This trip starts on foot. You hike through Kilimanjaro’s rainforest to Mandara Hut and visit the Materuni waterfall and Chagga villages on the mountain’s slopes.
The rest is a full northern Tanzania safari: Tarangire, Lake Manyara, the Ngorongoro Crater, two days in the Serengeti and a final night at Lake Natron.
Duration: 10 days / 9 nights
Route: Kilimanjaro, Materuni, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Lake Natron
Price: on request, quoted for your dates, group size and lodges.
Your guide meets you and drives you to Moshi or Marangu for a briefing and a quiet evening.
Stay: Weru Weru Guest House
Meals: Breakfast
Start at the national park gate (1,860 m) and walk 3–4 hours through rainforest, looking for colobus and vervet monkeys. Picnic lunch on the trail, with an optional side trip to Maundi Crater for wide views. Walk down in 2–3 hours.
Stay: Weru Weru Guest House
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
An easy walk to the 80-metre Materuni waterfall, with a chance to swim. Lunch is a traditional Chagga meal, with banana beer if you like. Drive to Karatu in the afternoon.
Stay: Octagon Lodge, Karatu
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
A full day among baobabs and big elephant herds, with lions, leopards, giraffes and buffaloes. Picnic lunch in the park.
Stay: Octagon Lodge, Karatu
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
A guided walk through Mto wa Mbu, a farming town of banana groves and rice fields, with a local lunch. Afternoon game drive in Lake Manyara for tree-climbing lions, hippos and flamingos.
Stay: Octagon Lodge, Karatu
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
A game drive on the crater floor, where black rhinos are sometimes seen alongside lions, elephants and hyenas. Picnic lunch, then drive on to the Serengeti with game viewing on the way.
Stay: Serengeti camp or lodge
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Two full days on the plains with picnic lunches. Lions, cheetahs, leopards and elephants are common, and the migration herds pass through in season.
Stay: Serengeti camp or lodge
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Drive to Lake Natron for lunch. In the afternoon, visit a Maasai village and walk to a nearby waterfall where you can swim.
Stay: Lake Natron Moivaro Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
An early walk on the lake shore to see flamingos, then breakfast and the drive back to Arusha or the airport.
Meals: Breakfast
Lodges and timings are a guide. We confirm availability and can swap camps or adjust the pace to suit you.
Treat this itinerary as a starting point. Tell us your dates, interests and budget and we will adjust the route, lodges and pace, then send a free quote with no obligation.
