Northern Highlights Sampler — 8 Days / 7 Nights
Overview
Route: Zanzibar ✈️ Tarangire → drive Ngorongoro → ✈️ Serengeti ✈️ Zanzibar
Accommodation Style: Quality lodges in Tarangire & Ngorongoro + mid-range tented camp in Serengeti
Meal Plan: Full-board (B/L/D)
Price Guidance: From $5,400–$7,600 pp sharing
Included/Exclude
- All domestic light-aircraft flights per the route (soft luggage 15–20 kg including hand luggage)
- Airstrip and lodge transfers
- Shared camp 4x4 game drives (typically 2x daily or full-day)
- Activities where listed (boat safari and/or guided walking where allowed)
- Park & conservation fees; government taxes
- Full-board meals at lodges/camps (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Bottled drinking water during game drives; tea/coffee at camp
- Emergency medical evacuation to nearest regional hospital (not full insurance)
- International flights to/from Zanzibar; visas
- Comprehensive travel insurance (medical & cancellation)
- Premium/alcoholic drinks (unless stated by camp)
- Laundry (unless included by the camp)
- Optional activities such as hot-air ballooning, spa treatments
- Personal purchases and tips/gratuities
Tour Plan
Fly to Arusha; drive to Tarangire (2.5–3h). Afternoon game drive among baobabs and elephant herds.
Explore swamps and river systems that concentrate wildlife; picnic lunch in the field.
Morning drive out of Tarangire; ascend to the crater rim (cooler climate). Sunset over the caldera.
Early descent for a full day among dense game; picnic by the hippo pool. Return to rim lodge.
Drive to Manyara airstrip; fly to Serengeti. Afternoon game drive to camp.
Full-day or AM/PM drives; focus on large predators and the seasonal movement of herds.
Sunrise drive for golden light photography; relax in camp; optional balloon (extra).
Game drive to the airstrip and flights to Zanzibar.
