Day 1: Arusha to Kogatende, Serengeti
Transfer to Arusha airport for your flight to Kogatende, in the northern Serengeti, where you will be met on arrival at the airstrip and transferred to Mkombe’s House, your home for the next 5 nights, with game drive en route.
While in the Serengeti, you will stay in the very exclusive Mkombe’s House.
Opened in July 2015, Mkombe’s House is a four-bedroom, self-contained house that is perfectly suited for families (there’s no minimum age for children) or a group of friends wanting to enjoy a totally exclusive safari, away from the crowded regions of the central Serengeti!
The house comes with a private 4x4 safari vehicle and a full complement of staff, including a dedicated guide and an in-house chef, who will prepare sumptuous meals of your choice to be enjoyed indoors in the cosy dining room or on the terrace with a view of the surrounding wilderness.
Day 2-5: Northern Serengeti
The next four days are free for you to explore the Northern Serengeti to your heart’s content. With a private guide and vehicle, you set the pace—you may like to break up the day with morning and afternoon game drives, or spend a full-day in the wild, stopping to enjoy a picnic lunch on the plains.
Simply teeming with game, the Serengeti is one of the largest and greatest game reserves in Africa, unequalled in scale and diversity. It is amongst the oldest and most complex eco-systems on earth, and in its essential features has barely changed in the past hundred thousand years. A unique combination of diverse habitats, ranging from clay pans and wooded grasslands to the endless savannah plains for which the region is famous, enables it to support a wealth of game, including 60 large mammal and over 500 bird species.
The game-viewing is stunning all-year round in the Serengeti, whichever section of the park you happen to be in. The ‘Big 5’ are a constant fixture, but perhaps more significant, the Serengeti boasts the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere in the world, with an estimated two million wildebeest, half a million gazelle, and 250,000 zebra. Among the other species regularly seen are eland, impala, waterbuck, baboon, monkey, warthog and topi.
The Serengeti is of course most famous for the dramatic annual wildebeest migration and your accommodation is perfectly placed to witness this amazing spectacle between July and October.
Day 6: Northern Serengeti to Arusha; international departure
Transfer to the airstrip for your scheduled charter flight to Arusha and onward connections.
We can arrange for you to continue your safari and/or visit Tanzania’s beautiful coastline or offshore islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. Please speak to one of our safari consultants to discuss your plans.
Private Serengeti Safari (Mkombe's House)
5-night Serengeti fly-in, staying in the exclusive and fully-private Mkombe's House
Private Serengeti Safari (Mkombe's House)
Escape the crowds and spend 5 nights in a private house close to the Mara River in this exclusive northern Serengeti safari. Perfect for families or small groups, this short fly-in safari can be booked as a standalone option or as a component of a longer safari and beach itinerary.
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Pricing
6 days from £3630pp
Special Offer
Stay an additional night at Mkombe's House free of charge when travelling outside of the peak migration season. This offer is applicable for stays of 3 nights or longer, and is valid from 1st January 2021 through to 21st December 2021. Please note that this saving has already been applied to our published rate.
This offer can also be applied to bookings for 2022, but with some restrictions. The offer is not valid for travel during the festive season (21st Dec 2022 - 4th Jan 2023) and the peak migration season (July to September 2022).
Additional discounts are available when combining Mkombe's House with other properties in the Nomad Tanzania portfolio. For further details, please get in touch.
Family holiday to south Tanzania & Zanzibar
Everybody we met, whether on Safari or in Zanzibar, went out of their way to ensure we had a really good time!
Tanzania in March
Clare was extremely helpful, after just a few minutes she understood exactly what we were looking for.
