High Impact Adventure Safari

Arusha | Kilimanjaro

Day 2: Mt. Kilimanjaro Hiking Adventures – 5hrs Early breakfast then depart to the foot of Kilimanjaro for 5hrs hiking adventure. The hiking adventure will be through the lush rainforest, as heavy rains frequently visit this side of the mountain. White and black colobus monkeys are likely to be seen in this unspoiled wilderness. Later in the evening, drive further to Arusha for evening leisure and hot dinner.   

Lake Manyara | Tarangire

Day 4: Tarangire – Rift Valley Forest Hike - Manyara National Park You will depart early to Lake Manyara National Park for a forest hike in the Rift Valley followed by hot local lunch. After lunch, we will proceed to Manyara NP for game drive. The park is green throughout the year because of its underground water sources. Its verdant color attracts hundreds of spectacular varieties of migratory and wetland birds flying overhead. It also attracts huge populations of flamingos because its shallow alkaline-saline (salt) soda lake creates an ideal environment for microorganisms to grow that flamingos’ feed upon. Manyara's natural habitat also includes large troops of baboons, velvet monkeys, blue monkeys, and tree climbing lions, hippos, giraffes, zebras, buffalos, warthogs, impalas, Thomson-gazelles, and Grant gazelles. Leopards, cheetahs, rock/tree hyrax, kudus, elands, bushbucks, waterbucks, and dik-diks also live in this park.  If you are not interested in hiking you can choose one of the activities below:    Village biking (2.5 to 3hrs) Nature Walk (1hr to 1.5hrs) Village Walk (2.5 to 3hrs) Lake Manyara Canoeing (weather permitting (2.5 to 3hrs) Late in the evening drive further to Karatu for evening leisure and hot dinner.  

Day 6: Oldonyo Lengai Hiking Adventure You will wake up at midnight around 01:00/02:00AM and depart for your hiking adventure. Oldonyo Lengai, is an active volcano that is both high (2889 meters/ 9478 feet) and very steep  The hiking adventure takes 8hrs to ascend and descend. You will be escorted by a professional mountain guide together with a Maasai warrior who will act as an assistant guide. After the descent, which will be around 10:00AM, your driver guide will be there to pick you and transfer to your accommodation for a hot shower and breakfast. After a short rest, you will proceed to Karatu for a leisurely evening and hot dinner.  

Day 8: Lake Eyasi Cultural Visit Depart for cultural visit with the Hadzabe Bushmen, one of the most remote and last hunter-gatherer tribes on earth. We participate in various interactive daily activities with the Hadzabe, including bush trek, hunting, honey gathering, baobab fruit foraging, tribal chanting, dancing and sitting around their daily campfires. Time spent with the Hadzabe Bushmen, as with other cultural groups visited, is not choreographed in a specific way. You join in whatever the bushmen are doing during their regular daily activities. Things need to stay flexible because, if game is near the Hadzabe dash off into the bush for it and you can join them with bows and arrows. In the late afternoon, you visit the Datoga tribe, another well preserved traditional tribe in the Lake Eyasi region, and participate in whatever they are doing, which may be making yogurt using a calabash, milking cows, making butter and joining their traditional dances. Later in the evening, drive back to Karatu for dinner and overnight.  

Serengeti

Day 10: Serengeti National Park – Ikoma Night Game Drive Before breakfast, you depart for an early morning game drive and return later to the lodge for hot breakfast. After enjoying the leisurely morning, you depart with picnic lunch for a full day game drive. Only the Kopjes, bizarre rock formations created by the weathering of granite outcrops, interrupt the Serengeti Plain landscape. This is often where leopards and the other big cats can be found and you will have the opportunity to view these magnificent creatures in their natural habitat. One of the greatest natural phenomenon on earth that takes place in the Serengeti is the “Great Migration,” for which the Serengeti is perhaps most famous. The Great Migrations includes more than 2.5 million wildebeest driven by ancient rhythms and natural instincts following water sources in a clockwise rotation traveling 1,800 miles per year. The Serengeti is also the best destination for viewing big cats and other wildlife species. After a full day game drive in the central, you will drive further to north west of Serengeti near the Grumeti River for dinner. After the dinner, you will have like 1 -2hrs to relax before departing for night game drive. The night game drive will be along the Grumeti River and Ikoma area. Later, drive back to camp for overnight.  

Ngorongoro Crater | Serengeti

Day 12: Olmoti Crater Hike/ Empakai Nature Walk and Nainokanoka Maasai Cultural Visit After breakfast, we depart to Olmoti Crater for a hiking adventure. Olmoti Crater is located at the northern part of Ngorongoro Highlands ( altitude: 3,088 meters / 10,131 feet above  sea level) close to Nainokanoka village. It is a small pristine caldera in the Ngorongoro Highlands where various springs combine to form the Munge River. A visit to Olmoti Crater is only possible by foot with the escort of an armed ranger. It takes about 35 minutes to walk to the rim of this shallow crater. Many different species of antelope, land reedbuck buffalo bushbuck along with Maasai livestock can be seen while walking to the waterfalls of the Munge River. You can also opt to hike Empakai Crater instead. After lunch, you will proceed to Nainokanoka village for a Maasai cultural experience. Nainokanoka is a Maasai village located near the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Ngorongoro Highlands. A surreal visual feature you will see from Nainokanoka village is a view of the Ngorongoro crater rim from its eastern side where the moist warm air from the Indian Ocean meets the warm dry air of the Serengeti, creating a fascinating cloud formation that curls into the western side of the crater’s rim. The cultural highlight in Ngorongoro Highlands is visited to a 4 generation Maasai family boma (Maasai homestead) its leader, his 7 wives, 50 children and manyata’s (igloo like homes). As this boma is a bit off the beaten track, it is not frequented by outsiders, creating a great opportunity to meet a Maasai family that is as excited to meet you as you are to meet them. You can also walk through  Empakai’s lush green highlands for fresh air while watching Maasai cattle grazing nearby.  

Kilimanjaro

Day 14: Mto Wa Mbu Biking Excursion and Local Lunch – Kilimanjaro International Airport After breakfast, you depart to Mto Wa Mbu, home to over 18,000 inhabitants from 120 different tribes, for a biking excursion followed by hot local lunch. If you are not interested in biking you can choose a Nature Walk, Village Walk or Canoeing (weather permitting).