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6-Day Tanzania Safari with a Night Game Drive

📅6 Days / 5 Nights
🦁Private Safari
👥Private/custom group
💰$2,560
🌍 Safari Overview
6 Days / 5 Nights
Duration
Private/custom group
Group Size
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Meals
June to October is the main dry-season window; January to February is another practical period for northern Tanzania.
Best Season
Private Safari
Tour Style
Mid-Range Lodges & Tented Camps
Accommodation

This 6-day Tanzania safari follows a defined route through Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. The sequence of parks and areas gives the itinerary its character, while the day-by-day plan sets the pace for drives, stops and overnight stays.

The daily plan moves through Arusha to Tarangire ( night game drive ), Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park and the remaining scheduled stops.

The itinerary is arranged as a private departure, allowing the guide to manage driving time and stops around the agreed route. The published schedule should be checked against the requested travel dates before confirmation.

Overnight stays use the lodge or camp level shown in the package details, with the exact properties confirmed in the accommodation section. Group size, meal arrangements and included services should be reviewed together because they affect the practical cost of the route. Listed inclusions include All Park entrances & taxes, All Meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner),, soft drinks & water (bottled water 3litres or more a day).

✨ Safari Highlights

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Serengeti game drives
Drive across the Serengeti plains with time set aside for wildlife viewing.
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Ngorongoro Crater
Descend into the crater for a concentrated wildlife drive and crater-floor views.
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Tarangire landscapes
Explore Tarangire’s river corridor, baobabs and elephant country.
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Private safari vehicle
Travel with a private guide and vehicle on the scheduled route.

📋 Day-by-Day Itinerary

1
Arusha to Tarangire ( night game drive )
Arusha to Tarangire ( night game drive )
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  • Today’s programme takes you through Arusha to Tarangire ( night game drive ), with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • After arriving in the park, the night game drive will begin around 19:30 you will meet your guide at the gate of your selected accommodation and you will have a short briefing on what to do and not do during the night game drive.
  • A new world of nocturnal animal species awaits you on an exclusive night game drive excursion within the Tarangire National Park, as this area is considered an ideal location for this activity.
  • You will then drive into the night within the vast Tarangire Park to see the animals, some of which are rare and inactive during the daytime.
  • Leopards will be easily spotted and other animals, including Lions, wandering elephants, antelopes, porcupines and Genet.
  • Dinner will not be provided during night game drives so guests must have an early dinner.
  • Accommodations: Ang'ata Tarangire Camp.
  • 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.
🏕️Ang'ata Tarangire Camp
🍽️Not specified in source export
2
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
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  • Today’s programme takes you through Tarangire National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • After breakfast, at the Lodge/Hotel and then depart for a game drive to Tarangire National Park.
  • This is a beautiful park filled with baobabs and acacias with a large variety of games such as Zebras, elephants, giraffes and waterbucks the animals enjoy the water coming from the Tarangire River.
  • The animals best viewed during this time of the year include Elephant herds, common elands, lesser kudu, leopards, lions and cheetah.
  • The birdlife is varied and plentiful.
  • Later game drive is done on this day, after a day of the game drive the guide will drive to the lodge/hotel for Dinner and overnight.
  • Accommodation: Suricata Boma Lodge.
  • 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
🍽️Not specified in source export
3
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
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  • Today’s programme takes you through Serengeti National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • After breakfast in the morning, you will start a road transfer from Karatu to Serengeti National Park. after arriving in Serengeti we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles.
  • Discover Serengeti National Park, famous for its abundance of animals.
  • It is a world heritage full of wildlife and is home to many birds, including lions, leopards, elephants, cheetahs, buffaloes, zebras, yellows, wild dogs, gazelles, and crocodiles.
  • Then return to your lodge in the early evening for a sundowner, relaxation dinner and overnight.
  • Accommodation: Land of Nature Tented Camp.
  • 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
🍽️Not specified in source export
4
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
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  • Today’s programme takes you through Serengeti National Park, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • After breakfast, you will enjoy the amazing sunrise view in Serengeti and then continue to game drive in Serengeti National Park.
  • On this day, our tour guide will take you to discover carnivores like big cats and hyenas.
  • Learn about the park while driving and find out why the Maasai named it Serengeti, meaning "Endless Plains.
  • Then you will have lunch and dinner overnight in your lodge.
  • Accommodation: Land of Nature Tented Camp.
  • 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
🍽️Not specified in source export
5
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
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  • Today’s programme takes you through Serengeti to Ngorongoro, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • After breakfast and a relaxing morning in your lodge you will proceed with your game drives and on this day you will have an opportunity to witness a few wonders of Serengeti before heading to your lodge, also visit the hippo pools and then have a road transfer to the nice mid-range lodge near Karatu.
  • Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge.
  • 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
🍽️Not specified in source export
6
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
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  • Today’s programme takes you through Ngorongoro Crater, with the day paced around the confirmed route and activities.
  • You will enjoy your breakfast at the lodge and then have a road transfer with a packed lunch from Karatu to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
  • The Ngorongoro Crater is inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino.
  • It contains a river, several swamps, a lake, a forest and open plains.
  • Also in the Crater, you will enjoy a picnic lunch at the hippo pool site to enjoy the game and vegetation in the unbroken caldera home.
  • There are said to be over 30,000 animals living in the area that is naturally enclosed by the slopes of an old volcano.
  • In the afternoon, you’ll be transferred to your hotel in Arusha or Airport.
  • 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
🍽️Not specified in source export

💰 Safari Pricing

Start dates Solo 2 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 6 people
Mid-Range Lodging: n/a* $2560 $2230 $2230 $2020 $1930

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

🏕️ Your Accommodations

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tented-camp

Ang’ata Tarangire Camp

★★★★☆
From Mid-range — $200–$350 per person / night
Suricata Boma Lodge
Safari Lodge

Suricata Boma Lodge

★★★☆☆
From Mid-range — $80–$150 per person / night
Land of Nature Camp
Luxury Tented Camp

Land of Nature Camp

★★★☆☆
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lodge

Farm of Dreams Lodge

★★★☆☆
From Mid-range — $90–$160 per person / night

✅ What's Included

  • All Park entrances & taxes
  • All Meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner),
  • soft drinks & water (bottled water 3litres or more a day)
  • Transfer to & from the airport
  • Accommodation during safari
  • Transportation in a custom safari 4x4 with a viewing roof and guaranteed window seating
  • Safari vehicles have an inverter for charging batteries, communications radio, electric cooler, and filtered water

❌ Not Included

  • Tips for guides, cook
  • International and domestic flights
  • Tanzania Visa fee
  • Balloons In Serengeti ($600 per person )

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Which places are included in 6-Day Tanzania Safari with a Night Game Drive?▾
The planned route includes Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. The day-by-day itinerary is the detailed reference for the order of travel, drives and activities.
How long does 6-Day Tanzania Safari with a Night Game Drive take?▾
The itinerary is planned for 6 days and 5 nights. Arrival, departure and transfer timing should be checked against your flight schedule before confirmation.
When is the best time for 6-Day Tanzania Safari with a Night Game Drive?▾
June to October is the main dry-season window; January to February is another practical period for northern Tanzania.
Where do guests stay on 6-Day Tanzania Safari with a Night Game Drive?▾
The source itinerary names Suricata Boma Lodge, Land of Nature Tented Camp, Farm of Dreams Lodge. Where a property is not named, the exact lodge or camp should be confirmed with the safari team before booking.
What meals are included on 6-Day Tanzania Safari with a Night Game Drive?▾
Meal arrangements are not specified for every day in the source itinerary. Confirm breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks with the safari team before booking.
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