Epic Active Tanzania - 2025

On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, Tanzania,  you will be met and assisted through immigration and into the arrivals hall.

Here you will be met by your driver/guide and transferred to Ngare Sero Mountain Lodge.  A drive of about 45 minutes.

Overnight - Ngare Sero Mountain Lodge

This morning after breakfast, you will be met by your driver/guide and depart in your private vehicle to Mto Wa Mbu, Lake Manyara, a drive of about 2.5 hours.

Here you will meet your mountain bike guide and leave on a two hour cultural experience mountain bike ride through the farming village of Mto Wa Mbu, visit local farms, schools, church, milling machine a local bar and enjoy the sights and sounds of this vibrant village. Most of these paths are nice and smooth and easy riding.

After your ride, drive to your accommodation stopping en route for a packed lunch at a scenic spot.

Arrive at Wayo Green Camp mid afternoon.

Lake Manyara is one of the first stops on a classic northern Tanzania circuit, a delightful first taste of the region’s beautiful landscape and home to some interesting and diverse game viewing opportunities. Due to their brilliant green ethos, Wayo Manyara is only the second camp to be allowed to open within the park. This gives you early access to safari before it gets busy, and a delightful calm descends as you have the park to yourself as the sun sets and day trippers have to leave! Manyara is famous for its tree climbing lion, hippo pools and magnificent flamingo populations. You have to push quite far into the park to get a chance to see this specialised lion, so being already lodged within the park gives you a great head start.

Overnight - Wayo Green Camp Lake Manyara

The camp is uniquely placed to offer the best of what Lake Manyara National Park has to offer which include:

• Expertly guided daily game drives

• Walking safaris and Hiking - Head out into the bush with an armed guide. As well as animal tracking and the area’s phenomenal birdlife, take a closer look at the reserve’s insects and plant life. Different levels and distances depend on the ages of the group.  They also offer a full day’s hike for the intrepid who might fancy a walk to the top of the rift escarpment!

• Night drives - Head out at night when all the big predators come alive. Always an unforgettable experience watching what goes on in the dark of the night!

• Canopy walks - This is a really unique and entertaining trip walking along the Lake Manyara Treetop Walkway. Intersecting wooden walkways take you high up into the trees and you can see the forest from a different perspective.

• Canoeing - Take a trip and actually get out on Lake Manyara itself! Excellent for families, this happens beyond the park boundary where there is much less animal activity.

Overnight - Wayo Green Camp Lake Manyara

After breakfast, you depart on a scenic drive through the Great Rift Valley stopping at view points along the way to the Ngorongoro Highlands, arriving at Entamanu Ngorongoro Camp in time for lunch.  The drive today will take about 3 hours depending on the stops on the way.

Entamanu Ngorongoro Camp is off the beaten track, in Maasai territory.  Following one of the world’s most stunning private drives,  it brings you up to a dizzying edge of elemental Africa with panoramic views spinning forward into the Crater and back to the Serengeti plains. 

This is much more than a great vantage point for visiting the Crater.  There is surely no truer way to appreciate the magnitude and wonder of the Ngorongoro Crater.

This evening,  leave on a guided crater rim walk.  These are the unforgettable experiences of Africa which very few get, to have it properly beneath your feet.  Along too, a Maasai scout showing you his version of the natural world and an armed ranger to keep you safe. 

Overnight - Entamanu Ngorongoro 

After an early breakfast, you will descend onto the crater floor through a lush highland forest, with magnificent bird life to be spotted among the different tree species.  Once on the grassy crater floor, you may discover a large variety of grazing herbivores, as well as the predators that are attracted by this abundant supply of prey.

You will stop at a scenic spot for a picnic lunch before your visit to the Maasai neighbours, who are living a largely traditional life in the boma in the next valley, still grazing their cattle in the conservation area.

You return to camp in time for sundowners.

Overnight - Entamanu Ngorongoro 

After breakfast, transfer to Manyara airstrip in time for the scheduled flight to Seronera airstrip, Serengeti.

On landing, you will be met and transferred with a game drive en route to your Expeditionary Walking Camp, in time for lunch.

After lunch, leave on a 2 - 3 hour guided walk, returning to camp in time for sundowners by the camp fire, followed by dinner under the stars. Retire to your tent for a well earned sleep, remove the flysheet for a breathtaking view of the night sky.

The Serengeti is 10,000 square miles of the greatest wildlife spectacle and this is your chance to walk amongst it all. This is an experience like no other that will get you into spectacular, untouched areas of this vast national park. Your route will be decided by your walking guide and they’ll lead the way into spectacular spots, with no one else in sight.

Overnight - Expeditionary Serengeti Walking Camp

For the next two days experience the Serengeti on foot.

Wake with the dawn, walk in the cool of the day, rest in the heat and simply soak up being in a truly wild environment. Expect to walk between 3-6 hours a day, always based on individual fitness.

Camp will move 1-2 times during a 3-night itinerary and this will be discussed with the camp crew.

As the sky begins to lighten you are woken in your tent with fresh tea, coffee and biscuits. Hot bucket shower, then light breakfast and depart on your walk as the dawn breaks.

Depart from camp on foot, relishing the cool of the morning. The walk is taken at a pace to suit you, stopping often to listen and look. This is about immersion not strenuous exercise. Expect to be out for 3-5 hours.

A picnic lunch will be set up in the shade of a tree with views of the surrounding area. Here you’ll hole up to watch the world go by.

Enjoy drinks and lunch, read a book and snooze in the shade, all while soaking up the thrill of being in the wilderness.

After lunch, leave on a 2 - 3 hour guided walk, returning to camp in time for sundowners by the camp fire, followed by dinner under the stars. Retire to your tent for a well earned sleep, remove the flysheet for a breathtaking view of the night sky.

Overnights - Expeditionary Serengeti Walking Camp

Transfer to Seronera airstrip in time for the scheduled flight departing to Ndutu airstrip.

On landing, transfer a short distance to Ndutu Safari Lodge, where you spend your final three nights.

Ndutu Safari Lodge cottages are all en suite  and have a private veranda overlooking the natural unfenced landscape of indigenous trees and shrubs ensuring you are never far from the host of birds and mammals who call the Ndutu area home. The cottages extend from a warm and welcoming central dining, seating and bar or ‘mess’ area which has long been a gathering place.

After lunch and a siesta, leave on an afternoon game drive.

Overnight - Ndutu Safari Lodge

Ndutu is the Mecca of wildlife set in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCAA), attached to the Serengeti National Park. When you come to the Ndutu plains, in the calving season be prepared to witness a gathering so large at times that it turns the earth black, the lake waters red and the sky brown with dust. The Wildebeest calve here due to the nutritious feed the short grass plains offer. The migration by far is the most awesome natural event the world has to offer. The short grass plains extend to the horizon, at times filled with the migrants moving in synchronised symphony, as  predators wait with bated breath.

Game drives are truly surreal here. Wake up early and head off to the marsh, or disappear into the plains beyond. Have lunch under the acacia tree at Hidden Valley or drive around Lake Ndutu looking for elephant, buffalo, leopard and tree climbing lions. Many guests visit Ndutu to witness the migration but leave stunned by the sheer diversity and number of animals in close proximity, and of course the beauty of the region. The magnificence of the marshes, lakes, endless plains and gorges are mesmerising and unforgettable. As the old Maasai saying goes, “Once you have tasted the dust of Ndutu, you will return; again and again”.

Overnights - Ndutu Safari Lodge

Today you say farewell to Africa.

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Ndutu airstrip in time to connect with a scheduled flight to Kilimanjaro Airport

On arrival, you check in for your home-bound flight and depart Africa.

End of arrangements