On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you will be met and transferred to your the Mount Meru Hotel where you will stay for 1 night.
Breakfast
This morning depart on your group scheduled trip with your naturalist guide for Tarangire, the park is Tanzania's third largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population.
Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah, and up to six thousand elephant. A bush walk and a cultural visit with the semi-nomadic tribes are also included.
Arrive in time for an afternoon game drive at Maramboi Tented Camp where you will stay for 2 nights.
Enjoy a full day exploring the National Park. In the afternoon walk to the Manyara Lake shores.
Enjoy an early morning walk at Tarangire before departing for Karatu on the outer slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater.
Cross the floor of the Great Rift Valley close to Lake Manyara. Then, mingle with villagers at local markets such as Mto Wa Mbu or Karatu. Shopping and bargaining for bolts of cloth, crafts, and local produce immerse you in a daily ritual of African life.
Mto wa Mbu village lies within the east African Valley, some 120km from Arusha City, Mto wa Mbu inhabits more than 18,000 thousands in which there are 120 tribes. Maasai being the originak inhabitants of the area. Mto wa Mbu flourishes in the presence of three great rivers namely, Kirurumu river, Mahamoud River And Magadini river.
The word Mto wa Mbu literally means "Mosquito River"
Mto wa Mbu village is among the most active Villages in northern Tanzania, and it is the best stop over for tourist touring to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorngoro Crater, Lake Manyara National Park and Tarangire National Park. Mto wa Mbu borders Lake Manyara National Park to east-south side and the Lake itself.
Enjoy an afternoon visit to a school then drive up the escarpment to Lake Eyasi to arrive at Kisima Ngeda Camp where you will spend two nights.
Early morning walking and hunting-gathering with Bushmen (Wa hadzabe) hunters or spend time participating in the morning routine of the settlement.
Your local guide will interpret for you and discuss hunting techniques still used by the tribes. This dry and rugged landscape is inhabited by Bushmen who live in nomadic groups hunting with bows and arrows and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits. Be prepared for an extraordinary cross-cultural experience as you join these nomadic Bushmen in their daily life.
In the afternoon you can also visit the Datoga, a tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who migrated into this area looking for good grazing land many decades ago. They have so far resisted neighbouring tribes' cultural infiltrations. The women, still wearing locally fat treated goatskin gowns, cut patterns on their faces and bodies to look prettier. Learning about their history is truly fascinating.
After another morning with the bushmen you will bid farewell as you then continue up to the Ngorongoro Highlands arriving late afternoon at the Ngorongoro Farm House where you will spend two nights.
This morning depart to Ngorongoro Crater with picnic lunch and then descend into the 100-square-mile Ngorongoro Crater to view game on the vast grasslands of the crater floor.
Spectacular animal life can be found throughout the year due to the permanent availability of grass and water. Ngorongoro is one of the most impressive game haunts in Africa and has been designated a World Heritage Site. Local wildlife includes black manned lion, the highly endangered black rhino, wildebeest, zebra, elephant, hippo, jackal, and hyena, the most important predator within the crater. The bird life is also prolific with flocks of flamingos on the soda lake as well as other species of water and plains birds.
Early this morning you will depart the Ngorongoro Highlands as you descend onto the plains of the Serengeti arriving at the Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp where you will spend 4 nights.
Arrive in time for an afternoon game drive.
Enjoy three full days exploring the Serengeti National Park. Time tables will be arranged according to the game drives and where the patterns of the wildlife are.
The Serengeti together with Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park form Africa’s most famous wildlife park. The image of acacia trees on an endless grass plain epitomises Africa for many, and then add a Masai warrior and some cattle to the picture and the conversation need go no further.
The annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti and the Masai Mara is the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet – with more than a million animals following the rains. But that is not where the game viewing ends; large prides of lions, elephants and giraffes in grasslands, gazelles and eland to mention but a few.
Aside from traditional vehicle safaris, optional hot-air ballooning over the Serengeti plains has become almost essential and you can even do an optional horseback safari.
Enjoy one last game drive in the Serengeti before departing back to Arusha by scheduled charter flight.
On arrival connect with your international flight back home.
