Ultimate Northern Circuit (Private) — 9 Days / 8 Nights
Overview
Route: Zanzibar ✈️ Tarangire → drive Ngorongoro → ✈️ Serengeti ✈️ Zanzibar
Accommodation Style: Luxury lodges in Tarangire & Ngorongoro + top-tier Serengeti camp
Meal Plan: All-inclusive (most beverages)
Price Guidance: From $12,000–$18,000 pp sharing
Included/Exclude
- All domestic scheduled flights per route (soft luggage 15–20 kg incl. hand luggage)
- Airstrip and lodge transfers with VIP assistance where available
- Private or semi-private 4x4 game drives as noted
- Activities listed (boat/walking where permitted); curated sundowners & bush picnics
- Park & concession fees; government taxes
- All meals and most beverages (house wines/spirits; exact policy varies by camp)
- Laundry service (most high-end camps)
- Emergency medical evacuation (not full insurance)
- Added experiences where stated (e.g., balloon, private vehicle)
- International flights; visas
- Comprehensive travel & medical insurance
- Top-shelf/ultra-premium beverages beyond camp selection
- Spa treatments unless specified
- Private charters not listed in the route
- Personal items and gratuities
Tour Plan
Fly to Arusha and continue by road to Tarangire. Settle into a luxury lodge; evening game drive with sundowners.
Private vehicle explores baobab valleys and Silale Swamp; picnic lunch; optional night drive (where allowed).
Scenic drive to the highlands; check in to a top rim lodge with expansive views.
Early access to the Crater (where possible); full-day with gourmet picnic; high chance of big-five encounters.
Drive to Manyara airstrip for flight to the Serengeti. Afternoon game drive to a luxury tented camp.
Private 4x4 lets you linger with sightings; optional balloon (extra or included depending on camp).
Focus on lion territories and leopard along river lines; cheetah on open plains. Leisure afternoon.
Golden-hour photography session; spa treatment at camp; sunset finale.
Morning flight to Zanzibar for onward connections.
