Dates to be announced soon: November/December 2022
Prices: Based on double occupancy, excluding all flights.
$3565 pp. $900 deposit due now. Balance 60 days prior to departure.
To book, please contact tour organizer Sherry Mila philadelphia@eurocircle.com . A phone interview is required.
FULL ITINERARY
Day 1: Arrival Date
Welcome in Arusha
Jambo!
Book your flights to arrive at JRO Kilimanjaro Airport to meet your driver for pick up and drive
you to safari city-Arusha where you will have a night dreaming of your safari going to happen
tomorrow, enjoy the best view to Mount Meru here.
Accommodation:
Hotel/ lodge in Arusha HB; with dinner and breakfast included.
Day 2: Arusha – Tarangire National Park
After breakfast follows a short briefing, then drive to the Tarangire National Park. We enjoy our
two hours journey which takes us westward from Arusha. On the route perhaps see Masai
herdsmen herding their cattle for pastures before you get to Tarangire.
Game watching in Tarangire:
You are in Tarangire national park with its endless tree savannah including the impressive
baobab trees and seasonal marshes. The home to the largest elephant herds in northern
Tanzania. In addition to elephants you are also likely to spot giraffes, buffaloes, lions, zebras,
gnus and other types of antelopes and gazelles.
Upon arrival at the park, your guide will open the roof of the vehicle and the extensive wildlife
viewing will begin. Lunch will be taken at a picnic spot and in the afternoon you will get to see
more of this amazing and beautiful park. It’s in the afternoon when wildlife are going to search
for water and grassing and hunting for the dinner. You may be lucky to seeing herds of
elephants, gnus and zebra grapping grasses on the ground while the giraffe uprooting upper
green branches from acacia trees. Make sure you camera battery fully for your beautiful shots.
Accommodation:
In the late afternoon you will arrive at the lodge for
Dinner and overnight.
Day 3.Tarangire Area – Serengeti National Park
After breakfast you will be driving across the Rift Valley, passing through Mto Wa Mbu and
Karatu, in the cooler regions of the crater highlands. You will enter the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and stop for a short look into the crater from a viewing point. Continuing
your journey around the crater, you will descend the other side, enjoying your free “African
massage” on the bumpy road, passing Maasai villages on your way to the Serengeti National
Park.
Game watching in Serengeti:
At the Naabi Hill entrance gate you can walk to a viewpoint with spectacular views across the
plains of the Serengeti savannah. You will then continue towards the Seronera Area in the
central part of the Serengeti for the late afternoon game drive. The park offers a multitude of
wildlife including the Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard.
December to late March:
After the small rainy season in November, you will typically see these herds moving through the
central area of the Serengeti to the plains in the south while some may be giving birth (calving)
in Ndutu area. Although fluctuations in rainfall, this timetable can of course change, resulting in
the animals migrating during different times and routes but often December to march herds are
in these area of Ndutu and southern serengeti. Your guide will try his outmost to find the
animals and will make sure that you can see them from the best spot in the national park.
Naturally, the migration also attracts predators and with luck you might see a kill in action, or
may be chasing. Serengeti national park is huge and this fact makes wildebeests migration
unpredictable but Serengeti is so superb with lots to see. Here you are going to see the big five
animals, cheetah, hippopotamus, zebra, warthog, monkeys and other small animals.
June to late September:
After the big rainy season in April and May, you will typically see these herds moving through
the central area of the Serengeti to the North. Although fluctuations in rainfall, this timetable
can of course change, resulting in the animals migrating during different times and routes but
often July to August herds are in Northern area of Serengeti. Your guide will try his outmost to
find the animals and will make sure that you can see them from the best spot in the national
park. Naturally, the migration also attracts predators and with luck you might see a kill in
action, or may be chasing.
Around this duration you may be lucky to witness wildebeests ‘gnu’ migrants moving toward to
and fro. Wildebeests moves in search of green pastures which are growing after rain. Serengeti
have different rain bubble which makes wildebeests and zebra to migrate tailed by predator
who are making tail for prey.
Serengeti national park is huge and this reason sometimes makes wildebeests migration
unpredictable although Serengeti is rich with lots to see. Out of migrants, here you may be
lucky to see the big five animals, cheetah, hippopotamus, zebra, warthog, monkeys plus other
small animals.
To mention December to March and June to September do not confuse, wildlife are plenty in
Serengeti yearly. The only reasons we make grouping on above durations, it is only because
wildebeests are predictable and no rain in Serengeti.
After game watching you will drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation:
At evening you will arrive for dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Meals: Breakfast; Lunch; Dinner and drinking water.
Day 4 Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro
Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Conservation Area enroute drive
After a morning game drive and lunch, this afternoon we will head south-east towards
Ngorongoro, a distance of 145km which will take us around 3 ½ hours. Today, we will get our
first sight of the spectacular, incomparable Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest intact
volcanic caldera and the art of the Conservation Area of the same name. But before that, we
have another morning game drive in amazing Serengeti, marveling at its animal inhabitants
Safari in Serengeti National Park
With its informative visitor centre, the Seronera area of Central Serengeti is the national park’s
most popular area. And it is very popular with the wildlife, too. The Seronera river overflow
year-round, so there is always something of interest to observe. Wildlife visits the river to drink
and; its bank for green pastures and preys. Several game drives here might reveal lions in
sizeable prides, hippo or herds of elephants – whose populations in the park have risen in recent
times.
Depending on your interest and time, we may opt to call in at the Serengeti Visitor Centre,
where there is an excellent explanation of the park’s eco-system and a chance to understand
the history of conservation in this area. In particular, you will find out about the work of
Bernhard Grzimek and the Frankfurt Zoological Society who had the foresighted vision of
preserving the Serengeti’s eco-system. Even at the center, you may well find wildlife:
populations of hyrax and mongoose, as well as many small bird species.
After lunch, we head south-east towards Ngorongoro. If it has not already struck you with its
vastness, Serengeti’s ‘endless plains’ will make a deep impression on you as we take the long,
straight road which passes Simba Kopjes (famous from ‘The Lion King’) to reach Naabi Hill Gate,
close to the divide between Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Here you can gather information at the
gate’s visitor center, clamber up the hill for superb views back over the plains, or look out for a
colorful agama lizard among the rocks.
Accommodation
Your lodge is situated at the best spot to Ngorongoro crater not far from the crater-rim, you
may be visited zebra, elephants, hyena and small animals who live nearby. Enjoy your delicious
hot dinner – and fall asleep, dreaming of the day’s highlights.
Meal plan
Breakfast will be enjoyed at your lodge. Lunch will be a nutritious and balanced meal, enjoyed
at Serengeti. Your evening meal will be a full, cooked dinner created by our chef and his team at
the campsite, all gears provided by us.
Day 5
Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha
Safari in Ngorongoro Crater
From our accommodation, we set off after breakfast, around 6am departure to reach the rim
and then descend into the vast crater itself. At one side there’s the Lerai Forest, classic
mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. This is good elephant country,
so keep your eyes peeled. By the side of the nearby swampland is what is sometimes called the
‘elephant graveyard’ as the mighty male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the
soft, swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.
The crater has a population of around 120 lions, with well-defined territories; 15,000
wildebeest, 9,000 zebra, 400 hyenas, and around 50 black rhino. Many wildebeest and other
herd animals are resident, benefiting from the many sources of year-round waters and are
boosted by some migrators in season. Buffalo, Thomson’s gazelle and eland are also present in
numbers. Hippos can be found in pools and swampland and highland birdlife is colourful and
plentiful around the waters. Flamingos can often be seen in Lake Magadi, which occupies part
of the crater floor.
Journey: Ngorongoro – Arusha
After our morning visit to the incomparable crater – see below – and then lunch, we will have a
3-hour journey. Like nothing else on Earth, the stunning crater of Ngorongoro is a unique home
for many, many species of Tanzania’s wildlife. With some luck, you may even see a black rhino
here.
Accommodation:
Breakfast is served at your accommodation at Ngorongoro. Lunch will be prepared by the
accommodation in Arusha after your game-drive.
DAY 06.
Early morning hunting with the Hadzabe people from 6am to 11am,then get back to the camp /lodge for hot lunchrest to the lodge/camp until 3pm
BY THEN
Drive to the local people village to see life style then walk to see and learn on onion plantation in the farms, study native local irrigation system ,village forest you can find monkeys, baboons and varieties of birds.
DRIVE TO LAKE EYASI FOR FLAMINGOS,PELICANS, AND SUNSET
THEN
Get back to the lodge or camp
for DINNER & OVERNIGHT
Dinner and overnight Tindiga Tented Camp
DAY 07.
Early morning breakfast at 5.30am then drive to the hadzabe at 6am for
GATHERING VARIETIES OF WILD FRUITS EG BAOBAB FRUITS /YAMS FROM THE GROUND
PARTICIPATING IN BUILDING HADZABE HUTS WITH WOMEN and then drive to see blacksmith how to melt scrapers of copper,brass,aluminium, then how manually turned to bracelets ,necklaces, making of arrow heads…..and so.then go to Datoga family to see their cultural boma ,experience life style ,the making of flour by grinding stones,mamas cultural dressings, milking of cows with mamas,cultural dancing.
Get back to the camp /lodge for hot brunch at 11am and packing everything and leave for 2 hours with Masai people on the way to Arusha or Moshi.
After MASAI TRADITIONAL DANCES EXPERIENCE drive to Arusha to use your pending ACCOMODATION the one that should be used after day 06 .
*Dinner & Overnight in Arusha. Already included in the safari itinerary.
DAY 08,
Full Day Trip
Materuni waterfalls, coffee ceremonial excursion, dances and Kilimanjaro Songs…Big welfare.
You will have your rooms at Panone King’ori near JRO airport for your dinner and overnight and transfer to JRO Kilimanjaro Airport.
DAY 09.
Breakfast and drive back to Airport.
Know More of Tribesmen you are going!.
The Hadzabe numbering around 1,000 in Tanzania are hunter-gatherers, living off the land. Using only bows and arrows they have no lasting impact on wildlife populations. They don’t cut trees and they don’t dig water holes, and they don’t ‘own’ things – instead they live in harmony with their environment, and we have a lot we can learn from them.
The Datoga are highland Nilotic pastoralists dependent on their livestock and skilled blacksmiths – often trading their arrowheads with the Hadza in exchange for skins and honey.
HADZABE
Spend a half day with the Hadzabe inhabitants of the Lake Eyasi region and be amazed at how they have remained purely traditional hunters surviving from only handmade bow, feeding on roots and fruits and dressing in animal hides, living in remote homes in the caves and trying to stay away from other people.
You will spend the day with them, seeing their home and lifestyle first hand. You can join the women on their way to gather fruits, seeds and roots, or have some hunting practice using bow and arrows with the men. An interesting feature of the Hadzabe tribe is their language. They are said to be in some kind of relation with the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, because of the distinctive click sounds they share. Their physique is also similar, since they are smaller than other tribes and thin. However, the DNA analysis shows no common traits of the two tribes. This is an experience that will satisfy your cultural needs through observing these exotic cultures
DATOGA
Are pastoralists found near the Lake Eyasi are great tribes to visit.Datoga keep goats, sheep, donkeys and a few chickens, but cattle are by far the most important domestic animal. They resemble the Maasai in culture. The meat, fat, blood, milk, hide, horns, tendons and cow dung of every animal have either practical or ritual purposes.
MASAI TRIBESMEN
Masai are not bushmen though they have a lots that differentiate Masai from an ordinary person. Masai are traditional tribesmen who are really fame in East Africa….
Maasai dance : If you are lucking then you meet with Maasai men and women during dance session, chat with them about the meaning of their songs, watch live performance and see how you can jump a Maasai dance. Far enough you are going to talk and ask them some questions, see their ways of live as pastoralists, have fun and photographing.
KILIMANJARO CUTURAL CEREMONY & MATERUNI WATERFALLS.
Enjoy chagga cultural ceremonial coffee tour after an hiking to Materuni waterfalls. The tour include warm and hot local lunch in Kilimanjaro at Materuni villag….
Start your mini-adventure with theshort but fascinating drive from Moshi up the lush slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to the village of Materuni, approximately 1,800 m above sea level. This is market garden territory and has the perfect mixture of climate and soil to produce some of the best coffee in Africa.
You’ll visit a coffee farm and learn about how coffee is grown, harvested and processed, and you’ll try your hand at roasting and preparing a fresh cup of coffee the Chagga way. After a delightful coffee break (so much better than the ones at work!). Drink you ceremonial cup of coffee you make yourself.
You’ll take a beautiful 45-minute hike through the hills and valleys en route to the Materuni Falls. You’ll pass through banana and coffee plantations, up and down mini-valleys, across ridges and through narrow splashing rivulets. Along the way your guide will teach you about local plants and how they are used for food and traditional medicine, as well as giving you more insight into the local Chagga culture.
It’s your chance to ask questions about a lifestyle that’s probably very different from your own! You’ll hear the Falls before you see them, and once they come into view, you might be lucky enough to see a rainbow sheen as the splashing waters split the sunlight.
The Falls are hidden away in a pristine valley with cliffs towering to 200ft overhead. The mountain waters falls straight down in a shimmering curtain to splash in the rippling pool where you can float, take a swimand chill out – literally, as these are pure mountain waters and not yet heated by the sun. But it’ll be welcome after your hike, we bet.
SAFARI INCLUSIVES
3 nights sleep inside the park in the wild lodges/ tented camps accommodation during the
safari.
2 nights hotel/ lodge included with dinner and breakfast one on arrival and other a night before
departing to airport Arusha.
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner as per itinerary
Activities as per the itinerary; except for those named optional
Airport round trip transfers
All entry fees, park fees, conservation fees, concession fees and guiding fees
All taxes and VAT
Complementary bottle of water daily
Guide salary and allowances
Government imposed increase of park fees, car entrances fees, and taxes on park fees for non-
residents
Meals as specified in the day by day section
Service of an English speaking driver guide
Transport based on an excellent 4×4 vehicle
A free visit to Masai boma on the way to Serengeti.
What’s not included in safari:
Visa
Lunch on Arrival day and dinner on departure day
Travel insurance
Extras at the lodges such as telephone calls, laundry unless included etc.
Tips to your driver guide recommended $25 per day
International flights’ fee.
Spanish /German /French speaking guide are available @50$ per group/ car.
WHAT TO BRING for safari
Camera
Sweaters and long sleeve clothes for nights and Ngorongoro crater.
Binoculars
Towels
Normal shoes
Sun glasses
Passport
OTHER OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Balloon Safari in Serengeti
-Rated $560pp, at one hour from 6:00am to 7:30am in the morning on Day 4
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