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10 Day Tanzania Lodge Safari

From USD 4210 per person

10-Day Tanzania Lodge Safari – Luxury Wildlife Adventure

Experience the ultimate wildlife adventure with our 10-day Tanzania lodge safari, designed for travelers seeking luxury, comfort, and unforgettable encounters with East Africa’s iconic wildlife. This safari takes you through the remote and wild northern regions of Tanzania, from the Great Serengeti to the majestic Ngorongoro Crater, combining luxurious lodges, exceptional game drives, and cultural encounters with the Maasai.

How to Reach Your 10-Day Tanzania Lodge Safari

This 10-day Tanzania lodge safari starts and ends in Arusha or Moshi. Fly into Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), where your private driver-guide will meet you for a seamless transfer to your first lodge. Africa Joy Tours can assist in selecting your international flights, although bookings are done independently. Optional transfers to and from the airport or extra accommodation before or after the safari can be arranged.

Day 1: Arrival in Arusha – Start Your Tanzania Lodge Safari

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, your driver-guide will assist you through customs and transfer you to Green Mountain Hotel in Arusha. Relax and enjoy your first night in Tanzania before the safari adventure begins.

Dinner & Overnight: Green Mountain Hotel
(Bed, dinner, lunch, and breakfast included)

Day 2: Lake Manyara National Park Game Drive – Tanzania Safari Lodge Experience

Your 10-day Tanzania lodge safari begins in earnest as you drive from Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park. Enjoy a picnic lunch en route. Lake Manyara is famous for its tree-climbing lions, elephants, giraffes, and baboons. Explore the park’s diverse landscapes, including forests, woodlands, and alkaline lake shores.

Dinner & Overnight: Lake Manyara Lodge
(Bed, dinner, lunch, and breakfast included)

Day 3: Lake Natron – Maasai Villages and Flamingo Breeding Sites

Travel to Lake Natron, a key stop on your Tanzania lodge safari. Lake Natron is a breeding ground for flamingos, attracting birds from Kenya’s Lake Nakuru and Baringo. Enjoy a walk along the lake, boat rides depending on water levels, and a visit upstream to the Ngaresero Waterfalls. Expect to see monkeys and baboons along the trails.

Dinner & Overnight: Lake Natron Tented Camp
(Bed, dinner, lunch, and breakfast included)

Day 4–5: Serengeti National Park – Luxury Game Drives on Your Tanzania Lodge Safari

Continue your safari north into the Serengeti National Park. Day 4 includes a scenic drive through the Loliondo Game Controlled Area, a crucial migration route. Experience abundant wildlife including zebras, buffaloes, impalas, cheetahs, leopards, and the reintroduced black rhinos.

Day 5 is a full-day game drive to witness the Great Migration, with over 1.5 million wildebeest and thousands of zebras and gazelles moving across the plains. Enjoy sunrise drives for nocturnal wildlife and afternoon exploration with your private guide.

Dinner & Overnight (Day 4): Serengeti Lobo Wildlife Lodge
Dinner & Overnight (Day 5): Serengeti Robins Tented Camp
(Bed, dinner, lunch, and breakfast included)

Day 6–7: Ngorongoro Crater – Big Five Safari Lodge Experience

Drive from the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Optional stops include Olduvai Gorge or Maasai boma visits. Spend Day 7 on a full-day game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater, spotting lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, rhinos, and hundreds of bird species. The crater’s unique ecosystem makes it a must-see destination on your 10-day Tanzania lodge safari.

Dinner & Overnight (Day 6): Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
Dinner & Overnight (Day 7): Eileen’s Tree Inn
(Bed, dinner, lunch, and breakfast included)

Day 8–9: Tarangire National Park – Wildlife and Baobab Trees

Travel to Tarangire National Park, known for large herds of elephants and iconic baobab trees. Spend two full days enjoying game drives, spotting giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopards, cheetahs, and rare species like the oryx. The Tarangire River supports year-round wildlife activity, offering prime predator–prey encounters.

Dinner & Overnight (Day 8): Burunge Tented Camp
Dinner & Overnight (Day 9): Green Mountain Hotel (Arusha)
(Bed, dinner, lunch, and breakfast included)

Day 10: Departure – End of Your Tanzania Lodge Safari

After breakfast, enjoy a short exploration of Arusha town before your transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport for your departure. Your 10-day Tanzania lodge safari concludes, leaving you with memories of Africa’s iconic wildlife, stunning landscapes, and luxurious accommodations.

What’s Included in Your 10-Day Tanzania Lodge Safari

  • Private airport transfers
  • 4WD Land Cruiser or Land Rover with photographic roof hatch
  • Professional English-speaking safari guide
  • Wildlife reserve entry fees
  • Accommodation as per itinerary
  • Meals as specified

Excluded

  • International flights
  • Personal expenses and souvenirs
  • Gratuities for guides and staff
  • Travel insurance, visas, and passports
  • Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
10 Day Tanzania Lodge Safari

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By booking with Africa Joy Tours, a trusted local tour operator based in Arusha, Tanzania, you agree to our Terms of Service. We offer personalized safaris across Tanzania and Other African Destinations, featuring expert guides, comfortable accommodations, reliable transportation, and custom itineraries designed to fit your travel preferences. Clients are responsible for ensuring they possess all required travel documents, are medically fit for travel, and respect local laws and customs throughout their journey. Africa Joy Tours is not liable for circumstances beyond our control. For more information, please contact us

Overview

10 Days Tanzania Luxury lodges safari, the truly remote and wild places of northern Tanzania on this comprehensively private Serengeti safari. This itinerary will allow you to experience the good wildebeest migration within the impressive Serengeti view wildlife up attract the magnificent Ngorongoro crater and walk with masai within the Ngorongoro highland. This safari itinerary combines luxury tented lodges with permanent wilderness luxury lodges. All our safaris use well-maintained and extended Toyota Land Cruisers, with roof hatches for unobstructed and up-close game-viewing and personal Tanzanian safari guide.

How to get there

  • This tour starts and ends in Arusha/Moshi
  • Africa Joy Tours as an operator can help select your international flights, but you’ll have to book them yourself
  • Fly to/from Kilimanjaro Airport near Arusha/Moshi
  • A transfer from and back to the airport can be arranged for an extra cost
  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost

Itinerary in Details

Day 1: Arrive In Tanzania.

Arrive at Kilimanjaro International airport, meet and greet by our driver-guide, and get assisted through customs and immigration formalities. Thereafter, drive to Arusha at Green Mountain Hotel.

Dinner and overnight at Green Mountain Hotel: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 2: Game Drive To Lake Manyara National Park.

Our Tanzanian safari starts at 8:30 as we drive from Arusha to Lake Manyara with a picnic lunch on the way. We enter the majestic Lake Manyara Game Park and start the primary of the six Tanzanian safaris. This small park is sandwiched between the valley escarpment and therefore the large sodiforous Lake Manyara. it’s a reasonably location, with an honest range of game, including giraffe, elephant, baboon and therefore the rarely seen tree-climbing lion.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 3: Lake Manyara To Lake Natron.

After your breakfast at the Lodge, you will be on your way to Lake Natron, which is apparently the breeding site for the lesser and greater flamingos who migrate here every year from as far as Lake Nakuru, and Baringo in Kenya. There after you will be on your way again to Lake Natron, with views of more Maasai villages and wildlife; arriving in time for lunch at your lodge. After lunch at he lodge and a short rest you will go for a walk at the Lake and depending on water levels you can take a dip or go for a boat ride. You will have the chance also to walk upstream of the Ngaresero River up to the water falls. On your walk upstream you are likely to encounter monkeys and baboons along the way. In the afternoon you can go for a sundowner at the Lake Natron.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Natron Tented Camp: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 4: Lake Natron To Serengeti National Park.

After your breakfast, you’ll take a walk at the Lake again if you would like and thereafter leave for the Serengeti park. you’ll cross the Loliondo Game Controlled area where apparently the wildebeests herds cross on and around November and December once they are coming from Maasai Mara in Kenya. After the registration formalities at the Klein’s Gate you’ll choose game drive within the vast plains of the Serengeti park (on your thanks to the lodge) where you’ll get the opportunity to ascertain many animals and birdlife alike. Among animals which will be seen here includes the zebras, buffaloes, baboons, topis, impalas, cheetahs, leopards, and therefore the recently introduced Rhinos, which were the sole member of the large Five that was missing during this park.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Lobo Wildlife Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day5: Another Full Day Game Drive In Serengeti National Park.

Safari in Tanzania isn’t complete without a visit to Serengeti park. At day break you’re bent the Serengeti plains for a sunrise game drive that normally offers the sole chance of sighting the nocturnal species retiring and also the diurnal species awakening to a replacement day before you return for breakfast. After breakfast you’ll leave for a full day of game drives exploring the Serengeti. counting on the season and time of the year, this is often where you’ll witness the magnificent phenomenon of the ‘Great migration’ where quite one and a half million wildebeests amid many thousands of gazelles and zebras brave the crocodile infested rivers and cross the border into the Maasai Mara in Kenya in search of green pastures and water. The resident animals and birds that stay all year round in Serengeti makes sure that the park is must visit whenever one travels to Tanzania.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Robins Tented Camp : Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 6: Serengeti To Ngorongoro Crater.

After breakfast, together with your packed lunch drive and game en route to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. it’s your option whether you travel by Oldupai Gorge a historical site whereby the first man lived and may also travel by the Maasai boma if you’re curious about the important African life tradition and culture, after your lunch en route adds to the crater rim for your overnight.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 7: Another Full Day Game Drive In Ngorongoro Crater.

Today we’ll start early morning at 07:00 for the sport drive (with a picnic lunch) inside the Ngorongoro Crater. As only a few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 ft. high walls, you’ll expect to ascertain lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, many birds and other species. Your Driver/Guide are going to be in touch with other safari drivers and can amaze you together with his skill at locating the hidden animals. After great all exploration in crater the drive will repel to your lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s Trees Inn Lodge: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater To Tarangire National Park.

After breakfast, you’ll inspect the lodge, then start a safari to Tarangire park which is that the third largest park in Tanzania. After registration formalities you’ll choose a full day of game drives during this fabulous park highlighted with the large baobab trees and abnormally large herds of elephants. At Tarangire you’ll have the prospect to sight the rare Oryx, and other animals’ likes of zebras, giraffes, warthogs, leopards, cheetahs etc. The Tarangire River which is that the life blood of this park ensures a year round supply of water and therefore the river beds takes center stage when animals gather to urge this rare commodity resulting into magnificent wildlife actions when the predators attempt to grab a meal taking advantage of the instant. Later within the evening you’ll drive.

Dinner and overnight at Burunge Tented Camp: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 9: Another Full Day Game Drive In Tarangire National Park.

After breakfast, you’ll inspect the lodge then start a safari to Tarangire park, which is that the third largest park in Tanzania. After registration formalities you’ll choose a full day of game drives during this fabulous park highlighted with the large baobab trees and abnormally large herds of elephants. At Tarangire you’ll have the prospect to sight the rare Oryx, and other animals’ likes of zebras, giraffes, warthogs, leopards, cheetahs etc. The Tarangire River which is that the life blood of this park ensures a year round supply of water and therefore the river beds takes center stage when animals gather to urge this rare commodity resulting into magnificent wildlife actions when the predators attempt to grab a meal taking advantage of the instant. In the afternoon we drive back to Arusha.

Dinner and overnight at Green Mountain Hotel: Bed, Dinner, Lunch, and Breakfast included.

Day 10: Departure Day.

After breakfast, you will have time to explore Arusha town before we take you back to the airport for your flight back home.

Included

  • All airport transfers in private car
  • Transfer from Arusha to Nairobi
  • Transport and wildlife drives in modified 4WD Land Cruiser or Land Rover with photographic roof hatch, Services of a professional, English speaking safari guide
  • Meals and accommodation as per itinerary
  • All wildlife reserve entry fees
  • All accommodation as notes in tour program

Excluded

  • International airfare & flights
  • All items of a personal nature
  • Gratuities for safari guide and camp staff
  • Travel insurance Visa and Passport fees
  • Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and beverages in lodges
10 Day Tanzania Lodge Safari

Ready for your next great African adventure?

From thrilling safaris to relaxing beach escapes, your perfect trip is just a click away. Contact our Travel Specialist

Name
Please provide some details about your booking: Country from, how many people are traveling, and when do you plan to arrive?
Terms of Service
By booking with Africa Joy Tours, a trusted local tour operator based in Arusha, Tanzania, you agree to our Terms of Service. We offer personalized safaris across Tanzania and Other African Destinations, featuring expert guides, comfortable accommodations, reliable transportation, and custom itineraries designed to fit your travel preferences. Clients are responsible for ensuring they possess all required travel documents, are medically fit for travel, and respect local laws and customs throughout their journey. Africa Joy Tours is not liable for circumstances beyond our control. For more information, please contact us

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