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TRIP PLAN
Day 1
Arrive in Arusha. Transfer from arrival point to Mt. Village lodge
for overnight (DB)
Mt Village is an idyllic lodge situated 20 kms outside of Arusha and
30 kms from Kilimanjaro International Airport. It is a quiet lodge
built on the shore overlooking Lake Duluti. All the rooms are
en-suite roundavels with a private verandah. The reservations,
lounge and dining room are in the main building that is a
beautifully renovated farmhouse.
DAY 2
You depart Arusha with lunch box on the tarmac road across Monduli
plains toward Tarangire for lunch at at the camp.
After a leisurely lunch, you depart the camp at 03:30 P for a walk
accompanied by Maasai men and your guide to explain the native
birds, animal tracks, and plant-life of the area that you will
encounter during your walk.
Overnight at Tarangire Camp (BLD)
DAY 3
After an early breakfast, you depart the camp with picnic lunch and
proceed to the park for a full day game drive.
Tarangire N. Park covers 2,600 sq. kms in area. The park is famous
for its majestic Baobab trees and Acacia Tortillas trees dotting a
wide expanse of the rolling hills of the park.
To many people the park represents the features of Africa in scenery
and landscape. There is the Tarangire River, which dissects the park
from the south to the Northwest where during the dry season, a large
congregation of animals can be found giving it a resemblance of the
famous Serengeti migration.
Among the animals found there are great herds of elephants of which
200 can be seen at a time. Zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, giraffe,
lions, leopard, cheetahs and hyena, The park is reputed to have more
birds than the whole United States of America.
Overnight at Tarangire N. Park Camp (BLD)
DAY 4
After breakfast, you proceed to south of lake Manyara to visit the
Datoga tribe who are related to the Maasai. They are nomadic cattle
herders who move from one place to another in search of green
pastures for their cattle.
A great variety of bird species can be found in this area. Rare
species like the Black Egret have on many occasions been spotted.
They can be differentiated from the other birds by their peculiar
fishing behavior pattern to feed whereby they shade themselves with
their wings to attract more fish.
You will board a canoe to cross the lake and be able to watch hippos
from a distance and back.
Overnight Whistling Thorn Tented Camp at Tarangire N. Park (BLD)
DAY 5
After breakfast, depart Tarangire with your lunch box, and drive
across the Rift Valley escarpment to Lake Eyasi via Gibb’s Farm.
Gibb’s Farm was a once colonial farmhouse that has been converted
into a lodge. It boasts one of the biggest coffee plantations in the
area as well as a purely organic farm, which supplies the lodge with
fresh vegetables throughout the year. Once there, we have a
45-minute walk to visit the elephant cave and the organic farm. We
will also have a brief lecture about a coffee plantation.
Overnight at Lake Eyasi Camp (BLD)
DAY 6
Wake up early for a pre-sunrise breakfast. Drive from the camp for
approx. 20 minutes to locate the nomadic Bushmen (Hadzabe). In the
company of the bushmen, you will hunt on foot using traditional
weapons i.e. bows and arrows.
The Bushmen are related to the Kalahari Bushmen of South Africa.
They speak the same click language but do not understand each other,
as they have been apart for very long. The Bushmen live a medieval
kind of life style. They do not build permanent homes but follow the
animals in the area as they trap and kill them for food. They are
hunters and gatherers. After a brief hunting stint with the Bushmen,
we go back to our vehicles and drive to the camp for lunch.
After a short afternoon siesta, we depart the camp at 04:30P and
drive to lake Eyasi to view flamingoes enjoy the sunset over the
Rift Valley Escarpment.
Overnight at Lake Eyasi Camp (BLD)
DAY 7
You break camp at Lake Eyasi after breakfast and drive to Ngorongoro
Crater with a picnic lunch. You descend to the crater floor for a
full day game-drive.
Dinner and Overnight on the Ngorongoro crater rim Camp. (BLD)
DAY 8
You depart the camp early in the morning with picnic lunches and
descend to the Crater floor for a full day crater tour.
The highlands offer spectacular views with scattered Maasai manyata
(huts) on the horizon and groups of Maaai warriors tending their
cattle. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority is a
multi-purpose land use area for Nomadic Maasai and wildlife area.
It covers an area o f about 8,300 sq. kms, which takes half of the
Serengeti plains. The NGO has a unique Eco-system where you may
locate the big five (buffalo, elephant, rhino Lion, and leopard) all
at a time.
Dinner and Overnight on the Ngorongoro crater rim Camp. (BLD)
DAY 9
We break camp with picnic lunches after breakfast to drive to
Serengeti National Park via the famous Ol-duvai Gorge where the
Leakey family discovered the remain of the early man “ Zinjanthropus
Bosei” Game viewing enroute to the Serengeti National Park.
Dinner and Overnight Serengeti N. Park Camp. (BLD)
DAY 10/11
Full day game-drive in the Serengeti National Park with game viewing
in areas where the animals are most concentrated. The Serengeti
national park covers about 15,000 sq. kms. It derives its name form
the Maasai language “Siringet” which means, the endless Plains.
It boasts the largest number of species of flora and fauna both in
quantity and variety coupled with its world famous wildebeest
migration. The worlds single remaining wildlife migration.
Overnight Medium Mobile Camp at Serengeti N. Park (BLD)
DAY 12
After breakfast, you depart Serengeti for Arusha with game-viewing
enroute. An option instead of driving can be a scheduled flight that
departs at 11:15am.
Lunch in Arusha upon arrival
Afternoon transfer to Kilimanjaro Int’l. Air port for the flight
out.
END OF TOUR
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