Overview
This 5-day Wildlife Adventure Safari and Scenic Tour is perfect for travelers who want to experience the highlights of Northern Tanzania in a short time. Spend four exciting days exploring Tarangire National Park, the iconic Serengeti National Park, and the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater, where you’ll enjoy exceptional wildlife viewing and breathtaking scenery. Your journey concludes with a visit to Materuni Village, where you’ll discover the region’s rich culture, take a guided coffee tour, and admire the beautiful Materuni Waterfalls. This itinerary offers the ideal combination of thrilling safari experiences, cultural immersion, and scenic natural beauty.
Trip Highlights
- Budget tour: This budget tour includes camping and hotels.
- Private tour: This tour will be organized exclusively for you. However, wildlife viewing activities are run by the lodges/camps and will be shared with others.
- Can start any day: If availability permits, this tour can start on any day.
- Can be customized: You can request minor changes to the accommodations and destinations of this tour.
- Not for solo travelers: Solo travelers cannot book this private tour.
- Suitable for all ages: This tour is suitable for children of all ages.
Itinerary
We will pick you up from your hotel, and after getting to know your guide and chef, you will drive to Tarangire National Park (a 2-hour drive), famous for its diverse landscape. The park is particularly known for its abundance of ancient baobab trees and its most significant concentration of elephants in the country. It offers unique opportunities to observe interactions among elephant families. You will do a game drive through the park, depending on where they have reported sightings of animals (mostly predators, lions, cheetahs, and leopards as they are harder to spot), as well as herbivores (giraffes, wildebeest, and zebras), etc. There is plenty to see in the park.
Later, you will go to the Tarangire River picnic site and enjoy the beautiful view of the river and the animals while having lunch. Small monkeys and baboons will try to scare you off your lunch, but there is nothing to worry about.
Main Destination:
Tarangire National Park
Accommodation:
Fig Tree Lodge
Budget hotel located 1-2hr drive from Tarangire NP
Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
Non-alcoholic drinks
The Serengeti is extensive, covering 14,750 square kilometres (5,700 square miles), and is famous for the wildebeest and zebra migration (over 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras). These animals are in a strategic partnership for their survival.
You will arrive in the late afternoon, and after taking your lunch, you will go on a game drive in Seronera (the centre of Serengeti) until late evening and experience the sunset in Serengeti while having a close view of wild animals. You may be lucky enough to see a predator hunting or on a kill. Later, you will head to the Nyani campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.
Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Budget camping
Inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks
After an early breakfast, you will go on an early game drive, seeing many animals, until the afternoon, when you will head to the camp for lunch and packing. You will do a game drive while you exit Serengeti, heading to Ngorongoro Simba Campsite (2-hour drive) on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater.
Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Budget camping
Inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks
The Ngorongoro Crater is the best wildlife park in Tanzania. This is due to its beautiful crater landscape, which makes it easier to see wildlife. After an early breakfast, you will head to the Ngorongoro viewpoint to enjoy the amazing view. The view is surreal and breathtaking. You will then proceed to descend the crater on a journey to find the black rhinos. Rhinos are the hardest to spot in the beautiful crater, as most animals are easier to spot in this park because it's on the crater floor. The Ngorongoro Crater is the highlighted park in Tanzania. It has the most beautiful scenery and is home to many animals. The crater itself is self-sufficient for the animals inside, so they don’t migrate out of the crater.
After lunch, you will go on a game drive and ascend the crater on the way back to your hotel in Arusha/Moshi.
Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation:
Fig Tree Lodge
Budget hotel located 1-2hr drive from Ngorongoro Crater
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Non-alcoholic drinks
Materuni is the home of the Chagga community and is still an authentic village. This charming place is just 15 kilometres away from Moshi Town and is the last village before the Kilimanjaro National Park. You will be picked up in the morning by our English-speaking guide, who will drive you to Materuni Village. When you reach the waterfalls, you will see that they are more than 80 meters high. The pool at the bottom of the waterfall is an inviting place for a refreshing swim, so don‘t forget your swimwear! Here you will learn how coffee is cultivated, dried, roasted, and further processed. You will also be invited to help grind the coffee. Later, you will be driven back to Arusha or the airport.
Main Destination:
Materuni Waterfalls (Highlight)
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
Non-alcoholic drinks
Includes/Excludes
Cost Includes
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- Camping equipment
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Cost Excludes
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Bath towels
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
FAQs
The 5-Day Private Safari in Northern Circuit & Coffee Tour includes private 4×4 transportation, accommodation, full-board meals during the safari, park entrance fees, bottled drinking water, airport or hotel transfers, a professional English-speaking safari guide, and a guided coffee tour in Materuni Village.
The 5-Day Private Safari in Northern Circuit & Coffee Tour takes you to Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, and Materuni Village, where you’ll enjoy a traditional coffee-making experience and visit the picturesque Materuni Waterfalls.
During the 5-Day Private Safari in Northern Circuit & Coffee Tour, you may encounter the Big Five, along with giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, cheetahs, hippos, crocodiles, hyenas, antelopes, and an impressive variety of bird species.
For the 5-Day Private Safari in Northern Circuit & Coffee Tour, pack lightweight neutral-colored clothing, comfortable walking shoes, a light jacket for cool mornings, sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses, insect repellent, a camera, binoculars, and any personal medications.
The 5-Day Private Safari in Northern Circuit & Coffee Tour is available throughout the year. The dry season from June to October provides outstanding wildlife viewing, while the green season from November to May offers lush scenery, excellent birdwatching, and a beautiful setting for the coffee tour.
