| Day
1
ARUSHA
Whenever you arrive, you'll be personally met and transferred to the family-owned and managed Ndarakwai Camp in the stunning West Kilimanjaro region and in an 11,000 acre farm to relax.
Days 2 & 3
KILIMANJARO HEARTLANDS - AMBOSELI ECO-SYSTEM
Ndarakwai Ranch is over 11,000 acres in size and located in Siha District, West Kilimanjaro.
The privately owned ranch is an experiment in self-sustaining conservation preserving a variety of habitats that are home to over 65 mammal species, and 350 bird species (at last count).
Guests can relax in camp during the day, or take in the variety of wildlife and cultural activities that are on offer. Guided full or half day walks (where the emphasis can either be on game or bird watching), game drives, and night game drives. You can also visit local Maasai villages to photograph and buy authentic beaded jewelry. There are also horse back safaris available for half or whole day horse rides from camp.
Day 4
WEST KILIMANJARO/LAKE MANYARA
Spend the morning visiting sacred Maasai cave paintings with an optional visit to a Maasai boma and a chance to peruse authentic Maasai beads and artefacts. Depart with picnic lunches to Kilimanjaro Airport to connect with the afternoon schedule flight to the edge of the Great Rift Valley, Lake Manyara. Transfer to Kirurumu Tented Lodge, a unique lodge designed and built by Hoopoe and perched on the very edge of the Rift Valley escarpment with phenomenal views of Lake Manyara. Join a Maasai guide for an ethno-botanical walk to the edge of the Great Rift.
Day 5
LAKE MANYARA & THE GREAT RIFT
Dawn game drive in Lake Manyara National
Park, perhaps the most beautiful on the circuit. Famous
for its elephants and lions-in-trees, the park boasts
rich ground water forest, lakeside grassland and an
abundant variety of trees and shrubs. The Lake is famous
for its flamingoes, pelicans, storks and shorebirds.
During the morning game drive you'll understand why
this is where part of Out of Africa was filmed. Meals
and overnight at Kirurumu Tented Lodge.
Days 6 & 7
NGORONGORO CRATER
Spend two remarkable half-days in
one of the most phenomenal places in Africa—the
2000-foot deep, 10 mile wide Ngorongoro Crater. At its
nadir, the Ngorongoro volcano was once about 15,000
feet high and would have resembled present day Mount
Meru. The volcano collapsed inwards about 1 ½
million years ago at a time when large fractures appeared
creating the Eastern Rift Valley wall. Today, the Crater
(actually a caldera) is seasonally home to over 20,000
large mammals. Its an animal paradise. See some of the
world's largest elephant, large prides of lion, big
herds of plains animals like zebra and wildebeest. The
Crater is the last place in Africa where free-ranging
black rhino are usually seen by all visitors. One afternoon
is devoted to walking with Maasai in the western highlands
overlooking Lake Eyasi in breath-taking scenery where
Maasai herders and their livestock co-exist with wildlife
in an eden like existence. The two days and nights will
be spent at Tanzania's most lavish safari lodge, the
Ngorongoro Crater Lodge. Enjoy your
own fireplace, stoked by your personal butler who also
keeps the sherry glasses full.
Days 8, 9 & 10
SERENGETI PLAINS
Leave the crater on a spectacular
drive that takes you first to famous Olduvai Gorge,
then overland into the great Serengeti, the Grande Dame
of African wilderness. For three days and nights you'll
explore the southern plains and western hills, where
normally at this time of the year around 2 million wildebeest,
zebra and a vast assortment of other plains animals,
congregate to feast on the rich nutritious grasses that
appear after the rainy season. There is no other as
impressive or dramatic wildlife spectacle on earth.
During these three nights you'll be pampered in a Hoopoe’s
luxurious Serengeti Camp set near the
migration but hours and days away from the main tourist
lodges. The vistas are grand and the scene is often
filled by tens of thousands of wildebeest and Zebra
and other migrants and attendant predators.
Days 11 & 12
NORTHERN SERENGETI
The Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation
Area represent more than 7,000 sq. miles of some of
the finest pristine wilderness left on earth. Travel
from the southern plains to the rolling hill country
of the Lobo area with its beautiful rocky “Kopjes”
outcrops to luxury under canvas in Migration
Camp. The camp is set on the Grumeti river
with Hippo in abundance and some of the largest Nile
Crocodiles in existence. .
DAY 13
SERENGETI/ARUSHA/Depart
A quick morning flight returns you
to Arusha by noon. You'll be met and transferred to
the Arusha Hotel in the centre of town for lunch and
where days shall be available. There will be time for
sightseeing and shopping before departing for Kilimanjaro
International airport.
2012 Departure Dates & Rates (per person and a minimum
of 4 people)
| Starts
|
Ends |
$ Sharing |
$ + Single |
17-Mar-12 |
29-Mar-12 |
12,050 |
960 |
Special
note: This safari can also be booked privately to depart any day of the year with a minimum of 2 people at US$ 11,705 per person and with one of our excellent Tanzanian guides leading the safari.
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NOTE: Programs operating over the festive season should expect a small supplement.
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