Itinerary

Day 1

Arrival Nairobi
On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport you will be met by our tour manager who will brief you on your safari and thereafter you will be transferred to your Nairobi hotel where you will rest for the night as you prepare to depart for Arusha town the next day.
Dinner and overnight stay at Fairview Hotel.

Day 2

Nairobi Arusha;
After breakfast at your Nairobi hotel depart for Arusha town by shuttle bus via Namanga border town for immigration formalities and arrive in time for lunch. After Lunch, you will be taken for a tour of Arusha town till evening.
All meals and overnight stay at Impala Hotel.

Day 3

Arusha-Ikidingâ Village Visit
After breakfast you will depart for Ikidinga village which lies7km north of Arusha town and is a 20 minute drive. Walking is also possible but will take 2 hours to reach the starting point of the tour. You will enjoy a full day tour in the village and get the opportunity to enjoy a traditional meal at the Mainyoito womenâs group during lunch time.

The village of Ikidingâ lies at the foot of Mt. Meru,where the sounds or rivers,birds and people are in harmony.It offers a view into the culture of the Wa-arusha tribe.While at the village you will get to experience a trail through the fields,a visit to Sembeo Boma and crossing the Ngarenaro river to reach Leloto viewpoint where you will head to the Maasai Craftsmen Group and discover their culture as well.
Dinner and overnight stay at Impala hotel.

Day 4

Arusha-Ilkurot Village;
After breakfast you will depart for Ilkurot village by shuttle bus which is situated about 20km west of Arusha town. You will enjoy a full day tour in the village where you will be able to visit the market and a Maasai womenâs handicraft group that makes ornaments from beads and natural products. At Lunch time you will enjoy a traditional Maasai delicacy prepared by the Maasai women that includes nyama choma or barbequed meat, green vegetables, herbal tea, coffee, fresh milk, cassava, sweet potato, bread, eggs and fruits.
A visit to the Ilkurot village will expose you to watching Maasai dances, groups of artisans and their handicrafts, traditional healers and bee keepers. A visit to a Maasai holy tree where the Maasai offer sacrifices as part of rituals and to a Maasai Boma to see the traditional houses and lifestyle of the Maasai will also be very exciting.
Dinner and overnight stay at Impala hotel

Day 5

Arusha- Arusha National Park;
After breakfast you will take a drive to Arusha National Park and enjoy a full day game drive.Arusha National Park lies in between the peaks of Kilimanjaro and Meru, an outstandingly beautiful area. The Park has a wide range of habitats, from the string of crater lakes, a habitat for birds, through the highland montane forest up to the impressive summit of Mount Meru.
The forests a wide variety of birds and other animals, like the stunning bushbuck easily glimpsed in the glades between the ancient cedar trees, or the black and white colobus monkeys on top of the trees. The interesting geology of the area is reflected in the impressive view of the ash cone and cliff face leading to the summit of Mount Meru. Walk in the park with an armed ranger.
All meals and overnight stay at Ngurdoto Mountain lodge.

Day 6

Arusha National Park -Lake Tarangire National Park;
After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park, the third largest national park in Tanzania. Have lunch en-route.
Tarangire National Park covers an area of 2,600 sq km and was established in 1970. The park has numerous baobab trees that will primarily catch your attention. The Park derived its name from the Tarangire River that rises in the highlands of Central Tanzania and winds its way through the game sanctuary. The river beguilingly lures the herds of plains migrants from the desiccated surrounding area to its shrunken – but permanent blackish waters during the dry season.
Dinner and overnight stay at Olivers Camp or Similar.

Day 7

Lake Tarangire National Park;
After breakfast you will enjoy a full day game drive through the park.
Tarangire National park has an atmosphere of remoteness and has fewer visitors than all the other parks in Tanzania, herons can be seen as well as elephants in large herds, cheetah, jackal, fish eagle, marabou stork and hippos
All meals and overnight stay at Olivers Camp or Similar.

Day 8

Lake Tarangire National Park Lake Manyara National Park;
After breakfast, you will go for more game viewing drives before departing after lunch for lake Manyara area. You will arrive ready for dinner at your tented camp.
Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Manyara Lodge or Camp.

Day 9

Lake Manyara National Park;
After breakfast you will spend the whole day taking morning and afternoon game drives through the park.
Lake Manyara covers 330 sq. km, 70% of which is occupied by the lake. Its varied ecosystem consists of ground water forests, acacia woodland, and open savannah grassland along the lakeshores and sustains a wealth of wildlife, including the Big Five -Lion, Elephant, Leopard, and Rhino and Buffalo the Park renowned for its climbing lions with no mane.
All meals and overnight stay at Lake Manyara Lodge or Tented Camp.

Day 10

Lake Manyara - Lake Eyasi
After your breakfast, have another game viewing drive as you depart from the park. You will have your lunch on picnic. After lunch drive towards Ngorongoro Crater. Divert from your route, driving down a track to the remote Lake Eyasi, one of the Soda Lakes that adorned the Rift Valley. It is also the former lands of the elusive Hadzapi tribe, who you hope to meet up with and learn more about their fascinating culture.
Dinner and overnight stay at Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp or Similar.

Day 11

Lake Eyasi;
After breakfast, you will meet a group of the resident people the Hadzapi, accompanied by your bushman guide who has knowledge of this group of hunters and gatherers. Return to your campsite for lunch. After lunch have your Afternoon at leisure which would be a good idea to take a walk on the lake shore. The Hadzapi is hunter-gatherers group of people, also known as Bushmen, who speak a click-based language and move their encampments with the seasonal movements of the wildlife. Learn more about their daily routine and their activities such as hunting, wildlife tracking, making fire and harvesting honey from the bee hives and learn more about their customs and their way of life.
Dinner & overnight stay at Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp or Similar.

Day 12

Lake Eyasi
After breakfast, you will meet a group of the resident people the Hadzapi, accompanied by your bushman guide who has knowledge of this group of hunters and gatherers. Return to your campsite for lunch. After lunch have your Afternoon at leisure which would be a good idea to take a walk on the lake shore.
The Hadzapi is hunter-gatherers group of people, also known as Bushmen, who speak a click-based language and move their encampments with the seasonal movements of the wildlife. Learn more about their daily routine and their activities such as hunting, wildlife tracking, making fire and harvesting honey from the bee hives and learn more about their customs and their way of life.
Dinner & overnight stay at Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp or Similar.

Day 13

Serengeti National Park;
After breakfast enjoy the magnificent views across the Serengeti plains and explore the area in your vehicle while driving south, arrive in time for lunch at Ndutu lodge.
The Serengeti National Park is a continuation of the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya. It is one of Tanzanian’s largest and most famous national parks covering an area of 14,763sq.km the greatest spectacle of annual wildlife migration in the world happens in the two adjoining parks as about a million Wildebeest cross north and south looking for greener pasture. The Serengeti also boasts of its lions and Cheetahs whereas zebras number about 200,000 other animals include giraffes grant and Thomson gazelle Impalas, elands, warthogs and klipspringers. It is also rich with bird life.Dinner and overnight at Seronera Wildlife Lodge or a tented Camp.

Day 14

Serengeti National Park- Ndutu Area;
After breakfast have a full day game viewing in Ndutu Area.

The Ndutu area is in southern Serengeti is the best place to be for the annual wildebeest migration. For up to seven months of the year the huge herds remain in and around this area. A striking characteristic of this area is the stunning acacia woodland, which is immediately surrounded by the short grass plains. Within this wooded area is Lake Ndutu one of the Rift Valleys soda lakes. At the height of the wildebeest migration, and when heavy rains have fallen, often lines of wildebeest can be seen crossing the lake. Accompanying the wildebeest are large numbers of zebra and Thomson gazelles. Other animals that you are likely to see in this area are Elephants, lion, cheetah, leopard, buck, hyena, bat eared fox, African wildcat etc., are here all year round. The woodland provides a wonderful habitat for lots of different bird species. All meals and overnight stay at Seronera Wildlife Lodge or a tented Camp.

Day 15

Ndutu Area - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, you will drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area arriving in time for lunch at your lodge or campsite located on the crater rim. After lunch visit an authentic Maasai village (the enkang) in Ngorongoro area.The Maasai are well known widely for maintaining their culture. They believe that all cattle in the world belong to them, even though some may have temporarily found themselves in the possession of others. Thus, the Maasai are always justified in raiding their non-Maasai neighbors in order to "return" the cattle to the rightful owners. The Maasai have very elaborate rites of passage traditions. Boys are circumcised in their early teens in a ceremony attended by the entire village. The boy who flinches during this procedure brands himself as a coward and disgraces his family. Once circumcised, the young man becomes a member of the warrior class a Moran – and must live apart from the village (the Manyatta) with the other warriors. Eventually, at some point in his late teens or early twenties, a Moran is chosen to become a junior elder, earns the right to marry and returns to live in the village. For centuries the Maasai have hunted the lions on both as a test of manhood and to protect their cattle. The lions have learned to recognize the red robes and instinctively keep their distance. This explains why the Maasai love the red. Starting from the head where they cover it with red ochre up to dressing themselves with red stunning attire.

Dinner & overnight stay at Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge or a tented Camp.

Day 16

Ngorongoro Crater;
After breakfast, descend into the crater for a full day of game viewing. A picnic lunch will be taken on the crater floor.
Ngorongoro crater supports up to 25,000 large mammals. Grazers dominate, for example, the zebras, wildebeest (accounting for almost half the animals), gazelles, buffaloes, elands, hartebeests and wart hogs. There are examples of some grazers and browsers that they find this environment not suitable such as Giraffes, for example, they stay away because there is insufficient food at tree level; topi because they compete directly with wildebeest. Another interesting characteristic of this conservancy is that almost all of the populations of crater elephants are bulls. Breeding herds comprising large numbers of females and their young with a few attendant older males are probably unable to find sufficient quality food in the crater. Ngorongoro has carnivores in quantity, drawn by the large herds of prey. It has probably the densest population of large predators, mainly lions about 100 and more and 400 spotted hyenas, living in eight clans of up to eighty individuals. Both lions and hyenas will scavenge from each other, depending on weight of numbers and lack of enough food
Dinner & overnight stay at Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge or a tented Camp.

Day 17

Ngorongoro Conservation Area;
After breakfast have walk to Empakaai Crater, the views along the trail downwards to the crater soda lake of Empakaai are spectacular at every point. You will guided by an armed ranger. Look out for buffaloes, bushbucks, blue monkeys and birds such as flamingoes. All meals and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge or a tented Camp.

Day 18

Ngorongoro Conservation Area-Arusha Nairobi - Departure;
After breakfast drive to Arusha arriving in time for lunch.After lunch you shall then continue to Nairobi using a shuttle bus arriving in the evening at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in time to catch your flight to your next destination.
End of safari.

General Information

Duration:

18 Days

Location Start:

Nairobi.Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Location Finish:

Nairobi.Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Payment Types:

Cash, Paypal, Cheque, Travellers Cheque, Payment Transfer

We Speak:

English, Spanish

Extra Information

Inclusions -

All Airport transfers

Exclusions -

Hot air Balloon flight in Serengeti – US$ 499 per person extra