Compare Cultural Tour And Wildlife Safari by Eco Africa Climbing vs 5 Days Serengeti Migration Safari by Lappet Faced Safaris
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Duration | 10 days | 5 days |
Price From | $ 2,800 | $ 2,570 |
Price Per Day | $ 280 | $ 514 |
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Trip Style | Small group tour | Small group tour |
Lodging Level | Premium | Standard |
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Flights & Transport | Ground transport included | Ground transport included |
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9 Breakfasts, 8 Lunches and 9 Dinners |
All meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner |
Description |
This Tour is comprise of cultural activities and Safari in the Northern circuit National Park. You will get the chance to visiting the Marangu village at the lower slope of Mountain Kilimanjaro. Marangu is a small town with a great amount of history and ancient traditions. Get carried away by the Chagga tribe, unique rainforest landscape and coffee growing insides. . You will get a chance to visit on the base of Mt Kilimanjaro, and view the mountain if you luck. |
5 Days Serengeti Migration Safari Visit Tanzania’s largest and most famous National Park with the wildebeest migration expected in December and May, Tree climbing lions and birdlife in Manyara, and finally a tour to the worlds most-visited destination (Ngorongoro) famous for high wildlife concentration and breathtaking sceneries. |
Day 1: Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport
We meet and greet at the airport and we transfer you to Moshi. Overnight at Kili wonders Hotel on bed & breakfast basis. (http://kiliwonders.com)
Day 2: Day trip to the base of Mt Kilimanjaro And Cultural Tour
Visit and learn the history of Marangu and its people. Marangu, at the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro, is a small town with a great amount of history and ancient traditions. Get carried away by the Chagga tribe, unique rainforest landscape and coffee growing insides. This full day tour has it all action, tradition and culinary. You will get a chance to visit on the base of mt Kilimanjaro, and view the mountain if you luck, overnight at Hotel in moshi. (http://kiliwonders.com)
Day 3: Moshi – Tarangire National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House, Oldeani Road, Karatu
Your safari begins after breakfast this morning. Our first stop is Arusha town, for any last minute purchases before we head off on an exciting safari experience! We will be in the Tarangire National Park for lunch and an afternoon game drive. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the centre of the annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephant, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebra.
Day 4: Lake Manyara National Park – Lake Eyasi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari lodge or similar
After coffee and breakfast, we head towards Lake Manyara National Park for an early morning game drive. This spectacular national park is located at the north-western corner of Lake Manyara, a shallow soda lake at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. Lake Manyara is not only known for its large flocks of flamingos, but also for the elusive tree-climbing lions. After lunch and a short afternoon game drive, we head towards our lodge at Lake Eyasi.
Day 5: Lake Eyasi
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Camp or similar
Today’s activities are interacting with local Bushmen & Blacksmiths communities. The Hadzabe Tribe, live in groups hunting with bow and arrows and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits, much as humankind lived in the Stone Age. We will obtain an in-depth look at how they continue to survive and adapt to their harsh environment and the challenges they face in continuing their nomadic existence. The Hadzabe have close relations with the Datoga tribe, blacksmiths who have developed their trade over centuries and still practice it very much the same way today. They produce the arrow heads for the Hadzabe and brass trinkets, some of which will be for sale by the maker himself.
Day 6: Lake Eyasi – Lake Ndutu- Serengeti
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Kati Kati Tented Camp or similar
This morning, we head through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area via Eyasi escarpment to Endulen, Ndutu open area towards the Serengeti National Park. We will stop at a Masai village, which is not a touristic Masai Boma, for a cultural encounter of a life time. The Masai people are semi-nomadic herders, who choose to live a traditional lifestyle and are known for their distinctive traditional attire. After lunch, we embark on a game drive within the park on our way to the lodge.
Day 7: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Kati Kati Tented Camp or similar
Today our game drive will lead us towards the central part of Serengeti National Park. We look for large herds of wildebeests pounding the grasslands, while hungry predators such as lions, leopards and cheetahs prey upon the youngest and weakest members of the herds. The Serengeti’s endless plains provide an exceptional landscape for wildlife viewing throughout the year.
Day 8: Serengeti National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Kati Kati Tented Camp or similar
Enjoy a full day of game viewing in the Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti is renowned for its annual wildebeest migration and large predator population. From February to May, a herd of over a million wildebeest (gnu) migrate for the Western Corridor of the park, in search of greener pastures. The Serengeti’s other animal attractions include lion, leopard, zebra, Thompson gazelle, impala, Grant’s gazelle and buffalo. Most of the park is open swathes of grassland, broken by isolated granite kopjes (hills) and patches of acacias woodlands.
Day 9: Serengeti – Ngorongoro
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farm House or Similar Lodge.
We take an early breakfast at camp and then head to the Ngorongoro Crater. On arrival we go through the registration process and descend to the floor of the world’s largest unbroken caldera for the most wonderful day of game viewing. We will have lunch at the Lerai picnic site at the side of the hippo pool and continue with a game drive up the crater rim.
Day 10: Ngorongoro to Arusha or Moshi
After breakfast we explore the colourful town of Mto-wa-Mbu for some last minute pictures and curio shopping. At Arusha you can be dropped at The Arusha Airport for a flight to Zanzibar or transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for departure. -We can arrange a flight for you to Zanzibar as well as the transfers and accommodation at the Island of Zanzibar."
Day 01: Arusha – Lake Manyara
Depart Arusha in the morning for Lake Manyara, afternoon game drive, The Lake Manyara National park is serene and beautiful with main attractions of a rich bird life, tree-climbing lions, its elephants, and hippos that you can see at closer range than most other places. Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake and at certain times of the year hosts thousands of flamingos and a diversity of other bird life.Although it is one of the smallest parks, its vegetation is so diverse enabling it to host a variety of wildlife habitats.dinner and overnight at Campsite / Logde.
Day 02: Lake Manyara – Serengeti national park
Depart for Serengeti passing through Olduvai Gorge, the site of the Leakey family discovery of fossils of human and animal ancestors dating back to almost two million years.The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous for its annual migration of over one and a half million white bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebra. Meals and overnight at Campsite / Logde.
Day 03: Serengeti Full day
After breakfast full day in Serengeti plains, search for wild game you might have missed the previous game drives. Morning and afternoon game drives. Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back. The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants .Meals and overnight at at Campsite / Logde.
Day 04: Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast drive to Ngorongoro Crater where a 4-wheel drive vehicle will take you 2000ft down to the crater, enjoy picnic lunch at the crater. The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km and is arguably the most stunning arena. It is frequently described as one of the wonders of the world, not only because of its geological magnificence, but also because it serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s largest populations of large mammals. Ngorongoro and other freestanding mountains are volcanic in origin, formed during the fracturing process that created the Rift valley 15 to 20 million years ago. When it peaked in size 3 million years ago it was a similar height to Mt. Kilimanjaro today. Overnight at Campsite / Logde.
Day 05: Ngorongoro – Arusha
After breakfast depart for Arusha,with last minute shopping en route, arrive for lunch after lunch you will be drop of to Kilimanjaro International airport for your flight home or Zanzibar. where the safari ends.