13 Days Budget Tanzania Safari

Upon arrival of your international flight at Kilimanjaro International Airport, your Driver Guide will meet you at the airport and drive you to Moshi, which will be a good starting point for your safari the next day.

After breakfast in the hotel, you will drive to Same/Mkomazi National Park, in the Northeast of Tanzania, where you will enjoy your first game drive. Mkomazi National Park is a beautiful and quiet National Park, with wonderful panoramic views, which is not yet discovered and visited by many tourists. Mkomazi National Park offers a great opportunity to see Rhinos. Recently, a thirty square km fenced area has been opened for the Rhinos from the Rhino Sanctuary. This area is open for game drives. You will stay overnight in the city of Same, very close to the entrance of the park.

Today, you will experience a full day game drive in Mkomazi NP. This day, we will book a visit to the Rhino Game Circuit, where you have one of the best chances in Tanzania to see Rhinos very close by. At the end of the day, you will drive back to the city of Same for your overnight stay.

Today, you will drive from Same to the city of Arusha. You will stay overnight in Arusha.

At the agreed time, we will meet you at your lodge in Arusha and drive to Arusha National Park. This cosy park is located about one hour drive from Arusha. The park is small but varied with spectacular landscapes. In the west, the Meru Crater funnels the Jekukumia River; the peak of Mount Meru lies on its rim. Ngurdoto Crater in the Southeast is grassland.

The shallow alkaline Momella Lakes in the Northeast have varying algal colors and are known for their wading birds. Arusha National Park is a home of a wide variety of species of birds. At the end of the day, you will drive back to Arusha for your overnight stay.

At the agreed time, we will meet you at your lodge in Arusha and drive straight to Tarangire National Park. This park is known for its large elephant population and giant Baobab trees. Tarangire River is a permanent source of water for the entire park, serving the wildlife.

You may expect to spot lions, leopards, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, buffalos, giraffes, wildebeest, and zebras. Bird life is abundant in this park with over 400 bird species recorded. Packed lunch will be served inside the park. At the end of the day you will drive to the city of Babati for your overnight stay.

After a full day game drive in Tarangire National Park, you will drive to the city of Karatu. On the way, you will pass the lovely village of Mto wa Mbu, where you can experience Tanzanian’s day to day life. Afterwards, you will drive to a lodge in Karatu for your overnight stay.

Today, you will have an early start to visit the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater. This is the world’s largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera, with its own ecosystem, home to a wide variety of wildlife, which stays within the crater.  After a memorable day in the Ngorongoro Crater, you will drive to the endless plains of Serengeti National Park, where you will overnight in the Central area of the park.

Today, you will have a full day game drive in the Central area of the park. Central Serengeti, lying at the heart of this spectacular national park, is well-known for its abundant wildlife, large numbers of big cats and quintessential Serengeti landscapes of acacia-studded savanna. Central Serengeti is studded with many rocky granite outcrops, known as kopjes, which are where you should look out for lions and cheetahs. You will stay overnight in the Central area of the park.

Today, you will drive to the Northern part of Serengeti National Park, to the Mara River area, to provide you with the opportunity to witness the Great Migration. Serengeti National Park is most famous for the Great Migration, the annual migratory route of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles. This truly spectacular event takes place every year across Northern Tanzania and Kenya. Over two million wildebeest, zebras and gazelles move through the Serengeti and Masai Mara ecosystems in search of green pasture, in a regular pattern.You will stay overnight in the Mara River area of the park.

Today, you will have a full day game drive in the Northern part of the park, the Mara River area, to provide you with the opportunity to witness the Great Migration. Serengeti National Park is most famous for the Great Migration, the annual migratory route of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles.

This truly spectacular event takes place every year across Northern Tanzania and Kenya. Over two million wildebeest, zebras and gazelles move through the Serengeti and Masai Mara ecosystems in search of green pasture, in a regular pattern.You will stay overnight in the Mara River area of the park.

Today, you will drive back from the Mara River area in Serengeti National Park to Karatu for your overnight stay.

Today, your safari will come to an end. In time to catch your flight back home from Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will leave Karatu to drive to the airport.

This itinerary is applicable for the months of July – October. If you prefer to travel in the months of December – March, we can easily adapt the program to visit the Ndutu area instead of the Northern area of Serengeti National Park. At the start of the year, the Great Migration is located in Ndutu, where the wildebeest give birth to their babies.

If you like to end your safari with some days of relaxation at the beach, you can extend this itinerary with a stay on the beautiful island of Zanzibar. We are happy to arrange that for you. This option is currently not included in this package.