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.

Day 1 Arrival in Arusha

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 youraccommodation in Arusha.

Day 2 Arusha – Tarangire National Park

After breakfast we start to your first safari destination. The journey is via well-developed roads on the Great Northern Highway through the Maasai steppe and a number of smaller villages.

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 vor the lens.

Overnight at Marea Valley Lodge or similar in Karatu town. All meals included.

Day 3 Tarangire National Park – 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.

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.

Overnight at Serengeti Safari Lodge or Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp. All meals included

 Day 4 Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Crater

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.

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.

Overnight and dinner at Marera Valley Lodge

Day 5 Karatu – Hadzabe – Arusha

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.

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.

 Included are:

• All parking fees and government taxes.
• Transfer from and to the airport
• Game drives in 4×4 off-road vehicle
• with pop-up roofs and guaranteed window seating.
• Meals as indicated
• Accommodation as indicated.
• Activities as indicated.
• Visit to Maasai and Hadzabe.
• Bottled water during the safari.

 Not included:

• International air fares
• Items of a personal nature, such as souvenirs, travel insurance and visas.
• Additional accommodation before and at the end of the trip
• Gratuities for the driver (indicative $10 per day per person)
• Government-imposed increases in taxes and/or parking fees