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Itinerary
Day 1
ARUSHA
Whenever you arrive, you'll be personally
met and transferred to the family-owned and managed
Rivertrees Country Inn set in cool
shaded wooded grounds with a lively stream lined with
fig trees along one boundary. For those arriving early,
optional activities can be arranged.
Days 2 & 3
KILIMANJARO HEARTLANDS / AMBOSELI ECO-SYSTEM
Drive through a patchwork of farmland
skirting the flanks of Mount Kilimanjaro before reaching
the lush, primeval highlands of the western edge of
Mt. Kilimanjaro. Here you’ll enter into a private
Maasai conservancy where Hoopoe and the local community
maintain their award-winning community based conservation
initiatives. Spend two nights in Hoopoe’s luxurious
Hemingway’s Camp, the only guests
on 60,000 acres. Enjoy game-viewing and the thrill of
seeing some of the magnificent Amboseli elephants on
foot or from your safari vehicle. Learn about the local
Maasai and experience some of the most awesome scenery
in Africa.
Day 4
WEST KILIMANJARO/TARANGIRE
Spend the morning visiting sacred
Maasai cave paintings with an optional visit to a Maasai
boma and chance to peruse Maasai beads and artefacts.
Then, take a quick charter flight into the great Tarangire
National Park. This is the best time of the year for
this great elephant park, with its many magnificent
sand rivers and dense bush. Arrive at the luxurious
Hoopoe Tarangire Camp for lunch and then spend the afternoon
game viewing through the park, encountering the large
numbers of elephant. In some respects the park is more
like a southern than northern Tanzanian park, with its
heavy woodlands. Dinner and overnight at the classic
Hoopoe Tarangire Camp inside the park.
Day 5
TARANGIRE
Full day exploring the sand rivers,
grassland, and woodlands dotted with amazing baobab
trees in this great park. The birdlife in Tarangire
is outstanding, sitting directly underneath a flyby
between southern Africa and Europe, capturing migrants
from both hemispheres. Leopard are particularly abundant
here, as are giraffe. But above all are the large numbers
of elephant families, that concentrate in the park during
the dry season in search of precious water in the Tarangire
rivers. Meals and overnight at Hoopoe’s
luxurious Tarangire Camp.
Day 6
LAKE MANYARA
Further game viewing in Tarangire
this morning before leisurely making our way north towards
the Great Rift Valley. Arrive Hoopoe's Kirurumu
Tented Lodge for a late lunch. The tented lodge
is set high on the edge of the Great Rift Valley escarpment
with outstanding views over Lake Manyara and the plains
below. This afternoon join one of Peter’s Maasai
friends for a guided enthno-biological walk to the edge
of the escarpment.
Day 7
LAKE MANYARA & THE GREAT RIFT
After an early start descend the
Great Rift for a dawn game drive in this park famous
for its early elephant studies, and one of the most
beautiful parks in the northern circuit. The Park is
best known for its tree climbing lions, but you are
more likely to a encounter elephants, buffalo, primates
and astounding bird life. After a picnic lunch you continue
game-viewing. Return as the sun sets behind the distant
highlands and climb the Great Rift Valley escarpment
to Kirurumu Tented Lodge on its edge
for a relaxing dinner and overnight.
Days 8 & 9
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 10, 11 & 12
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.
DAY 13
ARUSHA/Depart
A quick morning flight returns you
to Arusha by noon. You'll be met and transferred to
the Arusha Hotel for lunch. In the
afternoon you can either relax by the swimming pool
or visit some of the local shops and the Tanzanite Experience
museum. Day rooms shall be available for everyone until
the evening departures.
2011 Departure Dates & Rates (per person and a minimum
of 4 poeple)
| Starts
|
Ends |
$ Sharing |
$ + Single |
16-Jul-11 |
28-Jul-11 |
9,270 |
935 |
13-Aug-11 |
25-Aug-11 |
9,270 |
935 |
Special
note: This safari can also be booked privately
to depart any day of the year with a minimum of 2 people
at the same cost but with Peter Lindstrom being replaced by one of our excellent Tanzania
guides.
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here to learn more about your guide.
NOTE: Programs operating over the festive season should expect a small supplement.
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