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6 Day Package
Serengeti Safari Tour
A 6 day tour combining Tanzania’s largest and most famous park, the Serengeti National Park, and the Ngorongoro Crater, one of Africa’s best wildlife viewing areas, and a haven to thousands of flamingos. The tour starts and ends in Nairobi.
Price: USD $1785.00 - Rate is subject to 2 people travelling. Group discount available.
Includes: Accommodation on sharing basis and meals as per itinerary, transport and game drives in a 4x4 vehicle with English speaking drive/guide, all park fees.
Excludes: Visa, local and international flights, all personal expenses, insurance for luggage, tips, and laundry.
ITINERARY:
DAY 1: NAIROBI - LAKE MANYARA
Travel to Arusha, crossing the border at Namanga. Lunch. Continue to Lake Manyara. Arrive late afternoon at lodge. Overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge, or similar.
DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA - SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Travel through Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Serengeti National Park. Game viewing en route. Lunch at your lodge. Late afternoon game drive on vast Serengeti Plains. Overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge, or similar.
DAY 3: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Early morning and late afternoon game drives in Serengeti National Park. Optional hot air balloon excursion (own account). Overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge, or similar.
DAY 4: SERENGETI NAT. PARK - NGORONGORO CRATER
Travel to Ngorongoro Crater, with stop at Olduvai Gorge Museum. Arrive at Lodge, on crater’s rim. Lunch and afternoon walking tour of crater rim with lodge naturalist. Overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, or similar.
DAY 5: NGORONGORO CRATER
Early descent to crater floor. Picnic breakfast and game drive. Ascend crater wall. Late lunch at lodge, and rest of the day at leisure. Overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, or similar.
DAY 6: NGORONGORO CRATER - NAIROBI
Travel to Arusha. Lunch. Continue to Nairobi, arriving late afternoon where tour ends.
14 Day Package
Tanzania, Watching Wildlife Safaris and ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro
(19,340 feet) Tour
We chose to place the Safaris days before the ascent of Kilimandjaro, as the average altitude of the Parks (5,700 feet) permits a primary acclimatization to altitude, which will make the ascent of Kilimanjaro easier. Watching Wildlife Safaris welcome children aged 8. But, on Mount Kilimanjaro ascent, due to safety reasons, we can not accept participants aged below 18. Crater, one of Africa’s best wildlife viewing areas, and a haven to thousands of flamingos. The tour starts and ends in Nairobi.
Price: USD $2494.00 plus local payment US$ 500.00
Includes: Park entry fees, rescue fees, camping fees, guide, assistant guide and 2 porters per person, camping equipment (tent, mattress, sleeping bag), 3 meals per day prepared by our chef while trekking, pre and post tour accommodation, return transfers from Kilimanjaro Airport.
Excludes: Visa, local and international flights, all personal expenses, insurance for luggage, tips, and laundry.
Tips: recommended 15% of the total amount paid to the team for their excellent service, alcohol, personal medication and toiletries, Spare batteries for cameras and flash lights.
ITINERARY:
DAY 1: Meeting in Arusha, by your hotel, in the evening
Night by your hotel. If you choose to fly directly to Arusha-Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO), our price includes the free shuttle from airport to hotel on the evening of day 1 (shuttle leaving airport around 9.00 pm, after the arrival of KLM flight coming from Amsterdam).
DAY 2: Transfer to Serengeti
Breakfast by your hotel. You leave the hotel in a private Land-Rover, and after 6 hours driving on roads and dirt tracks, you reach Serengeti. During this transfer, first encounters with wild animals. Installation in your camping place (the Tanzanian team is always very happy if you give a hand to place the tents). By mid-afternoon, first safari in Serengeti National Park. Night by your tent.
DAY 3: Safari in Serengeti National Park
Classified as one of the main sites of the World Heritage by the UNESCO, Serengeti is the largest National Park of Tanzania (5,700 square miles), the oldest (created in 1951), and with good reason the most famous of Eastern Africa. His name comes from Masaļ dialect, meaning "endless plains". Serengeti savannahs, forests and immense plains, criss-crossed by many rivers with very fertile banks, accommodate the largest herds of herbivores of our planet: 1,5 million gnus, 400,000 zebras, 200,000 Thomson gazelles, which yearly migrations to water holes, followed by their predators, offer one of the most impressive scene of the world. Serengeti also accommodate immense herds of buffaloes, elephants and giraffes, bubals, imapalas and Grant gazelles, hippos.
Predators, drawn by these millions of herbivores, find there a perfect hunting land: lions (about 3,000 in the Park), leopards, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, and smaller predators like servals, are the lords of savannah and acacias woods. The safari you make there in special sun roofs Land-Rovers, one of the most beautiful one can make in Africa, brings you as close as possible of the animals, deep in steppes and savannas. Whole day safari. Night by your tent.
DAY 4: Morning safari in Serengeti National Park
Transfer to N'Gorongoro crater, optional visit of a Masaļ village. In the morning, last safari in Serengeti National Park. Picnic, and then transfer (2 hours and a half drive) to N'Gorongoro conservation area (N'Gorongoro crater). The Tanzanian team will propose you to visit a authentic Masaļ village with dances and songs (price around 15 US dollars per person to be paid to the village chief), or to relax by your tent. Night by your tent.
DAY 5: Safari in Ngorongoro crater.
Classified as one of the main sites of the World Heritage by the UNESCO, with a surface of 60 square miles and edges rising between 1,000 and 2,000 feet above the crater, NGorongoro crater, paradise for keen photographers, is a real Noah's ark. Its vast plains, strewn with volcanic domes, small craters and tropical forests, accommodate the main animal species of Eastern Africa - lions, elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, cheetahs, zebras, gazelles, gnus, hyenas, jackals - in all about 30,000 animals according to the Park Rangers countings. Whole day safari. Night by your tent.
DAY 6: Transfer to Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara Safari
After breakfast, transfer in your private Land-Rover to Lake Manyara National Park (2 hours journey). Before picnic, you move into your camping place. In the beginning of the afternoon, you enter the Park for a half a day Safari. Manyara National Park is a real ornithological paradise. During your Safari in special sun roofs Land-Rovers, you can observe pink flamingos and many species of lakeside birds, but also the surprising spectacle of lionesses sleeping high in the trees, not far from blue monkeys.
The very varied vegetation of the Park - swamps strewn with reeds, Rift's valley steppes and hills covered with thornbushes, clearings and their acacias - also accommodate many giraffes, elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos; these are opportunities for very impressive encounters during the Safari. In the end of the afternoon, back to the camping site. Night by your tent.
DAY 7: Transfer to Tarangire National Park, safari, transfer to Arusha
In the early morning, short transfer (one hour drive) to Tarangire National Park. Half a day Safari in special sun roofs Land-Rovers. Tarangire National Park is considered as a arid haven for migrants, with more than 3,000 elephants living in the Park with buffaloes, hartebeests, wilde-beests, plain zebras, gazelles, elands, oryxes during the dry season, from June to November, coming down to drink by the banks of Tarangire river.
All these animals drift out of the Park from November to June, unlike giraffes, Kirk's dik-diks, warthogs, kudus, impalas, waterbucks, who are resident all year long just like 450 species of birds, including 49 raptor species. Tarangire National Park is also famous for the beauty of its baobabs trees. By mid-afternoon, transfer (2 hours drive) to Arusha. Night by your hotel.
DAY 8: First day of ascent of Kilimanjaro: Machame Gate (6,000 feet asl) - Machame Hut (9,858 feet)
Transfer in private minibus from Arusha to Machame Gate (one hour drive). The road goes through small hamlets with fields of coffee, bananas, camphor and figs. By Kilimanjaro National Park Gate of Machame, the porters choose their loads, while your guide manages the administrative tasks: gathering of US dollars for the Park entry fees to be paid to the Park Rangers' office, setting of the group Ascent Permit.
When all the Tanzanian team is ready, when each porter has his load for the week, you start climbing up to Machame Hut camping place, following the footpath through the luxuriant vegetation of the Rain Forest : giant ferns, climbing plants and Usneas round up the trees of Podocarpus and Juniperus (African cedar). The Rain forest houses antelopes and leopards, hidden in the vegetation, many blue monkeys and squirrels, and remarkable birds as Turacos. After walking up 5 hours on a very easy pace (climbing 800 to 900 feet per hour), you reach the camping site of Machame hut, close to the little mettalic shelter which houses two Park Rangers. Night in your tent. Duration of walking: 5 hours. Difference of level: 3,858 feet up.
DAY 9: Machame Hut - Shira Hut (12,500 feet).
After one hour walking, the footpath leaves the Rain Forest, and zigzags on small rocky brows, offering nice wiews on Mount Meru. You walk through altitude moors, which house small rodents, as hyraxes. The flora is beautiful: giant groundsels, heathers, lobelias (these plants originate from the prehistoric ages, and may reach a height of 30 feet). Shira Hut camping site welcomes you, on a altitude plateau. From the camp, you can see Kilimanjaro summit and its glaciers. Night in your tent. Duration of walking: 4 hours. Difference of level: 2,642 feet up.
DAY 10: Shira Hut - Barranco Hut (12,960 feet).
Transfer in private minibus from Arusha to Machame Gate (one hour drive). The road goes through small hamlets with fields of coffee, bananas, camphor and figs. By Kilimanjaro National Park Gate of Machame, the porters choose their loads, while your guide manages the administrative tasks: gathering of US dollars for the Park entry fees to be paid to the Park Rangers' office, setting of the group Ascent Permit.
From this pass, you may go down directly to the next camping place, near Barranco hut, but we recommend you to follow the track going up to the beautiful Lawa Tower, 14,825 feet asl. Descent down to Barranco hut camping site, placed in the bottom part of Gran Barranco Canyon, which collects the major part of the water of the South Side of Kilimanjaro. Night in your tent. Duration of walking: 5 hours and a half. Difference of level: 2,325 feet up and 1,865 feet down.
DAY 11: Barranco Hut - Barafu Hut (15,090 feet).
Shortly after leaving the camp, the footpath climbs up on "Barranco wall", zigzaging in slopes where porters show an extraordinary sense of balance, with their load placed on their head, impassive despite the narrowness of the path. After this ascent, you follow the "Kibo South Circuit", which offers nice outlooks on Heim and Kersten glaciers, till Karanga valley, the last water point untill tomorrow afternoon. Porters fill up the jerry cans for cooking and drinking, while you are having your picnic. After lunch, the footpath, quite steep for a while, gently goes up for two hours and a half till the rocky brow which houses Barafu camp (in swahili, Barafu means snow).
Located at the base of Stella ridge, Barafu is a windy site, and the outdoor temperature may sink down to 16 Farenheit degrees during the night. After placing the tents and eating a little snack, dinner is served very early in order to let you sleep 5 hours before the night start to climb Kilimanjaro. You ask the cook to fill your Thermos flasks, in order to have a hot drink for the ascent, which will begin at 0.30 am this night. Short night in your tent. Duration of walking: 5 hours and a half. Difference of level: 2,730 feet up and 600 feet down.
DAY 12: Barafu Hut - Kilimanjaro summit (Uhuru Peak, 19,340 feet asl) - Mweka Hut (10,138 feet)
Around the height 18,000 feet, the slope steepens till Stella Point, 18,701 feet, where Stella ridge and footpath join the summit crests, on the side of the crater. From there, walking one hour by dawn light, you reach Uhuru Peak, the highest point of Kilimanjaro: on your left stand the seracs of the South glaciers, sculpted by the equatorial sunlight; on your right, the crater touched by the first rays of the sun. A last climb, and here you are, on Uhuru Peak, 19,340 feet asl, highest summit of Africa.
Emotion is deep in your heart, some mountaineers cry, other meditate, these moments are yours. The sun shining brings milder temperatures, and you spend half a hour on the summit, before to go down easily back to Barafu hut, as, from Stella point till Barafu hut, you will walk down on volcanic screes which absorb perfectly your steps, 200 yards on the left side of the footpath used to climb at night. At Barafu, snacks are served, and you have one hour to take a siesta, before going down peacefully on a good footpath, in the mildness of the afternoon, till Mweka hut camping site, where dinner is served early to allow you to sleep minimum 10 hours after this unforgettable day. Night in your tent.
DAY 13: Mweka Hut - Mweka Gate (4,790 feet)
Mweka Hut is just at the top limit of the Rain Forest. After breakfast, a ceremony takes place : you give the tips to the members of the Tanzanian team, who sing the "Kilimanjaro song", and everybody shake hands. In 2 hours and a half, following the new and easy footpath built by the Park Rangers in 2002, you go down to Mweka Gate, where your private minibus is waiting for you.
DAY 14: Arusha
It is good to wake up late this morning after all these adventures on Kilimanjaro slopes. Breakfast at the hotel, spare time to visit Arusha. Separation in the afternoon. If you fly in the evening from Arusha-Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO), our price includes the free shuttle from hotel to airport on the afternoon of day 8 (shuttle leaving hotel by 5.30 pm).
One Month Package
Tanzanian Northern and Southern Circuit Safari Tour
Explore the northern and southern part of Tanzania. Tanzania's famous Serengeti and Ngorogoro game reserves. From the wildlife areas and cultural interaction to historical sites all set in beautiful landscapes!
Price: USD $4894.00
Includes: Accommodation on sharing basis and meals as per itinerary, transport and game drives in a 4x4 vehicle with English speaking drive/guide, all park fees and crater service charges.
Excludes: Visa, local and international flights, all personal expenses, insurance for luggage, tips, and laundry.
ITINERARY:
DAY 1: Airport to Ilboru Safari Lodge
Pick up from airport by the guide and transfer to Ilboru Safari Lodge.
DAY 2-3: Tarangire National Park
After breakfast depart to Tarangire National Park where we will have a afternoon game drive. The park has one of the highest animal concentrations during the dry season. Herds of elephants, buffalos, wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, and Elands, leopards can bee seen all through the year. For the bird enthusiast, the park offers over 300 species of birds. The vegetation in Tarangire is primarily acacia, mixed woodland, dense elephant grass along the river and numerous baobab trees.
DAY 4: Morning Game Drive to Serengeti
Early morning game drive then proceed to Serengeti National Park.
DAY 5-6: Serengeti National Park
Start the day with a morning game drive followed by afternoon game drive. The Serengeti is renowned for its annual wildebeest migration and large predator population. From February to May, a herd of over a million wildebeests migrate for the Western corridor of the park in search of greener pastures. Serengeti?s' other common animals include lions, leopards, zebras, Thompson gazelles, impala, Grant?s gazelles and buffalos. Most of the park is open grassland broken by isolated granite kopies (hills) and patches of acacias woodlands.
DAY 7: Ngorongora Crater
After breakfast depart to Ngorongoro Crater with a descend into the crater in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at campsite.
DAY 8-9: Ngorongora Crater - Lerai Forest
Very early morning game drive around Lerai Forest, drive back to the Lodge for the breakfast and later in the afternoon more game drives in the crater. One of the World largest Calderas, 20 km wide, Ngorongoro Crater is also one of the best Wildlife viewing areas where Black Rhinos can be seen in Tanzania. It is home to over 30.000 animals, almost half of them being zebra and wildebeest. Ngorongoro is listed as a World Heritage site.
DAY 10-11: Manyara National Park
Depart to Manyara National Park; arrive in time for lunch at campsite. Later in the afternoon we enter the park for game drive around Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara National Park is well known for its tree-climbing lions. The park covers 390 km? and is sanctuary to over 400 species of bird that include the pink flamingos, pelicans, storks, Ibis and Egyptian Geese. There is also a huge herd of buffalo and elephant.
DAY 12: Morning Game Drive
Morning game drive and thereafter depart for Udzungwa National Park for your flight or shuttle connection.
DAY 13-15: Tanzania Park Safari
The newest and one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Tanzania. The uniqueness of this park lies in its biodiversity in hosting a variety of animals and plant species not found anywhere else in the world. The red colubus and the Sanje crested manabrey, elephants, buffalos, leopards, and sable antelopes are some of the residents in this park. A good range of birdlife is present which includes Rufous winged sunbird, Iringa akalat, Lagden?s bush shrike and Udzungwa partridge. Activities include a hike to the Sanje water falls or a climb to the top of the Luhombereo, Udzungwa highest peak.
DAY 16: Udzungwa Peak
Morning walk to the waterfalls or hike to Luhombereo, Udzungwa highest peak.
DAY 17-19: Safari Walk
Depart in the morning after breakfast for Ruaha National Park. The next two days we spend with morning and afternoon game drives. Accompanied by an armed ranger, we start the 4th day with a walking safari.
DAY 20-23: Mikumi National Park
Mikumi National Park is flanked between the Uluguru and Udzungwa Mountains. Mikumi National Park is home to buffalos, giraffes, elephants, lions, zebras and leopards. The park is also famous for its wild dogs and 6m long pythons.
DAY 24-26: Game Drive
Depart after breakfast for Selous Game Reserve. Packed lunched en-route will be provided. We are spending the next days with game drives and try to spot some of the last remaining black rhinos.
DAY 27-29: Dar Es Salaam
We arrive in Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, around noon. Dar es Salaam is a fascinating rabbit warren of a tropical port, often surprising the unwary wanderer with scenes of breathtaking beauty. While Dodoma has been (somewhat absurdly) appointed as the new capital of Tanzania, Dar is the real capital, a hustling, bustling seaport that straddles some of the most important sea routes on earth. We will spend some time in this bustling city, before moving to the North Coast where we will camp the night on the beach.
DAY 30: Depart from Dar Es Salaam to Airport
Depart after morning drive from Dar es Salaam with packed lunch en route and connect for flight home or extension to Zanzibar.