Overview
Our 6 Day Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar Beach Escape is the most perfectly balanced, most comprehensively rewarding, and most universally beloved Tanzania travel experience available — a seamlessly designed six-day journey that combines the breathtaking wildlife encounters of Tanzania’s legendary northern safari circuit with the pure paradise of Zanzibar’s most beautiful white sand beaches, ancient Stone Town heritage, and crystal-clear Indian Ocean waters — delivering the very best of Tanzania’s extraordinary mainland wildlife and the legendary pleasures of the Spice Island in one perfectly crafted and perfectly managed adventure departing from Arusha with Serengeti Scent Adventures.
Highlights
- Great Wildebeest Migration — the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth
- Exceptional lion viewing — one of Africa’s densest lion populations in the Serengeti
- Stone Town UNESCO Heritage — 1,000 years of extraordinary Swahili history
- Zanzibar spice farm tour — the most sensory and most cultural Zanzibar experience
The 6 Day Tanzania Safari & Zanzibar Beach Escape is one of Serengeti Scent Adventures’ most popular and most deeply satisfying combination itineraries — a beautifully designed six-day journey that seamlessly blends Tanzania’s most extraordinary northern circuit wildlife experiences with the legendary pleasures of the Zanzibar Archipelago to create the most complete and most personally rewarding Tanzania travel experience available.
Distance: 335 km — approximately 5 to 6 hours
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Overnight: Serengeti National Park
Depart your Arusha hotel at 6:30 AM and drive westward through the beautiful Arusha highlands and the dramatic Ngorongoro Conservation Area toward the legendary Serengeti National Park. Enter the park through the southeastern Naabi Hill Gate and begin your first extraordinary Serengeti game drive across the famous short grass plains — searching for cheetah, lion prides, enormous elephant herds, giraffe, zebra, and wildebeest herds. Bush picnic lunch in the field. Afternoon game drive across the Serengeti’s extraordinary open landscape. Arrive at your Serengeti camp in time for sundowners and your first breathtaking Serengeti sunset. Dinner and overnight in the Serengeti wilderness.
Distance: 100 to 150 km within park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Overnight: Serengeti National Park
A full and deeply extraordinary day exploring the vast wilderness of Serengeti National Park. Dawn game drive across the open plains — lion prides active on the grassland, cheetahs scanning the horizon from elevated termite mounds, and the extraordinary Serengeti landscape at its most beautiful and most alive in the first light of dawn. Visit the famous Seronera River — Tanzania’s finest leopard viewing area — searching for these beautiful cats resting in the branches of ancient riverside acacia trees. Search for Serengeti wild dog packs and the legendary kopje lion prides. Bush picnic lunch in the field. Afternoon game drive through the Serengeti’s most productive and most diverse wildlife areas before the most breathtaking sundowner of the entire itinerary. Dinner and overnight in the Serengeti wilderness.
Distance: 335 km + 1 hour flight
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Overnight: Stone Town boutique hotel
Early morning descent into the extraordinary Ngorongoro Crater at first light for the most dramatic game drive of the entire safari component. Search the crater floor for the critically endangered black rhinoceros, enormous lion prides, massive buffalo herds, spotted hyena clans, hippo pods, and spectacular flamingo flocks on the alkaline Lake Magadi. Bush picnic lunch on the crater floor. Ascend from the crater and drive eastward back to Arusha for your afternoon scheduled flight to Zanzibar. Your Serengeti Scent Adventures Zanzibar representative welcomes you at Zanzibar International Airport and transfers you to your beautiful Stone Town boutique hotel. A relaxed evening exploring the magical Forodhani Night Market — the most atmospheric and most delicious introduction to Zanzibar’s extraordinary culinary heritage. Dinner and overnight in Stone Town.
Distance: Stone Town to Nungwi — 60 km
Meals: Breakfast, Spice Farm Lunch & Dinner
Overnight: Nungwi Beach resort
Morning — Stone Town Cultural Walk:
A comprehensive guided exploration of Stone Town’s most iconic and most historically significant sites — the magnificent Old Fort, House of Wonders, Anglican Cathedral & Slave Market Memorial, Freddie Mercury’s birthplace, and the extraordinary collection of ornately carved wooden doors that are Zanzibar’s most celebrated architectural treasure. Mid-morning transfer to a traditional Zanzibar spice farm for a fascinating and deeply sensory guided tour concluding with a delicious traditional Swahili spice lunch.
Afternoon — Prison Island & Nungwi:
Boat trip to the beautiful Prison Island for an enchanting visit to the giant Aldabra tortoise sanctuary and snorkeling on the pristine surrounding reef before transferring northward to the breathtaking Nungwi Beach for check-in and a deeply relaxed first evening watching the extraordinary Indian Ocean sunset paint the horizon in overwhelming shades of gold and crimson.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Overnight: Nungwi Beach resort
A perfect and completely free day on the breathtaking Nungwi Beach — Zanzibar’s most beautiful and most swimmable white sand beach on the island’s stunning northern tip.
Morning: Swimming in the warm crystal-clear Indian Ocean, snorkeling on the beautiful shallow reef teeming with brilliantly colored tropical fish, kayaking along the stunning coastline, or simply relaxing under swaying coconut palms with a fresh tropical juice in hand.
Afternoon: Optional Mnemba Atoll snorkeling trip for the ultimate Zanzibar underwater experience — extraordinary coral gardens, sea turtles, dolphins, and brilliant reef fish in the clearest and most beautiful waters in the entire Indian Ocean. Or simply continue relaxing on the most beautiful beach in East Africa.
Evening: A magical traditional dhow sunset cruise along the Nungwi coastline — sailing through extraordinary golden light as the African sun sinks dramatically below the Indian Ocean horizon in one of the most beautiful and most deeply moving natural spectacles of the entire itinerary.
Meals: Breakfast
Overnight: N/A — departure
A final deeply relaxed morning on the breathtaking Nungwi Beach — one last swim in the warm Indian Ocean, a final fresh coconut juice under the swaying palms, and a long and deeply satisfying last look at the extraordinary turquoise Indian Ocean horizon before your Serengeti Scent Adventures representative transfers you to Zanzibar International Airport for your departure flight — concluding six extraordinary days of Tanzania safari and Indian Ocean paradise adventure.
- ✅ Hotel pickup in Arusha on Day 1
- ✅ Airport drop-off at Zanzibar International Airport on Day 6
- ✅ All transport in a private 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser with pop-up roof (Days 1 to 3)
- ✅ Professional English-speaking Serengeti Scent Adventures safari guide for Days 1 to 3
- ✅ Dedicated Zanzibar representative & guide for Days 3 to 6
- ✅ All park fees — Serengeti NP (2 days) & Ngorongoro CA (1 day) including crater descent fee
- ✅ Arusha → Zanzibar scheduled flight — Day 3
- ✅ Stone Town guided walking tour including all entry fees
- ✅ Zanzibar spice farm tour & traditional Swahili lunch
- ✅ Prison Island boat trip & tortoise sanctuary entry
- ✅ Snorkeling equipment at Prison Island
- ✅ Sunset dhow cruise — Nungwi Day 5
- ✅ All safari meals (Days 1 to 3) — bush picnic lunches, dinners & breakfasts
- ✅ Zanzibar breakfasts & dinners (Days 3 to 6)
- ✅ Bottled drinking water throughout
- ✅ All fuel costs for safari component
- ✅ Sundowner drinks on safari
- ✅ Government taxes & levies
- ❌ International flights to and from Tanzania
- ❌ Tanzania visa fees (USD 50 per person)
- ❌ Travel insurance (strongly recommended)
- ❌ Tips & gratuities (USD $15 to $20/day safari guide, USD $10/day Zanzibar guide)
- ❌ Personal items & souvenirs
- ❌ Alcoholic beverages
- ❌ Optional hot air balloon safari — Serengeti Day 2 (available on request)
- ❌ Optional Mnemba Atoll snorkeling — Day 5 (available on request — approximately $80 per person)
- ❌ Zanzibar lunch on Days 4, 5 & 6 (own arrangement)
- ❌ Any expenses of a personal nature
Frequently Asked Questions
After the morning Ngorongoro Crater game drive and bush picnic lunch we ascend from the crater and drive back to Arusha arriving in the early afternoon in time for your scheduled domestic flight to Zanzibar. The flight takes approximately 1 hour and Serengeti Scent Adventures manages all flight bookings and airport transfers seamlessly ensuring a smooth and stress-free transition from safari to beach
This itinerary is based at Nungwi Beach — Zanzibar’s most beautiful and most consistently swimmable beach on the island’s stunning northern tip. Nungwi is the most popular and most recommended Zanzibar beach for safari combination travelers. If you prefer a different beach — such as Kendwa, Matemwe, or Paje — contact Serengeti Scent Adventures and we will customize the itinerary to your preferred beach destination.
Day 3 is carefully designed to be both productive and comfortable — the early morning crater descent maximizes game drive time while the early afternoon crater ascent allows comfortable transfer to Arusha Airport. Our expert guides manage the day’s timing carefully to ensure every guest reaches their Zanzibar flight with complete comfort and without any stress or rushing.
This is one of Serengeti Scent Adventures’ most popular and most highly recommended honeymoon itineraries — the extraordinary combination of the Serengeti’s wildlife drama and the Ngorongoro Crater’s natural magnificence with the pure romance of Zanzibar’s most beautiful beaches and Indian Ocean sunsets creates the most perfect and most deeply memorable honeymoon experience available in all of Tanzania. Contact us for our special honeymoon touches and upgrades.
