Maxim Tours

Best of East Africa (Kenya & Tanzania)

Witness the Great Migration, one of the world´s most amazing wildlife spectacles

Visit the world-famous Maasai Mara Reserve, Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater.

Classic Tanzania

Phenomenal gameviewing in Northern Tanzania´s best parks

Fully-serviced luxury mobile camping

Bush walks with Maasai guides

Day 1 Arrive Arusha, Tanzania
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport you are met by a Maxim Tours representative and transferred to your lodge.
Overnight at Mountain Village Lodge (B)

Day 2 Arusha / Tarangire National Park
This morning you are met by your private guide and will set off for Tarangire National Park. The park is characterized by giant baobab trees and famous for its elephants, plains game and predators, but also boasts a large variety of bird life. The Tarangire River attracts game in large numbers during the dry season. After setting up camp, you will head out on an afternoon game drive.
Overnight at private campsite (Full-board)

Day 3 Tarangire National Park
Full day game drive with picnic lunch. The elephants have a fascinating way of communicating with subtle interactions, which your guide will be able to point out and share with you. In the late afternoon you head back to camp and set out for a bush walk with local Maasai guides.
Overnight at private campsite (Full-board)

Day 4 Tarangire / Lake Manyara National Park
Drive to Lake Manyara National Park, passing through the cool ground water forest before reaching the Lakeshore. The Park is best known for its tree climbing lions, but you are more likely to see elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, primates and a wealth of bird life. Picnic lunch in the park and afternoon game-drives. Return as the sunsets behind the distant highlands and climb the escarpment to your camp Lodge for a relaxing dinner.
Overnight at Kirurumu Tented Camp (Full-board)

Day 5 Lake Manyara / Ngorongoro Crater
This morning's activity is an ethno-botanical walk including visit to local Iraqw tribe. After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Descend into the Crater for a tour around the Lerai Acacia Forest and the crater floor, looking for giant-tusked elephant, rare black rhino and the black-maned lion. Ascend the crater rim in the early evening through verdant forest.
Overnight at Ngorongoro Camp (Full-board)

Day 6 Ngorongoro Crater
Morning game-drives in the Ngorongoro Crater, including a picnic lunch. In the afternoon, you head out to the rolling hills of the Ngorongoro Highlands to meet a Maasai chief, who guides you around the nearby bomas and on an afternoons walk in the surrounding area. In the late afternoon, head back to camp.
Overnight at Ngorongoro Camp (Full-board)

Day 7 Ngorongoro / Serengeti National Park
In the morning, depart for the Serengeti via Olduvai Gorge to visit the small but interesting museum of this famous archaeological site. Continue on a game-drive through the vast Serengeti National Park to your camp for lunch. In the afternoon head out for game drives before returning to camp for dinner.
Overnight at Serengeti Camp (Full-board)

Days 8 & 9 Serengeti National Park
Full day game drives in the Serengeti, home to the greatest concentration of large mammals on earth. The land consists of vast stretches of open plains, punctuated by kopjes, rock formations, savannah woodland, cut by seasonal streams and rivers that nurture huge trees. At night relax by the campfire, under a canopy of stars.
Overnight at Serengeti Camp (Full-board)

Day 10 Depart
After breakfast, you are transferred to Seronera airstrip to connect with return flight to Arusha. Upon arrival, there will be time for some shopping and a dayroom will be available before final farewell dinner and transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Southern Tanzania Adventure

Experience small camps offering a simple old-fashioned bush experience

Spend time at Selous Game Reserve with vast regions of largely unexplored bush teaming with wildlife

Ruaha National Park with its mountain ranges and the Great Ruaha River

Wildest Africa

Go off-the-beaten path to the most remote safari destination in Africa - Katavi National Park

Fascinating chimpanzee encounters in the Mahale mountains

Day 1 Arrive Arusha
Upon arrival in Kilimanjaro, you are met by a Maxim Tours representative and transferred to your lodge.
Overnight at Arusha Coffee Lodge (B)

Day 2 Arusha / Katavi National Park
You are transferred to Arusha airport for an early morning flight to Katavi. Katavi National Park, in western Tanzania, is reputed to be one of the wildest places on earth. Filling the floor of the Rukwa Valley, Katavi spans over a million acres, and hosts less than 200 visitors per year. From its elevated vantage point on a peninsula that rises out of the miombo woodland, the Chada Katavi camp is perfectly positioned for panoramic views over the Chada plain. Hidden in the trees that flank it are six ensuite guest tents, with fine wooden furniture, and large comfortable beds spread with crisp white Egyptian cottons, and floors covered with thick woven rugs. The tents are large, romantic and airy with many shade netting windows to allow the cool breezes through.
Overnight at Chada Katavi Camp (Full-board)

Days 3,4 & 5 Katavi National Park
Spend your days exploring this forgotten wildlife haven during game drives and guided walking safaris. You also have the option off fly camping - sleeping with only a mosquito net between you and the night sky. This experience brings you to the very heart of the Katavi wilderness. Across these plains run the last great herds of buffalo in east Africa. Western Tanzania is largely undiscovered and very definitely off the beaten track. The floodplains of Chada contain hippo in their hundreds, not just in the rivers but grazing on the banks in their masses. Elephants head to water morning and evening, shadowed by lion, hyena and leopard.
Overnight at Chada Katavi Camp (Full-board)

Day 6 Katavi / Mahale Mountains National Park
Today you will board your flight to Mahale. On a far-flung beach along the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, below a huge tropical forest, is the tiny sanctuary of Greystoke Mahale. The forested slopes of the Mahale Mountains rise behind camp, home to the world´s largest known population of chimpanzees, with approximately 1000 individuals inhabiting the national park. Your home at Greystoke Mahale is in wildly exotic wooden bandas looking out across the soft sand beach, with interiors fashioned from dhow timber. The six bandas are open fronted, with dressing rooms, adjoining bathrooms accessible via a short boardwalk with flush toilets and powerful showers, and upstairs chill-out decks; designed with flair, generosity and passion for the most demanding castaway.
Overnight at Greystoke Mahale Camp (Full-board)

Days 7 & 8 Mahale Mountains National Park
Each day you can venture out into the forest, to observe and commune with chimpanzees, as they groom, wrestle and forage across the leafy floor. The forest itself is special, with eight other species of primate, shyer forest mammals, birds, butterflies, giant vines and waterfalls. And if a day´s 'chimping' wasn't enough, you can snorkel or swim in the clear waters, fish or kayak along the lake shore. You can have private barefoot dinners on the beach. For some evening pizazz, there's the bar of all bars on the rocks of the headland, with fresh sashimi and iced vodka, and a view out west across the mighty waters of the lake.
Overnight at Greystoke Mahale Camp (Full-board)

Day 9 Depart
Today you will be transferred to the airstrip by boat and fly back to Arusha.

Overland Southern Tanzania

Adventurous safari through remote Southern Tanzania

Deluxe safari camps at an affordable price

Day 1 Arrive Nairobi
After clearing customs at Jomo Kenyatta airport, you are met by a representative of Maxim Tours who will transfer you to your hotel.
Overnight at Nairobi Serena (B)

Days 2 Nairobi / Dar es Salaam
After breakfast, you are met and transferred to Nairobi airport for your flight to Dar es Salaam International Airport. Upon arrival, you are met by your guide and driven to your hotel for the night.
Overnight at Holiday Inn Dar es Salaam (B)

Day 3 Dar es Salaam / Selous Game Reserve
After breakfast, you will be briefed by your guide about your day-to-day activities. You then depart for Selous Game Reserve, traveling through various coastal villages with a picnic lunch enroute. Enjoy an afternoon game drive in the reserve. Afterward, you will settle into your camp. Rufiji River Camp is located on the banks of the river, offering comfortable tents equipped with private bathroom and a veranda facing the river. Overnight at Rufiji River Camp (Full-board)

Days 4 Selous Game Reserve
Breakfast at the camp is followed by morning boat safari along the beautiful Rufiji River. This afternoon set out on a game view drive. Due to its remote location, the Selous Game Reserve has remained one of the untouched gems of Tanzania’s national parks and game reserves, and offers visitors a chance to see a wild and expansive Africa far from paved roads and curio shops. Its rivers, hills, and plains are home to roaming elephant populations, the area’s famous wild dogs, and some of the last black rhino left in the region.
Overnight at Rufiji River Camp (Full-board)

Days 5 Selous Game Reserve
Today you have the choice of a guided walking safari or a game drives in the reserve.
Overnight at Rufiji River Camp (Full-board)

Days 6 Selous / Mikumi National Park
After breakfast, you start out on the scenic drive through the Uluguru Mountains to Mikumi National Park with gameviewing enroute. Mikumi is the fourth largest park in Tanzania and only a few hours drive from Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, the park has a wide variety of wildlife that are easy to spot and well acclimatized to game viewing. Most visitors come to Mikumi National Park looking to spot the ‘Big Five’ (leopard, lion, elephant, buffalo, and rhino), and they aren’t disappointed. Hippo pools provide close access to the mud-loving beasts, and bird-watching along the waterways is particularly rewarding. Your camp for the night is Vuma Hills Tented Camp, which overlooks the scenic Mkata plains and mountains. Vuma Hills is permanent tented camp perched above trees, offering guests superb accommodation close to nature.
Overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp (Full-board)

Days 7 Mikumi / Ruaha National Park
After breakfast at the camp, travel to Ruaha National Park via the Kitonga Mountains. You will arrive at Tandala Safari Camp in Ruaha late this afternoon. After a night drive in the park, you will return to the camp. Tandala features ten spacious, elevated luxury tents with ensuite bathroom and private verandah.
Overnight at Tandala Safari Camp (Full-board)

Days 8 Ruaha National Park
Full-day game drives in the park with picnic lunch. Ruaha National Park is a remote bastion of spectacular wilderness, undisturbed wildlife, and breathtaking scenery. With herds of more than 10,000 elephants, vast concentrations of buffalo, gazelle, and over 400 bird species, Ruaha’s limitless wilderness stretches over 40,000 square kilometers. The Great Ruaha River is the main feature of the park, and meanders through its borders. On its banks, the game viewing is spectacular, whether done by land or by water
Overnight at Tandala Safari Camp (Full-board)

Days 9 Ruaha National Park
Full-day game drives in the park with picnic lunch
Overnight at Tandala Safari Camp (Full-board)

Days 10 Ruaha / Mikumi National Park
After breakfast, drive to Mikumi National Park, perhaps stopping at a local village along the way. Afternoon game drives in the park.
Overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp (Full-board)

Days 11 Mikumi National Park / Dar es Salaam
This morning depart for Dar es Salaam, driving through the local village of Challinze, famous for its pineapple plantation and the village of Kibaha known for cashew plantation. You will arrive in Dar es Salaam this afternoon in time for a flight to Nairobi. You will then connect to your international flight home.

Touch of Class Tanzania

Upscale journey through Northern Tanzania

Phenomenal gameviewing in some of Africa’s most famous game reserves

Day 1 Arrive Arusha
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport, you are met by a representative of Maxim Tours and transferred to your lodge.
Overnight at Serena Mountain Village Lodge (B)

Days 2 Arusha / Tarangire National Park
After an early breakfast, you will depart for Tarangire National Park with your private driver/guide with game drives enroute. The park is characterized by giant baobab trees and famous for its elephants, plains game and predators, but also boasts a large variety of bird life. The Tarangire River attracts game in large numbers during the dry season.
Overnight Tarangire Treetops (Full-board)

Day 3 Tarangire National Park
Enjoy your full day in Tarangire with a choice of morning walking safari and afternoon game drives or full day game viewing with a picnic lunch.
Overnight Tarangire Treetops (Full-board)

Days 4 Tarangire / Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park, passing through the cool ground water forest before reaching the lodge. The Park is best known for its tree climbing lions, but you are more likely to see elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, primates and a wealth of bird life. Enjoy lunch at the lodge followed by an afternoon.
Overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge (Full-board)

Days 5 Lake Manyara / Ngorongoro Crater
After a morning game drive and lunch, you depart for the Ngorongoro Crater. The largest unbroken caldera in the world, Ngorongoro Crater was formed nearly 2.5 million years ago. The 100 square mile crater floor contains one of the highest concentrations of predators in Africa who are drawn by the large herds of prey animals.
Overnight at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge (Full-board)

Days 6 Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive with picnic lunch on the Crater floor.
Overnight at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge (Full-board)

Days 7 Ngorongoro Crater / Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, drive to Serengeti National Park, home to the greatest concentration of large mammals on earth. The land consists of vast stretches of open plains, punctuated by kopjes, rock formations, savannah woodland, cut by seasonal streams and rivers that nurture huge trees. Enjoy a picnic lunch enroute followed by an afternoon.
Overnight at Serena Kirawira Tented Camp (Full-board)

Days 8 & 9 Serengeti National Park
Enjoy your two full day in Serengeti National Park Serengeti with morning and afternoon game drives.
Overnight at Serena Kirawira Tented Camp (Full-board)

Days 9 Depart
After breakfast, enjoy your last game drive to the Seronera airstrip for your flight to Arusha. Upon arrival, you are met and taken to a farewell lunch. You are then transferred to the airport for your onward flight.