5 Days Safari Lodges & Culture

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
5 Days Safari - Lodges & Culture
2 stops
1
Today we welcome you at Kilimanjaro Airport. Your personal guide and driver will take us to Arusha for your first accommodation. We will accompany you to check-in, discuss your travel plans with you and answer your questions. Arrive first and relax. In the afternoon, you can get your first impressions of African life on a walking tour in Arusha, do some small shopping or experience local handicrafts in the Maasai Market. Discuss your wishes with your guide. Today you will spend the night in your accommodation in Arusha.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
2
Your exciting 5-day lodge safari in African wilderness includes wildlife viewing and encounters with Massai members in the Ngorongoro Highlands and Hadzabe on Lake Eyasi. This safari will take you to the best game viewing areas in the Serengeti, Tarangire National Park and of course the famous Ngorongoro Crater. Enjoy varied African landscapes. Marvel at a huge variety and number of wildlife. Witness the "Great Migration" when millions of herd animals such as wildebeest and zebra roam the Serengeti in search of grazing land from January and September.
6 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
5 Days Safari Lodges & Culture
1 stop
3
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire is Tanzania's fifth largest national park on the edge of the Great Rift Valley. The landscape consists of low hills with sparse acacia forests, huge baobab trees and savannah grasslands. The Tarangire river is the main water source of the park and is ideal for wildlife viewing of all kinds. Herds of wildebeest, buffaloes, elephants, zebras, giraffes, hippos and many antelopes are waiting to be photographed by you. With a little luck and good eyes, you might also get the well-camouflaged leopard for the lens.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
5 days Safari Lodges & Culture
2 stops
4
Serengeti National Park
After breakfast departure to the Serengeti National Park. The journey takes place over wooded attractive altitudes in the Ngorongoro Highlands. After passing the entrance to the Ngorongoro Nature Reserve, we follow the crater rim to a viewpoint where you can take your first photos of the crater. Along the way, visit one of the Maasai villages. You will be greeted with singing and the famous dancing dances of the young warriors before you have the opportunity to visit the village. They will be happy to answer your interested question.
6 hours • Admission ticket free
5
Serengeti National Park
After this short stopover we are already on a game drive and continue our way to the Serengeti. In the shadow of Kopje's rocky outcrops, your safari guide will serve you a picnic lunch before continuing your wildlife sightings and arriving at today's overnight accommodation before sunset.
6 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 4
5 days Safari Lodges & Culture
2 stops
6
Serengeti National Park
Your safari starts today at 6:30 am. Before you leave, you will have experienced a sunrise that you will rave about to your family and friends. The morning game drive is rewarded with seeing lions and other nocturnal prey hunters returning from their long night of hunting. Your breakfast and lunch will be served in the bush today. Today is dedicated to wildlife observation – let yourself be surprised. With elephants, lions and buffaloes, you are guaranteed to see three of Africa's "Big Five" today.
6 hours • Admission ticket free
7
Ngorongoro Crater
With the usual lunch box in our luggage, we head back towards the Ngorongoro Nature Reserve. We drive down to the "largest zoo in the world" 610 meters below. About 30,000 large animals live permanently in this caldera. Among them large population of predators, such as lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the always hard to find leopard. A good pair of binoculars is highly recommended
6 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 5
5 days Safari Lodges & Culture
2 stops
8
On this day we will take you on an early morning hunt with the Bushmen of the Hadzabe people in the Lake Eyasi area. To this day, the Hadzabe live according to their ancient traditions, master survival in the African bush and hunt with bow and arrow as ever. The collection of fruits, eggs and root tubers is another food source for the three ethnic groups of Hadzabe, Tindiga and Datoga.
4 hours • Admission ticket included
9
After the hunting trip with the Hadzabe, your 5-day safari is unfortunately already over. Your driver will make sure you arrive at the airport in time for your flight home or for a connecting flight for a beach holiday in Zanzibar.
4 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Tags

Rating