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Northern Circuit Safari Experience
DURATION
12 Days
The Northern Circuit Experience
AREA TO VISIT
Arusha, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Eyasi
ACCOMMODATION
Tented Camp and Lodges
PRICE PER PERSON SHARING
From
USD 4291
TRIP HIGHLIGHT
- Half Day Arusha National park, attraction wildlife and birds
- Half Day Tarangire, main attraction elephants and baobab trees
- Half day Manyara, main attraction birdlife
- 2 Days central Serengeti main attraction, wildebeest migration and the big four.
2 Days Northern Serengeti main Attraction Wildebeest crossing - Olduvai gorge visit
- Half Day crater tour main attraction, culture and wildlife
- 2 Day Lake Eyasi main attraction culture of Datoga and Hadzabe
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ITINERARY IN FULL
DAY 1
Arrive Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) and transfer to a lodge/hotel in Arusha or Moshi.
Evening: Dinner and overnight.
DAY 2: ARUSHA/MOSHI – ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK – ARUSHA
Morning: Breakfast at the lodge/hotel
9:00am: Depart for Arusha National Park for morning game drive (with picnic lunch)
Afternoon: Walk/canoeing in the park
Arusha National Park is close to the famous “safari town” of Arusha (29 km), as well as the Kilimanjaro International Airport. The Park is one of the most beautiful and topographically varied game reserves in Tanzania, with a rich variety of wildlife, including giraffe, Cape buffalo, zebra, warthog, the black-and-white colobus monkey, the blue monkey, flamingo, elephant, lion and many others. Birdlife is also prolific, with many forest species more easily seen here than in other places.
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a lodge/hotel in Arusha
DAY 3: ARUSHA – TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
9:00am: Pick up from Arusha and drive to Tarangire National Park with picnic lunch
Tarangire is home to some 300 herds of elephants that scratch the dry river bed to tap into underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the lagoons as they shrink in the dry season. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem – a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and the peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
Afternoon: Game drive in the park
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a lodge/tented camp FB
DAY 4: TARANGIRE – LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK – KARATU
Morning: Breakfast at lodge/camp in Tarangire
9:00am: Depart for Lake Manyara National Park (with picnic lunch) for half-day game drive
Lake Manyara National Park provides a perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been observed, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks.
Late afternoon: Drive to Karatu area for dinner and overnight at a lodge
DAY 5: KARATU – CENTRAL SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Morning: Breakfast at lodge
After breakfast: Depart for the Serengeti National Park; picnic lunch along the way, plus a brief stop at Maasai Boma to see Maasai way of life.
The Serengeti is Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, as well as a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder. The Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers some of the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
Afternoon: Game drive in the Serengeti
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a Serengeti lodge or tented camp FB
DAY 6: CENTRAL SERENGETI – NORTH SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
5:00am: OPTIONAL balloon ride or
6:00am: Depart for an early morning game drive in the Serengeti
9:00am: Return to camp for breakfast, and then depart to northern part of Serengeti with picnic lunch, game drive enroute. Arrive at the lodge/tented camp in the evening for check in
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a lodge/tented camp FB
DAY 7: NORTH SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Morning: Breakfast at the lodge/camp, depart for morning game drive near Mara river hunting for wildebeest crossing and if lucky will get to see the crossing this day
Lunch: At camp/lodge
Afternoon game drive trying more luck to see the wildebeest crossing if could not see the in the morning
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a lodge/tented camp FB
DAY 8: NORTH SERENGETI – CENTRAL SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Morning: Breakfast at the lodge/camp, depart to central Serengeti with game drive enroute
Lunch: Picnic lunch at a picnic site on the way
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a lodge/tented camp FB
DAY 9: CENTRAL SERENGETI –NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
6:00am: Depart for an early morning game drive in the Serengeti
9:00am: Return to camp for breakfast, and then depart to Ngorongoro conservation area
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land-use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera.
Afternoon: A brief stop at Olduvai Gorge Olduvai was the first place where traces of an early stone tool culture were discovered, and gave the name to the Oldowan, nowadays considered as the earliest human technology. Olduvai is also one of the first sites in Africa where the earliest Acheulean was first discovered, and where the traditional view of the Oldowan-Acheulean transition was established.
Evening: Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro lodge/tented camp FB
DAY 10: NGORONGORO CRATER – KARATU
Morning: Breakfast at the lodge/camp, then descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a half day crater tour with picnic lunch.
The Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. It’s a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20kms across, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area, it is home to lions, elephant, wildebeest, hippopotamus, rhinocerous, hyena, jackals, ostrich, baboon, and many other animals.
Midday: Picnic lunch at the crater floor.
Late afternoon: Drive to Karatu area for dinner and overnight at a lodge FB
DAY 11: KARATU – LAKE EYASI
Morning: Breakfast at the lodge/camp, and then depart for Lake Eyasi (with picnic lunch), Lake Eyasi is a seasonal shallow endorheic salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. Seasonal water level fluctuations in the lake are dramatic, though the northwestern shore is constrained by the cliffs of the Serengeti Plateau. The Datooga and Hadzabe live around the lake though Hadzabe are the indigenous inhabitants of the area.
Afternoon: Visit to Datooga boma and blacksmith
Evening: Dinner and overnight at a lodge or tented camp FB
DAY 12: LAKE EYASI – ARUSHA/KILIMANJARO AIRPORT
5:00am: Depart for hunting with Bushmen
Mid-morning: Return to the lodge for breakfast and shower
Midday: Early lunch at lodge, then depart for Kilimanjaro Airport/departure flights.
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