6 Days Nothern Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Pick clients from airport (Kilimanjaro) at a time, transfer to the hotel and meet a safari guide for safari briefing dinner and overnight in Moshi.
Day 2:At 9:00am proceed with game drive in Tarangire Park having lunch there, Area: 2,600 square kms / 1,600 square Miles, Tarangire National Park measures 1,600 squares miles and is Tanzania’s fifth largest park. The park is named after the Tarangire River that provides the only permanent water for wildlife in the area. The river is a lure for wildlife during the dry season when very big concentrations of elephant, buffalo, wildebeest and zebra flock along its banks. The Tarangire River runs up the center of the park while the gentle rolling hills interspersed with giant baobab trees, open acacia woodlands and seasonal swamps provide a spectacular and picturesque setting.
Tarangire National Park is particularly well known for its large population of elephants. In addition to the migrating herbivores including elephant, buffalo, wildebeest and zebra, there are numerous resident animals that remain in the park all year round. Resident herbivores that you will likely encounter are banded mongoose, giraffe, bushbuck, rock hyrax, hartebeest, dik dik, impala, waterbuck, warthog and reedbuck, then drive back to camp/ lodge.
Day 3:Tarangire - Ngorongoro: Proceed with game drive in Tarangire and have lunch at northen gate and drive to ngorongoro rim for overnight stay via the great lift valley, at camp or lodge selected.
Day 4: Crater - Karatu: Up early 7: 00am descend down to the crater with your picnic box having a game drive around crater, Area: 8,300 square kilometers / 5,175 square Miles, This area covers the world’s largest unbroken caldera namely Ngorongoro crater and the Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Louis Leaky discovered the origin of early man by unearthing jaws of the Zinjanthropus man. This protected area also includes huge expanses of highlands plains and volcanoes, scrub bush, and forests where the indigenous pastoralists – Maasai people are allowed to live within its boundaries.
The Ngorongoro Crater is a world heritage site and the world’s largest unbroken volcanic caldera which is often refered to as the 8th wonder of the world. The crater is 610 meters deep and 260km2. Breathtaking views of scenery and game can be witnessed from both the crater rim and within the crater floor. It is estimated that over 25,000 larger mammals, mainly Zebra and Wildebeest, exist within the crater itself. Others include Elephant, Warthog, Forest pig, Impala and Buffalo. A Rhino sighting is a rare possibility but Ngorongoro is your best chance in Tanzania to see the endangered black rhino. Flamingoes and over 100 species of water birds are found at the soda lake on the crater floor. till 3:00pm then drive to Karatu camp / lodge, for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Karatu – Lake Eyasi: Enjoy hot and delicious breakfast then followed by drive to lake eyasi, come across Mang”ola onion plantation, wheat plantation with picnic lunch boxes, evening having light walking towards bushman land and will enjoy seeing the tradition iron Smith watching craftiful, hunting of bushmen. Dinner and overnight at Kisimageda tented camp.
Day 6: Lake – Arusha: Early morning breakfast then proceed with light walk to this site of bushmen land to meet with fascinating tribes like Hadzabe and Datonga tribe for watching the use their use of traditional methods of survival. Then drive back to Moshi. For overnight stay.