Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Arrival - Arusha
Arrival - Arusha
Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport and meet and greet our airport office representative who will assist you in case of any visa or passport control issues. You will then be welcomed in our office with refreshments where you will meet your guide. Transfer to your hotel in Arusha for dinner and overnight.
Arusha is a city in Tanzania, East Africa, located at the base of the volcanic Mount Meru. It's a gateway to many safari destinations and to Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895m, lying some 100 kilometers northeast.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Gran Melia Arusha
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast at the hotel and a short safari briefing, you will drive to Tarangire for a full-day game drive in Tarangire National Park. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Tarangire National Park is located slightly off the main safari route and is a lovely quiet park in Northern Tanzania. It is most famous for its elephant migration, birding, and quiet authentic safari atmosphere. The majority of travelers to the region either miss out on Tarangire altogether or venture into the park for only a matter of hours, leaving parts of Tarangire virtually untouched.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Nimali Tarangire
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast at the lodge, you will have a morning walking safari in the park escorted by an armed ranger. This is followed by a game drive. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Here, you will find herds of up to 300 elephants scratching the dry riverbed for underground streams. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem (a smorgasbord for predators). It is also the only place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Nimali Tarangire
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast at the camp, drive to Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively-tusked elephants.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, depart to Serengeti National Park in the Central Seronera area for a game drive in the park. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Serengeti National Park is well known for its healthy stock of resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five" named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters. The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem. The reclusive African leopard is commonly seen in the Seronera region but is present throughout the national park with a population of around 1,000.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Melia Serengeti Lodge
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, go on a full-day game drive in Central Serengeti (the Seronera area) to view the great migration. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. Here, you will meet guests from other companies with mostly a cold sandwich lunch while our services are 5-star. After lunch, we go on an afternoon game drive to view the great migration. In the evening, we check in at the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Serengeti National Park is well known for its healthy stock of resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five" named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters. The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Melia Serengeti Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast at the lodge, go on a full-day game drive in Serengeti National Park searching for big cats and the Big Five. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
The great migration is when a million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfill its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life. It is a frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests and mating. It is survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north, replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily. Then, the 1,000km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Melia Serengeti Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Breakfast at the lodge is followed by a game drive in Serengeti National Park searching for big cats and the Big Five. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.
"The only living things which look as if they really belong to it are the wild animals. Between the animals and Africa, there is an understanding that human beings have not yet earned" - Laurens van der Post, Venture to the Interior, 1963.
Today, the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Masai Mara National Reserve across the border in Kenya, protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth. It is one of the last great migratory systems still intact.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Highlands
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Lion's Paw Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Ngorongoro Crater - Lake Eyasi
Ngorongoro Crater - Lake Eyasi
After breakfast, go on a game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater for a full-day crater tour. Your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to Lake Eyasi for dinner and overnight.
The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20km across, 600m deep, and 300 sq km in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. 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.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Kisima Ngeda Camp
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Bushmen visit - Departure
Bushmen visit - Departure
After breakfast, we visit the Datoga and Busmen tribes and experience their hunting activities. In the afternoon, we return to the lodge for lunch whereafter we drive back to Arusha for drop-off at the airport.
Small groups of Hadzabe Bushmen live around Lake Eyasi. Their language resembles the click languages of other Bushmen further south in the Kalahari. Their small population was seriously threatened, in particular during the period when Julius Nyerere tried to introduce his Ujuma policy.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
