals and drinks included.

On your last full day on safari, you’ll look for leopard if you haven’t seen this elusive cat yet. Driving north from Moru towards the Seronera Valley, we’ll look for one of three leopards we know are in the area. Fundi, Mawe and our favourite, Hatari, can be found along the tree line that runs with the Seronera river system just west of the airstrip. Overnight at Dunia Camp with your meals and drinks included.

Your safari ends with a last morning game drive to Seronera airstrip, before you fly back to Arusha. Enjoy aerial views of Ngorongoro Crater and Ol Doinyo Lengai, the Masai holy mountain. We’ll transfer you to Kilimanjaro International for your connecting flight home.