12 Days Safari Northern Tanzania

12 Days Safari

Day 1

ARUSHA

Met upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International airport and after clearing your customs, you will meet our representative who will drive you to Arusha town


Accommodation & Meals: B, in Arusha

Day 2

TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast, depart to Tarangire for game tour with packed lunch, into the park which is characterized by the astonishingly large herds of elephants that can be encountered within the close range. The Baobab trees with savannah and acacia woodland highlight the game drive of nomadic wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest, and eland with the predators chasing them down to complete the outside of Serengeti ecosystem. After accomplish your game view wings through Tarangire River then in the late afternoon drive to the lodge


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Tarangire

Day 3

LAKE NATRON

Breakfast then leave Tarangire area for Lake Natron tour through Maasai villages, exploring the most famous and historical ruins of Embulmbul and Engaruka along the way arriving there in time for short visit to the shoreline of the soda lake with many flamingos and other birds to be glanced while the lake is stunning . Relaxing at your camp after dinner till mid-night then heading to the base of Oldonyo Lengai Active Volcanic Mountain for your final set and start to attempt through the irregular surface with the slipping and scrambling climb


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D  in Natron

Day 4

LAKE NATRON

Walking Tour around Lake Natron After a delicious breakfast drive to Lake Natron, with your local guide. Lake Natron an alkaline lake that serves as the principal breeding site for three-quarters of the world's population of Lesser Flamingos. Leave for an on-route visit a Masai “Boma” village. You will have time to interact with Maasai people and learn their culture and day to day activities. After a tour and activities at Lake Natron we will return to camp for hot lunch and relaxation, later in the day trek to the waterfall bring you swimming costumes for swimming at the falls. Drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.


Accommodation & Meal: B, L, D  in Lake Natron

Day 5

LAKE NATRON -KARATU

Leisure breakfast at Lake Natron Tented camp followed by the tour to the hominid footprints archaeological before drives to Karatu area .


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Karatu

Day 6 - 7

LAKE EYASI

Early in the morning after breakfast, we will leave with parked lunch and drive to day tour at Lake Eyasi, to meet the indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer Bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more. The Bushmen rely on these techniques to survive, you will get an opportunity to go with them to hunt and they will demonstrate their use of locally made poisons in incapacitating the poor creatures on which they depend for survival. Later in the day leave and drive back to Karatu for dinner and overnight.


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Karatu

Day 8

LAKE EYASI-NGORONGORO AREA

After breakfast, leave with picnic lunch and drive to Ngorongoro, descend into the Crater exploring the short grass plains of the largest intact caldera in the world. The crater enjoys its enduring charm stems from the overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. This extinct volcano embraces 100sq miles alive with lions, leopard, rhino, elephant, buffalo, and many games, then later in the late afternoon leaves the crater and drive to the lodge on the crater rim for dinner and overnight.


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Ngorongoro

Day 9

NGORONGORO -SERENGETI

After breakfast leave Ngorongoro with parked lunch and drive to an en-route game drive to Ndutu/South Serengeti in search for large predators and the gentle herbivores on which they feed in the rolling plains of Serengeti Savannah. The Park contains the largest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, on a scale, which has no parallel anywhere in the world.  There is abundance of herbivores. Serengeti is also famous for lions and contains a wide variety of bird life, believed to be in the region of 350 species, and with good chances also of seeing the predators at work..


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Serengeti

Day 10

NDUTU

After breakfast, we leave for a full day game drive in Southern Serengeti (The wildebeest migration breeding site). This is a unique location to witness the Wildebeest Migration comprised of millions of wildebeest, zebra and other resident animals all year round in the area ungulates congregate on the Serengeti plains around the Southern Serengeti/Ndutu area, which takes place from December to March each year. Lunch at the lodge/camp or as a picnic lunch while on game drive.


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Serengeti

Day 11

SERENGETI-LAKE MANYARA

Experience the game viewing in Serengeti thereafter driving to Lake Manyara via Ngorongoro conservation area with an optional visit to Olduvai Gorge (historical site) then proceed to Lake Manyara .


Accommodation & Meals: B, L, D in Manyara

Day 12

LAKE MANYARA - ARUSHA

After breakfast you will enter Lake Manyara National Park to acquaintance the wonderfully game tour at the amazing soda lake and the seasonal home of a giant flamingo and many waterfowls due its underground water forest also the chance of glance elephant, hippo, buffalos, banded mongooses, and numerous types of gazelles and antelopes furthermore this park is famous for its tree climbing lions. Later in the late afternoon drive to Arusha for day use then transferred to the airport for your home bound flight