10 Days Budget Camping Safari + Cultural Tour

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Tour Overview


On this ten days Camping Safari you will experience it all! From fantastic wildlife to impressive landscapes and meeting the local people. You will visit the highlights of northern Tanzania such as the Tarangire National Park, Lake Natron, Lake eyasi Lake Manyara national park, the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater.

Destinations

Day by Day Itinerary

You will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Moshi town; you will meet your guide who will brief you on your upcoming safari. All the basic information about your safari will be given to you by safari guide.

Distance: 60km

Your safari will begin by 8:00AM in the morning with a pick up from your hotel around Kilimanjaro international airport.  By 9:30am you will arrive at Arusha national p[ark gate for registration and other paper documentation.  After finishing the registration process on the gate, accompanied by a guide, you will start your 1,5-hour walk to Tululusia waterfall through the habitat of wild animals, such as buffalos, giraffes, zebras, antelopes and monkeys. After having rest near the waterfall, you will come back to the car and continue game-drive around the territory of national park. After having lunch in a special area, you will continue game-drive and later in the evening will be transferred to your hotel in Arusha.

  • Distance: 115km

Pick up from the campsite then transfer to Manyara areas with lunchbox on the way. Cultural tourism and evening walk around Manyara banana village.

  • Overnight at Fanaka Campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 2km

After breakfast enjoy game drive in the park till late in the afternoon. Lunch will be served at the Picnic site inside the park. After the game drive you will leave the park in the late afternoon and drive to the campsite for your overnight stay.

  • Overnight at Fanaka campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 110km

After breakfast you will leave Mto wa Mbu town and head to Lake natron. From here you will travel on a spectacular and very bumpy gravel road along the Rift Valley Escarpment with Ol Doinyo Lengai “the holy mountain” of the Masai in the distance. Today’s destination is the typical Masai village of Ngare Sero in the hot and dusty Rift Valley. From a distance you might be getting to see the pick glow of the flamingoes while breeding and feeding and with the going down of the sun you will join a Masai guide on a walk to a nearby waterfall. After enjoying the beauty of the nature here you would return to the campsite for the dinner and the overnight stay.

  • The overnight at Lake Natron Public campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 160km

After an early start, you will travel along adventurous dirt tracks with breath-taking views as your vehicle climbs out of the Rift Valley to reach the grassy plains of the Serengeti by midday. In Massai Serengeti means “endless plains” and truly you would find the grassland savannah stretching here to the horizon with the dotted grazing animals. Serengeti is a must sought park for anyone planning for Tanzania. Because , I is the park , where the greatest wonder of the world “ The Annual migration of wild beasts “ is conducted in which millions of the animals march in quest of fresh pasture and water without caring for their life and even the life of their calves. After your game viewing you will overnight at the campsite in the northern of the park.

  • Overnight at Lobo Campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included

The entire day is dedicated to game viewing in the Serengeti National Park. The areas that you will visit will depend upon where the migrating herds are to be found. Predators usually follow closely behind the trekking animals. During the short rainy season in November and December the herds move from the hills in the north to the plains in the south. During the longer rainy season from April to June they return up north. As the migration depends upon the yearly rains, the location of the herds might vary from year to year but guide will know where to see them best.  After game drive you will be taken to the campsite for dinner and overnight.

  • Overnight at Tumbli Campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 145 km

After breakfast you will join another game drive in the Serengeti National Park and you might spot animals you haven’t seen during the last two days. The Serengeti is also home to the “Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and leopard and today you might be able to tick off all the members of this group. After lunch at a picnic site, you will drive in direction of the Ngorongoro Crater and as soon as you have reached the edge of the crater, the caldera opens up before you. This approximate 20 km wide crater is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to over 25,000 animals. You will drive to the campsite from where you can witness the sun set over the crater.

  • Overnight at Simba Campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 65 km

Rise and shine! After breakfast at day break you drive down into the crater. Inside the world’s biggest caldera you will see a diversity of wildlife ranging from black rhinos, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, lions and leopards, to elephants and mountain reedbucks in the forests on the slopes. You might also see buffaloes, spotted hyenas and some of the more than 500 bird species of the area. After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch you will leave the crater in the afternoon to travel to Lake Eyasi for dinner and overnight. In this evening you will be introduced to your guide and be briefed for the next day activities.

  • Overnight at Lake Eyasi Public Campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 70km

Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This less visited lake lies at the base of the Eyasi escarpment on the western rift valley wall. This afternoon you will be introduced to the extraordinary people who belong to an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more. Some wildlife and a wide range of bird species can be viewed during walks around the lake, which can be arranged. After cultural activities we will drive back to Mto wa Mbu for overnight and dinner.

  • Overnight at Fanaka Campsite
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
  • Distance: 205km

After breakfast we depart to Tarangire national park. This will be our last day of safari. This park is extremely famous and special for its diverse landscape and nine different vegetation zones. As you begin your game drive, you will be welcomed by the ancient and gigantic Baobab trees, which make even animals like the giraffe look tiny. The game drive goes on till about late afternoon and includes a small stop for a picnic lunch. The 3,000 Square kilometers park gets its name from the Tarangire River that flows through it. The river attracts a lot of diverse animals and you should be able to spot a lot of elephants, giraffe, lions, antelopes and zebra.   After the afternoon game viewing and a picnic lunch, you will leave Tarangire national park and drive back to Moshi, where you will arrive in the early evening.

Rest in the hotel and transfer to the airport.

Hotels check out is 11:00am. In case you need a late check-out because of an evening flight, you have the option to extend your hotel stay till 6:00 PM for an extra fee

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