7 days Mikumi, Ruaha & Udzungwa
Move from open savannah and predator-rich plains into the rainforest trails and waterfalls of the Udzungwa Mountains — three landscapes, one road.
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10 days Ten Days with the Migration
Ten days shaped around where the herds actually are, ending in the northern Serengeti for the river crossings, with a balloon flight over the plains.
Migration & Wildlife
9 days Kilimanjaro by the Lemosho Route
The long way up the western side, with two nights on the Shira Plateau before the Barranco Wall. The extra days are what get people to the top.
Climbing
4 days Mahale in Four Days
The shortest way to Mahale: two tracking days on a mountain that falls straight into the lake, for groups of two to seven and nobody else.
Chimpanzees & Hiking
8 days Northern Tanzania in Eight Days
Every park in the north in one run, finishing at Lake Natron rather than turning back at the crater — which is what makes it eight days and not six.
Wildlife & Hiking
3 days Ruaha by Air — Three Days
Fly in, and three days becomes three days in the park rather than two on the road. Day and night drives, and a walking safari before the flight home.
Wildlife
1 day Ngorongoro Crater in a Day
Down onto the crater floor by nine and out by three. A long day in the vehicle, but the only way to see Ngorongoro without an overnight.
Wildlife
17 days Southern Tanzania & Mafia Island
Four southern parks over twelve days, then the boat to Mafia — a marine park where whale sharks feed off the north coast in season.
Wildlife & Hiking
3 days Saadani in Three Days
The middle Saadani option: a game drive, a morning on the Wami, a village visit, and a walk — with a whole afternoon spare for the beach.
Wildlife & Coast
7 days Ngorongoro Highlands Trek — Seven Days
The walking, without the game drives. Straight from the crater rim into the highlands, out to Empakai, and down to Natron with a day for Ol Doinyo Lengai.
Hiking & Culture
2 days Mikumi by Train — a Weekend
Out on Saturday’s train, back on Sunday’s. Two days in the Mkata floodplain without taking leave, and no eight-hour drive at either end.
Wildlife
22 days Machame, Classic Northern Safari & Zanzibar
Kilimanjaro by Machame, then the classic northern loop with two days at Lake Eyasi, then a week on Zanzibar. Twenty-two days, in that order.
Climbing & Wildlife
1 day Arusha National Park in a Day
The one northern park where you can drive, walk and paddle in the same day, thirty minutes from town under the wall of Mount Meru.
Wildlife & Hiking
1 day Choma Waterfall in a Day
A three-hour walk up into the Uluguru mountains to a waterfall you can swim in, with lunch cooked by a family in the village below.
Hiking & Culture
1 day Gombe in a Day, from Kigoma
Two hours up the lake by speedboat, a morning tracking chimpanzees, and back to Kigoma by evening — the west without an overnight.
Chimpanzees
1 day Lake Manyara in a Day
A narrow park between the escarpment and the lake, dense with groundwater forest and birds. Small enough to do properly in one day.
Wildlife
1 day Mikumi in a Day, by Train
The six o’clock train to Morogoro, a full day of game drives on the Mkata floodplain, and the evening train home. No overnight, no long drive.
Wildlife
1 day Mkomazi in a Day
Dry nyika bush under the Pare mountains, with Kilimanjaro behind you. Almost nobody comes here, which is most of the appeal.
Wildlife
1 day Nyerere in a Day
Four hours out, a full day of game viewing, four hours back. Long in the vehicle, but it puts you inside Tanzania’s largest park without an overnight.
Wildlife
1 day Pugu & Kazimzumbwi Forest
Coastal forest half an hour from central Dar — walking trails, birds, and the caves in the hills, in a reserve most residents have never visited.
Hiking & Culture
1 day Ruaha in a Day, from Iringa
From Iringa the park gate is a couple of hours, not a day — which makes Ruaha a day trip for anyone already in the southern highlands.
Wildlife
1 day Saadani from Zanzibar, in a Day
Across the channel by boat at six, a game drive and a river safari, and back on the island by evening. The mainland in a single day.
Wildlife & Coast
1 day Saadani in a Day
A fifteen-hour day: out at five, a game drive, a boat up the Wami, and back to Dar by eight. The only national park on this coast, in one push.
Wildlife
1 day Tarangire in a Day
Two hours from Arusha to the biggest elephant population in northern Tanzania, standing among baobabs along a river that never quite dries.
Wildlife
2 days Materuni Village & the Waterfall
A Chagga village on Kilimanjaro’s southern slopes, a waterfall at the head of the valley, and coffee grown, roasted and ground in front of you.
Culture & Hiking
2 days Mikumi & the Chizua Waterfall
A game drive on the floodplain and a walk into the Uvidunda hills behind it, where the Chizua falls come down through the forest.
Wildlife & Hiking
2 days Nyerere from Zanzibar — Fly-In
Off the island by light aircraft, a game drive and a boat safari on the Rufiji, one night in the bush, and back to the beach by the second afternoon.
Wildlife
2 days Nyerere in Two Days — Budget
One night in the largest park in Tanzania: a game drive on arrival, a boat on the Rufiji at first light, and back to Dar by evening.
Wildlife
2 days Ruaha in Two Days, from Iringa
The day trip with a night attached, which buys the two hours at either end of the day when the animals are actually moving.
Wildlife
2 days Saadani from Zanzibar — Two Days
The day trip with a night in the park, which adds the walking safari and the early morning drive the single day has no room for.
Wildlife & Coast
2 days Saadani in Two Days
One night on a coast that is also a game park. A drive on arrival, a boat up the Wami the next morning, and back to Dar by evening.
Wildlife & Coast
2 days The Crater & Lake Manyara
Two parks, one night, no wasted driving. The crater on the first day while the light is good, Manyara on the way back to Arusha.
Wildlife & Culture
2 days Two Days at Lake Natron
A caustic soda lake at the bottom of the Rift, red from the algae in it, and the only regular breeding site for East Africa’s lesser flamingos.
Wildlife & Culture
2 days Two Days in Mkomazi
The day trip with a night added, which turns the drive into a proper visit and gives you the early morning when the animals are moving.
Wildlife
3 days Magoroto Forest
A crater lake in the East Usambara forest, on an old German plantation that gave up palm oil for conservation. Nothing to do but walk and swim.
Hiking & Culture
3 days Mikumi & Udzungwa
Savannah on the first day, rainforest on the second: the two parks sit an hour apart and could not be less alike.
Wildlife & Hiking
3 days Mikumi at the Top End
The train out, a private vehicle at the other end, and a lodge worth staying in. Three days in Mikumi with nothing shared and nothing rushed.
Wildlife
3 days Mikumi from Zanzibar
Three days off the island and into a national park, with the crossing to the mainland handled at both ends. A full day of game driving in the middle.
Wildlife
3 days Mount Meru in Three Days
Meru compressed into a long weekend — up to the Saddle on day two, summit and all the way down on day three. Hard on the legs, short on the calendar.
Climbing
3 days Mwanihana Peak in Three Days
Straight up Udzungwa’s main summit and back down — one camp, one long climbing day, and the whole Eastern Arc laid out at the top.
Hiking
3 days Nyerere in Three Days — Budget
The cheapest way to get onto the Rufiji. Boat on the first afternoon, a full day driving, and a walking safari before the road back to Dar.
Wildlife
3 days Serengeti & Crater — Three Days
Two parks in three days with a full day inside the crater at the end. The shortest trip that still gets you into the Serengeti.
Wildlife
3 days Uluguru Trek & Mikumi by Train
The electric train out of Dar, a mountain above Morogoro on foot, a waterfall to swim in, and a day in Mikumi. Three days, no long drive.
Hiking & Wildlife
3 days Wami-Mbiki — Game & Fishing
A community-managed reserve on the corridor between Mikumi and Nyerere, where the day runs to game drives, sport fishing and a night drive.
Wildlife
4 days Gombe by Air — Four Days
Two tracking days in the forest where Jane Goodall started work in 1960, reached by boat along the lake shore from Kigoma.
Chimpanzees & Hiking
4 days Manyara, Serengeti & Crater — Camping
Manyara, one night in the Serengeti and the crater, camping the whole way. Four days is tight, and it is the cheapest route to all three.
Wildlife
4 days Mount Meru in Four Days
The unhurried version: two nights at Miriakamba and Saddle Hut, summit on the third morning, walk out on the fourth. Better for altitude, better for the legs.
Climbing
4 days Nyerere for Two — Honeymoon
A riverfront lodge with a plunge pool, private drives, and the Rufiji at the end of the veranda. Four days built for two people and nobody else.
Honeymoon & Wildlife
4 days Nyerere in Four Days — Budget
Two full days of game drives instead of one, which in a park of 30,000 km² is the difference between a look and a visit.
Wildlife
4 days Saadani in Four Days
The longest of our Saadani routes, and the only one with a day that is genuinely free — game drive, river boat, walking safari, and time on the sand.
Wildlife & Coast
4 days Tarangire, Serengeti & Crater — Camping
The same four-day camping loop entered through Tarangire instead of Manyara — baobabs and elephant herds on the first day rather than forest.
Wildlife
5 days Magoroto Forest & Saadani
Forest first, coast second: a crater lake in the East Usambaras, then down through Pangani to the one national park on the Indian Ocean.
Hiking & Wildlife
5 days Mahale in Five Days, from Dar
The same two tracking days at Mahale and an early trek on the last morning, with the flights from Dar and every transfer arranged for you.
Chimpanzees & Hiking
5 days Materuni & the Pare Mountains
Five days walking in the South Pare mountains — Chome forest, the Shengena ridge and village hills that see almost no outside visitors.
Hiking & Culture
5 days Mikumi & Nyerere — Five Days
The two most accessible southern parks with a full day in each, and a walking safari on the transfer between them rather than a day in the car.
Wildlife
5 days Nyerere & the Kilwa Ruins
Two days on the Rufiji, then south down the coast to the island city that ran the gold trade — the only route we run that pairs the two.
Wildlife & Culture
5 days Serengeti & Crater, from Zanzibar
Five days off the island and into the northern parks, flying both ways — Tarangire, the Serengeti and the crater, with no day lost to the coast road.
Wildlife
5 days Udzungwa Primates & Waterfalls
Five days on foot in a park with no roads through it — the Sanje falls, the Mwanihana trail, and a peak at 2,150 m above the forest.
Hiking
6 days Kilimanjaro by the Marangu Route
The only route with huts rather than tents, and the shortest on the mountain. We build in the acclimatisation day, because without it the summit rate drops.
Climbing
6 days Manyara, Serengeti & the Crater
The three parks most people come north for, at a pace that leaves a full day in the Serengeti and a full day in the crater rather than half of each.
Wildlife & Culture
6 days Mikumi & Ruaha — Six Days, Budget
Two southern parks by road, staying in TANAPA bandas with a cook travelling along. Six days for close to the price of three anywhere else.
Wildlife & Culture
6 days Nyerere, Mikumi & Udzungwa
Three southern parks without the long haul west to Ruaha — river, floodplain and rainforest in six days, with a whole day for the Sanje falls.
Wildlife & Hiking
6 days Usambara, Mkomazi & Materuni
Cool forested mountains, a viewpoint over a 1,000 m drop, then down into the dry bush of Mkomazi and back up to a waterfall on Kilimanjaro.
Hiking & Culture
7 days Mahale Chimpanzees & Ruaha
Chimpanzees in the forest on Lake Tanganyika, then lions in the miombo at Ruaha. Two of Tanzania’s most remote parks in one week.
Chimpanzees & Wildlife
7 days Mount Meru & the Northern Parks
Climb Tanzania’s second mountain in three days, then spend four on safari. Meru is the acclimatisation Kilimanjaro climbers wish they had done.
Climbing & Wildlife
7 days Tarangire, Serengeti & Lake Eyasi
The northern parks with two days at Lake Eyasi on the end, where the Hadzabe and Datoga communities live — the part of the route people remember.
Wildlife & Culture
8 days Eight Days Camping in Northern Tanzania
Public campsites, a cook travelling with you, and three nights in the Serengeti. The cheapest way to spend real time in the northern parks.
Wildlife & Culture
8 days Kilimanjaro by the Machame Route
The most varied route on the mountain: rainforest, then heather and moorland, then high desert, with a climb-high sleep-low profile built in.
Climbing
8 days The Grand Journey through Southern Tanzania
All four southern parks in one road journey, west from the Rufiji to Ruaha and back through the forest. The complete route through Southern Tanzania.
Wildlife & Hiking
8 days The Serengeti by Balloon
Northern Tanzania at the top end, built around a dawn balloon flight over the Serengeti and a champagne breakfast on the plain where you land.
Wildlife
9 days Bush to Beach — Nine Days
The full southern arc — floodplain, miombo, rainforest — then out to Saadani where the game park runs down to the Indian Ocean.
Wildlife & Hiking
9 days Ngorongoro Highlands Trek — Nine Days
Three days of game drives, then five on foot across the volcanic highlands to Empakai and down the Rift wall to Lake Natron. Donkeys carry the loads.
Hiking & Wildlife
10 days Lake Victoria & the Serengeti
The Serengeti entered from the west, starting on Lake Victoria in Mwanza and crossing the whole park east to the crater — the opposite of the usual direction.
Wildlife & Culture
11 days Northern Safari & Zanzibar — Honeymoon
Six days through the northern parks, then five on the coast. Built for two, with the pace slowed at both ends and the flight between them arranged.
Honeymoon & Wildlife
13 days Honeymoon — Northern Tanzania & Zanzibar
Six days of safari and six on the island, with a rest day at the start — built for people who have just done a wedding and need the pace easy.
Honeymoon & Wildlife
14 days Ruaha, Nyerere & Zanzibar — Fly-In
Two southern parks and the island, connected by light aircraft. Four nights in each park, so the days are spent looking rather than moving.
Wildlife & Coast
14 days Southern Highlands, Ruaha & Zanzibar
Tanzania’s green corner: crater lakes and wildflower plateaus in the Mbeya highlands, tea country at Mufindi, then Ruaha and the ocean.
Hiking & Wildlife
15 days Northern Safari, Usambara & Zanzibar
The northern parks, then two days in the East Usambara forest at Magoroto, then the island — a route that puts a mountain forest between the bush and the beach.
Wildlife & Hiking
20 days Northern Tanzania & Southern Tanzania in Twenty Days
North to south by road, taking in the Kolo rock paintings on the way through — nine parks and a set of galleries painted thousands of years ago.
Wildlife & Hiking
20 days The Grand Safari — Southern Tanzania to Northern Tanzania
Southern Tanzania and Northern Tanzania in one overland journey through Dodoma — the only route we run that crosses the whole country by road.
Wildlife & Migration
21 days Gombe, Southern Tanzania & Mafia Island
Chimpanzees at Gombe, four southern parks, then six days on Mafia doing nothing at all. Three weeks that end slower than they start.
Chimpanzees & Wildlife
22 days Lemosho, Northern Migration & Zanzibar
Three weeks: Kilimanjaro by the Lemosho route, then the northern parks up to the Mara River, then the ocean. The mountain first, while your legs are fresh.
Climbing & Migration
22 days Southern Tanzania & Western Tanzania by Air
The remote half of Tanzania, flown: Ruaha, Katavi, Mahale, then Pemba. Three weeks in places that between them see a few thousand visitors a year.
Wildlife & Chimpanzees
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