Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania

   • Arrive anytime at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). Get a private transfer arranged from the Airport to Moshi at the Park View Hotel, where the rest of the day is at leisure.

   • Stay at the Park View Hotel, which is beautifully located on the slope of Mt. Kilimanjaro and is a perfect place to prepare for your adventure.

   • Gather in the evening at the hotel for a pre-safari briefing and an equipment check.

   Dinner and overnight at Moshi Chanya Lodge: Half board.

2. Day 2: Materuni Cultural Tour and Homestay with Changa

   • Indulge in Village walks, guided waterfall hike, coffee tours, local primary schools visit, Chagga traditional dance, traditional food, cooking classes, banana beer experience and the unique view of Mount Kilimanjaro.

   Dinner and overnight at Moshi Chanya Lodge: Full board.

3. Day 3: Game Drive in Tarangire National Park

   • Today, drive to Tarangire National Park, for excellent game viewing. Tarangire is a small park which offers some excellent sights. Generally, in the dry seasons, Tarangire comes alive as wildlife and birdlife congregate on the Tarangire River, which is a permanent source of water.

   • Spend the night in the lodge beautifully set outside the park with stunning views and a unique atmosphere of great rift valley wall escapement near the Ngorongoro Crater.

   Dinner and overnight at Karatu Tented Lodge: Full board.

4. Day 4: Cultural Tour at Lake Eyasi

   • In the morning, join the Hadzabe and interact with them, and learn so many stuff like how to make fire by using two dry sticks, the way which has been used for thousands of years. The Bushmen will teach you how to use their bow and arrows, collecting some tubers, roots, and fruits with the women or join the men on hunting. Hunting is done in the morning; clients will follow the hunters behind and see how the hunting is done. The honey gathering is part of it, but depending on the season as the honey gathering is done in the rainy season.

   • Join on Hadzabe tribal dance. Here the tour may take 3 to 4 hours.

   Dinner and overnight at Lake Eyasi Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp: Full board.

5. Day 5: Game Drive in Serengeti National Park

   • Head towards the Serengeti National Park with your Tanzania tour guide.

   • En-route, there is an opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge. It is within this steep-sided ravine that Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world’s most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s.

   • Here is a small museum, where you are able to see evidence of our ancestors that have been dated back 2.5 million years.

   • After lunch, drive into the Serengeti itself and the rest of the afternoon is spent game viewing in the vast plains that are broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje. In December, January and February, you will normally meet the migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals, such as giraffe, buffalo, and elephant, and many large predators such as lion, cheetah, and leopard.

   • Return to the special tented camp for the night. 

   Dinner and overnight at Tanzania Bush Tented Camp: Full board.

6. Day 6: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park

   • Indulge in another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of your time. The Tanzanian safari guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; you can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest.

   • Journey from the wide-open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top, you can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide with the ultimate in game viewing. You will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of the interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich.

   • Return to the special tented camp for the night.

   Dinner and overnight at Tanzania Bush Tented Camp: Full board.

7. Day 7: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

   • Start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place in that it is a Conservation Area, not a National Park; this means that the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife.

   • During the drive-in Ngorongoro, you have a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life.

   • After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, drive around the rim of the Crater itself, and from here, you can look down and see the herd of wildebeest or buffalos.

   • Finally, descend into the crater. The crater walls provide a natural sanctuary for the animals, which means there is plenty to see: lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino and leopard (if you are lucky). The only animal you won’t see in here is a giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steeps sides of the crater.

   • In the late afternoon, travel back to the special tented camp.

   Dinner and overnight at Ndutu Luxury Tented Lodge: Full board.

8. Day 8: Full Day Game Drive in Ngorongoro Crater

   • Today, descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater for your crater tour.

   • Here you will explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where you may see flamingos.

   • Visit the open savannah where the lions hunt.

   • Stop for a picnic lunch served in the crater.

   • In the late afternoon, make a short journey to Karatu.

   Dinner and overnight at Karatu Tented Lodge: Full board.

9. Day 9: Game Drive in Lake Manyara National Park

   • Depart from your tented lodge in Karatu and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the groundwater forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake.

   • Enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise that has more than 350 species of bird. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions.

   • In the afternoon, drive back to Arusha.

   Dinner and overnight at Green Mountain Hotel: Half board.

10. Day 10: Arusha Town Tour and Departure

    • The morning after breakfast, make a short journey to Arusha town for shopping and visit the local Maasai market, then, drive straight to the airport for your evening flight.