3 Day Private Luxury Fly in and Fly out Safari
Tour Overview:
Get ready to experience the Serengeti ecosystem and its captivating wildlife on this concise safari. By flying into the Serengeti, you’ll skip the lengthy drives and seamlessly transition to exploring the Ngorongoro Crater before concluding your journey with a flight back to Zanzibar. You will elevate your experience with the indulgence of a luxury short safari.
Itinerary Day By Day:
You’ll be picked up from your hotel and transported to Zanzibar Airport. There, you’ll board a compact aircraft bound for Serengeti Airstrip. Upon arrival in Serengeti in the morning, your day will be filled with captivating game drives until the afternoon. After a satisfying lunch at the lodge, an evening game drive awaits, offering you the chance to relish a magical Serengeti sunset.
- Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
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- Luxury lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
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- Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Following an early breakfast, you’ll set off on an enriching game drive, exploring diverse areas of the park. The lodge will welcome you back for a satisfying lunch. Post-lunch, you will check out and commence your return journey to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
By evening, you’ll reach the Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, perfectly positioned atop the Ngorongoro Crater, offering captivating views. Your evening will include check-in, dinner, and an early night’s rest, preparing you for an early morning descent into the crater.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
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- Luxury lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
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- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Following an early breakfast, you’ll descend into the Ngorongoro Crater in pursuit of the elusive black rhino, a challenge to spot. Inside this stunning crater, you’ll encounter Africa’s rendition of “Noah’s Ark,” a realm teeming with a diverse array of wildlife, including elephants, hyenas, majestic big cats, rhinos, and more.
Come afternoon, you will have a lunch break by the Hippo Lake before embarking on another game drive during your ascent back up to the crater rim. After returning to the lodge, you’ll complete the check-out process and then journey to Arusha Airport for your afternoon flight back to Zanzibar.
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
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- Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Rates Per Person:
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Start dates
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Solo1 room |
2 people1 room |
3+ people |
| Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 |
n/a* |
$1,938 |
n/a* |
| Jan 1, 2026 – Dec 31, 2026 |
n/a* |
$1,938 |
n/a* |
*n/a = not available. This tour is unavailable for solo travelers or groups larger than 2 people.
INCLUDES:
- All accommodations per itinerary
- All meals per itinerary
- All tours and entrance fees per itinerary (unless listed as excluded)
- All transportation and transfers per itinerary
- Professional English-speaking naturalist driver/guide
- Transportation in a custom safari 4×4 with a viewing roof and guaranteed window seating
- Safari vehicles have an inverter for charging batteries, a communications radio, an electric cooler, and filtered water
- National Park gate fees, Park Commission, and Government taxes (based on current rates)
EXCLUDES:
- International and domestic flights
- Meals not listed
- Tips for guides, drivers, hotel staff
- Optional tours
- Personal expenses (visas, airport taxes, Internet, etc.)
- Optional tours (Olduvai Gorge and Maasai Village visit)
- Holiday supplement December 20 – January 5
- Discount for kids under 15 years old
Details
We will pick you up from your hotel at 7:30 am and after being familiar with the guide, chef & other clients we will drive to Tarangire national park (2hr drive) famous for its diverse landscape. The park is particularly known for the abundance of Ancient Baobab trees & having the largest concentration of elephants in the whole country and provides unique chances to observe the interaction between elephant families. We will do a game drive through the park depending on where they are reported sightings of animals (mostly predators, lions, cheetah & leopards as they are harder to spot) as herbivores (giraffes, wildebeest, zebras etc are plenty to see through the park.
Later on, will go to the Tarangire river picnic site and enjoy the beautiful view of the river & animals while having lunch, small monkeys & baboons will try to scare you off your lunch but there is nothing to worry about
After lunch will proceed with the game drive and exit the park around 4:30 pm where will head to our accommodation (Marera view lodge or the same standard) for dinner & sleep
Meals included:
After breakfast, you will drive from mto wa mbu to Serengeti which takes 6 hours (including all stops) as it transits through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority.
Stop At: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority., Arusha Region
Will briefly stop at the gate and viewpoint to look at the breath-taking view of the crater
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Arusha Region
Visit Maasai village, its optional to visit and explore the culture of the great Maasai tribe known for chasing lions of their kill and hunting lions to be considered a warrior, drinking raw animal blood though these traditions are thing of the past with exception of drinking blood you can surely learn something
Duration: 20-45 minutes
This is an optional visit not included in the price
And many clients opt against it
Entrance 10 -20 USD
Serengeti National Park
Arrive in the late afternoon and do a game drive in Seronera (centre of Serengeti) to late evening and experience the sunset in Serengeti while having a close view of wild animals lucky enough seeing a predator hunting or on a kill, later heading to Seronera campsite
note: can still view animals from camp mostly hyenas there is close protection from active rangers so no worries
Meals included:
Accommodation included: overnight at Serengeti heritage tented lodge/serengeti safari lodge
Seronera, Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast will go on an early game drive seeing a lot of animals till afternoon where will head to camp for lunch and packing doing a game drive while we exit the Serengeti heading to Lodge (2hrs drive) near the rim of Ngorongoro crater
Meals included:
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Anga'ata tented lodge/rhino lodge
Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Arusha Region
After an early breakfast will descend the crater (6:15 am) on a journey to find the black rhino, rhinos are the hardest to spot in the beautiful crater as most animals will be easier to spot from this park due to it being a floor crater
After lunch will do a game drive and ascend the crater to camp and pack for the trip to Farm of dream/marera view lodge near lake Manyara national park
Meals included
After breakfast will go to the Lake Manyara national park famous for a large number of flamingoes in the lake & it’s tree-climbing lions (though they are rarely seen)
We will do a game drive viewing plenty of birds, lucky enough you can spot these famous tree-climbing lions, visit the hippo pool for a close look at hippos and the hot spring all this while doing a game drive and viewing plenty of animals (buffaloes, wildebeest, warthogs, vultures, eagles, monkeys etc.)
Meals included:
Drive to the airport depending on your flight time or overnight at Arusha
