6 Days Predator Focus Safari Big Cats Tracking Tanzania Experience

Arrive in Arusha, where you will be welcomed and briefed about your upcoming predator focused safari experience. After airport transfer, settle into your lodge surrounded by peaceful landscapes near Mount Meru and Kilimanjaro views. This day is dedicated to rest, preparation, and understanding the safari route ahead, including predator hotspots in Tarangire, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti. Depending on arrival time, enjoy a relaxed evening in Arusha with dinner and overnight stay, preparing for early wildlife tracking the following day.

Accommodation

Mount Meru Hotel – Standard Room

After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park, a well known wildlife area famous for its large elephant herds that gather along the Tarangire River during the dry season. The park is shaped by iconic baobab trees, seasonal wildlife movements, and rich predator activity across open savannahs. Game drives explore key habitats such as the riverbanks and Silale Swamp, where elephants, zebras, buffalo, and giraffes are commonly seen, along with lions and leopards following prey movement. Birdlife is also abundant, with over 500 species recorded across the park. Lunch is enjoyed inside the park in a scenic setting before continuing afternoon game viewing across different areas, focusing on predator sightings and natural wildlife interactions before heading to your lodge.

Accommodation

Tarangire Greenland Retreat

After breakfast, descend into Ngorongoro Crater, a massive volcanic caldera known for its dense wildlife concentration and strong predator presence. Lions are frequently seen patrolling open grasslands, hyenas dominate scavenging zones, and leopards may appear around wooded edges and crater slopes. Game drives focus on following predator movement alongside large herbivore herds such as buffalo, wildebeest, and zebras, creating constant interaction within this enclosed ecosystem. The crater also offers high chances of spotting all Big Five species in a single area. Lunch is enjoyed during midday in a scenic crater setting before ascending and continuing to Karatu.

Accommodation

Ngorongoro Farm House

Travel to Central Serengeti after breakfast, entering vast open plains where predator activity is highly concentrated and wildlife movement is constant. Lions dominate kopjes and grassland territories, cheetahs scan wide horizons in search of prey, and leopards move quietly through riverine forests and shaded corridors. Game drives follow migration herds and predator movement across different areas, focusing on hunting behavior, territorial control, and natural interactions between species. Lunch is enjoyed during midday in a scenic wilderness location before continuing afternoon tracking across another section of Serengeti until sunset and returning to camp for dinner and overnight stay.

Spend a full day tracking predators across Central Serengeti, focusing on lions, cheetahs, and hyenas following migrating herds across open plains. Early morning game drive offers prime chances to witness hunting action or post hunt behavior under soft golden light. The day continues through kopjes, river systems, and vast grasslands where predator interaction remains active throughout the ecosystem. Lunch is enjoyed during midday in a scenic safari setting before continuing afternoon exploration across different hunting territories, maximizing opportunities for close encounters, behavioral observation, and photography before returning to camp

After breakfast, begin your return journey from Serengeti through scenic landscapes and wildlife corridors, with final chances to observe wildlife along the route as the vast plains gradually transition into highlands and rural countryside. The drive offers a last glimpse of Tanzania’s diverse ecosystems, from open savannahs to farming communities and rolling hills. Lunch is enjoyed en route at a scenic stop before continuing to Arusha. Upon arrival, you will be dropped at your hotel or transferred to the airport, marking the end of your Predator Focus Safari with BMC TOURS & SAFARIS.