10-Day Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar

Karibu Tanzania! You are met at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Moshi or Arusha, both dwarfed by the presence of Mount Kilimanjaro. Your guide joins you that evening to walk through the safari ahead, answer questions and hand over your welcome pack.

After breakfast you head south to Tarangire National Park, a scenic 2–3 hour drive through Maasai country and open plains. Tarangire is renowned for its elephants — often in family groups of fifty or more — and for the towering baobabs that dot the landscape. An afternoon game drive follows the Tarangire River, the park’s lifeline in the dry season.

Today you cross the Ngorongoro highlands into the Serengeti National Park. The moment the plains open out in every direction is unforgettable. Your first Serengeti game drive explores the Seronera Valley, a year-round stronghold of lion, leopard and cheetah. Tonight you sleep beneath a sky thick with stars.

A full day is yours to follow the wildlife. Depending on the season you may track the wildebeest and zebra of the Great Migration, pause at a river crossing, or simply sit with a pride of lions as the light changes. Morning and late-afternoon drives offer the best predator action; picnic lunches are served out on the plains.

A final Serengeti morning drive, then you travel to the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. En route you may visit a Maasai village or the archaeological site at Olduvai Gorge, where some of humanity’s earliest footprints were discovered. You arrive at your crater-rim lodge in time for sundowners and that famous view.

An early descent into the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and home to some 25,000 large animals. In a single morning you can meet lions, elephants, hippos, flamingos and, with luck, the endangered black rhino. After a picnic lunch on the crater floor you climb out and drive back to Arusha.

This morning you fly from Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar. On arrival you are met and taken to historic Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of coral-stone houses, carved doors and a maze of lanes. Explore the old slave market, the Darajani market and the waterfront before checking into your Stone Town hotel for the night.

A morning spice tour introduces the cloves, cinnamon and vanilla that made the island famous. Then it is on to the coast, where you check into your beach resort on Zanzibar’s white sand. The rest of the day is yours: swim, snorkel, read in the shade or simply watch the tide move.

A completely free day. Choose a dhow sunset cruise, a scuba or snorkelling trip to the reef, a visit to a sea-turtle sanctuary, or a lazy afternoon by the pool. Your hotel and our local team can arrange anything you like, or you can do nothing at all — the island is generous either way.

After a final beach breakfast you are transferred to Zanzibar International Airport for your onward or homebound flight. Depending on your schedule there is often time for one last swim before you leave. We can also extend your stay or add a Kilimanjaro climb at the front of the trip.