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 Mount Kilimanjaro (Day Tour)
Distance: 100 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1-2 hrs
After breakfast your driver pickup and transfer you from Arusha to Moshi Marangu gate. Your day tour begins at 07:00hrs Drive 3hours to the Marangu Gate, where you’ll register at the gate with the Kilimanjaro National Park authorities, and begin hiking at around 11.00hrs The Marangu Route, which you follow today, approaches Kilimanjaro from the southeast. You’ll be attempting to reach the Mandara Hut and will only trek through the lower altitudes, taking our picnic lunch on the way to the Mandara Hut. Once you reach the hut at 14:00hrs, you’ll stop for a rest for 30 minutes and then descend slowly back to Marangu Gate for 2.5 hours. Company Travel vehicle will be waiting to pick you up and return you to your hotel in Arusha, arriving at 20:00hrs. Dinner and Overnight at Mount Meru Hotel.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation:Mount Meru Hotel.
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 03: Arusha to Arusha National Park
Distance: 51 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hrs
Activities in the park.
- Walking Tour
- Game Drive
- Canoeing in Momela Lake
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.
Canoeing Momella Lake (Arusha National Park)
Enjoy a peaceful and scenic canoeing safari following the shorelines of small Momella Lake. On this 2- 2.5 hours canoe safari you can view buffaloes, bushbuck, giraffes, hippos and many water birds living in and close to the water.
- Where do we meet: Small Lake Momella (inside Arusha National Park)
- Time: mornings or afternoons
- Strenuousness: low
- Equipment used: stable 2-persons fibre glass canoes
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 Mount Meru Hotel for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mount Meru Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 04: 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 05: Mto wa Mbu Culture & Walking Tour
A melting pot of cultures, Mto Wa Mbu is thought to be one of the only places in Tanzania where there are representatives from all 120 tribes living happily side by side. Although the name translates as ‘Mosquito River’, due to the permanent water source in the village, we fortunately didn’t see many mosquitoes.
Your guide is very likely to be from the village itself so you will have a unique opportunity to see the community through his eyes. Tours last around 2–3 hours, but are very flexible. During your visit you’ll get a good feel for the social side of the village – the farms and the milling machines, the schools, markets and churches. Your guide will be happy to answer any questions you might have, and will help you to gain an understanding of the inner workings of this typical Tanzanian community.
You’ll likely start in the village banana plantation, where they grow more than 30 different varieties of bananas. As well as finding out how this staple fruit is grown, you’ll hear about the different uses of the plant as a whole, from food to materials for building and art.
Next you might visit a youth art project, and learn about the different painting styles and techniques. The artists are happy for you to ask questions and take photos, and while there are opportunities to purchase their artwork, which makes wonderful souvenirs, we were impressed that there was no hard sell or pressure to buy.
Then you’ll visited a wood workshop, where you can watch skilled members of the Makonde tribe carefully carving intricate figurines, masks and household objects. They’ll show you the different types of wood and finishings, and explain some of the historical and cultural meanings behind the carvings. You can even have a go at doing some carving yourself! Again, there are opportunities to purchase carvings should you wish, but with no hard sell or aggressive haggling, which we found very refreshing.
Moving on, you’ll come to a local ‘bar’ to try mbege, the traditional banana and millet beer that is brewed and drunk mainly by the Chagga tribe. The process of making this brew is quite labour intensive, and the beer is usually served in one large cup, which is passed around the group, and refilled as needed.
Your tour will finish in the bustling local market, where you can wander around stalls selling fruit and vegetables stalls, spices and meat. Your guide will stop and explain points of interest, and give you the opportunity to try and smell a variety of foods. A real treat for the senses!
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation:Ngorongoro Oldean Mountai Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 06: Mto wa Mbu to Lake Manyara National Park.
Distance: 50 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hr
Activities in Lake Manyara
- Lake Manyara Treetop Walkway
- Half Day Game Drive
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.
Half Day Game Drive:
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 07: Lake Manyara to Lake Eyasi.
Distance: 110km
Non – game viewing time: 2 -3hrs
Walking Tour
After breakfast you will heard to Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This less visited lake lies at the base of the Eyasi escarpment on the western rift valley wall. This afternoon you will be introduced to the extraordinary people who belong to an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer Bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more. Some wildlife and a wide range of bird species can be viewed during walks around the lake, which can be arranged. During late afternoon you’ll drive back to Karatu at Ngorongoro Oldean Mountai Lodge Dinner and Overnight.
Activities during Lake Eyasi
- Hadzabe & Datoga Tribes Culture Learning
- Hunting with Hadzabe and prepared their foods
- How they produce fire by local methods.
- Walking around the Lake shore (Birds Tour)
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation::Ngorongoro Oldean Mountai Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 08: 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: Mount Meru Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 09: 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
- Professional, English speaking guide
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch & Dinner
- Accommodation during safari
- Airport Transfer to and from
- All national park fees
- Mineral water
- Free Wi-Fi
Tour Excludes:
- Flight
- Visa fees
- Tips to Driver/Guide
- Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.
