Epic Classic Tanzania - 2024-25

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 Rivertrees Country Inn.  A drive of about 45 minutes.

The inn is a charming country estate that was once an old coffee farm, and still retains the nostalgic air of a well-loved homestead. Sprawling ten acres of fertile greenery, the grounds are a natural extension of Mt Meru’s sloping foothills, and offer a sanctuary for the birds and wildlife indigenous to the area.

Elegantly rustic cottages are dotted along the river and in thickets of tall trees, while lush lawns and birdsong make for a peaceful and picturesque setting. Set in the heart of an area rich in nature reserves, montane forests and vibrant village culture, the scope for exploration is endless.

The restaurant concocts tasty meals of garden-fresh ingredients and old family recipes, as well as oven-fired pizzas and the best of the region’s locally grown coffees. Delicious candle-lit dinners are served by the warmth of the fireplace, or under the stars and the watchful eyes of resident owls.

Rivertrees combines unpretentious comfort with subtle accents of style to create a timeless pause in a traveler’s journey, and a sense of warmth and genuine welcome.

Overnight - Rivertrees Country Inn

This morning after breakfast, you will be met by your driver/guide and depart in your private vehicle to Tarangire National Park, a drive of about an hour to the park gate. Once you are inside the National Park, game drive about two hours to Kuro Camp arriving in time for lunch.

After lunch, leave on a game drive return to camp after sundowners.

Tarangire country is big and bold: the camp is the opposite...a little gem. Full of heart and soul, and tucked into a grove of secluded riverside bush, it is so much at one with the wild that animals hardly look up as they do their thing around us. Elephants often pass right through camp, and you can be completely absorbed into their secret lives, from the sweet comfort of our sun-slatted living space.

Overnight - Kuro Tarangire Camp

Tarangire National Park covers an area of 2,600 square kilometers.  It is most popular for its large elephant herds and mini-wildlife migration that takes place during the dry season which sees about 250,000 animals enter the park.

Over the next two days you enjoy a combination of game drives through a variety of environments, and guided walks for a closer look at nature.  Perhaps a surprise bush breakfast or sundowners at the edge of the plains thrown in for good measure. The remote location deep within the park ensures you enjoy the best of Tarangire with relatively few others around.

Or you might head off on spot-lit night drives seeking out nocturnal species. Often the first sign that something is out there, is a pair of eyes shining in the dark; it could be anything: a porcupine, a bush baby, a hyena loping home. This time too is when you learn how quietly an elephant treads.

Overnight - Kuro Tarangire Camp

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 in time for lunch, the drive today will take over 5 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.

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 returning to camp.

In the afternoon you may like to visit 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.

Or you may wish to head off 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. 

You return to camp in time for sundowners.

Overnight - Entamanu Ngorongoro 

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Manyara airstrip in time to connect with a scheduled flight to Lamai airstrip in the Serengeti National Park.

On arrival you will be met by your driver/guide and transferred to Serian Lamai Serengeti

The open plains of the Lamai Wedge are incredibly beautiful and abundant in game. The landscape is reminiscent of scenes from Out of Africa, and there is plenty of freedom to roam and explore. The camp is situated opposite Crossing Point 4, midway among all crossing points along the river – and is perfectly positioned to spectate the wildebeest river crossings.

Away from the river, this area of rolling savannah, boulder-strewn hillsides and fig-tree groves, is littered with inconceivably enormous herds of wildebeest, topi and zebra – as well as all the predators that gorge on this movable feast.  Needless to say, the game-viewing is world-class. Cheetah, lion and elephant especially make for fantastic sighting, but it’s not unheard of to see the Big Five in a day.

Overnight - Serian Lamai Serengeti Camp

The Northern Serengeti is renowned for its sheer size, primeval landscapes and large populations of plains game.

Resident game is prolific even when the migration is not present making the Lamai Wedge an all year round destination. The stark beauty of the western escarpment and the open short grass plains provides a great backdrop to wildlife viewing.

You spend the next two days enjoying some of the best game viewing in Tanzania.  

Overnight - Serian Lamai Serengeti Camp

Today you say farewell to Africa.

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

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

End of arrangements