DAY 01: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha
Distance: 43 Km
Time: 45 Minutes
Welcome to Tanzania. On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you’ll meet your company arranged driver who will transfer you to Arusha city to Mount Meru Hotel for dinner and overnight. Our driver will display your group name on an signboard. These procedures ensure that you are picked up by the correct driver, rather than by some of the airport taxi drivers who are looking for business. You’ll get a chance for Safari briefing/introduction before your dinner.
- Hours:45 Minutes
- Meals: Dinner and Overnight.
- Accommodation: Mount Meru Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 02: Arusha to Arusha National Park
Activities in the park.
- Walking Tour
- Game Drive
- Canoeing in Momela Lake
After breakfast the tour departs from Arusha city to Arusha park. Here you will participate in a half day walking safari escorted by ranger , Kayaking at Momella Lake and a half day game drive. The Arusha National Park and particularly the Momella Lakes offer gorgeous bird-watching opportunities. The national park is inhabited by over 400 different migrant and resident bird species. The most famous bird species in the Arusha National Park are water fowls such as little grebes, eagles, pochards, geese, hamerkop, red shark, spurwinged goose, woodpecker, herons, secretary bird, grey parrot. Also the park include animals like Buffaloes, waterbucks, giraffes, warthogs, zebras and baboons can be seen all year round. During evening drive back to Arusha city to your requested accommodation as requested.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner
- Accommodation:Mount Meru Hotel
- Guide:Professional English speaking guide .
DAY 03: Arusha to Tarangire National Park.
Distance: 130 Km
Non – game viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs
After breakfast the tour departs. First stop is Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before you head off on safari. Afterwards you head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the center of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras. In Tarangire National Park northern Tanzania’s you will enjoy finest birding. The low baobab-clad plains and fever-tree groves here support many cool species including three Tanzanian endemics and near-endemics: Over 550 bird’s species found in the park including Ashy Starling, Yellow-collared Lovebird, and Rufus-tailed Weaver. The lush grasses are full of ground birds like Northern White-bellied Bustard and both Red-necked and Yellow-necked Francolins and many others. Later afternoon you will drive to Karatu to Ngorongoro Oldean Mountai Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Oldean Mountai Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 04: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park.
Distance: 50 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hr
Lake Manyara Treetop Walkway
After breakfast the tour depart to Lake Manyara park. The tour will start by walking in the park which conducted under the care and perfect security from the park ranger.Being so high up in the trees offers a unique perspective from which to observe the wildlife: it’s not often that you’re at eye level with the birds and monkeys. With Lake Manyara known for its great variety of birdlife, along with blue and vervet monkeys, and huge troops of baboons, there’s plenty to look out for with the help of your guide.
Elephant and buffalo are known to wander through the forest area where the walkway is situated, so you may be lucky enough to catch sight of them from above. From your quiet vantage point above the forest floor, you may even spy some of the more shy species too, such as dik dik and other flighty antelope.
Then you will be back to your vehicle ready for game drive in the lake manyara. Lake Manyara National Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this the small Park is able to support a large number of animal species and incredible bird life. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world, also include Buffalo, Elephant Wildebeest, Zebra, Waterbuck, Warthog, Impala and also Manyara health population lion are famous for their tree-climbing antics.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation::Ngorongoro Oldean Mountai Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 05: Karatu to Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.
Distance: 145 Km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After an early breakfast with your picnic lunch box from your lodge, you’ll descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You’ll 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 flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Late afternoon after extensive game drive you’ll drive back to Arusha to your hotel or airport drop off.
DAY 06: Departure from Arusha to JRO Airport.
OPTIONAL (GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY)
You can also arrange to visit girls center Inuka Tusonge Foundation (ITF) and spent at least one hour with underprivileged girls and share some ideas with them while having a cup of African coffee, which arranged by the company before you leave to the airport.
Or go direct to the JRO Airport.
After tasty breakfast from the hotel in Arusha you will be picked up for the transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) where you’ll board your flight back to your lovely country with good memorable of Africa
Tour Includes:
- Arusha Accommodation before.
- Transportation in 4×4 pop-up safari vehicle
- Professional, English speaking guide
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch & Dinner
- Accommodation during safari
- Overnight Accommodation
- Airport Transfer to and from
- Canoeing fees at Momela Lake
- Ranger during walking tour
- All national park fees
- Mineral water
Tour Excludes:
- Visa fees
- Flight
- Tips to Driver/Guide
- Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.
