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: Green Mountain Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 02: Arusha to Arusha National Park
Distance: 51 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hrs
Activities in the park.
- Walking Tour
- Game Drive
After breakfast with picnic lunch the tour depart for Arusha National Park. The topography of this small park is amazingly varied including grassy plains, montane forest, volcanic craters, swamps, and saline lakes. On clear days you have excellent views of Mount Meru and of Mount Kilimanjaro. From this park hope to see giraffe, buffalo and black and white colobus monkeys, as well as some of the shy forest antelope – bushbuck, red duiker and maybe suni. You will have three activities to do in this park as follow.
Walking Tour: At the Momella Gate, an armed ranger will be waiting for you to accompany you on the walking safari that will give you the chance to experience the wildlife up-close. Only a few other national parks in Tanzania give you such an opportunity and it is something that should not be missed.
Game Drive: Get back to your safari vehicle so that you may continue with game drive before you head back to Arusha see giraffe, buffalo and black and white colobus monkeys, as well as some of the shy forest antelope – bushbuck, red duiker and other animals. 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, poachers, geese, hamerkop, red shark, spurwinged goose, woodpecker, herons, secretary bird and grey parrot. Later evening you will drive back to Green Mountain Hotel for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Green Mountain 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 Forest Tended Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tended Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 04: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park.
Distance: 50 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hr
After tasty breakfast from your hotel the tour will departs to Lake Manyara National Park. 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.
Lake Manyara National Park has over 300 bird species including Eurasian migrant birds, acacia associated birds, raptors, and 3 endangered Tanzanian species: Rufous-tailed weaver, Ashy starlings and Black-collared Lovebird. The bush clups on the edge of the floodplain is occupied by groups of Long-tailed fiscal, the rare Pangani Long claw. The birds in the Lake Manyara forest are: Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Narina Trogon, Crowned Hornbill, Schawlow’s Turaco, Emerald Cuckoo, Crowned Eagle and ground dwelling Crested Guinea fowl and many more can also be found in the Lake Manyara National Park. Late afternoon drive back to Karatu at Ngorongoro Forest Tended Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tended Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 05: Masai Boma Visiting-Culture Tour
After breakfast to your lodge the tour will depart to Manyara Masai Boma. This is one of our most popular Culture tours in the Masai tribe, which is based around a traditional Masai Boma (dwelling). This tour is led by Masai local guide and you will be told about tribal customs and the methods in which they build their dwellings. You will be welcomed by beautiful songs while dancing. Here you will be able to learn Masai culture and their daily activities as
- Learning how the Masai Women Milking in the morning
- Enjoy having Masai Dancing and Traditional Songs
- Learn How to make Masai Jewelry
- Distribution of Work according to age (Ngayon-Moran-Laibon-Leigwanan)
- Enjoying knowing how they sleep
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tended Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 06: 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.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 07: 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 & after safari.
- Transportation in 4×4 pop-up safari vehicle
- Accommodation during safari
- Professional, English speaking guide
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch & Dinner
- Airport Transfer to and from
- All national park fees
- Arusha park ranger
- Mineral water
- Free Wi-Fi
Tour Excludes:
- Flight
- Visa fees
- Tips to Driver/Guide
- Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.
