8-Day Tanzania Wilderness Safari with Hadzabe Visit and Big Five Parks

• Your African safari begins at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, the safari capital of Tanzania. You will meet a Matukio Adventures representative and transfer to your hotel in Arusha town for an overnight stay.

Meals: Bed and Breakfast
Accommodation: Mount Meru Hotel

• We pick you up from your hotel and drive to Lake Manyara. The park derived its name from the Maasai word "manyara," which is the Swahili name for the plant Euphorbia tirucalli. The Maasai use this plant to grow livestock stockades, which mature into a highly durable, stockproof hedge.
• The Great Rift Valley is part of a fault in the earth's crust that stretches 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) from Turkey to the mouth of the Zambezi River in Mozambique. The fault is so massive that when astronauts landed on the moon, the Rift Valley was clearly visible to them.

Meals: Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Tloma Lodge

• After breakfast, we proceed to Serengeti, Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thomson's gazelles join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers a remarkable game-viewing experience in Africa.
• Note: Hot air balloon per person cost - $540 (this is an option; prices are separate from the total price above).

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Accommodation: Shuhudia Adventures Camp Serengeti

• After breakfast, we proceed to the central part of Serengeti. This park is well known for its healthy stock of resident wildlife, particularly the "big five," named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Shuhudia Adventures Camp Serengeti

• We start with an early morning game drive inside the Ngorongoro Crater. As very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2,000 ft. high walls, you can expect to see lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, flamingos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, and various species of birds. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is an extensive highland area along the eastern arm of the Rift Valley, with the world-renowned Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Endoro Lodge

• We depart for Lake Eyasi to visit the bushmen and observe their activities, such as hunting and gathering wild fruits. The Hadza, or Hadzabe, are an indigenous ethnic group in north-central Tanzania. They live around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and on the neighbouring Serengeti Plateau. The Hadza number just under 1,000 people and live as hunter-gatherers, among the last hunter-gatherers in the world.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge

• One of the largest national parks in Tanzania, located in the Manyara region, this place is characterized by large herds of elephants, tree-climbing lions, and the fascinating baobab trees, also called the Tree of Life for the almost mythical powers that some cultures attach to it. This park is especially known for the Tarangire River, which flows all year round and is the only source of water for wild animals during the dry season.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Burunge Tented Lodge

• We continue with another game drive in Tarangire before proceeding back to Arusha. You will be dropped off at the hotel or airport (Kilimanjaro International Airport) for your flight back home.

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Can be arranged at an extra cost if you want to overnight in Arusha City