8 Days Tanzania Safari Best [Tanzania National Parks] in 2026/27

 Lake Manyara National Parkand Transfer to Serengeti Plains

• Travel time: 6 hours
• Distance: 205 km

After an early morning breakfast, your guide driver will be there to pick you up to Serengeti National Park via this beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation area later descending into the heart of wild Africa the Serengeti National Park.

You head to the central park area known as the Seronera area which is one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park.

You arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon, the right time for lunch and later enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park. Later dinner and overnight in the Seronera area

Recommended Accommodation:

• Pumzika Serengeti Camps
• Serengeti Sopa Lodge
• Chaka Camps
• Four Seasons Serengeti
• Meal plan: full board

Serengeti Plains

Optional on request; you can do hot air balloon over the Serengeti plains (available at a supplementary cost and pre-arrangement).

Floating silently above the awakening bush while viewing wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Tanzania

After an early breakfast, you will do a full game drive with the lunch at the lodge. You will follow the Kopjes Circuit, which goes anti-clockwise around the Maasai Kopjes and usually attracts a number of lions and some formidably large cobras.

Kopjes are weathered granite outcrops scattered around the plains of which are miniature ecosystems providing shade and drinking water in pools left in the rock after the rains. This attracts wildlife and lions which like to lie in wait for animals coming to drink

Recommended Accommodation:

• Pumzika Serengeti Camps
• Serengeti Sopa Lodge
• Chaka Camps
• Four Seasons Serengeti
• Meal plan: full board

Serengeti Plains   

After breakfast you enjoy full day game drive with lunch at the lodge along the Sogore River Circuit which loops into the plains south of the Seronera river and which is good for lions, Thomson gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah sightings.

The visitor’s Centre not far from the Serengeti seronera lodge and public campsites is well worth a visit after the morning drive.

This nicely designed Centre offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift selling information leaflets and maps of the area.

You will enjoy a relaxed lunch Centre in the shade of the giant acacia trees. Later you go back to your lodge for dinner and accommodation.

Recommended Accommodation:

• Pumzika Serengeti Camps
• Serengeti Sopa Lodge
• Chaka Camps
• Four Seasons Serengeti
• Meal plan: full board

Serengeti Plains Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater

• Travel time: 4 hours
• Distance: 145 Km

After breakfast at the lodge your guide drive will take you and depart for Ngorongoro Conservation area. Your stopover at Olduval Gorge which boasts of a history dating back to the dawn of time.

It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the ‘Nutcracker man’ and ‘handy man’, both very significant links in chain of human evolution.

You will arrive on time for lunch and spend the afternoon leisure. You will have a whole afternoon to relax and the lodge.

You may opt to walk around or go for swimming as you plan for tomorrow’s activity. Later you will have dinner and overnight

Recommended Accommodation:

• Rhino Lodge
• Serena Ngorongoro
• Sanctuary Ngorongoro camp
• The highlands

 Ngorongoro Crater

Am sure you had a good time to relax last afternoon. After breakfast, your guide driver will come for you. You will descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full day game drive.

The Ngorongoro crater is of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino.

Supported by a year round water supply fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals which include herds of wildebeests, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippos, and giant African elephants.

Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is the huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and ever elusive leopard.

You then break for lunch at the crater and return for the afternoon game drive. You will brake for the day in the evening and return to your lodge to freshen and have dinner and overnight later

Recommended Accommodation:

• Rhino Lodge
• Serena Ngorongoro
• Sanctuary Ngorongoro camp
• The highlands
• Ngorongoro serena safari lodge
• Neptune Ngorongoro luxury camp
• Ngorongoro wildlife lodge
• And beyond Ngorongoro crater lodge

Ngorongoro and Transfer to Tarangire National Park

• Travel time: 3 ½ hours
• Distance: 155 Km

Early in the morning after breakfast, you will depart for the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the great Rift valley floor.

Its natural vegetation consists mainly of acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the rivers and swamps attract wild animals during the dry season.

The Tarangire National Park is known to have some of the largest elephant herds in Africa not forgetting its home to three rare species of animals i.e., greater Kudu, the fringed-eared oryx and few Ashy starlings.

You will have lunch. after lunch you will have an afternoon game drive. Later you head back to the lodge to freshen up and then have dinner and overnight

Recommended Accommodation:

• Mbali Mbali Tarangire River Camp
• Tarangire kuro treetops lodge
• Tarangire simba Lodge
• Lemala mpingo ridge lodge
• Meal plan: full board

 Tarangire National Park and Transfer Back to Arusha

• Travel time: 2 hours
• Distance: 120 km

You will wake up at your own time because there is no pressure, you will have a game drive in the Tarangire National Park, followed by a relaxed breakfast at the lodge.

Then you will check out, then transfer back to Arusha and upon arrival in Arusha, you will have lunch and mark the end of your Tanzania safari adventure

• Meal Plan: breakfast and lunch

End of the 8 Days Tanzania Safari Best [Tanzania National Parks]