Safari & Culture experiece-4Days/3Nights

Whatever your arrival time at Kilimanjaro International Airport, your guide will be waiting for you with a warm welcoming smile. He will carry a sign board with your names on it. Kick back and relax as he takes you to the hotel in Arusha- Tanzania’s self styled safari capital, the drive is about an hour. On your way to the hotel, you will get a brief impression of this bustling commercial city. Depending on your arrival time, you may have your pre-safari briefing today, if not, it will take place early tomorrow morning.

Unless your arrival time yesterday allowed time for your safari briefing, then this will take place after breakfast. We will provide you with all the essential information, before we set off to our first safari destination,
In the morning our two hours journey takes us westwards from Arusha to Lake Manyara national park. You will get to know your driver-guide, amazed at his depth of knowledge as he ease answers all your questions. Along the way your eyes will be opened to see all the colors and nature of Tanzania. Sometimes Maasai herdsmen lashing their flocks of goats and cows to new pastures. Enjoy Lake Manyara doing game drives in wonderful Lake Manyara with the rift valley escarpment and the lake itself as the wonderful natural backdrops.
Just past the gate, you will come across a wonderful green forest, home of large group of baboons, visit hippo pool and hold your nose when we reach because these big lumps smell. Hippos spend their day lying in the water and enjoy listening to the nice grumbling sounds of those amazing animals.
Lunch will be picnic nutritious and balanced meal served at the selected picnic site.
Enjoy the tranquility as majestic pink flamingos, picking out a meal of algae from the shallow alkaline waters. While on land Manyara terrain is compact yet boasts differing environments such as diverse forest fed by waters seeping from the nearby escarpment, . Monkeys are abundant but look out too for the tree climbing lions, warthog, cape buffalo and giraffe who all call this park home. Our afternoon journey we continue to Lake Eyasi taking us around 2 hours, where we will eat the dinner-full cooked meal and spend the night.

First we have time to explore Lake Eyasi, the stunning lake being the backdrop for the fascinating tribes who live here. Tanzania’s people can be as interesting as its wildlife. Today you will certainly find that out!

Everyone will have their own, favorite cultural experience today. But perhaps your lasting memory will be of the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers. Their lifestyle will make you ponder how simple but not easy, life can be.

Lake Eyasi is located in the Great Rift Valley, southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater. Its salt-water levels experience dramatic changes with the seasons. in years with little rainfall, the lake can almost disappear. We will first experience a hunting trip with the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, before receiving a welcome from a different tribe, the colorful Datoga people, see also local blacksmith practicing his craft, fashioning pots and weapons from scrap metal.
After an action-packed morning we will have a short rest enjoying , we will drive to Karatu near Ngorongoro conservation area where we will enjoy our lunch and spend the night.

Ngorongoro will be our final destination today
Short brief: Morning visit the incomparable Ngorongoro crater, lunch which will be packed balanced Meal, we will have a 4hours journey back to Kilimanjaro International Airport, covering the 250kms.
The stunning crater of Ngorongoro is a unique home for many species of Tanzania’s wildlife. With some luck, you may even see a black Rhinoceros here.

From our accommodation, we set off after breakfast, at 06:00am departure to reach the rim and then descend into the vast crater itself. At one side there is Lerai Forest, classic mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. This is good elephant country, so keep your eyes peeled. By the side of the nearby swampland is what is sometimes called the ‘elephant graveyard’ as the mighty male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the soft, swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.
The crater has a population of around 120 lions, with well-defined territories, up to 15,000 wildebeest and 9,000 thousand zebras, 400 hyenas, and around 50 black Rhinocerous. Many wildebeest and other herd animals are resident, benefiting from the many sources of year-round waters and are boosted by some migratory in season. Eland, Thomson gazelle and Buffalo are also present in numbers. Hippos can be found in pools and swampland, Flamingos can often be seen in Lake Magadi, which occupies part of the crater floor. Highland birdlife is colorful and plentiful around the waters.

You will be arriving Arusha around 16:00hrs. Drop off at Kilimanjaro international Airport for flight back home or to Zanzibar. You can simply depart on this day only if you have booked domestic flights departing JRO from 19:00hrs on wards OR International Flight departs at 20:00hrs onwards. If not, you will need to book a post night accommodation for any earlier flight.