6 Days Tanzania Wilderness Adventure

6 Days Tanzania Wilderness Adventure

Itinerary overview

Six sun-soaked days taking you through northern Tanzania’s greatest stages as you explore Tarangire’s baobab valleys, the endless Serengeti plains, Ngorongoro’s lost-world crater, and Lake Manyara’s lush groundwater forest.

Expect early starts, red-dust roads, and wildlife moments that feel too vivid for memory cards and above all – unforgettable and authentic African experience.

Summary itinerary

• Day 1 Arusha ▸ Tarangire National Park
• Day 2 Tarangire ▸ Serengeti National Park
• Day 3 Serengeti National Park
• Day 4 Serengeti ▸ Ngorongoro Crater (rim)
• Day 5 Ngorongoro Crater ▸ Lake Manyara National Park
• Day 6 Lake Manyara ▸ Arusha & departure

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1 – Tarangire: meeting the giants

After your arrival in Tanzania, the sunrise finds you bumping past roadside banana stalls, the air sweet with charcoal smoke.

After a few hours of driving, you soon reach Tarangire as you start noticing the baobabs looming like ancient thunderclouds and elephant herds march single-file toward the Tarangire River.

Watch Giraffes nibbling in the acacia tops, zebras shuffling in dusty stripes, and your guide pops the roof to let the savanna breeze tangle your hair.

Sunset paints the valley copper, silhouettes of tuskers framed against a molten sky. This is your first day in the Tarangire.

Overnight options

• Camping: Tarangire Public Campsite
• Budget: Sangaiwe Tented Camp
• Standard: Tarangire Simba Lodge
• Luxury: Lemala Mpingo Ridge

Day 2 – Tarangire to the Serengeti: first taste of the endless plains

Enjoy your morning coffee or steaming tea and depart for Serengeti as you drive climbing through the Rift escarpment, rooftops of Karatu and finally entering the Serengeti through the Naabi Hill Gate.

Immediately, you see the grassland suddenly becomes ocean—wildebeest herds ripple to every horizon, their low brays a living soundtrack. Cheetahs perch on termite mounds, lilac-breasted rollers flash neon wings, and a storm cloud bruises the western sky in dramatic swirls. Lanterns glow at camp while hyenas whoop just out of sight.

Overnight options

• Camping: Seronera Public Campsite
• Budget: Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp
• Standard: Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
• Luxury: Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti

Day 3 – Serengeti: predator patrol

Wake to francolins shouting at dawn. Lions clean breakfast faces beside your track; a leopard drapes over an acacia branch, tail twitching like a lazy metronome.

Mid-day siesta in camp, then you chase late-afternoon light toward the kopjes—golden bodies melt into granite while cubs practice stealth on utterly unimpressed rock hyraxes.

Stars arrive bright and close, the Milky Way a chalk smear above your tent.

Overnight options

• Camping: Seronera Public Campsite
• Budget: Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp
• Standard: Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
• Luxury: Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti

Day 4 – Descend into Eden: Ngorongoro Crater

After a great breakfast, depart Serengeti and by dawn dash exit theendless plains plains giving you one last wildebeest stampede before the track climbs green highlands.

Upon arrival in Ngorongoro, at the rim a cool mist hugs moss-draped trees; then you drop 600 m to the crater floor, where lions sprawl belly-up, buffalo steam in the chill, and a lone black rhino sketches a prehistoric silhouette.

After the encounter, have a late afternoon ascent taking you to rim lodgings with a fire crackling and clouds spilling over the edge like dry ice.

Overnight options

• Camping: Simba A Rim Campsite
• Budget: Africa Safari camp Lodge
• Standard: Africa Safari Karatu
• Luxury: Africa Safari Karatu (Bungalow)

Day 5 – Lake Manyara: forest of surprises

Enjoy your second last day here as you meet the beautiful blue monkeys and the squeal of bush pigs, the famous tree-climbing lions and the giant Elephants as they appear among giant fig trunks, hot-pink flamingos haze the alkaline lake, and if fortune smiles, you’ll spot Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions lounging on broad acacia limbs.

In the evening, observer the light filters green-gold through tangled branches as pelicans glide home across mirrored water.

Overnight options

• Camping: Manyara Wildlife Public Campsite
• Budget: Twiga Lodge & Campsite
• Standard: Manyara Wildlife Safari Camp
• Luxury: Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge

Day 6 – Back to Arusha: crater coffee & craft markets

After a final forest drive you hit the Great Rift highway, pausing at a roadside craft market where ebony carving and bright kitenge fabrics vie for suitcase space.

Arusha appears in a shimmer of afternoon heat; airport check-in is routine, but your mind drifts back to elephant silhouettes and the hush of grass under a Serengeti sunrise.