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This 12-day Budget safari allows you to experience the highlights of the Northern Safari Circuit. You will experience breathtaking wildlife areas in the midst of some of the most diverse landscapes.
Herds of buffalos, lions on trees, elephants amongst acacias and a huge variety of animals can be seen inside a collapsed volcano. You will also visit the world-famous Serengeti National Park. The landscapes are breathtaking and the variety and volume of wildlife are unforgettable.
DAY 1: ARRIVE
Pick up from Kilimanjaro/Arusha Airport and drive to your hotel/lodge in Arusha for Dinner and Overnight at Tulia Boutique / Banana House
DAY 2&3: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
You will depart Arusha in the morning and head to Tarangire National Park, arriving before midday. Once in the park, you will be able to enjoy both a morning and afternoon game drive with a delicious lunch in the afternoon.
In the early evening, after your game drive, you will return to your Campsite for dinner & overnight at Zion Camp / Wild Palm Campsite
DAY 4: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
After some breakfast ,You will be Pick up from Campsite, meet your professional driver tour guide, who will drive you to Lake Manyara National Park for a Morning game viewing.
Lake Manyara is home to giant Fig trees, Acacia woodlands, Mahogany trees and grassy flood plains. The contrasts of this area are simply breathtaking, with the open plains, huge escarpment, Soda Lake, dense woodlands, and distance volcanic peaks.
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Animals such as Lions, Elephants, Hippos, Impalas, Giraffe, Warthog, Wildebeest, Blue monkeys, Buffaloes, Dik Dik, e.t.c can be seen.
This Park is also home to the famous tree climbing lions and Leopards.
Lake Manyara National Park provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birds life with over 400 species having been recorded within the parks boundaries.
Highlights include pink-hued Flamingos, Herons, Storks and Pelicans. After Game drive you drive to Mto wa Mbu for local activities like village walk, Biking through farms, manyara Canoeing also the lunch will be local food at Mto wa mbu. Dinner and overnight at Migombani Campsite
DAY 5: LAKE NATRON
After breakfast you will drive to Lake Natron that is wild and remote. It is situated at the base of Africa’s only active volcano, Oldoinyo Lengai, which is known as the Mountain of God to the local Maasai people.
The area around Lake Natron contains some of the most harsh and amazing scenery in Africa. It is utterly breathtaking for those clients who choose to travel off the beaten path.
Together with your guide, you will be accompanied by a local Maasai guide and walk up to the Engero Sero Waterfalls. Winding up through the shady gorge, you will reach a beautiful natural swimming pool surrounded by steep rock walls showered by cascading spring water where you will have the opportunity to swim.
Dinner and overnight at Natron Campsite.
DAY 6&7: NORTH SERENGETI (KOGATENDE)
Starting your day at the routine time of 8AM after a heavy breakfast, today you will head south towards the central serengeti. The 4Hr drive to the centre will offer mild enroute game. The drive south from the Mara river valley takes you through hill country, the Lobo area, woodlands and then back into the seronera terrain.
The central portion of the Serengeti – known as 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.
As you make your way into the seronera region, you will begin to notice the hilly and broken terrain altering into plain grasslands. In seronera one must really look out for the many lion prides that thrive in this region.
The interactions and survival of these lion prides provide an excellent game viewing experience all year round. A picnic lunch will be done during the day long drive itself.
The day comes to an end with a tasty dinner and a good rest at Lobo Camp.
DAY 8&9: CENTRAL SERENGETI
After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see.
We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring 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.
We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.
Dinner and overnight at Seronera Campsite
DAY 10&11: NGORONGORO
FIRST DAY: Today your safari will begin in the morning and you will head out for a short game drive in the Serengeti after a good breakfast. After completing a half day game drive along with a picnic lunch, we will branch out and head towards the Ngorongoro crater rim. The 75 km drive to Ngorongoro Crater rim , with mild game action to see on the way.
The crater is one of Africa’s impressive geological attraction and supreme mecca of wilderness. The eventful day comes to an end with a heavy dinner and a good rest in your Campsite at Seronera Campsite. Get a good rest and refuel yourself, for the following day you will descend into the massive crater.
SECOND DAY: Early morning at 05.45, take your breakfast box and proceed for sunrise and Full game drive with picnic lunch.
The crater is 20km in diameter, 600m high and is the largest intact crater in the world. An estimated 30,000 large mammals live in the crater, which features a Salt Lake at its center. This is one of the most densely populated wildlife areas in the world! The Maasai people live together in harmony with the animals that also call this place home.
From the edge you will look out over the impressive crater and all of its wonderful inhabitants. In late afternoon we will drive to karatu for dinner and Overnight at Kudu Campsite.
DAY 12: LAKE EYASI – ARUSHA
After an early morning breakfast, you depart for your cultural tour with the hadzabe community. This is your day with typical cultural tribe and engage 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 Hadzabe live in traditional ways, hunting game such as dik-diks and collecting honey.Their huts are simple, built in a few hours and as easily abandoned. Like another 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 to your hotel or proceed to kilimanjaro airport for flight home.
Dinner and overnight at Arusha Lodge/Hotel
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