10-Day Trek Mt Longido-Mt Ol Donyolengai and Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Mt-Longido Trekking and Maasai Cultural Tour

You'll be picked up from your hotel in Arusha at 08:30 am and drive for 2 hours to Longido Maasai village. Then guided by Maasai warriors, walk 5 hours with packed lunch to the bird's refuge. You'll see weavers, sunbirds, barbets, turacos, buffalo weavers, etc. Walk through the foothills of Mount Longido to see different traditional medicine plant species. On clear days, you can see more than 200 km and view all the northern Tanzania mountains. This trek will take more than 7 hours.

At night Maasai warriors slaughter a goat and show you how they make the traditional barbeque. You'll also enjoy the Maasai traditional dance and eat the barbeque dinner. Your overnight stay will be at Longido Campsite. Campfire will be available as you enjoy storytelling with Maasai elders.

Lunch, dinner and overnight at the Longido Campsite.

Main Destination:

Mount Longido

Activities:

• Nature hike/walk

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Muriatata Maasai Village (Big Rocks) to Kitumbeine Trekking

After an early breakfast, drive halfway to Muriatata Maasai village (Big Rocks) guided by Maasai warriors and old men. Trek through the Maasai plains for 4-5 hours with packed lunch to Kitumbeine Maasai village.

In this area, clients expect to see giraffes, gerenuks, antelopes, small bucks and different species of birds. Pass to Maasai bomas (families) and enjoy a nice view of northern mountains e.g. Mt Kilimajaro, Mt Meru, Mt Ol Doinyo Lengai 'Maasai Mountain of God.'

In the evening, see how the Maasai women milk cattle. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at a Maasai boma campsite. Campfire will be available as you enjoy storytelling with Maasai elders and warriors.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be at Kitumbeine Maasai Village Campsite.

Main Destination:

Maasai Village (Cultural Village)

Activities:

• Nature hike/walk

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Kitumbeine Maasai Village- Naikara Maasai Village Trekking

After an early breakfast, you'll be guided by Maasai warriors and old men for a 5-6 hours trek to Naikara Maasai Village (20 kilometers).

In this Maasai land, you will see many wild animals such as giraffes, dik-dik, lizards and small bucks grazing together with the domestic animals. Dinner and your overnight stay at a Maasai village.

Campfire will be available as well as storytelling with Maasai elders and warriors.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Naikara Village Bushcamp.

Main Destination:

Maasai Village (Cultural Village)

Activities:

• Nature hike/walk

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Naikara Maasai Village to Gilai Bomba Maasai Village Trekking

After breakfast, you'll be guided by Maasai warriors and old men for a 5-6 hours trek from Naikara Maasai village to Gilai Bomba Maasai Village (20 kilometers).

You'll have magnificent views of Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Meru, Mt Ol Doinyo Lengai and Mt Longido. You'll also see bird species and small bucks. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at a Maasai boma camp. Under a big tree campfire will be available as well as storytelling by Maasai elders warriors.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Gilai Bomba Campsite.

Main Destination:

Lake Natron

Activities:

• Walking safari (with an armed guide)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Gilai Bomba Maasai Village to Lake Natron Trekking

After early breakfast, you'll be guided by a Maasai warrior for a 3.5 hours trek (10 kilometers) with your lunch packets. After lunch, drive to Natron Campsite and rest for a few hours at Ol Doinyo Lengai (Maasai Mountain of God).

At 3:00 pm, walk to Lake Natron to view the large flocks of flamingoes and other species of water birds. Visit Munge thundering waterfalls, then walk back to Kamakia Campsite. Campfire will be available and storytelling with Maasai elders and warriors. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Natron Campsite.

Main Destination:

Lake Natron

Activities:

• Nature hike/walk

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Mt Ol Doinyo Lengai Active Volcano 9442 ft / 2878 m

At 1.00am have a cup of coffee and drive to the climbing starting point. Maasai warrior English speaking mountain guide guide you, it is hard and steep, you have to be a mountaineer, there is climbing on the rocks, climb with your guide up to the Mt Oldonyolengai Summit 9442 ft / 2878m see Volcanic eruption, view the magnificent landscape of the wonderful Ngorongoro Crater, Mt Longido, Lake Natron, Maasai Bush-land, Mt Kitumbeine, Mt Kerimasi etc

After sunrise descend down slowly slowly to the starting point, the driver will wait you there and drive back to the camp, then return back to the campsite for lunch.

After lunch drive to Kleins campsite for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Ol Doinyo Lengai

Activities:

• Night nature hike/walk

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Serengeti National Park Game Drive

After breakfast, have a game drive with your picnic lunch en route to Serengeti National Park. The vast Serengeti plains is home to a huge variety of animals and birds. Search among the trees and kopjes for the elusive leopards and cheetah as well as wildebeest migration. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the Pimbi campsite.

Main Destination:

Serengeti National Park

Best Time To Visit January to February and June to October (Different areas are best at different times)

High Season July to March (The Seronera area is crowded)

Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Serengeti NP

ElephantCommon

LionCommon

CheetahCommon

BuffaloAbundant

ZebraAbundant

WildebeestAbundant

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GiraffeCommon

HippoCommon

HyenaCommon

LeopardOccasional

Black RhinoVery Rare

Wild DogVery Rare

White RhinoNone

Activities:

• Game drive (pop-up roof 4x4 vehicle)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Serengeti NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater

Early in the morning have a cup of coffee and have a Sunrise game drive in Serengeti National Park until 08:00am go back to the camp for a full breakfast.

After breakfast, pack everything, continue with full day game drive en route with picnic lunch boxes to Simba campsite at the rim of Ngorongoro crater.

Only in Serengeti, you will see millions of big wild mammals and maybe wildebeest migration. Then, you will depart with en route game watching across the Kopies of Serengeti 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 stay at Simba campsite.

Main Destination:

Serengeti National Park

Activities:

• Game drive (pop-up roof 4x4 vehicle)

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• On the crater rim of Serengeti NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive

After early breakfast, at 06:00am you will descend to the crater floor for about six-hour game drive with picnic lunch boxes,

Crater is a beautiful moment to experience especially in the morning hours. It is a good time in which you can meet Lions hunting and hippos returning into the water after a whole night struggling for food.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the world’s garden and the place in which you can find some species of wild flowers. Here, you will also have an amazing experience to see the natural crater, flamingos. Also, Ngorongoro is where to find the black rhinos regularly inside the small forest.

Late afternoon you will ascend the crater and drive to Arusha Mc Ellys Hotel for Dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Ngorongoro Crater

Best Time To Visit June to October (Wildlife viewing is best)

High Season Most of the year – July to March (Expect crowds)

Best Weather June to October (Rainfall is little to none)

Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater

Black RhinoCommon

LionCommon

BuffaloAbundant

ZebraAbundant

WildebeestAbundant

HyenaAbundant

Show more

ElephantCommon

HippoCommon

White RhinoOccasional

LeopardOccasional

GiraffeNone

CheetahNone

Wild DogNone

Activities:

• Game drive (pop-up roof 4x4 vehicle)

Accommodation:

Arusha Tourist Inn

• Budget hotel located in Arusha (City)

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Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Transfer-Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport

After breakfast, you'll have a short Arusha town tour and shopping, then transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport.

Main Destination:

Kilimanjaro Airport

Activities:

• No wildlife-viewing activities on this day

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinks not included

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.