10-Day Tanzania Safari from Moshi with Serengeti and Hadzabe Culture

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

• Stay at the Park View Hotel, beautifully located on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, making it a perfect place to prepare for your adventure.

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

Dinner and overnight at Moshi Chanya Lodge: Half board.

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

Dinner and overnight at Moshi Chanya Lodge: Full board.

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

• Spend the night in a lodge beautifully set outside the park, with stunning views and the unique atmosphere of the Great Rift Valley wall escarpment near the Ngorongoro Crater.

Dinner and overnight at Karatu Tented Lodge: Full board.

• In the morning, join the Hadzabe, interact with them, and learn many things, such as how to make fire using two dry sticks, a method that has been used for thousands of years. The Bushmen will teach you how to use their bow and arrows, collect tubers, roots, and fruits with the women, or join the men on a hunt. Hunting is done in the morning, and clients will follow the hunters behind to see how it is done. Honey gathering is also part of the experience, depending on the season, as it takes place during the rainy season.

• Join in a Hadzabe tribal dance. The tour here may take 3 to 4 hours.

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

• Head towards 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.

• There is a small museum here, where you can see evidence of our ancestors dated back 2.5 million years.

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

• Return to the special tented camp for the night.

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

• 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 crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, or find yourself in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest and sometimes by zebras, which travel with them.

• 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 provides the ultimate game-viewing experience. You will hopefully see all of the plains game - elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and lions - and, if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting birdlife, from 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.

• Start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place because 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 into 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. From here, you can look down and see herds of wildebeest or buffalo.

• 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 will not see here is a giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steep 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.

• Today, descend 2,000 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, as well as 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.

• 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. Backed by the wall of the Great Rift Valley, it features 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 plains, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise with more than 350 species of birds. 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.

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