12DAY/ 11NIGHTS MIGRATION AND CULTURAL SAFARIS
SUMMARY.
Day 1: Arrive Kilimanjaro airport| Transfer Arusha
Day 2: Arusha| Tarangire National Park
Day 3: Tarangire National Park (Full Day)
Day 4: Tarangire| Lake Eyasi| Datoga Tribes
Day 5: Hadzabe Tribes| Ngorongoro Conservancy
Day 6: Ngorongoro Conservancy| Central Serengeti National Park
Day 7: Central Serengeti National Park (Full Day)
Day 8: Central Serengeti | Northern Serengeti
Day 9: Northern Serengeti (Full Day)
Day 10: Northern Serengeti | Lake Natron
Day 11: Lake Natron –Lake Shores & Engaresero Falls
Day 12: Lake Natron| Arusha & Kilimanjaro airport
Day 1- Arrive Kilimanjaro airport| Transfer to Arusha
Upon arrival at the Kilimanjaro international airport, you will be met by our representative for a transfer to your hotel at Arusha where you are booked for dinner and overnight.
Day 2-Arusha | Tarangire National Park
Early morning breakfast at your lodge and meet with your safari guide for briefing then with packed lunches depart to Tarangire National Park. Arrive Tarangire for mid-morning game drive at Tarangire National Park.
At 13h00: Lunch at a picnic site at the Tarangire National Park. Afternoon game drives as you transfer to the lodge where you are booked for dinner and overnight.
Day 3- Tarangire National Park (Full Day)
This day will be best planned between the clients and their safari guide, either choosing to do a half day game drive or full day game drive of Tarangire National Park in search of more wildlife.
13h00: Lunch at a picnic site in the park or lodge. A further afternoon and evening game drive or choose to have some leisure time at the lodge. Dinner and overnight at the lodge located inside the park.
Day 4-Lake Eyasi- Datoga Tribes Cultural Tour
Breakfast at the lodge and depart for Lake Eyasi- shallow endorheic Salt Lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, this is a scenic drive arriving on time for hot lunch.
13h00: Hot Lunch at the Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp or its equivalent. Afternoon visit the Datoga tribes who are more of blacksmith, they smelt iron to produce farming tools locally as well some spear heads and arrows which are used by the Hadzabe tribes. Later on, transfer to Ngorongoro conservation area where you are booked for dinner and overnight.
Day 5-Lake Eyasi-Hadzabe Tribes Cultural Tour | Ngorongoro Conservancy
Early morning breakfast and leave the lodge for a visit to the Hadzabe village which is an ethnic tribe that still leaves by gathering and as hunters-you have the option of visiting the village early and join them on their morning hunt or find them coming back from the hunt. Thereafter depart for a transfer to Ngorongoro Conservancy arriving on time for dinner and overnight.
Day 6- Ngorongoro Conservancy | Central Serengeti National Park
Early morning with breakfast at the camp and with packed lunch depart to central Serengeti with game drives en-route. This day offers another exciting game drive with opportunity to see more wildlife in Central Serengeti
13h00: Lunch at a picnic site in the park. A further afternoon and evening game drive as you transfer to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 7 – Central Serengeti National Park (Full Day)
This day is best planned between yourselves and your safari guide while at the western Serengeti, depending on what you had seen the previous day and what you would want to see. Either choosing to do a half or full day game drive in search of more wildlife or leisure time.
13h00: Lunch at a picnic site| Lodge in Serengeti. Afternoon and evening game drives at the plains of Serengeti in search of the Big 5. Later on, return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 8 – Central Serengeti | Northern Serengeti National Park
Early morning with breakfast at the camp and with packed lunch depart for Northern Serengeti with game drives en-route. This day offers another exciting game drive with opportunity to see more herds that are migration north in a push for the river crossing.
13h00: Lunch at a picnic site in the park. A further afternoon and evening game drive as you transfer to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 9 – Northern Serengeti National Park (Full Day)
These 3 days in the Northern Serengeti if lucky will offer you a glimpse of the river crossing with the first of herds that are already in the north of Serengeti and Mara region expected to be crossing into the Kenya’s Masai Mara.
13h00: Lunch at a picnic site| camp or Lodge in Serengeti. Afternoon and evening game drives at the plains of Northern Serengeti in search of more migrating herds and the Big 5. Later on, return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 10 -Northern Serengeti National Park| Lake Natron
Early morning breakfast at the lodge and with packed lunches depart for Lake Natron with game drives exiting the Serengeti from Klein’s gate.
13h00: Lunch at a picnic site on the way to Lake Natron. Afternoon transfer to Lake Natron arriving for dinner and overnight.
Day 11-Lake Natron –Lake Shores & Engaresero falls
Early morning breakfast and have a walk or drive to the shores of Lake Natron and Engaresero falls to explore the ecological diversity and discover the magnificent breeding sites of flamingos. Around two million of these large birds migrate each year to nest on the salty pack ice, forming in the dry season in the middle of the Lake. Your walk will then be extended to admire one of the oldest footprints of Homo sapiens believed to date back almost 120,000 years. Later on, return to the camp, lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 12-Lake Natron| Arusha | Kilimanjaro airport & Departure
Breakfast at the lodge and with packed lunches depart for Arusha having stops on the way for photo session and picnic lunch. You will arrive Arusha later in the afternoon and drop off at your hotel in Arusha or at the Kilimanjaro airport for departure flight home.
