10 Days Safari And Caltural tour

10 Days Safari And Caltural tour

10 Days Safari And Caltural tour

10 Days – Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Lake Natron, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Eyasi

In this tour, we will cover the 6 most popular destinations in Tanzania – Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Lake Natron, Central Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Eyasi. The tour starts and ends at Arusha. With our experienced driver guides, it will be a trip of a lifetime!

Day 1 – Arusha to Tarangire

Pick up at 7:30 AM from your hotel in Arusha and depart for Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch for a full-day game drive. Tanzania’s third-largest National park is known for its majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River is the centerpiece of this park which is famous for some of the largest herds of elephants in Africa. Here you may see lion, leopard, cheetah, lesser kudu, buffalo, Oryx, eland, giraffe, and zebra. Post the game drive, you will head back to your lodge Marera Valley Lodge where a delicious dinner awaits you. (https://mareravalley.com)

Day 3 – Lake Manyara

Pick up at 7:00 AM from your hotel and depart for Lake Manyara National Park with a picnic lunch for a full-day game drive. As you enter the national park, lush forests of Acacia and Mahogany trees begin to set the mood for what is waiting ahead. The game drive will go on till evening with a small break for a picnic lunch. During the game, drive watches out for buffaloes, giraffes, impalas, baboons, and blue monkeys. Another spectacle of Lake Manyara National Park is the tree-climbing lions, however spotting them is a game of luck. In the right season, you can see the shoreline turning pink with millions of flamingos flocking there. Post the game drive, you will head back to your lodge Marera Valley Lodge where a delicious dinner awaits you. (https://mareravalley.com)

Day 4 – Lake Natron

Your day will begin after breakfast by about 8:00 AM. We depart with packed lunch boxes towards Lake Natron. Located about 3.5 hours drive away from Mto Wa Mbu/Manyara, Lake Natron is a surreal destination and unique natural spectacle. Its waters are highly alkaline and unusually shallow, averaging just one meter in depth. After checking into your lodge and a short break, put your walking shoes on as a Maasai tribesman takes you on a walk around the shores of Lake Natron on the lookout for birds, especially the lesser flamingos. Lake Natron is the most important and regular breeding site for lesser flamingos in East Africa hosting up to 2 million of them during the breeding season. The majority of egg-laying and hatching takes place from September to January. After the hike, you will head back to your lodge Lengai Safari Lodge for a well-deserved dinner and rest. (https://www.lengaisafarilodge.com/

Day 5 – Lake Natron to Central Serengeti

Your day starts early. Around 6:00 AM, accompanied by a Maasai guide, enjoy some light hiking to the nearby Ngare Sero waterfalls and relax in the cool spray of water cascading down the rocks of this scenic ravine. Make sure to bring your shoes! We return to our accommodation by 8:30 AM and finishing up a good breakfast, will head out towards the Serengeti National Park. This road trip takes you through a variety of sites: towns and villages, savannah and forest, and you’ll be able to spot animals like antelope, wildebeest, and zebra. We enter Serengeti in the afternoon. The Serengeti is arguably the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world. You will have an afternoon game drive in the endless plains of the Serengeti for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles or a pride of lions lounging in the shade. A picnic lunch will be done during the day-long game drives. The eventful day comes to an end with dinner and a good night’s rest in your accommodation at Sound Of Silence. for a well-deserved dinner and rest (https://www.serengetisoundofsilence.com/

Day 6 & 7 – Central Serengeti

You can either have a relaxed breakfast and depart for full-day game drives around 9:00 AM with packed lunch and return back to the lodge late afternoon around 6:00 PM. Or you can depart at 6:00 AM on an early morning game drive. Later return to the accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit and depart on an afternoon game drive with packed lunch. You will explore the central portion of the Serengeti National Park today. The legendary Serengeti National Park is the most renowned safari destination for its incredible population of lions and leopards. The central portion of the Serengeti – known as the Seronera area is one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. It features the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. During the off-season of the migration, one must really look out for the many lion pride that thrives in this region. The interactions and survival of these lion pride provide an excellent game-viewing experience all year round. Along with a picnic lunch during the full-day game drive, the day will come to a close by around 5PM. The long day comes to an end with a good dinner and a good night’s rest in your accommodation at Sound Of Silence. for a well-deserved dinner and rest (https://www.serengetisoundofsilence.com/

Day 8: Serengeti Plains – Ngorongoro Crater
Distance: 145 km

After breakfast at the lodge we depart to the Ngorongoro Conservation area we will stop over at Olduvai Gorge, boasting a history dating back to the dawn of time It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution later we descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhinos. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park 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 its huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and the ever-elusive leopard. We will enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor.

Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s Tree Lodge

Day 9 – Lake Eyasi
Around 05:30 am, after a light breakfast, you will depart from the lodge and visit the Hadzabe Bushmen. We will drive to our accommodation at Lake Eyasi and relax for the day.
You can also consider a quick visit to the shores of Lake Eyasi in the late afternoon/evening and explore it on a short trek where you can often see a large number of flamingoes and other birds. They are the last remaining hunter-gatherers of East Africa who are continuing their way of life with very little changes for 10s of thousands of years. You will participate in their early morning activities including bush trek, hunting, and making a campfire. Other activities that might be done during the day are interacting with the Hadza, participating in their honey gathering, baobab fruit foraging, and experiencing their daily life.

Later in the day, you will drive back to the village to meet the Datoga people, another indigenous tribe found in the area. Datogas are skilled farmers and livestock keepers. Some of them are also craftsmen living independently for decades forging knives, arrowheads, and jewelry for the greater Datoga tribe and for the Bushmen.

Later on, you will return to your lodge ZIWANI for dinner and overnight at https://ziwanilodge.com/

Day 10 – Lake Eyasi to Arusha

After an early morning breakfast, you depart for your cultural tour with the Hadza community. This is your day with typical cultural tribes and engages in real hunting together. It is a tribe of hunters and collectors, which formerly inhabited the Serengeti, but was forced away by stronger and more aggressive tribes. The Hadza live in traditional ways, hunting games such as dik-diks and collecting honey. Their huts are simple, built in a few hours, and as easily abandoned. Like other people of hunters and collectors, the San tribe of the Kalahari in southern Africa, the Hadza speak a click language. After hunting and engagement with the tribe, you depart for Arusha with a stop for your lunch on the way. Later drop by your hotel or proceed to Kilimanjaro airport for the flight home.
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Breakfast
No accommodation is included on this day.

This offer is valid at this price for 5 weeks from today

Please note that; the above-proposed accommodations are subject to availability and will only be confirmed at the time of booking after you agree to the final program. If a lodge would not available, we will propose the best alternative prior.

This price includes

Overnight stays in the lodge(s) as shown on the itinerary (check-out at 10 am)

Meal plans as shown on the itinerary

Private (4×4) modern safari vehicle with pop-up roof, specially designed for safari game drives

English/Franch -speaking safari guide for the duration of your safari

Park fees for all the (national) parks on the itinerary

Unlimited mileage with game drives in the national parks

Any extra activities as shown on the above itinerary

Drinking water in the safari jeep

In general

Welcome package upon arrival

Airport transfers to and from Kilimanjaro International Airport

we are fully accredited and bonded as mentioned here)

Calamity Fund fee (additional insurance that benefits you in case of a calamity at the destination)

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