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8 - Day Safari
LAKE EYASI - SERENGETI - NGORONGORO - LAKE NATRON  - TARANGIRE

A journey between culture and nature throughout Northern Tanzania that will amaze you. Journey to the mythical Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, encounter the prehistoric Hadzabe tribe, and meet the Maasai warriors.  And stop by Lake Natron, the usual nesting area for millions of pink flamingos. Welcome to the real Tanzania!

Day-By-Day Program

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Day 1    Mto Wa Mbo / Lake Eyasi

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp and departure for Mto Wa Mbo. Upon arrival, a guided bicycle tour will take you through the last town that rises on the edge of the most famous Tanzania National Parks, meet the local population, taste banana beer, see private homes, the market, and plantations. After a local lunch continue on to Lake Eyasi, located south-east of the Ngorongoro plateau for a close-up  encounter meeting with the Datoga tribe, polygamous farmers originating from the Horn of Africa. Visit the village and the blacksmith's workshop who produces everyday objects, jewelry and arrowheads with ancient techniques for the neighboring Hadzabe, who repay him with animal skins and wild honey. Transfer to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

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Day 2    Lake Eyasi / Ngorongoro

Departure at sunrise for a visit of the Hadzabe tribe - the bushmen - last heirs of a civilisation that does not know agriculture, livestock farming, ceramics and metallurgy. They live by hunting with bow and arrows and by collecting wild berries and fruits. Here you have the opportunity to step back in time and go on a hunting trip and witness a completely archaic lifestyle for a few hours. After a late breakfast departure for the Ngorongoro Crater. On arrival we will descend into the caldera for a fascinating game drive, and lunch will be a picnic inside the park. At sunset we leave the park and arrive at the lodge, which rises directly on the ridge of the crater with an incomparable view of the caldera. Dinner and overnight stay.
The structure of the Ngorongoro Crater is circular, about 20 kilometres in diameter. The climate also differs in this place: while on the edge, which is about 2,200 meters high, the climate is cold and often foggy, inside the caldera the air is hot and dry and the vegetation changes rapidly depending on the season. The population of lions inside the caldera is unparalleled in all of Africa and a photo-safari in the Ngorongoro is a unique and unrepeatable experience. 
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Day 3    Serengeti

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp and departure for the most famous park in Africa: the Serengeti National Park! Arrival at the park entrance in the early afternoon and first game drive. Picnic lunch, at sunset transfer to the tented camp located inside the park, dinner and overnight stay.
Serengeti National Park represents one of the main tourist attractions of the country and is the most famous of the protected areas of East Africa. Here you can see the Big Five: elephant, lion, leopard, black rhino and buffalo. The park was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1981 and is estimated to be home to 1.5 million wildebeest, 300,000 zebras, 150,000 gazelles, 3,000 lions and 1,360 elephants. Nowhere else in the world can you see such a convergence of herbivores. The type of vegetation characteristic of the Serengeti, the open savannah, facilitates sightings and it is for this reason that unrivalled game drives are possible here.

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Day 4    Serengeti

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp, full day dedicated to game drives in the Serengeti Park. Picnic lunch in the park and, at sunset, return to the camp. Dinner and overnight stay.

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Day 5    Lake Natron

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp and departure for the Lake Natron region. We follow a scenic track that crosses a valley flanked by volcanic peaks until reaching the lake itself sometime after lunch. Picnic lunch during the transfer. In the afternoon, excursion along the Engare Sero stream that flows in a narrow rocky gorge, up to a beautiful waterfall where it is possible to swim. At sunset arrival at the lodge/tented camp, dinner and overnight.
About fifty kilometres long and about 25 wide, Lake Natron is a heavily alkaline lake that occupies a depression created by the Rift Valley, in a region of ruggedly beautiful lava desert in the far north of Tanzania. Lake Natron is the usual nesting area for millions of pink flamingos which, greedy for the cyanobacteria present in very high concentration in the lake waters, especially during the dry season (June-October), crowd its banks. The extremely arid area is dominated by the perfect cone of Oldoinyo Leng'ai, the volcano sacred to the Masai people who consider it the home of the God Leng'ai.
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Day 6    Lak Natron / Karatu

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp and departure very early in the morning by jeep, then continue on foot to the shores of Lake Natron, through a harsh and almost lunar landscape to see, in addition to the shining scenery, the numerous pink flamingos that populate the lake. It is not a difficult trek, but you will walk through shallow water at times (which rarely reaches knee height): it is therefore recommended to wear shorts or swim trunks and non-slip shoes. At the end of the visit, departure for the Tarangire Park, picnic lunch and stop for a visit at a coffee plantation in the Karatu area. In the evening arrival at the lodge/tented camp, dinner and overnight.
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Day 7    Tarangire National Park

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp and early departure for a day of game drives in Tarangire National Park. Picnic lunch in the park and, in the evening, exit from the park and arrival at the lodge and overnight. Tarangire National Park is located at 1100 meters above sea level, has an extension of 2600 square km and is commonly called the 'Park of the Giants'. In this park you will have the opportunity to see numerous Baobab trees, typical of this area of ​​Tanzania, and many elephants. In addition to these two species there will be the opportunity to meet zebras, wildebeest, numerous species of gazelles, buffaloes, giraffes, elephants, cheetahs and, of course, lions. 
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Day 8    Arusha / Departure

Breakfast at the lodge/tented camp and departure towards Arusha. Transfer to the airport based on your flight schedule. Check-in and departure to either your home country or for a beach holiday

Important Info

Private safari trip in 4x4 LandCruiser • Meals as mentioned • Entrance fees to parks and protected areas • All visits as scheduled • Private transfers to/from airports • Bottled water always available.

International/domestic flights • Entry visa (USD 50.00 per person) - Drinks during meals • Tips to lodge staff - Tip to guide (it is a very deep-rooted custom to leave a tip that is around the 8-10 $ per day per person) • Travel insurance - Anything not expressly mentioned under 'Included'.

Maasai Village Visit • Mto Wa Mbo Tour • Coffee Experience • Guided Bush Walk • Serengeti Balloon Tour • Lake Manyara Canoe Tour • Olduvai Gorge Visit • Arusha City Tour
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All safaris start from/end in Arusha • Depending on your arrival time one extra night in Arusha might be necessary • Many types of accommodations are available, from standard to luxury, from lodges to tented camps.
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