Day Trips
Sunrise Balloon Safari
Tour gallery
See the journey
The journey
Travelling with Golden Safari Travel means a private vehicle, a guide chosen for your interests, and camps positioned exactly where the wildlife is. Nothing on this journey is shared with strangers. Your itinerary is a starting point. Every day can be reshaped in the field — a longer morning with a leopard, a later breakfast, an extra night where the light is best. Your guide carries the plan; you set the pace. We limit departures so that our senior guides are never overbooked, and every camp on this route has been slept in and inspected by our own team within the past twelve months.
Highlights
- Balloon flight
- Bush breakfast
- Sunrise plains
Day by day
- 1
Arrival & welcome
Met on arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your first lodge. An early dinner and a full briefing with your guide over the route ahead.
Stay: Boutique lodge, Arusha · Meals: Dinner
- 2
Into the wild
An early departure with a picnic breakfast en route. Your first full game drive as the plains open up, ending at camp for sundowners.
Stay: Luxury tented camp · Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
- 3
Full day on the plains
Dawn and late-afternoon game drives when predators are most active, with the middle of the day at camp for rest, the pool or a guided walk.
Stay: Luxury tented camp · Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
- 4
New horizons
A slow transfer to the next ecosystem, game-viewing all the way. Arrive in time for a bush dinner under the stars.
Stay: Luxury tented camp · Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
- 5
Signature experience
The highlight day of the route: crater descent, river crossings or reef and sandbank, depending on your itinerary and the season.
Stay: Luxury tented camp · Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
- 6
At your own pace
A flexible day shaped entirely around what you have most enjoyed so far — more wildlife, a cultural visit, or simply rest.
Stay: Luxury tented camp · Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
- 7
Farewell
A final morning game drive before your flight, with day rooms and transfers arranged for later departures.
Stay: — · Meals: Breakfast
Included
- Private 4x4 safari vehicle with pop-up roof
- Professional English-speaking safari guide
- All park and conservation fees
- All accommodation as specified
- All meals on safari
- Bottled water, tea and coffee throughout
- Airport transfers on arrival and departure
- Flying-doctor emergency evacuation cover
Not included
- International flights
- Tanzania visa fees
- Travel and medical insurance
- Premium wines and spirits
- Personal laundry and telephone charges
- Optional activities such as balloon flights
- Gratuities for guides and camp staff
Make it yours
Change the pace, camps or route—this is only the starting point.
Our specialists can add Zanzibar, extend the migration, arrange private flights or design around children and celebrations.