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Arrival
Day 1
Arusha National Park - Half-day trekking and half-day game viewing
Arusha National Park - Half-day trekking and half-day game viewing
Meet your professional driver guide at your hotel in Arusha town at 08:30 am. Drive to Arusha National Park for half-day trekking around the park with an armed ranger. You will get to experience the wildlife up close and visit the magnificent waterfalls.
Arusha National Park includes the slopes, summit, and ash cone of Mount Meru, the Momela Lakes, Ngurdoto Crater, and the lush highland forests that blanket its lower slopes.
Enjoy a half-day game viewing around the Momela Lakes with a picnic lunch until late evening. Spot wildlife while enjoying the spectacular views of Mount Meru and Kilimanjaro, waterfalls, lakes, swamps, and steep cliffs. The park is home to many varieties of smaller game as well as giraffe, elephant, black and white colobus monkey, water buffalo, bushbuck, and over 400 species of birdlife.
Late in the evening, drive to Mc Elly's Hotel in Arusha or similar for overnight, bed and breakfast. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mc-Elly's Hotel
Wildlife in Arusha NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Tarangire National Park - game viewing
Tarangire National Park - game viewing
After breakfast, you will leave at 9:30 am with a picnic lunch box to Tarangire National Park for a full-day game drive.
Tarangire National Park covers 2,600 square kilometers and at dry times, the concentration of animals rivals that of the better-known Serengeti. The game numbers are staggering; 30,000 zebra, 25,000 wildebeest, 5,000 buffalo, 3,000 elephant, 2,500 Maasai giraffe, and over 1,000 fringe-eared oryx (gemsbok). The predators include lions, cheetahs, and leopards. You will also see flocks of birds including green-wooded hoopoes, Fisher lovebirds, white-bellied go-away birds, and giant kingfishers.
Drive to Eileens Trees Inn Lodge or similar for dinner and overnight. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eileen's Trees Inn
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Lake Natron and waterfalls
Lake Natron and waterfalls
After breakfast have a game drive en route to Maasai Giraffe eco Lodge at Lake Natron. Have a hot lunch after lunch drive to the bottom of the Mountain and start a short walk to the Ngarasero waterfalls for swimming to the River pool and enjoy viewing deferent spices of birds and butterflies
At evening walk again to the car and drive to Lake Natron to see one of the major flocks of Flamingos breeding areas and you will enjoy to see deferent species of waterbeds.
Late evening after sunset you will drive back to Maasai Giraffe Ecco Lodge for dinner and then settle in for your overnight stay. Breakfast Lunch and Dinner.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Natron
- Accommodation:
- Maasai Giraffe Eco Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Climb Mt Ol Donyo Lengai (9442 ft/2878 m) active volcanic - Maasai Mountain of God
Climb Mt Ol Donyo Lengai (9442 ft/2878 m) active volcanic - Maasai Mountain of God
At 1:00 am, have a cup of coffee and meet the Maasai English-speaking mountain guide who will take you to the summit. You will drive to the Mount Ol Donyo Lengai climbing starting point. It is hard and steep (you have to be a mountaineer). Climb the rocks with your guide up to Mount Ol Donyo Lengai summit (9,442ft /2,878m) and see the volcanic eruption.
From the summit, you can view the magnificent landscape of the wonderful Ngorongoro Crater, Mount Longido, Lake Natron, Maasai bushland, Mount Kitumbeine, Mount Kerimasi, etc.
After sunrise, you descend slowly to the starting point where the driver will wait to take you back to the camp for lunch and rest.
Dinner and overnight will be at Maasai Giraffe Eco Lodge or similar. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Natron
- Accommodation:
- Maasai Giraffe Eco Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Game drive en route to Serengeti National Park
Game drive en route to Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast, continue your journey further north while the vehicle slowly climbs along several serpentine turns.
Enjoy a last view of Lake Natron before leaving the Rift Valley behind and continuing via the village of Wasso to Northern Serengeti. Enter Serengeti by midday at Kleins Gate and enjoy a game drive on the way to Seronera in the center of Serengeti.
On the way, you will enjoy viewing a lot of different wild species of animals e.g. leopards, lions, buffaloes, elephants, giraffes, zebras, and birds.
Proceed to your dinner and overnight accommodation at Tanzania Bush Camp or similar. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
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Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Serengeti National Park - game viewing
Serengeti National Park - game viewing
Early, at 05:45 am, take your breakfast box and proceed for a sunrise and morning game drive until 12:30 pm. Return to the camp and collect your picnic lunch box.
You then proceed for a full-day game drive. Your guide will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year. We can spend time at the Hippo Pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water, happily living alongside the crocodiles. We can view a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, and sometimes be surrounded by wildebeests and zebras. We journey from the wide, open plains to the kopjes. These volcanic, rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals. From the top, we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti.
Dinner and overnight will be at Tanzania Bush Camp or similar. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Tanzania Bush Camps Central Serengeti
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Crater rim
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Crater rim
After an early breakfast, you will pack everything and take your picnic lunch box. Depart for a full-day game drive en route to Eileens Trees Inn Lodge.
You are in the Serengeti plains, a natural wonder of the world, and the first natural African icon. Explore wild predators such as lions, cheetahs, and leopards hiding in the branches of trees. See flamingos and waterbirds on Lake Magadi, as well as lovebirds and kingfishers across the Seronera River Valley.
It is only in the Serengeti that you will see millions of big wild mammals and the wildebeest migration. You will then depart with an en route game drive across the kopjes of the Serengeti plains to explore the cheetahs, lions, and leopards. Hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, elephants, and small antelopes are plenty, finding their survival in this plain.
Dinner and overnight will be at Eileens Trees Inn Lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Eileen's Trees Inn
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Ngorongoro Crater floor - game viewing
Ngorongoro Crater floor - game viewing
At 06:00 am, have breakfast and take your picnic lunch box before you descend over 600 meters to the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a 6-hour game-viewing drive.
The Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephant. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopards (which sometimes require a trained eye to spot).
We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of hippos, flamingos, and other waterbirds can usually be seen here.
Late in the evening, drive to Eileen's Trees Inn Lodge or similar for dinner and overnight. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Eileen's Trees Inn
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Lake Manyara National Park - game viewing
Lake Manyara National Park - game viewing
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park. Enjoy a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch at Lake Manyara National Park.
This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatic wildlife areas and is located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants. The uniqueness of Lake Manyara includes its tree-climbing lions as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.
Later in the evening, drive to Tulia Boutique Hotel and Spa or similar for dinner and overnight. A hot shower, mosquito nets, and telephone connection are available.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Tulia Boutique Hotel & Spa
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Arusha Town tour and shopping-Kilimanjaro Airport
Arusha Town tour and shopping-Kilimanjaro Airport
After breakfast walk around Arusha Town for shopping, then proceed to either Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
