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Arrival
Day 1
Dar Es Salaam City Tour
Dar Es Salaam City Tour
On arrival at Julius Nyerere International Airport, you will meet your guide, who will pick you up and start your trip to the Dar city center. If the time allows, you'll enjoy a Dar City tour. After the tour, your guide will take you to a hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Dar Es Salaam (City)
- Accommodation:
- Hotel Slipway
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Dar- Dodoma City Tour
Dar- Dodoma City Tour
After breakfast, you will start your journey early in the morning, heading to the capital city of Tanzania (Dodoma). You will get a chance to take a sightseeing tour in Dodoma, including the Parliament buildings (called the Bunge). Tourists can visit during sessions, although they must carry passports to enter, to ensure national security.
- Main Destination:
- Dodoma (City)
- Accommodation:
- Morena Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Dodoma-Kondoa Irangi-Tarangire National Park
Dodoma-Kondoa Irangi-Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you'll drive to Kondoa Irangi rock paintings, which are found in Kondoa District. Most of the paintings are at Kolo forests, where there are several cultural and heritage paintings, which portray the ancient lifestyle of the Warangi community. The area was the residence of Chief Mtemi, one of the traditional leaders in Tanzania. There are also several secret places and trees used for ritual performances, paintings of different animals and human beings, hot and cold water springs, and the beautiful landscape. After the tour at Kondoa, you'll proceed to Tarangire. Tarangire is famous for its large elephant population. We slowly drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Sangaiwe Tented Lodge
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you'll drive into Tarangire, which is famous for its large elephant population. You will have a full day game drive at the park, which will give you an experience to see impalas, elands, elephants, ostriches, and different species of birds. Later, you'll slowly drive to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Sangaiwe Tented Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, your driver will drive you to Lake Manyara National Park.
The park is famous for having tree-climbing lions, pelicans, and flamingos, as well as also consist other bird species. Therefore, during a game drive inside the park, you will be able to spot elephants, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, leopards, spotted hyenas, wildebeest, warthogs, hippos, African Cape buffalo, etc. Upon entering the entrance gate of the park, you will be welcomed by a troop of baboons. It is also possible to customize your itinerary and add some activities such as canoe safari out on the lake, treetops walkway, cycling, walking, etc. Check with your safari expert or tour consultant and see if these activities will be available at the time you visit.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- Manyara Best View Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Lake Manyara-Lake Natron
Lake Manyara-Lake Natron
After breakfast, you'll drive to Lake Natron and enter the Great Rift Valley, passing via Engaruka basin and into a semi-desert Area, hot, wild, and dusty with extinct volcanoes Kitumbene and Gelai off to the right and the Mountain of God “Ol Doinyo Lengai” always in front.
Around midday, you'll arrive at Falls Camp on the banks of the Engaresero River, a welcome place to shower or bathe in the river, or take a trek to the waterfalls hidden in the Western wall of the Rift Valley.
Rest and around midnight, you'll drive to and start the climb of Lengai. You should be able to see lava glowing once at the peak.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Natron
- Accommodation:
- Lake Natron Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Lake Natron
Lake Natron
After breakfast, you'll enjoy the sunrise and the views up the Rift Valley. Around midday, you'll arrive at Falls Camp on the banks of the Engaresero River, a welcome place to shower or bathe in the river, or take a trek to the waterfalls hidden in the Western wall of the Rift Valley. You'll descend around lunch and drive to Lake Natron, one of the major Flamingo breeding grounds in East Africa. En route, you'll visit a Maasai “Boma” village.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Natron
- Accommodation:
- Lake Natron Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Lake Natron- Serengeti National Park at Lobo
Lake Natron- Serengeti National Park at Lobo
On this day, after having breakfast, your driver will pick you up and start your trip to the Serengeti National Park. You'll proceed to Serengeti National Park with an en route game drive. On this day, you will explore the beauty of Serengeti National Park. You will be able to spot several wild animals such as lions, leopards, black rhinos, elephants, zebras, gazelles, wildebeest, and African cape buffalo. You will proceed with the game drive till late afternoon. Your safari driver will transfer you to your campsite/lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Northern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Serengeti View Camp - Togoro (North)
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunches for a full-day game drive to a vast herd of wildebeests along with its partners: zebras, elands, and gazelles. You can encounter leopards and hyenas, and ahead by giant Nile crocodiles. The beauty of the landscape, stretching without end beneath an infinite sky on the Serengeti, changes something within the watcher, who becomes more aware of the place of humankind within the drama of the animal world. In the evening, you'll return to the camp/lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
On this day, after breakfast, you will have an early morning game so that you can get an opportunity to spot predators while they’re in action and proceeds with the discovery of more wildlife and a chance to enjoy the varied landscapes of the Serengeti National Park, you may also have the opportunity to see the resident predators, leopards, cheetah, and lions, fulfilling their role in the circle of life. Lunch will be an unforgettable experience enjoyed in the middle of the bush. After the game drive, your driver will take you back to your lodge/camp for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Serengeti National Park-Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Serengeti National Park-Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, you'll enjoy an en route game drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area via Olduvai Gorge, which is a rich archaeological site in Tanzania where evidence of the first humans, Zinjanthropus boisei, was found in 1959. Olduvai is a misspelling of Oldupai, a Maasai word for a wild sisal plant that grows in the area.
One day in 1959, Mary went out to work as usual, leaving Louis behind with a headache. She discovered fossilized parts of a skull and upper teeth of a type of hominin that had not been previously identified.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Highlands
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Lion's Paw Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, you’ll visit Ngorongoro Crater, one of the most beautiful natural sights in Africa. You’ll experience otherworldly beauty with extraordinary wildlife. Watch as, from above, morning mist rolls up and over the crater rim, and notice how the steep walls suggest a place unlike any other. Down below on the crater floor, you'll explore a lost world preserved in a state of pristine isolation, one that shelters lions and hyenas, elephants and black rhinos, flamingos, and golden jackals. There are also forests, hippo-filled lakes, a salt pan, and hyena dens, and you’ll never lose the sense that you’ve stumbled into a safari theme park where everything’s wild. You will have your lunch in lunchboxes. You will eat at the picnic area inside the park while enjoying the magnificent view of the Ngorongoro landscape. Later, you will drive to Karatu for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Bougainvillea Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 13
Lake Eyasi-Visit Datoga
Lake Eyasi-Visit Datoga
After breakfast, you'll keep on exploring the Lake Eyasi area, visit local fishermen, and visit the Datoga community, a semi-nomadic and pastoralist community of Tanzania that lives in the northern part of Tanzania around the Manyara region. The Datoga are also a Nilotic group of people. They live around Lake Eyasi as well as in the semi-arid areas of Tanzania. Markings on the faces of the Datoga, which are around the eyes, are among the unique identification features of the Datoga. You will see Datoga women grind maize flour in a local method using stones, and Datoga men iron smithing using local methods, and other practices of men, such as drinking honey beer on ritual occasions, like funerals.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 14
Lake Eyasi- Visit Hadzabe
Lake Eyasi- Visit Hadzabe
After breakfast, you will visit the Hadzabe people, who are known as bushmen. You will learn their culture of hunting in groups with bows and arrows for survival. They survive with what the environment provides. You will learn how they treat different diseases using their own medicine. You will visit their homesteads, learn more about them, and hunt with them.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 15
Lake Eyasi-Karatu-Mto wa Mbu
Lake Eyasi-Karatu-Mto wa Mbu
After breakfast, your safari guide will pick you up and transfer you straight to Mto wa Mbu. During this tour, you will get a chance to meet the local inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu and see how they provide for themselves. Part of the tour is experiencing how Tanzania’s lands are farmed and how its products are processed. You’ll learn about the uses of different bananas and get a chance to try Tanzania’s very own banana beers, a local brewery by the local community.
You will also visit a waterfall, several family craftsmanship, have a local lunch, made by the local mama of the town. Later, you'll transfer to Arusha or KIA for your onward trip.
- Main Destination:
- Mto Wa Mbu (Town)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
