From Beach to Bush: 4-Day Big Five Join Group Lodge Safari Escape

Zanzibar

Your hotel pickup happens early so you can make it to Zanzibar Airport for your flight to Arusha. Once you connect with your group, it's a 2-hour drive out to Tarangire National Park. You'll spend 6 hours on a game drive in a pop-up safari jeep looking for elephants, zebras, buffalo, giraffes and whatever else is around. Lunch comes at a picnic site, then you head to the lodge for dinner and settle in for the night.

Tarangire National Park

After an early breakfast at your lodge, you drive for about 4 hours to reach Serengeti National Park. A half-day game drive follows, lasting 3 to 4 hours through those endless plains where you'll see wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, and if you're lucky, leopards. You'll have lunch at a picnic site, and then continue on to your tented lodge where dinner and overnight stay are waiting.

Serengeti National Park

Start this one very early with a light breakfast before heading out on a game drive through Central Serengeti at 6 AM. By 10 AM you stop at the campsite for a hearty breakfast. After lunch at a picnic site, the action continues with another 6-hour game drive through Seronera Valley. Come evening, you drive to your lodge near Ngorongoro for dinner and overnight.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Following breakfast, you begin an early game drive that descends into Ngorongoro Crater where you'll spend 6 hours on safari in a pop-up jeep. You'll have chances to spot the Big Five and see Maasai communities in their traditional circular homesteads called Bomas. After lunch at a picnic site, you exit the crater and drive to Arusha Airport to catch your flight back to Zanzibar, then get transferred to your final destination once you land.