Safari and Culture

Safari and Culture

This is the best Northen Tanzania tour with a few days but you do both nature and culture, you can interact with locals and experience the typical bushmen's life which is very rare.

Itinerary

Day 1: Arusha-Tarangire

Stop At: Tarangire National Park, Tarangire National Park, Arusha Region
Departure to Tarangire National park (2 to 3hours), which is the sixth-largest national park in Tanzania named after the Tarangire river which is the only source of water to the animals.
The landscape which has hilly with nine different growth zones and vegetation are incredibly varied. One will be able to experience a savannah filled with majestic baobab and acacia trees, that almost taking away all the attention from animals.
The park is particularly known for its large number of elephants. One of the largest elephants in the world is found here.

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Burunge Tented Camp

Day 2: Tarangire-Serengeti

Stop At: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti National Park
After breakfast and check-out from the lodge, we head to Serengeti national park through Ngorongoro’s hilly plateaus, where the red-clad Masai live in round huts, and their cattle graze between the zebras, gnus, and giraffes of the savannah. Along the way, there is time to enjoy a packed lunch.
Serengeti National Park is the largest park in Tanzania, it originates from the Maasai word "siringet" which means "the place where the land runs on forever". The Park covers 14,750 square kilometers (5,700 sq. mi) of grassland plains, savannas, riverine forests, and woodlands.
Overnight: Dik-dik Campsite

Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Embalakai Tented camp

Day 3: Serengeti

Stop At: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti National Park
full day game drive in Serengeti National park, looking for the “Big Five”: lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos and buffaloes. You will enjoy the wildlife of the stunning Serengeti. You will also see a large number of Thompson’s gazelles, buffaloes, topi, Grant’s gazelles, eland antelopes, warthogs, eagles, ostriches, etc. in addition to the animals mentioned you can have a chance to see and smell the hippos wallowing in the hippo pools
The ecosystem here in the park is considered to be one of the oldest in the world, and you’d be hard-pressed not to feel both humbled and astonished when sitting in your land cruiser, absorbing all that you see before you.
A fantastic day to experience the Savana
Overnight at Embalakai Tented Camp

Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Embalakai Tented camp

Day 4: Serengeti-Ngorongoro

Stop At: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
The morning after breakfast drive to Ngorongoro two hours to Crater.
The Ngorongoro crater is the largest Caldera in the world that still has its walls intact which support 25,000 animals and 350 different species of birds, all of which have access to water all year round.
Once past the entrance to Ngorongoro, you pass through a lush area of the rainforest before the descent along the inside of the crater begins. After an exciting drive down, you arrive at the 260 km2 crater floor. The rim of the crater towers 600 meters above you. You might be at the bottom of the crater, but you are actually high up because the rim of the crater is 2,200 meters above sea level.

The plenty of animals to look at! The landscape, lions, gazelles, elephants, gnus, and zebras in their droves. If you are really lucky, you might see the endangered black rhinoceros, which is almost extinct in Africa due to poaching.
Lunch is enjoyed in stunning surroundings on the floor of the crater.


Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Marera Valley Lodge

Day 5: Karatu-Lake Eyasi

Stop At: Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Arusha Region
Very early depart with breakfast box to lake Eyas experience the bushmen and Datoga tribe approximately one hour drive, you have time to see their life, hunting with them proceed to Datoga to see how their making jewels by local tools. Then drive back to the camp for hot lunch at karatu town
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Marera Valley Lodge

Day 6: Karatu-Arusha

Stop At: Arusha, Arusha, Arusha Region
The morning after breakfast depart to Arusha go back home, Shopping on the way to Arusha.
Duration: 3 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.