8-Day Luxury Wildlife & Cultural Safari

Two days in Tarangire, a Maasai village, the Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge and the Serengeti, flying back to Arusha.

8 days Luxury Tarangire, Ngorongoro & Serengeti From $3,552 per person

8-Day Luxury Wildlife & Cultural Safari · 8 days

Package Overview

This safari slows down to take in culture as well as wildlife. You spend two full days in Tarangire, visit a Maasai village on the way to the Ngorongoro Crater, stop at Olduvai Gorge, where some of the earliest human fossils were found, and finish with two days in the Serengeti before a short flight back to Arusha. The lodges are some of the best in each area, including a treetop lodge in Tarangire and a crater-rim lodge at Ngorongoro.

Highlights

Two full days in Tarangire
Maasai village visit with songs and dancing
Full day in the Ngorongoro Crater
Olduvai Gorge museum
Flight from the Serengeti back to Arusha

Route map

Day 1 Kilimanjaro International Airport → Day 2-3 Tarangire National Park → Day 4-5 Ngorongoro Crater → Day 6 Olduvai Gorge → Day 7 Central Serengeti (Seronera) → Day 8 Kilimanjaro International Airport

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Day 1 • Arrival in Arusha

Arusha

We meet you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and drive you to your hotel in Arusha to rest and get ready for the safari.

Day 1 Accommodation, Arusha Meal Plan: Bed and breakfast

Where you'll stay:

Gran Meliá Arusha or similar

Day 2 • Arusha to Tarangire

Tarangire

Drive to Tarangire for an afternoon game drive and a picnic lunch. Elephants, zebra, buffalo and oryx come here from Lake Manyara in search of water, lions follow them, and more bird species breed here than almost anywhere else.

Day 2 Accommodation, Tarangire Meal Plan: Full board

Where you'll stay:

Tarangire Kuro Treetops Lodge or similar

Day 3 • Full day in Tarangire

Tarangire

A morning game drive through grassy plains, swamps and baobab forest, back to the lodge for a hot lunch, then the afternoon to relax with views over the park or head out again.

Day 3 Accommodation, Tarangire Meal Plan: Full board

Where you'll stay:

Tarangire Kuro Treetops Lodge or similar

Day 4 • Tarangire, a Maasai village and the crater rim

Maasai village

A last morning drive along the Tarangire River, then on towards Ngorongoro with a stop at a Maasai village to see their dances and songs and the beadwork the women are known for. Arrive at your lodge on the crater rim in the late afternoon.

Activity · MAASAI BOMA VISIT

Visit a Maasai homestead for traditional songs and dancing, beadwork and stories of life alongside the wildlife.

Day 4 Accommodation, Ngorongoro Crater rim Meal Plan: Full board

Where you'll stay:

Ngorongoro Lodge, Meliá Collection or similar

Day 5 • Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater

A full day on the floor of the largest intact crater in the world, 20 km across and home to an estimated 30,000 large mammals: black rhino, black-maned lions, flamingos on the soda lake, and hippo at the picnic pool where you stop for lunch.

Day 5 Accommodation, Ngorongoro Crater rim Meal Plan: Full board

Where you'll stay:

Ngorongoro Lodge, Meliá Collection or similar

Day 6 • Olduvai Gorge and the Serengeti

Olduvai Gorge

Drive west to Olduvai Gorge, the archaeological site where fossils of our ancestors more than 1.75 million years old were found, and visit the museum. Continue into the Serengeti for an afternoon game drive.

Activity · OLDUVAI GORGE

The museum and viewpoint at the site where some of the earliest human fossils were found.

Day 6 Accommodation, Central Serengeti Meal Plan: Full board

Where you'll stay:

Meliá Serengeti Lodge or similar

Day 7 • Full day in the Serengeti

Serengeti

Morning and afternoon game drives with a picnic lunch, among the herds of wildebeest and zebra and the predators that follow them, from open savannah to woodland.