Lodge Safari or Budget Camping Safari – least expensive option: Participation safari where camping equipment is carried; choice of ‘pitch own tent’ or more basic accommodations. A cook will be provided in order to prepare hot meals and clean up for you while on safari. This is a no-frills wild game safari.
May to Feb
Moshi/Arusha – Mto wa Mbu – Karatu – Ngorongoro – Tarangire
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive, Lake Manyara is a shallow freshwater lake in Tanzania, covering 127 square miles (329 km2) of Lake Manyara National Park, the lake’s alkaline waters cover approximately 89 square miles (231 km2). It is famous for a good number of baboons and birdlife, also home to herbivores such as hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, warthogs, and giraffes, giant fig trees and mahogany seen in the groundwater forest immediately around the park gates, and then drives back to Arusha.
After an early breakfast and then drive to Lodoare Park Gate in order to finish all the park formalities’, descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for crater tour. This is world heritage site; the incomparable Ngorongoro crater is the world’s largest “caldera”. Dominated by cliffs standing some 600 meters high and presenting a sheer drop down to a wide open space of some 246 square km, and you may see everything from elephant to lion, and if you’re lucky, the near-extinct black rhino, all amongst large herds of zebra and wildebeest. Afternoon exit the crater and drive to Rhino Lodge Ngorongoro or Simba Camp – with fascinating view of the crater floor!
The park contains a range of different habitats from grasslands and woods, to low hills, scrub and swampland in the south. Tarangire is south east of Lake Manyara and is well-known as the home of elephants and the mystical baobab trees, the elephants’ favourite food. Other wildlife that can be spotted are waterbuck, impala, wildebeest, zebra and buffalo as well as predators including lions and hyenas. The stunning birds of East Africa are also prevalent, such as the Bateleur eagle and Superb starling. After a picnic lunch we will enjoy an afternoon game drive before heading back to Moshi/Arusha taking approximately 4 hours.
