OUR SAFARIS
Private Tanzania safari itineraries
The difference between a good safari and an exceptional one is the guide.
Every Makoma safari is private: one guide and one Land Cruiser for your party from the first morning to the last. Willie Mollel has guided on Tanzania's northern circuit for 22 years, and he or a guide he has chosen leads each trip.
The three itineraries below are starting points. We can change the route, the camps and the length of any of them, and any of them can finish with a few nights on Zanzibar.
The Makoma Northern Circuit
Eight days. Tarangire and the Ngorongoro Crater on either side of three nights in the central Serengeti. Seronera holds water year-round, so resident lion, leopard and cheetah stay after the migration has moved on, which is why this trip works in any month.
When: any month.
Suits: a first safari, or a family trip.
From £3,895 per person, based on two sharing, excluding international flights.
The Calving Season
Eight days. Three nights at Ndutu on the southern short-grass plains, where the herds gather to calve and lion, cheetah and hyena work the edges. Ndutu is at its best at a different time of year from Seronera, so the whole trip is timed around the calving.
When: January to March, with most calves born in February.
Suits: anyone who wants to see the migration's young and the predators that follow them.
From £4,495 per person, based on two sharing, excluding international flights.
The Western Corridor
Nine days. In June and July the herds move west through the corridor between the Grumeti and Mbalageti rivers, the stretch of the migration most easily reached by road. You spend two nights on the Grumeti with them, then the central Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater on the way out.
When: June and July.
Suits: seeing the migration by road, with the same guide and vehicle throughout.
From £5,200 per person, based on two sharing, excluding international flights.
Any safari can finish with a few nights on Zanzibar.
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we'll build it into the trip.