13 Days Ultimate Tanzania Mid Range Safari

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day 1

   Arusha

   Meet at Kilimanjaro airport or Arusha airport, after meet and greet you will be transfer to Arusha town, Overnight atFour Points By Sheraton – (BB)

2. Day 2

   Tarangire National Park

   After breakfast, collect packed lunch and drive to Tarangire area for mid-morning and afternoon game viewing in Tarangire National park, a small breathtaking Park with an immense natural richness surrounded by ancient baobab trees, Lesser kudu, eland, lion, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, Maasai giraffe and fringe-eared Oryx and gerenuk can be found in this beautiful park, noted for its multitude of baobab trees and its lions. Meals and overnight at Tarangire Sopa Lodge

3. Day 3

   Tarangire National Park – Karatu

   After breakfast, drive for morning game drive in Tarangire National Park, lunch at Tarangire Sopa Lodge. Afternoon drive to Karatu area Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House

4. Day 4

   Lake Eyasi

   After breakfast, drive to Lake Eyas area, on arrival you will proceed for Hadzabe Bushmen tour, a hunter-gatherer tribe who are believed to have lived in the area for nearly 10,000 years, live close to the shores of Lake Eyasi, Their language resembles that of Kalahari bushmen tribe (who were featured in the 1980 film ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’) with clicking noises used The Hadzabe – what you can learn from the Hadzabe includes the following

   • Different kinds of materials being used to make arrows – arrow sticks, the preparation of poison and the point of poison in the arrow
   • Processing poison from the poison tree
   • Shallow wells prepared by women for water collection from the ground for the home use
   • Traditional dancing
   • Barbeque preparation of fresh meat for the lucky days of hunting, normally about 2 -3 days of big kills per week but small kills are regular and common
   • How to make fire the traditional way, in the ancient hand-drill method using palms of the hands and two pieces of sticks / wood

   Lunch will be served at your lodge – Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge Afternoon enjoy tour with the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe who are pastoralists What you can learn from the Datoga includes:-

   • General life style of the Datoga
   • How mud & cow dung huts are being prepared by women
   • Preparation of the boma ( the cattle fence)
   • Learning the way men and women dress
   • Learn about black smiths, weapons & weapon making
   • Flour making by women using grinding stones

   If time allow – In the evening you will have walking tour at Lake Eyasi Dinner and overnight at Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge

5. Day 5

   Ngorongoro Crater

   After breakfast, collect packed lunch and drive to Ngorongoro crater well known as a highly successful sanctuary for the endangered black rhino. Strategically Ngorongoro Crater is often referred to as the 8th wonder of the world, a large caldera that hosts the most unique ecosystem on Earth with 20,000 large grazing mammals and the largest concentration of predators on earth playing a key role in the maintenance of the ecological balance. Your experience will start by descending 2000 feet (over 600 metres) to the floor of the crater to explore the forest areas that are inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open savannah where many predators hunt to make their kill. Thereafter in the afternoon drive to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

6. Day 6

   Serengeti National Park

   After breakfast, collect packed lunch drive to Serengeti National Park for an afternoon game drive in the prime attraction of Africa – Serengeti National Park, a World Heritage Site! Africa’s largest and most famous park is an astounding 14,763 sq. kms of wild paradise. Most famous for its annual migration of wildebeests and zebras, this is Africa’s best protected reserve. The “Famous Big Five” at your disposal during game drive – lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhino – all in African style! Watch out for the Impala stags, giraffes, water bucks and more – found in this area. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge

7. Day 7

   Serengeti National Park

   Safari in Swahili simply means a “journey”. Nowadays it has become a synonym for wildlife viewing in the African bush. Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the endless plains of Serengeti plains which sustain the greatest and most spectacular concentration of wildlife found anywhere in the world including great herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles or a pride of lions dawdling in the acacia trees. Meals and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge

8. Day 8

   Serengeti – Lake Victoria Area

   After breakfast, collect packed lunch and proceed for morning game drive in Serengeti National park toward Lake Victoria area arriving by evening for check in into your hotel Dinner and overnight at Serenity on the Lake

9. Day 9

   Lake Victoria Area

   After breakfast, you will be picked up by fishermen with their traditional canoes and be rowed along the shoreline to a nearby village. Here they can explore the village on foot and then return to the Lodge while enjoying the singing of the fishermen. One of Serenity On The Lake staff member guides this trip and gives information about the different methods of fishing and the way of life in the village. The trip takes a bit over two hours and is to be made in the morning only (departure between 9a.m and 10 a.m.), because that is the time the fishermen bring in their overnight catch, plus that the lake is calm then. Later you will get back to your hotel for lunch, thereafter enjoy an afternoon at leisure / bird watch along the lake shore. Dinner and overnight at Serenity On The Lake

10. Day 10

    Serengeti

    Drive back into the Serengeti with packed lunch, enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the endless plains of Serengeti plains which sustain the greatest and most spectacular concentration of wildlife found anywhere in the world including great herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles or a pride of lions loitering in the acacia trees. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge

11. Day 11

    The Craddle of Mankind (Olduvai Gorge)

    After breakfast, collect packed lunch and drive to Olduvai Gorge for a day tour, a Dr Louis and Mary Leakey’s famous discoveries of early humans and magnificent antiquities documenting the evolutionary history of our stone tool-using ancestors, vertebrate fauna, and the environments over the last two million years. It has yielded numerous fossil remains from Pleistocene times (from about 5,000,000 to 10,000 years ago), including the skull of the primitive. The world famous palaeoanthropological site studied for more than 40 years by the Leakeys. The 40-kilometre-long Gorge (Olduvai is a mispronunciation of Oldupai, a Maasai word meaning ‘the place of wild sisal’) is located in northern Tanzania at the border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Serengeti National Park. In the afternoon drive to Karatu area Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House

12. Day 12

    Lake Manyara National Park

    After breakfast, collect packed lunch and drive to Lake Manyara area , enjoy game drive in Lake Manyara National Park whose inhabitants include large variety of animals such as Giraffe, Zebra, Elephant, Gazelle, hippos, monkeys and about 400 different species of birds providing the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Kilimamoja

13. Day 13

    Airport

    After breakfast, drive for Arusha city tour, lunch on own account Afternoon transfer to JRO airport