Tanzania Premium Predator Safari

Welcome to 🇹🇿 Tanzania!

• Meet our representative at Kilimanjaro International Airport [JRO]
• Road transfer to your hotel/lodge in Arusha
• Stay at Arusha Coffee Lodge for 1 night in BB
• Lunch and dinner are at your leisure

Arusha National Park

Arusha National Park is located in northern  Tanzania, not too far south of the border of Kenya and just outside the city of Arusha.  The national park encompasses an area of 53 square miles (137 sq km), making it one of the smaller national parks in Tanzania and the continent of Africa. Some consider this a sister park to Kilimanjaro just east of Arusha National Park. It is common for visitors to visit both parks, particularly those who have an affinity for mountains. Mount Meru is the second tallest mountain in Tanzania after Mount Kilimanjaro.  Meru reaches a peak of 14,968 feet (4,562 m), which is quite a bit shorter than Kilimanjaro.  On clear days, you can see either mountain from the other.  Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano and the fifth-tallest mountain in Africa. Although the park is small by national park standards, it is diverse with facets of nature.  There are three unique areas in the park.  The Meru Crater is located in the western part of the park, providing runoff into the Jekukumia River.  The summit is situated atop the rim of the crater. The southeastern part of Ngurdoto Crater has a rich grassland ecosystem. The northeastern part of the park is home to the Momella Lakes, a haven for birds that enjoy the growing algae in the lakes. The surrounding forest at the mountain's base is home to varied wildlife and many birds.  Around 400 species of birds inhabit this park, making it a birdwatcher’s paradise.  Other wildlife includes the black-and-white colobus monkey, buffalo, bushbuck, elephant, warthog, and zebra. The elusive leopard is present but hard to find.

• Meet your guide at your hotel in Arusha
• Quick briefing 
• Road transfer and safari to the Ndutu region

Welcome to Ndutu Plains, in the Ngorongoro National Park!

• Stay at our Ndutu Safari Lodge for 3 nights
• Enjoy safaris in the Ndutu plains in its Predator Season

Ndutu Safari Lodge and Lake

A more energetic day might begin with an early morning bush breakfast during a game drive in one of many distinct landscape areas within the Ndutu Conservation Area: marshlands, acacia woodlands, soda lakes of Ndutu and Masek or the vast expanse of the Serengeti plains are all within easy reach – each with its distinct wildlife populations and seasonal visitors. For example, the marsh areas are favored by big cats to bring up their young, whereas the short grass plains are where Wildebeest babies are born during the Great Migration.

As the sun lowers, join the lodge team around the famous Ndutu campfire, watch the sunset spread across the plains, and the moon rises above the acacia trees. Or raise a glass or two around the bar to share stories and make new friends. As you return to your cottage full of good food and vivid memories from the day, listen for the haunting call of a hyena echoing through the woodlands before the velvet night brings restful sleep. Ndutu is in an area without tsetse fly, ensuring a peaceful stay.

The Lodge itself is also home to a long-standing population of sleek and graceful genets – patterned to camouflage into the shadows; these elegant nocturnal creatures can be glimpsed perching on the rafters of the mess area. The genets have come to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere as much as Ndutu’s visitors.

The lodge was founded in the late sixties and quickly established a reputation for the warm hospitality and delightful food, fast becoming a favorite stopover for pioneering naturalists, distinguished zoologists, and photographers such as celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall and renowned wildlife filmmaker Hugo van Lawick who researched, filmed and wrote about wild dogs in the area. George Dove was great friends with Mary Leakey, a pioneering archaeologist who discovered some of the first fossils of human ancestors nearby.

• Road transfer and safari to Naabi Hills,  Serengeti southern gate

Welcome to the magic Serengeti National Park!

• Safari in southern Serengeti and transfer to your camp
• Stay at Serengeti Pioneer Camp for 4 nights

Serengeti National Park

It is the most famous park in Tanzania, UNESCO World Heritage, and probably the most famous in the World for wildlife viewing.

The park covers 5,700 sq mi (14,760 sq km), it is larger than Connecticut, and it is a massive landscape of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest, and woodlands. It lies in northwestern Tanzania, bordered to the north by the Kenyan border, where it is continuous with the Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. To the southwest lies Maswa Game Reserve. To the west are the Ikorongo and Grumeti Game Reserves. To the northeast and east lies the Loliondo Game Control Area. Together, these areas form the larger Serengeti ecosystem and the legendary Great Serengeti Migration, a stunning natural spectacle‎.

The park is usually described as divided into three regions:

• Serengeti plains: the almost treeless grassland of the south is the most emblematic scenery of the park. This is where the wildebeest breed, as they remain in the plains from December to May. 
• Western corridor: the black clay soil covers the savannah of this region. The Grumeti River and its gallery forests are home to Nile crocodiles, patas monkeys, hippopotamus, and martial eagles. The migration passes through from May to July.
• Northern Serengeti: the landscape is dominated by open woodlands and hills, ranging from Seronera in the south to the Mara River on the Kenyan border. Apart from the migratory wildebeest and zebra (which occur from July to August and in November), this is the best place to find the elephant, giraffe, and dik-dik.

The migratory -and some resident- wildebeest, which number over 2 million individuals, constitute the largest population of big mammals that still roam the planet. They are joined in their journey through the Serengeti - Mara ecosystem by 250,000 plains zebra, half a million Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, and tens of thousands of topi and Coke's hartebeest. Masai giraffe, waterbuck, impala, warthog, and hippo are also abundant. Some rarely seen antelope species are also present in Serengeti National Park, such as common eland, klipspringer, roan antelope, bushbuck, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx, and dik-dik.

• Safari and road transfer to the Ngorongoro region
• Stay at The Manor at Ngorongoro for 2 nights

Welcome to "The Crater"!

• On the second day, early morning start and  full-day safari in the Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located 110 mi (180 km) west of Arusha in Tanzania's Crater Highlands area. 

The main feature of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. The crater, which formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself two to three million years ago, is 2,000 feet deep, and its floor covers 100 square miles. Seven Natural Wonders voted the crater as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa in Arusha, Tanzania, in February 2013.

Approximately 25,000 large animals live in the crater. Large mammals in the crater include black rhinoceros, the African buffalo or Cape buffalo, and hippo.

Although conceived as "a natural enclosure" for an extensive variety of wildlife, 20 percent or more of the wildebeest and half the zebra populations vacate the crater in the wet season, while Cape buffalo stay; their highest numbers are during the rainy season.

A safari holiday in Tanzania is not complete without a descent to the mighty Ngorongoro Crater.

• Private road transfer to Arusha
• Stay at Arusha Coffee Lodge for 1 night in BB
• Lunch and dinner are at your leisure

• Road transfer from your lodge in Arusha to Kilimanjaro International Airport [JRO]