3 Day Safari from Zanzibar

Zanzibar to Arusha to Tarangire National Park

We collect you at your Zanzibar hotel and take you to the airport for the included morning flight to Arusha. The sea falls away; baobabs appear. Your guide continues by Land Cruiser to Tarangire for an afternoon among elephants — the first real game drive of the trip, not a token stop.

You leave Arusha after breakfast and watch the farms fall away — about two hours to the baobabs, the park gate and the river. Tarangire is the beginning, not a transfer with a short game drive tacked on. You ride a private Land Cruiser, pop-up roof up, window seat yours for the whole trip.

Call it elephant country and you are right. In the dry months, whole families use the Tarangire River and the Silale swamp. Giraffe work the acacias; lion use the shade of the same giants you came to photograph. Picnic in the park so you are still there when the light tilts and the herds move toward water.

Which track is quiet that week is a question for your Super Luxury Safaris' Guide, not a distant call centre convoy. The Super Luxury Safaris Team remains on WhatsApp after dinner.

Overnight: in the Karatu highlands, in the camping, mid-range, luxury or high-end lodge named on your

Ngorongoro Crater

While the grass is still cold we drop roughly 600 metres onto the crater floor. That is the morning that sells the northern circuit. Zebra, wildebeest and buffalo pack the short grass; hippo hold the pools; lion are often in the open. Black rhino are never guaranteed, and we never pretend they are, yet this closed caldera is the fairest chance you will have.

You will talk about this day for years. Picnic lunch stays on the floor, not a rushed snack at the gate. We climb out with time to wash off the dust and pace it so you are still looking, not watching the clock.

Overnight: in the Karatu highlands, in the camping, mid-range, luxury or high-end lodge named on your

Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha, fly to Zanzibar

Flamingos come to the soda lake when the water is right. Woodland elephants feed in the open. Groundwater forest sits under the Rift escarpment. That mix is Lake Manyara, a park with a personality of its own. Some seasons tree-climbing lion use the acacias. We look. We do not promise.

Tell you before you pay: if your flight is too early we skip the park and we do not charge the fees. When the morning runs, it is a committed morning, not an optional extra on the way to the airport, and after the game drive we continue to Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport as your ticket requires.

After the park we drive to Arusha airport for the included return flight to Zanzibar. A transfer takes you to your hotel, which ends the safari. Do not book an international departure from Zanzibar the same evening.