S A F A R I   T O  N O R T H E R N   C I R C U I T

Day 1
Your <<safari>> adventure begins as you drive across the Ardai Plains and climb the Western Wall of the Rift Valley to reach Lake Manyara, where you will lunch. In the afternoon, you proceed to Ngorongoro.
NGORONGORO LODGE (L,D).

Day 2
After breakfast, transfer to 4 wheel drive vehicle which will take you 2000 ft down to the crater floor and a picnic lunch. Spend the rest of the day game viewing on the floor of the crater. Large concentrations of game are to be found in addition to the rare birds in the Sanctuary. Return to the Lodge in the late afternoon.
NGORONGORO LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 3
After breakfast, leave for Lake Manyara Lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, drive down to the Manyara National Park for game viewing. The tropical rain forest offers you a remarkable variety of wildlife.
LAKE MANYARA LODGE (B,L,D).

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Day 3
After breakfast, leave for Tarangire, arriving for Lunch. Afternoon game drive through the Park. Tarangire National Park, which is home to a huge variety of animals and bird species.
TARANGIRE LODGE / CAMP(B,L,D)
Day 4
After breakfast, a short game drive through the Park. Return to Arusha for lunch. (A short stop-over at the Snake Park before arriving at Arusha Town).

Day 1
You will be picked up from your Hotel and travel to Tarangire National Park. TARANGIRE LODGE / CAMP (D).

Day 2
The morning game drive through the Tarangire National Park, which is 1360sq kms. provides endless opportunities to observe its abundance of wildlife including buffalo, elephant, lion and a vast number of antelopes. After lunch, you go on to Ngorongoro Crater.
NGORONGORO LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 3
After breakfast, your safari continues to the Crater for a full day game drive with picnic lunch. Late afternoon, return to the Lodge.
NGORONGORO LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 4
After breakfast, your safari continues to Lake Manyara  National Park. There are a large number of birds species, the most profuse and lively being the flamingoes. The park is also home to a wide variety of wildlife.
LAKE MANYARA LODGE (B,L,D)

Day 5
After breakfast, proceed to Arusha Town.
A short stopover at the Snake Park at the wish of the Client/s. Afternoon, transfer to Namanga/Taveta Border or to Jro for your return flight (B).

Day 1
You will picked up from your Hotel and driven to Ngorongoro Crater, arriving at your Lodge in the late afternoon.
NGORONGORO LODGE (L,D).

Day 2
Early breakfast and start your descend into the 270sq km crater for a game drive. A chance to see the most spectacular game in your lifetimes. Lunch at the Lodge. Afternoon, proceed to Serengeti Park.
SERENGETI LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 3
Early morning game drive followed by breakfast at the Lodge. Another morning game drive in the famous park with chances to see all the <<Big Five>>. Lunch at the Lodge. Afternoon game drive extending into the late evening.
SERENGETI LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 4
After breakfast, depart for Manyara, arriving for lunch at the Lodge. In the afternoon, game drive through the Lake Manyara National Park.
LAKE MANYARA LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 5
After breakfast, return to Arusha, in time for lunch. (B).

Day 1
In the afternoon, you travel to the astonishing Ngorongoro Crater. Arriving at your lodge in the late afternoon enjoying the breathtaking views.
NGORONGORO LODGE (D).

Day 2
On the second day, your safari continues within the Crater. This most spectacular of the African Game Reserves contains one of the largest concentrations of wildlife.
NGORONGORO LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 3
After breakfast, you continue into the vast Serengeti sanctuary, stopping at Olduvai Gorge, site of the discovery of the remains of prehistoric man. The immensity of the Serengeti Park can best be expressed in its numbers. It is recorded that over a million animals live in this area, more than a third of them being wildebeest. This offers an enormous food supply for the lion, cheetah, leopard – an animal usually difficult to find in other Reserves.
SERENGETI LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 4
Full day game drive through the Serengeti Park with all your meals.

Day 5
After breakfast, your exciting safari continues to Lake Manyara Park. This Park is bounded on the east by the shores of the lake and northwest of the Rift Valley. You can enjoy an  outstanding vantage point. Afternoon game viewing in the Lake Manyara Park.
LAKE MANYARA LODGE (B,L,D).  

Day 6
After breakfast you drive to Arusha in time for Lunch. (B).

Day 1
After breakfast, your safari continues to Lake Manyara Park. The park is bounded to the east by the shores of the lake and northwest of the Rift Valley. You can enjoy an outstanding vantage point. Afternoon drive through the Park searching for wildlife taking their afternoon siesta.
LAKE MANYARA LODGE (L,D).

Day 2
After breakfast, you proceed to the Serengeti Plain to visit Olduvai Gorge, made famous by the Leaky family who began their paleontological excavations here in 1931. Abundant fossil material dating back more that a million years, including hominid remains of Zinjanthropes bossei, have been discovered here. After a picnic lunch, you enter the short grass plains of Serengeti National Park, punctuated by periodic rocky outcrops (called kopjes). Wildlife viewing en route, you arrive at the Lodge in the late afternoon. SERENGETI LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 3
You have a full day of wildlife viewing in the Serengeti, the country’s largest National Park with an area of 5,000sq. miles. The Serengeti is world famous as the home of a million and a half wildebeest and zebra. There are a multitude of the other plains animals (more than 35 species) to see, as well as hippos wallowing, giraffes munching and black manned lions flicking their tails at flies or chasing the vultures away from the last few morsels of their prey.  
SERENGETI LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 4
After breakfast, your safari continues to the astonishing Ngorongoro Crater, game viewing en route.
NGORONGORO LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 5
After breakfast, you are transferred to four wheel drive vehicles which will take you down to the crater for a full day of game viewing. The first light of the day sends its golden shafts under the ethereal mist and fog hovering on the rim, to spill in puddles of gold on the Crater floor far below. The Crater is actually a huge caldera or <<collapsed >> volcano, 12 miles across, providing a GARDEN-OF –EDEN like home for the thousands of animals that live there.
NGORONGORO LODGE (B,L,D).

Day 6
After breakfast, your safari continues to one of the largest National Parks to the south, its 1360sq. kms providing endless opportunities to observe its abundance of wildlife. Discover the wildlife. Discover the wildlife of this Park so like the famous Serengeti where rarely seen Garenuk, browse on the thorn tree, Oryx, Greater and Lesser Kudu, Eland, and the <<Big Five>> can be seen.
TARANGIRE LODGE / CAMP (B,L,D).

Day 7
Return to Arusha after breakfast. (B).

Day 1
You are picked up from Arusha or from Kilimanjaro Airport and drive to Marangu bypass Moshi Town. You pass through flower-studded meadows with coffee and banana farms of the Wachagga, inhabitants of the lower slopes, and finally you reach the hotel. There you will meet your local guides / porters and make a final check-up on all your mountain equipment.
HOTEL CAPRICORN / KIBO HOTEL (D).

Day 2
The route begins at the National Park – Marangu Gate at 6000ft. It is 5.5 miles (3 to 4 hours)  walk through rain forest, attractive in all its shades of green and accompanied by the melody of an orchestra of colorful tropical and alpine birds. The path leads you to Mandara Hut.
MANDARA HUT – 2,743m

Day 3
The second day’s journey is a short walk from the forest into the moor-land to Horombo Hut, and is reached in some 5 or 6 miles trekking.
HOROMBO HUT – 3,720M

Day 4
Mist and vegetation including cactus – like giant groundsel, gradually disappear as you pass the last water and near the saddle, a sort of  high altitude desert with a lunar landscape between the peaks of Mawenzi and Kibo. Kibo Hut is reached in 6 to 7 hours (10 miles).
KIBO HUT – 4,700m

Day 5
About 1.00am you are awakened and begin the steep, most demanding, final ascent through scree and snow to the top of Kibo. By about day break, you should reach Gillman’s point on the Crater rim. Time, weather and stamina permitting, you should comtinuefor about 45 min. of easier hiking to the highest point <<UHURU PEAK>> - 5,895m (where there is a superb view of scintillating ice walls set off by rugged rocks tot the left, the central ash cone with its dome like <<glacier>> and ice chams of the Crater floor). After a rapid descent to Kibo Hut for a meal and rest, you continue down to Horombo Hut. HOROMBO HUT.

Day 6
It is a long walk from Horombo to Park Headquarters at Marangu Gate, where you are awarded an official Climbing Certificate by Tanzanian Guides. You continue down to your hotel for a well-earned hot bath, meals and overnight.
CAPRICORN HOTEL / KIBO HOTEL (D).

Day 7
In the morning, you drive back to Arusha or to Kilimanjaro Airport for your return flight. (B).

Day 1
You are met at the Airport and transferred to Machama.
MACHAMA / ASHIA HOTEL (D).

Day 2
The route begins from the Park gate, walking through the forest up to the first Uniport Hut – Machama Camp.
MACHAMA CAMP – 3,000m

Day 3
Crossing the little valley and continuing along the steep ridge going onto rock ridges oing onto rock ridges through heather until the end, then the route turns west into a river gorge, reaching Shira Camp.
SHIRA CAMP – 3,800m

Day 4
You continue walking towards east up to the junction, turn south to glacier streams where Baranco Camp is situated.
BARANCO CAMP – 3,900m

Day 5
From here, you walk down to the junction where you again ascend up to the Uniport Camp and then to Barafu Camp.
BARAFU CAMP – 4,600M

Day 6
Early start for the summit <<UHURU PEAK>> the highest point in Africa at 5,894m. From here, you descend to Gillman’s point at 5,681m, which is on the crater rim. Passing through Kibo Camp and walking down the saddle passing the last point to Horombo. HOROMBO HUT.

Day 7
The day spent descending through open moorlands and the glades of the forest passing Mandara Camp and straight down through the rain forest to the Marangu Gate.
HOTEL CAPRICORN / KIBO HOTEL (D).

Day 8
After breakfast, return to Arusha and or to Kilimanjaro Airport for your return flight. (B).