10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Overview of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

The 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania is a wildlife tour in Tanzania for several beautiful and up-close sightings of wildlife in numerous numbers just like not in any other country in Africa. The Tanzania safari takes you to the splendid Arusha National Park, Serengeti National park, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro crater conservation area and Tarangire National Park.

On arrival at Arusha airport in Tanzania, you meet your professional safari driver guide who welcomes you to the country and ensures your transfer to a booked accommodation facility in Arusha town using a 4X4 safari vehicle. Early morning after breakfast, you take a road drive to Arusha National Park where you spend the day and return to your hotel for the night. The next morning, your driver guide picks you up from your accommodation facility for a drive to Lake Manyara National Park where you arrive in the afternoon and undertake an evening game drive. The next morning, you have another morning game drive at Lake Manyara then after your driver guide transfers you to Serengeti National park arriving in the evening. You spend the next 2 days exploring the vast savannah plains of Serengeti national park. From Serengeti National Park, you then continue to Ngorongoro crater from where you are transferred to Tarangire National Park. The drive from Tarangire to Arusha airport for a departure flight marks the end of your trip.

Highlights of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Day 1: Upon arrival at Arusha airport, you are cleared by the airport staff then welcomed by your Tanzania safari driver guide for a transfer to a booked accommodation facility in Arusha where you spend the night.

Day 2: You are driven to Arusha National Park just 51km from Arusha town.


Day 3: From Arusha town, you are transferred by a professional Tanzania safari guide to Lake Manyara National Park arriving in the afternoon for an evening game drive.

Day 4: In the morning after breakfast, you have another morning game drive at Lake Manyara park and then be transferred to Serengeti National Park arriving in the evening.

Day 5: You spend this day at Serengeti National Park where you undertake a morning hot air balloon experience and an evening game drive.

Day 6: This morning again you return to the endless plains of Serengeti national park where you spend the whole day returning to your lodging facility in the evening.

Day 7: After breakfast at Serengeti National Park, you are driven to Ngorongoro crater with a stop at Olduvai Gorge.

Day 8: You spend the day at Ngorongoro crater as you view wildlife in the magnificent crater.

Day 9: From Ngorongoro crater, you are driven by your driver guide to Tarangire National Park arriving in the afternoon.

Day 10: After early morning breakfast, you enjoy a game drive on a drive back to Arusha airport for a departure flight.

Day by day itinerary of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Day 1 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

On arrival to Tanzania’s Arusha Airport, you are cleared by the airport staff then after you meet your Tanzania safari driver guide who welcomes and briefs you about the whole safari. From the airport, your driver guide helps you with the transfer to your 4x4 safari vehicle to start the drive to a booked accommodation facility in Arusha town. Arriving at your lodge/hotel, you check in, refresh, have dinner and spend the night as you rest from jet lag.

Day 2 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Early morning after breakfast your driver guide comes to pick you up at your lodging facility for a drive to Arusha National Park 51km away on an almost 2 hours drive. This small beautiful park is the closest safari park from Arusha town and one of the topographically varied parks in Tanzania. The park has abundant wildlife and also has the second highest peak (4,566m) in Tanzania on the rugged Mount Meru. Here you will enjoy the colored Momela Lakes and the 3km wide Ngurdoto crater during your morning and evening game drives. Possible wildlife sightings here include, the African Buffalos, Elephants, Hippos, Giraffes, Warthogs, Antelopes, Zebras, Blue monkeys and sometimes a rare sight of a leopard or hyena. This is the only safari park in the northern safari circuit where you can easily see the acrobatic black and white colobus monkey. After the game drive, you return to Arusha where you spend the night.

Day 3 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

After early morning breakfast at your lodging facility in Arusha town, your driver guide picks you up for a transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. On a distance of about 130km, you drive for 2hours 30minutes arriving in the afternoon for check in and lunch. After then, you go for an evening game drive in the beautiful park mostly covered by a shallow soda lake just at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The possible sightings here include Elephants, tree climbing lions and large flocks of flamingos. You later on spend the night at a booked accommodation in Lake Manyara National Park.

Day 4 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Early morning, you return to Lake Manyara National Park to increase on your sightings during this wildlife safari in Tanzania on a game drive. You sight the beautiful soda lake with bird species at sunset as you go on in search of several other wildlife species lasting about 2-4hours. After the game drive, you have lunch and then embark on a drive to Serengeti national park. Leaving behind the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu you descend to the heart of Africa one of the richest parks spending the night at a booked accommodation in Serengeti National Park.

Day 5 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Following morning breakfast in the “heart of Africa” you go for a hot air balloon experience. Floating on a hot air balloon over the spectacular wildlife filled Serengeti is an amazing experience and an extraordinary adventure. In the evening after lunch, you go for an evening game drive featuring the Serenora River which provides a valuable water source to the park which attracts several wildlife species.

Day 6 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

After breakfast, you will again get into the Serengeti plains where you go for a full day game drive wild viewing experience. On this day, you go to the Sogore River Circuit south of the Seronera River with possible sightings of the Lion, Thompson gazelle, topi, ostrich and the cheetah. After the game drive, a visit to the visitor Centre close to Serengeti Seronera Lodge will offer more knowledge on the wildlife and area of the park. You then have picnic lunch and continue with an afternoon game drive. With your safari guide, you will follow the Kopjes Circuit that goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes and usually attracts a number of lions and some large cobras. During the dry season, the kopjes provide shade and drinking water in pools which attracts several wildlife species making it a prime game viewing spot.

Day 7 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

You take your last breakfast in Serengeti then depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. Along the way, you stop at Olduvai Gorge which is known as the place where early man’s skull was discovered. You spend a moment here at a spot with significant links to human evolution. Arriving in the afternoon, you have lunch then descend to the Ngorongoro crater for wildlife viewing. Rewardingly, the Ngorongoro crater hosts a profusion of wildlife like the wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, giant African elephants, lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and leopards to be sighted. At the Alkaline Lake Magadi, you get the chance to sight the beautiful flamingoes and other water birds.

Day 8 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

This morning after breakfast you descend 600m into this splendid Ngorongoro crater for a full-day wildlife encounter. Home to an estimated 30,000 animals, the Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world with probable sightings of black rhinos, wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Predators like the lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the elusive leopard. In the evening after the amazing encounters and picnic lunch, you return to a lodging accommodation in Ngorongoro crater where you spend the night.

Day 9 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

After breakfast, you will depart for Tarangire National Park on the low-lying hills of the Great Rift Valley floor. The drive in the African wilderness takes you to a beautiful park covered with Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. After picnic lunch in the afternoon, you have a drive through the park that hosts the largest elephant herds in Africa, the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings.

Day 10 of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

On this last day of your Tanzania tour, after breakfast you have a morning game drive then after check out of your lodging facility and return to Arusha. The drive back to Arusha is about 3 hours marking the end of your trip.

 End of the 10 Days wildlife safari Tanzania / Serengeti wildlife tour Tanzania

Tanzania is never a disappointing destination with Serengeti national park in Tanzania being home of the wildebeest in Africa that trek between Tanzania and Kenya therefore can also be sighted on a Kenya wildlife safari. Just like in Lake Manyara, for more tree climbing lion encounters and the biggest population of hippopotamuses, a Uganda wildlife safari to Queen Elizabeth National Park will offer you the best experience.