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Day 1
ARUSHA
Whenever you arrive, you'll be personally
met and transferred to the family-owned and managed Rivertrees
Lodge 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
WEST KILIMANJARO
Drive into the beautiful highlands that
flank the western edge of Mt. Kilimanjaro passing through
a patchwork of fields and small villages that typify rural
Africa, before descending into semi arid bush country. Here
a warm welcome awaits one in the private Maasai conservancy
where Hoopoe undertakes its award-winning elephant conservation
efforts. Spend two nights in a Hoopoe Luxury Tented Camp,
the only guests on 60,000 acres. Game view in vehicles and
track elephants on foot.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 buy Maasai beads and artifacts. Then, take a quick
charter flight into the great Tarangire National Park. At
this time of the year, Tarangire is packed with elephant that
have come off the Maasai steppe to dig in the sand rivers
for water. There is no other congregation of elephant as dramatic.
Two nights accommodations at a luxury tented camp.
Day 5
TARANGIRE
Full day exploring the great families of elephant. Tarangire
is a wonderland of Africa, exceptionally diverse in habitat
with massive groves of baobab trees, open plains, swamps and
thick wooded areas home of leopard, impala and many baboon.
The bird-life is exceptional at this time of the year, with
many exotic bee-eaters and great birds of prey perched on
the giant baobabs spying out there next meal.
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 camp for a late lunch. The camp is set on
the edge of the Great rift escarpment with outstanding views
of the Lake & 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
Dawn game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, perhaps the
most beautiful on the circuit. Famous for its lions-in-trees,
the park boasts 20 times as many species of trees as in all
of North America and outstanding bird life. During the morning
game drive you'll understand why this is where Out of Africa
was filmed. In the afternoon explore an important elephant
corridor and rich native forest in the Maasai community of
Silela, with whom Peter has been working closely on a variety
of conservation efforts. Meals and overnight at Kirurumu.
Days 8 & 9
NGORONGORO CRATER
Two remarkable days in one of the most phenomenal places
in Africa, the 2000-foot deep, 100 sq. mile large Ngorongoro
Crater. Between 2 and 3 million years ago a giant volcano
collapsed inwards to form what is today Ngorongoro, the home
of more than 20,000 large mammals and described by the first
Conservator of the area as the 8th wonder of the world. It
is an animal paradise. See some of the world's largest elephant,
large groups of black-maned 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 Peter will introduce you to a
local Maasai chief who will escort you on a breath-taking
walk through the area's outstanding hills. The two days and
nights will be spent at Tanzania's most lavish safari camp,
Crater Lodge. Enjoy your own fireplace, stoked by your personal
butler who also keeps the sherry glasses full and Stilton
close at hand.
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 the far reaches of the Serengeti, where most
of the game activity is found at this time of the year. You'll
explore some great rivers with their monstrous crocodiles,
as well as the plains that attract so many predators at this
time of the year. During these three nights you'll be pampered
in a Hoopoe Luxury Camp set in a beautiful location far away
from the main tourist lodges. At times, the entire veld will
be yours alone.
DAY 13
ARUSHA/Depart
A quick morning flight returns you to Arusha
by noon. You'll be met and enjoy lunch at a popular local
restaurant, with time for sightseeing and shopping before
returning to Rivertrees Lodge. Private rooms are available
for everyone until the evening departures.
Departures
Any time based on a minimum
of 4 people
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