- Flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport [JRO], Tanzania
- Meet our representative at your arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport
Shared road transfer to Arusha
Check-in at your hotel/lodge
Meet Turiya Summer, your yoga trainer
Guided visit to the coffee estates
Stay in Arusha at Kahawa House Hotel for 1 night
"Bean-to-cup" Coffee Estate Tour
A walk around the workings of the coffee plantation to see how the coffee is grown, harvested, dried, and produced into the aromatic coffee that we drink every day.
Ever wondered how the humble coffee bean goes from bush to your cup? Arusha Coffee Lodge – one of the Elewana Collection of lodges, camps, and boutique beach hotels in East Africa – offers an exciting and informative 'Coffee Tour' for anyone who wishes to learn the fascinating cycle of the coffee bean.
The Tour takes place within the grounds of the Coffee Lodge, which itself is located within one of Tanzania’s largest coffee estates. Weaving in and out of the evergreen coffee bushes, the Coffee Guide explains how the bean is nurtured, harvested, dried, and finally roasted to produce a myriad of different blends that sate the taste of the most ardent of coffee connoisseurs.
- Shared airport transfers in Tanzania
- Lunch, and dinner
- Guided "Bean-to-cup" Coffee Estate Tour
- Shared accommodation in double or twin room
- Flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport [JRO]
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Personal expenses
- Additional transfers
- All services stated as suggested, recommended, or optional
The single supplement is applied for single accommodation
At the agreed time, shared road transfer to Arusha Airport [ARK]
Shared charter flight to Ndutu Serengeti Airstrip [NDT]
Shared road transfer to our Ndutu Safari Lodge
First relaxing sunset Yoga session with Turiya
Stay at Ndutu Safari Lodge for 7 nights
Ndutu Safari Lodge and Lake
A more energetic day might begin with an early morning bush breakfast during a game drive in one of many distinct landscape areas within the Ndutu Conservation Area: marshlands, acacia woodlands, soda lakes of Ndutu and Masek or the vast expanse of the Serengeti plains are all within easy reach – each with its distinct wildlife populations and seasonal visitors. For example, the marsh areas are favored by big cats to bring up their young, whereas the short grass plains are where Wildebeest babies are born during the Great Migration.
As the sun lowers, join the lodge team around the famous Ndutu campfire, watch the sunset spread across the plains, and the moon rises above the acacia trees. Or raise a glass or two around the bar to share stories and make new friends. As you return to your cottage full of good food and vivid memories from the day, listen for the haunting call of a hyena echoing through the woodlands before the velvet night brings restful sleep. Ndutu is in an area without tsetse fly, ensuring a peaceful stay.
The Lodge itself is also home to a long-standing population of sleek and graceful genets – patterned to camouflage into the shadows; these elegant nocturnal creatures can be glimpsed perching on the rafters of the mess area. The genets have come to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere as much as Ndutu’s visitors.
The lodge was founded in the late sixties and quickly established a reputation for the warm hospitality and delightful food, fast becoming a favorite stopover for pioneering naturalists, distinguished zoologists, and photographers such as celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall and renowned wildlife filmmaker Hugo van Lawick who researched, filmed and wrote about wild dogs in the area. George Dove was great friends with Mary Leakey, a pioneering archaeologist who discovered some of the first fossils of human ancestors nearby.
Flight Arusha - Ndutu
- Flight duration: about 1 h
- Local flights might be not direct flights
Final price
The final price of these flights is subject to the carriers' availability on the dates. Adjustments in the trip cost might occur.
These flights are on small aircraft. Close to the dates, they are sold out. If this is the case, alternative road transfers are available. The road transfer is a cultural experience: from the vibrant city of Arusha, the base point for Tanzania safaris as well for the Mt Kilimanjaro climb, throughout the crops and villages of the countryside, the view of the UNESCO Ngorongoro Crater, to the savannah plains of the Ngorongoro-Serengeti ecosystem, the final destination.
There is no adjustment on the overall price of the trip for the road transfers Arusha - Ndutu - Arusha.
- Road transfer duration: about 8 h
Ndutu Lake
- Shared airport transfers
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Shared accommodation in double or twin cottage
- Sunset yoga session with Turiya Summer
- Park and concession fees: Ngorongoro National Park, and Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Personal expenses
- Safari
- All services stated as suggested, recommended, or optional
The single supplement is applied for single accommodation
Sunrise Yoga session with Turiya Summer
Breakfast at the lodge
Free time at the lodge
Lunch at the lodge
Afternoon safari
Sunset/dusk Yoga session with Turiya
Dinner at the lodge
- Stay at Ndutu Safari Lodge
Seasons at Ndutu Safari Lodge
- Predator Season - April – mid-December
When migrating wildlife has moved on to follow the rains the landscape of Ndutu changes dramatically into a dry dramatic landscape of muted greens and greys with Lake Ndutu occasionally drying to a bleached white salt pan. This is a great season to really enjoy the resident predators of Ndutu and indeed Ndutu is a favorite of expert guides, scientists, and biologists for its high numbers of cats including lion, leopard, cheetah, civet, serval, wild cat, and caracal. The resident predators are territorial and so once they have had their young they remain at Ndutu in the local marsh areas which stay wet all year round and are an essential fresh water source for the herbivores, therefore, attracting predators. The marshes also serve as the ideal place for cheetahs and lions to hide their offspring from danger. You can enjoy sightings of all three species of jackal including the rarely seen side-striped jackal and in the late afternoons, you may glimpse striped hyena at the lakeshore. The wonderful thing about doing a game drive during this dry season is that the behaviors of these animals are more visible due to the lack of vegetation. The variety of habitats allows plenty of places to explore and you often find yourself having private encounters with predators.
- Migration Season - mid-December – April
Traveling down from Kenya every year the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCAA) plays host to one of the world’s greats natural spectacles – The Great Migration. Over two million migratory animals made up of several species wildebeest, zebra, eland, and Thompson gazelle move clockwise from Ngorongoro and the Southern Serengeti to the Northern Serengeti into Kenya and back. This migration route happens because they follow the rains and therefore the new grasses which grow up rapidly. The Ndutu area is famed for its short grass plains which grow grass that is particularly rich in nutrients and sustains the migratory animals whilst they have their babies. Traditionally the wildebeest and zebra tend to calve on these plains with a peak around February which makes for a beautiful natural spectacle and some exciting predator hunting behaviors. The Wildebeest continue to mature on the short grass plains well into March and April gaining strength for the long migration to the North following the rains and the new pastures.
Maasai Village
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Shared accommodation in double or twin cottage
- Sunrise and sunset/dusk yoga sessions with Turiya Summer
- Shared afternoon safari
- Park and concession fees: Ngorongoro National Park, and Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Personal expenses
- Additional safaris
- All services stated as suggested, recommended, or optional
- Safaris in Serengeti NP
- Safaris in Ngorongoro Crater
- Safaris in other parks
- Olduvai Gorge and Museum visit
- Maasai Village visit
The single supplement is applied for single accommodation
Early breakfast at the lodge
Private road transfer to Seronara in the Serengeti National Park
Private safari on the go in Serengeti National Park
Covid testing at the Seronera Medical Facility (in case it is a pre-flight requirement)
Picnic lunch in the Serengeti National Park
Private safari on the go in Serengeti National Park
Sunset/dusk Yoga session - optional
Dinner at the lodge
Stay at Ndutu Safari Lodge
Serengeti National Park
It is the most famous park in Tanzania, UNESCO World Heritage, and probably the most famous in the World for wildlife viewing.
The park covers 5,700 sq mi (14,760 sq km), it is larger than Connecticut, and it is a massive landscape of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest, and woodlands. It lies in northwestern Tanzania, bordered to the north by the Kenyan border, where it is continuous with the Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. To the southwest lies Maswa Game Reserve. To the west are the Ikorongo and Grumeti Game Reserves. To the northeast and east lies the Loliondo Game Control Area. These areas form the larger Serengeti ecosystem and the legendary Great Serengeti Migration, a stunning natural spectacle.
The park is usually described as divided into three regions:
- Serengeti plains: the almost treeless grassland of the south is the most emblematic scenery of the park. This is where the wildebeest breed, as they remain in the plains from December to May.
- Western corridor: the black clay soil covers the savannah of this region. The Grumeti River and its gallery forests are home to Nile crocodiles, patas monkeys, hippopotamus, and martial eagles. The migration passes through from May to July.
- Northern Serengeti: the landscape is dominated by open woodlands and hills, ranging from Seronera in the south to the Mara River on the Kenyan border. Apart from the migratory wildebeest and zebra (from July to August and in November), this is the best place to find the elephant, giraffe, and dik-dik.
The migratory -and some resident- wildebeest, which number over 2 million individuals, constitute the largest population of big mammals that still roam the planet. They are joined in their journey through the Serengeti - Mara ecosystem by 250,000 plains zebra, half a million Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, and tens of thousands of topi and Coke's hartebeest. Masai giraffe, waterbuck, impala, warthog, and hippo are also abundant. Some rarely seen antelope species are also present in Serengeti National Park, such as common eland, klipspringer, roan antelope, bushbuck, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx, and dik-dik.
Safari in the Southern Serengeti
- Breakfast, picnic lunch, and dinner
- Shared accommodation in double or twin cottage
- Sunrise and sunset/dusk yoga sessions with Turiya Summer
- Shared safari in the Serengeti National Park
- Covid testing at the Seronera Medical Facility (in case it is a pre-flight requirement)
- Park and concession fees: Ngorongoro National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, and Serengeti National Park
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Personal expenses
- Additional safaris
- All services stated as suggested, recommended, or optional
- Safaris in Ngorongoro Crater
- Safaris in other parks
- Olduvai Gorge and Museum visit
- Maasai Village visit
The single supplement is applied for single accommodation
Sunrise Yoga session with Turiya Summer
Breakfast at the lodge
Free time at the lodge
Lunch at the lodge
Afternoon safari
Sunset/dusk Yoga session with Turiya
Dinner at the lodge
- Stay at Ndutu Safari Lodge
The Maasai people
The Maasai people of East Africa live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley on semi-arid and arid lands. The Maasai occupy a total land area of 62,000 sq mi (160,000 sq km) with approximately one half million people.
Popular tourist destinations in East Africa such as the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Maasai Mara, Amboseli, and Tarangire game reserves are located inside the Maasai region. The reserves are now considered protected areas set aside for conservation, wildlife viewing, and tourism. Maasai people are prohibited from accessing water sources and pasture land in game reserves.
With the arrival of formal schooling in the wider Maasai region, livestock herding is becoming a parents' responsibility. Young boys resume the responsibility of livestock herding only on weekends when schools are out.
As a result of global warming, droughts are becoming severe in East Africa, forcing the Maasai people to seek alternative livelihoods. Herds are smaller than ever before, and most people are relying on relief food.
Maasai tribal leadership, the council of elders, is now losing its power year after year due to emerging Western leadership and governance forms.
Ndutu Lake
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Shared accommodation in double or twin cottage
- Sunrise and sunset/dusk yoga sessions with Turiya Summer
- Shared afternoon safari
- Park and concession fees: Ngorongoro National Park, and Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Personal expenses
- Additional safaris
- All services stated as suggested, recommended, or optional
- Safaris in Serengeti NP
- Safaris in Ngorongoro Crater
- Safaris in other parks
- Olduvai Gorge and Museum visit
- Maasai Village visit
The single supplement is applied for single accommodation
At the agreed time, road transfer to Ndutu Serengeti Airstrip [NDT]
Shared charter flight from Ndutu Airstrip to Arusha Airport [ARK]
Shared road transfer to your hotel
Afternoon at your leisure
Travelers will receive the results of their covid test
Stay in Arusha at Kahawa House Hotel for 1 night
Flight Ndutu - Arusha
- Flight duration: about 1 h
- Local flights might be not direct flights
Final price
The final price of these flights is subject to the carriers' availability on the dates. Adjustments in the trip cost might occur.
These flights are on small aircraft. Close to the dates, they are sold out. If this is the case, alternative road transfers are available. The road transfer is a cultural experience: from the vibrant city of Arusha, the base point for Tanzania safaris as well for the Mt Kilimanjaro climb, throughout the crops and villages of the countryside, the view of the UNESCO Ngorongoro Crater, to the savannah plains of the Ngorongoro-Serengeti ecosystem, the final destination.
There is no adjustment on the overall price of the trip for the road transfers Arusha - Ndutu - Arusha.
- Road transfer duration: about 8 h
Arusha Market
- Shared airport transfer
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Shared accommodation in double or twin room
- Flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport [JRO]
- All drinks
- Laundry
- Personal expenses
- Additional transfers
- All services stated as suggested, recommended, or optional
The single supplement is applied for single accommodation
At the agreed time, shared road transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport [JRO] for the flight to your next destinations
- Breakfast
