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6 Days Mid-Range Northern Circuit Photographic Safari

6-Day Mid-range Private Safari in Tanzania's Northern Circuit

📅6 Days / 5 Nights
🦁Mid-range
👥2-4
💰$2,350
🌍 Safari Overview
6 Days / 5 Nights
Duration
2-4
Group Size
All meals
Meals
Year-round
Best Season
Mid-range
Tour Style
Mid-range
Accommodation
Designed for photography enthusiasts — this 6-day itinerary prioritises golden hour drives, optimal light positions, and extra time at sightings. Slower pace, smaller group maximum (4 people), and a guide experienced in wildlife photography logistics. Visit Tarangire, Serengeti, and Ngorongoro with an emphasis on composition, light, and patience.

✨ Safari Highlights

📋 Day-by-Day Itinerary

1
Arusha → Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
▾
  • Today’s programme takes you through Tarangire National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • Afternoon golden hour game drive.
  • Focus: backlit elephant herds, baobab silhouettes.
  • As you enter Tarangire, the scenery opens into acacia woodland, seasonal wetlands and plains punctuated by immense baobab trees.
  • The Tarangire River is an important water source and becomes a magnet for wildlife during the drier months.
  • You may see elephant families feeding beneath the baobabs, crossing the road or gathering near the river and swamps.
  • Giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, impalas and warthogs are also regularly encountered across the park’s varied habitats.
  • Your guide will search carefully for lions and other predators while also pointing out colourful birds and smaller animals.
  • A picnic lunch is normally served at a designated site before the game drive continues into the afternoon.
  • Expect warm, dusty conditions in the dry season and excellent photographic opportunities when wildlife gathers near water.
🏕️Suricata Boma Lodge
🍽️Lunch, Dinner
2
Full Day Tarangire — Photography Focus
Tarangire National Park
▾
  • Today’s programme takes you through Tarangire National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • Dawn game drive: elephants in morning mist.
  • Mid-morning riverine forest.
  • Afternoon: raptor perches and termite mound portraits.
  • Golden hour: baobab forest silhouettes.
  • As you enter Tarangire, the scenery opens into acacia woodland, seasonal wetlands and plains punctuated by immense baobab trees.
  • The Tarangire River is an important water source and becomes a magnet for wildlife during the drier months.
  • You may see elephant families feeding beneath the baobabs, crossing the road or gathering near the river and swamps.
  • Giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, impalas and warthogs are also regularly encountered across the park’s varied habitats.
  • Your guide will search carefully for lions and other predators while also pointing out colourful birds and smaller animals.
  • A picnic lunch is normally served at a designated site before the game drive continues into the afternoon.
  • Expect warm, dusty conditions in the dry season and excellent photographic opportunities when wildlife gathers near water.
🏕️Suricata Boma Lodge
🍽️All meals
3
Tarangire → Serengeti
Serengeti National Park
▾
  • Today’s programme takes you through Serengeti National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • Morning departure.
  • Afternoon Seronera Valley — cheetah and kopje composition opportunities.
  • Today is devoted to the immense landscapes and wildlife of the Serengeti ecosystem.
  • Your guide will choose the most productive game-drive areas according to recent sightings, seasonal grazing and road conditions.
  • The open plains provide opportunities to watch zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, giraffes and elephants moving through the savannah.
  • Rocky kopjes, river corridors and acacia woodland are especially useful places to search for lions, leopards and cheetahs.
  • If the migrating herds are in the region, their location and behaviour will depend on rainfall and fresh grazing rather than a fixed calendar.
  • There will be time to pause for photographs and to observe natural behaviour without rushing from one sighting to another.
  • Expect a full safari day, changing wildlife encounters and long views across one of Africa’s most celebrated wilderness areas.
🏕️Land of Nature Camp
🍽️All meals
4
Full Day Serengeti — Photography Focus
Serengeti National Park
▾
  • Today’s programme takes you through Serengeti National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • Pre-dawn departure: lion pride wake-up.
  • Mid-morning hippo pools.
  • Afternoon: cheetah on termite mounds.
  • Golden hour plains silhouettes.
  • Today is devoted to the immense landscapes and wildlife of the Serengeti ecosystem.
  • Your guide will choose the most productive game-drive areas according to recent sightings, seasonal grazing and road conditions.
  • The open plains provide opportunities to watch zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, giraffes and elephants moving through the savannah.
  • Rocky kopjes, river corridors and acacia woodland are especially useful places to search for lions, leopards and cheetahs.
  • If the migrating herds are in the region, their location and behaviour will depend on rainfall and fresh grazing rather than a fixed calendar.
  • There will be time to pause for photographs and to observe natural behaviour without rushing from one sighting to another.
  • Expect a full safari day, changing wildlife encounters and long views across one of Africa’s most celebrated wilderness areas.
🏕️Land of Nature Camp
🍽️All meals
5
Serengeti → Ngorongoro
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
▾
  • Today’s programme takes you through Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • Morning Serengeti exit.
  • Drive to Ngorongoro rim — rim viewpoint photography.
  • As you reach the Ngorongoro Highlands, the road climbs through cooler scenery toward the rim of the vast volcanic caldera.
  • The first viewpoint reveals grasslands, woodland and wetlands spread across the crater floor below.
  • During the descent, your guide will explain how this naturally enclosed ecosystem supports an exceptional concentration of wildlife.
  • You may encounter wildebeest, zebra, Cape buffalo, lions, spotted hyenas, hippos and numerous grassland birds.
  • Your guide will also scan the more distant plains for the critically endangered black rhinoceros, although every wildlife sighting depends on patience and good fortune.
  • A picnic lunch is normally enjoyed at an authorised site inside the conservation area before the game drive continues.
  • Expect an early start, cooler conditions around the rim and a rewarding day of wildlife viewing in one of Tanzania’s most dramatic landscapes.
🏕️Farm of Dreams Lodge
🍽️All meals
6
Ngorongoro Crater → Arusha
Ngorongoro Crater
▾
  • Today’s programme takes you through Ngorongoro Crater, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • Dawn crater descent.
  • Full caldera game drive: flamingo reflections, rhino portraits.
  • Return to Arusha.
  • As you reach the Ngorongoro Highlands, the road climbs through cooler scenery toward the rim of the vast volcanic caldera.
  • The first viewpoint reveals grasslands, woodland and wetlands spread across the crater floor below.
  • During the descent, your guide will explain how this naturally enclosed ecosystem supports an exceptional concentration of wildlife.
  • You may encounter wildebeest, zebra, Cape buffalo, lions, spotted hyenas, hippos and numerous grassland birds.
  • Your guide will also scan the more distant plains for the critically endangered black rhinoceros, although every wildlife sighting depends on patience and good fortune.
  • A picnic lunch is normally enjoyed at an authorised site inside the conservation area before the game drive continues.
  • Expect an early start, cooler conditions around the rim and a rewarding day of wildlife viewing in one of Tanzania’s most dramatic landscapes.
🏕️No overnight — end of tour
🍽️Breakfast, Lunch

💰 Safari Pricing

Start dates Solo 2 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 6 people
Apr 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026 n/a* $2,275 $2,010 $1,820 $1,820 $1,820

All prices per person. Group discounts available. Contact us for custom pricing.

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