Serengeti · Seven Days

Seven days under canvas, wherever the herds are

A mobile camp that moves two or three times a year to stay with the migration, a light aircraft to reach it, and four nights in it with no transfers.

Days

Nights under canvas

Park

Fly

In and out

I · Overview

The route, and why this shape

One park, one camp, and the calendar decides where it is.

Most Serengeti itineraries pick a region and hope the herds are in it. This one does the opposite. The camp is a proper tented camp — beds, en-suite, a mess tent and a fire — but it is built to be struck and moved, and it relocates two or three times a year to sit where the migration is: the southern plains from December to March, the western corridor and the centre from April to June, the north from July to November.

So there is no road trip. You fly from Arusha to whichever airstrip serves the camp that season, spend four nights in the same tent, and drive out from it each morning into whatever phase of the migration the month has brought. Two of those days are full days, one is given to a walk with a ranger, and the drive between positions, if your dates fall on a camp move, is the fourth.

The trade is that you see one park, and that you cannot choose the part of it. What you get for that is the least driving of any Serengeti week we sell, and the shortest distance between your tent and the animals. If you want the crater and Tarangire as well, this is not the route; if you want the migration and nothing between you and it, it is.

Length

7 days / 6 nights

Country

Tanzania

Start / end

Arusha → Arusha

Tour type

Private fly-in safari, mobile tented camp

Group size

Private — 1 to 6 guests per vehicle

Meal plan

Full board in camp, bed and breakfast in Arusha

Best months

July – November for the north; December – March for the south

Activity level

Easy — vehicle-based, one optional walking morning

Vehicle

Toyota Land Cruiser 4×4 with a pop-up roof, a window seat for every guest, charging points and a cool box

II · The days

Day by day, all seven

Every day opens. A night in Arusha each end, four nights in the same tent between them. See every lodge and camp we use

Day

Arrival

Kilimanjaro, and a night in Arusha

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Dinner

Kilimanjaro, and a night in Arusha

03°22′S 36°41′E

You land at Kilimanjaro International, fifty kilometres east of Arusha, and are driven in through the coffee shambas below Mount Meru. Nothing is scheduled tonight. Arusha sits at 1,400 metres and the first evening after a long-haul flight always feels longer than it is; eat early and sleep.

The one piece of work tonight is the bag. Tomorrow you board a light aircraft, and light aircraft in Tanzania take soft bags only, with a weight limit that is usually fifteen kilograms per person including hand luggage. Hard cases do not go in the hold. If you have arrived with one, your Arusha hotel will store it and we collect it on the way back through on day 6.

Your guide meets you at the airport and will run through the week if you want it. The useful question to ask tonight is where the camp is. It moves two or three times a year, and the answer — south, west and centre, or north — decides which airstrip you fly to in the morning and what you will be looking at for the next four days.

Meals

Dinner

Travel

JRO to Arusha · 50 km · about 1 hr

Highlight

A soft bag, a weight limit, and an early night

Meet at Kilimanjaro International

Soft bag, 15 kg limit

No game drive today

Where you sleep

COMFORT

Kahawa House

★★★★☆

Arusha, garden lodge on the edge of town

Bed and breakfast, a garden to sit in, and an early breakfast before the transfer to Arusha airport.

LUXURY

Legendary Lodge

★★★★★

Arusha, coffee-estate lodge outside town

Larger rooms among the coffee, and a quieter first night than anywhere in the town itself.

Day

Fly in

Light aircraft to wherever the camp is

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Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Light aircraft to wherever the camp is

02°26′S 34°49′E

Arusha airport is a small field on the western edge of town, not Kilimanjaro International, and the scheduled flights leave in the morning. From here the aircraft goes to one of three places, and which one is a matter of the calendar rather than of choice. From December to March that is the southern plains near Ndutu; from April to June the western corridor or the centre around Seronera; from July to November the northern Serengeti, close to the Mara River.

The flight is the first game drive. At three thousand metres you see the shape of the ecosystem — the Ngorongoro highlands falling away, the short-grass plains, then the kopjes and the drainage lines — and in a good month you see the herds as a shadow on the grass before you can see individual animals. Some flights land at more than one strip on the way, so an hour in the air can be ninety minutes.

Your guide meets the aircraft with the vehicle and the drive to camp is the afternoon’s game drive. Lunch is in camp, and by the time you have seen your tent the light is dropping and you go out again until the park’s six o’clock rule brings you in.

Meals

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Travel

Arusha airport to the camp’s airstrip · about 1–1½ hrs in the air

Highlight

The plains from 3,000 metres, then the first drive

Light aircraft transfer

Airstrip set by the season

Afternoon game drive

Where you sleep

COMFORT

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp

★★★★☆

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Canvas on a wooden or ground floor, a proper bed, an en-suite with eco-flush loo and bucket shower filled hot on request, solar light, and a mess tent with a fire in front of it.

LUXURY

Olakira Migration Camp

★★★★★

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Fewer tents, more space in each, a writing desk and a veranda under the fly, and a private vehicle and guide for the whole stay rather than a shared one.

Day

Serengeti

A full day with the herds

02°26′S 34°49′E

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

A full day with the herds

02°26′S 34°49′E

This is the day the camp exists for. You leave before six with breakfast in the vehicle, and because the camp has been pitched where the herds are rather than where the roads are, the first hour is spent among animals instead of driving to them. The park allows game viewing from six until six and the camp uses all of it.

What that hour holds depends on the month. In the south between December and March the wildebeest are calving on the short-grass plains — around half a million calves in a few weeks — and the cheetah and hyena are working the edges of the herds. In the west and centre from April to June the columns are moving through the long grass of the corridor toward the Grumeti. In the north from July to November the herds are on the Mara River, and a crossing is possible on any given day and promised on none.

Lunch is either back in camp or in the shade of an acacia out of the cool box, depending on how far the morning has taken you. The afternoon drive is shorter and closer in, and it is timed so that you watch the light go from somewhere with a view rather than from the track home.

Meals

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Travel

Full day from camp · no transfer

Highlight

Out before six, back after the light goes

Dawn to dusk

Migration, whichever phase

No packing today

Where you sleep

COMFORT

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp

★★★★☆

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Second night. Camp staff know the tent is yours for four nights and stop treating you as a guest somewhere around dinner.

LUXURY

Olakira Migration Camp

★★★★★

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Second night, same tent. The private vehicle means the day starts and ends when you decide rather than when the group does.

Day

On foot

The walk, or the day the camp moves

02°26′S 34°49′E

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

The walk, or the day the camp moves

02°26′S 34°49′E

A morning on foot with an armed park ranger and your guide, which is permitted in designated areas of the Serengeti and is the one thing the vehicle cannot give you. You cover perhaps six kilometres in two or three hours and you see less, and closer: tracks in the dust, the dung beetle at work, the way giraffe watch you when you are the same height as they are used to. Walking is normally for guests aged sixteen and over, and the ranger fee and the exact area are confirmed by the park at the time.

Two or three times a year this day is something else. When the season turns, the camp strikes and drives to its next position, and if your dates fall on the move you spend the day in the vehicle crossing the park from one position to the next — south to centre, centre to north — with the tents going up ahead of you. That is a long day with a good game drive inside it, and we will tell you in advance if it is yours.

The afternoon either way is a short drive and an early return. Sunset is in front of the mess tent with the fire lit, and there is no light pollution here of any kind; on a moonless night the southern sky is the reason to stay out after dinner.

Meals

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Travel

Walking morning from camp · or a drive between camp positions

Highlight

Two hours at three kilometres an hour

Walking with a ranger, 16+

Camp move if the season turns

Stars after dinner

Where you sleep

COMFORT

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp

★★★★☆

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Third night. If the camp moves today, the same tent and the same staff are waiting at the new site.

LUXURY

Olakira Migration Camp

★★★★★

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Third night. Walking is arranged from camp with the ranger collected on the way; the private vehicle waits at the end of the walk with breakfast.

Day

Serengeti

A second full day, further out

02°26′S 34°49′E

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

A second full day, further out

02°26′S 34°49′E

The second full day goes where the first did not. On day 3 the guide took you to the herds; today he takes you to the edges of them, because that is where the predators wait. A lion pride that has followed the wildebeest onto the plains, a cheetah on a termite mound scanning the same gap in the column you are. The migration is a lot of animals; the predators are what make it a story.

Where that puts you again depends on the camp’s position. In the south it means the woodland edge around the Ndutu lakes and the kopjes that stand out of the plain. In the western corridor it means the Grumeti River and its crocodiles. In the north it means the river banks and the crossing points, where the wait can be four hours and the reward, if it comes, lasts twenty minutes. Nobody controls that, and the honest description of a river day is a long sit with a picnic.

Tonight is your last under canvas. Tips for the camp staff go into a shared box so that the kitchen and the people who filled the shower are included, not only the tent attendant you have seen.

Meals

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Travel

Full day from camp · no transfer

Highlight

The edges of the herd, where the cats are

Predators on the herd edge

River day if you are north

Last night under canvas

Where you sleep

COMFORT

Nasikia Mobile Migration Camp

★★★★☆

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Fourth and last night. Bags are packed after breakfast tomorrow; the morning drive is not cut short for them.

LUXURY

Olakira Migration Camp

★★★★★

Serengeti, mobile camp — south Dec–Mar, west/centre Apr–Jun, north Jul–Nov

Fourth night. A final dinner set out under the fly or by the fire, depending on the wind.

Day

Fly out

A last drive, then the aircraft to Arusha

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Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

A last drive, then the aircraft to Arusha

03°22′S 36°41′E

The drive to the airstrip is a game drive, early and cold, with the same low light you have had every morning. Scheduled flights out of the Serengeti strips go through the late morning and early afternoon and often touch down at another strip or two on the way, so you are on the ground in Arusha by mid-afternoon rather than at lunch.

We do not fly you out on the same day as your international departure. The domestic flight can slip an hour for weather at either end, the connection to Kilimanjaro International is another fifty kilometres by road, and putting a long-haul flight on the far side of that chain is how a good week ends in an argument at a check-in desk. So tonight is Arusha, and the hard case you left on day 1 is back in your room.

The afternoon is yours. There is a good craft market in town if you want it, and most people want a long shower and a bed that does not involve canvas. Dinner is at the lodge.

Meals

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Travel

Morning drive · flight to Arusha about 1–1½ hrs · Arusha 1,400 m

Highlight

The best drive of the week is the one to the airstrip

Morning game drive

Scheduled light aircraft

Night in Arusha, on purpose

Where you sleep

COMFORT

Kahawa House

★★★★☆

Arusha, garden lodge on the edge of town

Same lodge as the first night where possible, so the stored luggage is already there.

LUXURY

Legendary Lodge

★★★★★

Arusha, coffee-estate lodge outside town

A quiet last night among the coffee, a short transfer to Kilimanjaro International in the morning.

Day

Departure

Arusha to Kilimanjaro, and home

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Breakfast

Arusha to Kilimanjaro, and home

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Breakfast at whatever hour your flight dictates, then the hour’s drive east to Kilimanjaro International. Most long-haul departures leave in the evening, which gives you a slow morning; if yours is earlier we time the transfer to it and nothing on this day is lost, because nothing was scheduled.

If you are continuing to Zanzibar the flight leaves from Arusha airport or from Kilimanjaro and takes under two hours, and the usual shape is three to five nights on the coast. Tell us before we book rather than after, because it changes which airport we drive you to.

The one thing worth saying at the end is what you have and have not seen. Four nights with a camp that moved to the herds is the most direct way to the migration that exists; it is still not a guarantee of a crossing or a kill, and if you were sold one elsewhere, it was not by us.

Meals

Breakfast

Travel

Arusha to JRO · 50 km · about 1 hr

Highlight

A transfer timed to your flight, and nothing else

Airport transfer

Onward to Zanzibar possible

No game drive today

Where you sleep

Departure day — no overnight

III · Rates

What it costs, by group size

Priced per vehicle, so the per-person rate falls as it fills. Choose a camp tier to see the table.

Classic camp rates by group size, per person and group total
Group size	Rooms	Per person	Group total
1 guest	1 tent	$6,490	$6,490
2 guests	1 tent	$4,710	$9,420
3 guests	2 tents	$4,680	$14,040
4 guests	2 tents	$4,240	$16,960
5 guests	3 tents	$4,320	$21,600
6+ guests	3 tents	$4,080	$24,480

Single supplement

$850

Added when a guest does not share a tent

Child, 6 – 11 years

30% off

Sharing with two adults; camp minimum ages apply

Peak season uplift

Included in the rates above

July – October, and the festive weeks

Premium camp rates by group size, per person and group total
Group size	Rooms	Per person	Group total
1 guest	1 tent	$15,190	$15,190
2 guests	1 tent	$11,130	$22,260
3 guests	2 tents	$11,860	$35,580
4 guests	2 tents	$10,660	$42,640
5 guests	3 tents	$11,190	$55,950
6+ guests	3 tents	$10,510	$63,060

Single supplement

$3,130

Added when a guest does not share a tent

Child, 6 – 11 years

30% off

Sharing with two adults; camp minimum ages apply

Peak season uplift

Included in the rates above

July – October, and the festive weeks

All figures in US dollars, per person sharing unless stated. Valid for travel until 30 June 2027. Park fees, guiding, vehicle, accommodation and full board are included — see what is and is not covered below.

IV · Included

What is in the price, and what is not

Stated in full, both ways.

What is included

Scheduled light aircraft flights, Arusha to the Serengeti and back
Four nights in the mobile camp, full board, with soft drinks, house wine and beer at the camp bar private vehicle
All game drives from camp in a 4×4 with a roof hatch — shared on the Classic tier, private on Premium
A professional guide throughout, English-speaking
One walking morning with an armed park ranger, where the park permits it
All Serengeti park fees and camping fees
Two nights in Arusha, bed and breakfast, and all road transfers
Airport transfers, Kilimanjaro International
A licensed, English-speaking professional guide, trained in wilderness first aid
Round-the-clock support from our Arusha office, and a first-aid kit in every vehicle

What is not

International flights to and from Tanzania
Tanzania visa — USD 50, or USD 100 for United States passports
Travel insurance, which we ask every guest to hold
Balloon flight over the Serengeti, where one operates near the camp
Spirits and premium wines at the camp bar; all drinks in Arusha
Tips for your guide, the ranger and the camp staff
Laundry in Arusha; laundry in camp is included
Anything listed under optional extras below

V · Add-ons

Worth adding, if you have the days

Priced separately. The fifth night is the one we recommend.

From camp · at dawn

Balloon over the plains

Balloons fly from Seronera, from the south near Ndutu in the calving months and from the north in the crossing season, so one is usually within reach of wherever the camp is. An hour aloft at first light and a breakfast in the grass afterwards. Minimum age <span class=”it-todo”>7, to confirm</span>, weather-dependent, booked months ahead.

USD 750 per person

Between day 5 and day 6

A fifth night under canvas

The most useful thing you can add. A fifth night turns the walking day into a bonus rather than a trade against a game drive, and in the north it doubles the number of mornings you can sit at a crossing point.

USD 830 per person, for 2 guests

After day 6 · 2 nights

Ngorongoro Crater on the way home

Fly from the camp to the Lake Manyara airstrip instead of Arusha, a night on the crater rim, a dawn descent onto the floor for the black rhino, and the road back to Arusha. Two nights added, one park added.

USD 1,020 per person, for 2 guests

After day 7 · 3–5 nights

Zanzibar, afterwards

Flights leave Arusha and Kilimanjaro daily and take under two hours. Four nights of canvas followed by three of coast is the shape most guests on this route end up with.

From USD 1,340 per person, 3 nights

VI · The ground, by season

Where this itinerary takes you

One park, three seasonal positions. The month decides which one you see.

Serengeti — southern plains, December to March

The short-grass plains around Ndutu and the Kusini woodland edge. Treeless, volcanic, and the calving ground of the whole migration: around half a million wildebeest calves in a few weeks, and the densest concentration of cheetah and hyena of the year around them. The camp’s summer position.

Serengeti — western corridor and centre, April to June

The long grass of the corridor running west toward Lake Victoria, the Grumeti River with its crocodiles, and the Seronera valley with its year-round water and resident lion, leopard and cheetah. Green, quiet, and the wettest weeks of the year in April and May.

Serengeti — north, July to November

Rolling hills, riverine forest and the Mara River, which the herds cross and re-cross between July and October. This is the crossing season and the camp’s busiest position. Crossings are watched from the bank at designated points and cannot be booked.

The question everyone asks

Where will the camp be when I travel?

2–3

Camp moves a year, following the herds

The camp has three positions, and the calendar decides. December to March it is pitched in the south, on the short-grass plains around Ndutu, for the calving. April to June it moves to the western corridor or the centre as the herds head for the Grumeti. July to November it is in the north, within reach of the Mara River. The exact site inside each region is chosen by the camp against where the animals actually are, not against a brochure, and the airstrip you fly into follows from it.

What that cannot fix is the herds themselves. They follow rain, and rain in this ecosystem is not punctual. In a late year the wildebeest are still on the Mara in early November; in an early one the south is full by mid-December. The camp position is the best bet the people who live with the herds can make, and it is a far better bet than a fixed lodge. It is still a bet, and we will say so before you pay for it.

VII · Season

The best time to travel

Including the weeks when a camp that follows the herds cannot promise to have caught them.

July to October is the crossing season and the camp is in the north. It is dry, the grass is short, the game is concentrated along the river, and it is the busiest and most expensive time of the year. A crossing needs the herds to be on the river and to want to move, and a river day is a long wait; the camp’s position makes that wait a short drive from bed rather than a three-hour one.

December to March the camp is in the south for the calving. It is green, warm, and fewer vehicles come than in July. Calving is reliable in a way crossings are not — the wildebeest drop their calves inside a narrow window in late January and February — and the predator activity around it is the most concentrated of the year.

November is the short rains, usually afternoon storms, and the camp is still in the north as the herds begin to drift south. It is a good, cheaper month if you accept some mud and a more scattered herd. Early December can go either way.

April and May are the long rains. The camp is in the west or centre, some airstrips soften, and there are days when the tracks do not go where the herds are. Rates are lowest and the light is the best of the year. We will sell you this month if you ask, but we will tell you first that it is the one where the camp’s promise — being where the animals are — is hardest to keep.

VIII · Flights

Getting there and back

Fly into Kilimanjaro International. The Serengeti flights leave from Arusha airport the next morning.

Fly into Kilimanjaro International (JRO), about an hour east of Arusha. The Serengeti flights leave from Arusha airport, a smaller field on the other side of town, so there is no same-day connection between the two on this itinerary and the first night in Arusha is not optional.

Light aircraft take soft bags only, and the weight limit is usually fifteen kilograms per person including hand luggage. Hard cases stay in Arusha. We remind you of this before you pack, because a bag left at the airport is the one thing on the week we cannot fix once the aircraft has gone.

Coming home, you fly out of the Serengeti on day 6 and sleep in Arusha, and the international flight is on day 7. That is deliberate: domestic flights slip for weather, and a long-haul connection on the same afternoon is a bad risk to take with a week’s worth of safari behind you.

Tanzania requires a visa for most passports — USD 50, or USD 100 for United States citizens, valid up to 90 days. Apply online in advance rather than on arrival.

IX · Other costs

What else you will spend

Visas, insurance, tips and drinks — set out so there is no surprise on the ground.

Visa and entry

USD 50 — USD 100 for US passports

Tanzania issues a tourist visa online (eVisa) or on arrival at Kilimanjaro. Applying in advance is faster and avoids the queue at immigration, which after an evening arrival can be long.

A yellow fever certificate is required only if you are arriving from a country where yellow fever is endemic. Coming directly from Europe or North America, it is not.

Travel insurance

Typically USD 60 – 150 per trip

We ask every guest to travel insured. Medical cover and evacuation are the parts that matter here — a mobile camp is further from a hospital than any lodge, and the way out is an aircraft.

Check that your policy covers walking safaris and light-aircraft travel, and a balloon flight if you have added one. Some insurers exclude one or more of these by default.

Tips

Usual range USD 10 – 25 per guest per day

Tipping is customary in Tanzania and it is genuinely optional. The figures below are what guests commonly give, not what is expected of you.

Guide tips are handled at the end of the trip. Camp staff tips go into a shared box in the mess tent so that the kitchen and the people who fill the shower are included, not only the tent attendant you see. The walking ranger is tipped separately on the morning.

Drinks

Mostly included in camp

The camp bar is largely covered on this itinerary — see the inclusions above for what is and is not. Spirits and premium wines are charged, and everything in Arusha is charged to your room. Drinking water is provided throughout.

Personal spending

Entirely up to you

There is nothing to buy in the Serengeti, which is one of the things to like about it. Curios are in Arusha on day 6. Bring cash in small US dollar notes for tips; a mobile camp has no card machine and no signal to run one.

Notes dated before 2009 are refused across Tanzania. Bring newer ones.

X · Why us

Why book this with us

Arusha-based, and Tanzanian-owned

The guides and the office are ours, in Arusha, an hour’s flight from the camp. When the herds move early we hear about it from the camp the same day, and we can change your flights before you have left home.

One park, and the least driving we sell

No transfer days. You fly in, sleep in one tent for four nights, and every hour in the vehicle is a game drive from the door of the camp. Most seven-day Serengeti itineraries spend two of those days on the road from Arusha.

One guide for the week

The same person from Kilimanjaro to Kilimanjaro. On the Premium tier that guide also drives your private vehicle, so the day starts and ends when you decide.

We will tell you which weeks the camp cannot deliver

The camp’s promise is to be where the animals are. In the long rains and at the turn of the seasons that promise is harder to keep, and we would rather move your dates than sell you a week that depends on luck we do not have.

XI · Questions

Frequently asked

What guests ask before booking a mobile camp.

How much does a 7 day Serengeti mobile camp safari cost?

The rate depends on your group size and whether you choose the Classic or Premium camp, and it moves with the season — the crossing months of July to October sit at the top of the band. The table above sets out the per-person price for every group size from one to six. Our rates for this itinerary are set out in the table above — ask us and we will quote for your exact dates.

Where exactly will the camp be?

In one of three positions, decided by the calendar: the southern plains near Ndutu from December to March, the western corridor or the centre from April to June, and the north near the Mara River from July to November. The exact site inside each region is chosen by the camp against where the herds are. We confirm the airstrip when we confirm your booking, and again a week before you fly, because it can change.

Is a mobile camp comfortable?

Yes, and it is not camping in the sense of a tent from a shop. Each tent has a proper bed, storage, an en-suite with an eco-flush loo and a bucket shower filled with hot water on request, and solar lighting. What it does not have is a swimming pool, a wall, or a door that locks, and at night there are animals around the tents. Guests who want walls should look at our lodge-based luxury routes instead.

Will we see a river crossing?

Only if you travel between July and October, and even then it cannot be promised. A crossing needs the herds on the river and the nerve to go, and a river day is usually a long wait at a designated crossing point. The camp’s northern position turns that wait from a three-hour drive into a short one, which is the most any camp can do.

Is there a luggage limit on the flights?

Yes. Soft bags only, and usually fifteen kilograms per person including hand luggage; the airline’s exact figure for your dates is confirmed with your ticket. Hard cases stay in Arusha and are back in your room on day 6.

Is this safari suitable for children?

Serengeti game drives are open to children from five, and we apply six. The mobile camps set their own minimums, often higher on the Premium tier, and the walking morning is normally sixteen and over. Tell us the ages and we will say plainly whether this route works. Child rates are 30% below the adult rate for children sharing with two adults.

What happens if my dates fall on a camp move?

You spend day 4 driving between positions with the tents going up ahead of you, which is a long day with a good game drive inside it, and the walking morning is dropped. We know the move dates well in advance and will tell you at booking if yours are affected, so it is never a surprise on the day.

Can I add the Ngorongoro Crater?

Yes. The usual shape is to fly out of the Serengeti to the Lake Manyara airstrip rather than Arusha, spend a night on the rim, descend at dawn, and drive back to Arusha. It adds two nights. If you would rather see the whole northern circuit by road, the seven-day Northern Circuit is the better starting point.

Can the itinerary be changed?

Yes. It is a private safari and the route is a starting point. A fifth night under canvas is the change we recommend most; Zanzibar afterwards is the one guests ask for most.

XII · Your trip

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