Tanzania Safari Adventure

Our guides will meet you at the Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), and bring you to your hotel in Arusha for a night of rest.

After breakfast, drive to Tarangire National Park. View the incredible landscapes, animals, especially elephants, as well as spectacular birds, and giant baobab trees. Tarangire is a true wilderness containing the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem. You will see hundreds of elephants here--up close!

Travel to Karatu, gateway to Ngorongoro Crater. In Karatu, visit Kilimatembo school where you’ll have a chance to learn about Tanzania's education system and interact with the students. Karatu also provides the opportunity to visit a traditional Iraqw underground home and learn about the tribe's unique culture from one of their elders.

Hike to a waterfall in the Ngorongoro Northern Highland Forest Reserve. Along the way, check out cave-like structures created by elephants digging up the earth to ingest the mineral-rich soil. Elephants migrate to this place from up to 500 miles away. Stay at beautiful Eileen’s Trees Inn.

Visit Tatoga Blacksmiths and a Tatoga village in the afternoon on the way to Lake Eyasi on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. Visit the Hadzabe (Bushmen). This nomadic tribe still lives through hunting and gathering and reside without permanent shelter. Follow the Hadzabe on their morning hunt and experience a way of life that has barely changed in 10,000 years.

Learn about the culture and hunting practices of the Tatoga village, then return to camp for brunch. In the afternoon, take an easy walk to the shores of Lake Eyasi. Stay at beautiful and spacious Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge. Watch the sun set during happy hour from a beautiful deck looking over Lake Eyasi. You are in Africa!

Drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and descend into the eighth wonder of the world, Ngorongoro Crater, for a full day of game viewing. This unique 'fish bowl' of nature is home to four resident prides of lions and your best chance of seeing rare black rhino in the wild.

On the second day in Ngorongoro you may choose to hike down into Empakai Crater or hike along the North Rim of Ngorongoro Crater. Stay at Rhino Lodge on the rim of Ngorongoro crater.

Travel down the flank of Ngororgoro Crater, pass through the scenic Maasai village of Endulen and proceed to Serengeti National Park, world famous for its endless plains and abundant wildlife. Spend two days on the Serengeti Plains, searching out big prides of lions, leopards, migrating wildebeest herds, giant elephants, and antelope. Stay at lodges or safari camps in the park.

Enjoy a second day of game drives in the world-famous Serengeti National Park. Take in spectacular views as you travel through the park in comfortable open-air safari jeeps. If you are in to photography you will take hundres of photos on this day alone.

Take in an early morning game drive and then leave the Seregenti for the return to Karatu via Oldavai Gorge, where Mary and Louis Leakey discovered Australopithecus boisei and early hominin footprints that have been fossilized in volcanic ash. Most consider this the birthplace of humanity. If excavation is in progress, we’ll visit the Zinj site, followed by Shifting Sands. Our final night is at Eileen's Trees Inn in Karatu.

Relax at Eileen's Trees Inn in the morning, have lunch, and then drive back to Arusha for your flight home. On the way back, the group will stop at a local market including Shanga, an Arusha based non-profit that employs people with disabilities to create unique, high-quality, handicrafts.