Explore the best of Tanzania on this 13-Day Tanzania Northern & Southern Safari, combining the famous northern safari circuit with the wild landscapes of southern Tanzania. Visit Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Ruaha, and Mikumi National Parks for a diverse wildlife experience away from the usual safari routes.
Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport and meet your African Blackwood Safari representative. Transfer to your accommodation in Arusha, where you can relax and prepare for your Tanzania safari.
Depending on your arrival time, you may have an opportunity to explore Arusha or simply enjoy a quiet evening before beginning your safari adventure.
After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park for your first game drive. The park is famous for its impressive elephant herds, ancient baobab trees, seasonal wetlands, and diverse wildlife.
Explore the park’s open grasslands and woodland areas while searching for elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffaloes, antelopes, and predators.
After an exciting day of wildlife viewing, continue to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and descend into the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater for an unforgettable game drive.
The crater offers one of Africa’s most concentrated wildlife experiences, with opportunities to see lions, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, hippos, and potentially the endangered black rhino.
After exploring the crater floor, ascend from the crater and continue to Karatu for dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, continue toward the legendary Serengeti National Park. The journey takes you through the beautiful Ngorongoro Highlands before opening onto the vast plains of the Serengeti.
Enter the park and enjoy an afternoon game drive while searching for wildlife. The Serengeti is renowned for its large populations of lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, and other African wildlife.
Continue to your lodge or tented camp for dinner and an overnight stay.
Spend the entire day exploring the Serengeti with extensive morning and afternoon game drives.
Search for lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, and numerous antelope species. Depending on the season and the location of the herds, you may also witness part of the Great Migration.
Your professional safari guide will select the best wildlife-viewing areas based on seasonal movements and current conditions.
Dinner and overnight at your Serengeti accommodation.
Enjoy an early morning game drive before beginning your journey back toward Arusha.
Travel through the changing landscapes of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Highlands before arriving in Arusha later in the day. Relax at your accommodation and prepare for the southern Tanzania section of your safari.
Dinner and overnight in Arusha.
After breakfast, transfer to Arusha Airport for your domestic flight to Mikumi.
Depending on the flight schedule and availability, the journey can be arranged as either a private charter flight directly to Mikumi Airstrip or a scheduled domestic connection through Dar es Salaam. This arrangement eliminates the long overland journey between Arusha and Mikumi. Charter operations and southern-circuit connections are commonly used for access to Mikumi, while flight availability should be confirmed according to the safari dates.
Upon arrival at Mikumi Airstrip, you will be met by your safari driver-guide and transferred to your lodge or camp.
If your flight arrives early enough, enjoy an afternoon game drive through Mikumi National Park. Explore the open plains while searching for elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, lions, hippos, and numerous bird species.
Dinner and overnight in Mikumi.
Spend a full day exploring Mikumi National Park.
The park’s open Mkata Floodplain provides excellent opportunities for wildlife viewing, while the surrounding woodlands and hills create a varied and scenic safari landscape.
During your game drives, look for large herds of buffaloes and elephants, giraffes feeding among the trees, zebras and wildebeest on the plains, and predators such as lions.
Return to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, depart from Mikumi and continue toward Ruaha National Park.
The journey takes you deeper into southern Tanzania, where the landscape becomes increasingly wild and remote. Enjoy the changing scenery and local landscapes along the way.
Arrive in the Ruaha area, settle into your accommodation, and enjoy the remainder of the day at leisure.
Spend the day exploring Ruaha National Park, one of Tanzania’s most spectacular and remote wilderness areas.
Ruaha is known for its dramatic landscapes, ancient baobab trees, large elephant populations, and excellent predator sightings. The Great Ruaha River and other seasonal water sources attract large concentrations of wildlife.
Search for elephants, lions, leopards, African wild dogs, giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, and a wide variety of antelope species.
Dinner and overnight at your lodge or camp.
Enjoy another full day exploring different areas of Ruaha National Park.
Your guide will select the best locations based on wildlife movements and conditions. Ruaha’s vast wilderness, rocky hills, baobab-covered landscapes, and river valleys provide outstanding opportunities for wildlife viewing and photography.
Return to your accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, leave Ruaha National Park and travel toward Iringa, a historic highland town in southern Tanzania.
Enjoy views of the changing landscapes and local communities along the way. Depending on your arrival time, you may explore the surrounding area or relax at your accommodation after several days in the wilderness.
Dinner and overnight in Iringa.
After breakfast, transfer to Iringa Airport for your domestic flight to Dar es Salaam, where you can connect with your international departure flight.
Alternatively, depending on your onward travel arrangements, additional domestic or road transfer options can be arranged.
Your 13-Day Tanzania Northern & Southern Safari concludes after an exceptional journey through Tanzania’s most celebrated northern parks and the remote wilderness of the southern circuit.
African Blackwood Safari can arrange a seamless combination of Tanzania’s northern and southern safari circuits, including air transfers between destinations to reduce long driving distances. Flight schedules, aircraft availability, and routing should be finalized according to the travel dates, number of travelers, and preferred level of comfort.
For this itinerary, the Arusha–Mikumi flight should be included as a confirmed charter or scheduled connection at the time of booking, rather than presenting it as a guaranteed daily nonstop scheduled service.
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