From the Airport drive to the hotel for dinner and overnight, |
DAY 1 - Village Tour. |
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After breakfast drive or walk to the Professional Tour guide School for briefing and then do a village tour to the nearby village for a half-day tour. Lunch with the local people. Late evening walk down to PROTS and then to the hotel for shopping and preparation for next day trip.
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Dinner and overnight Arusha Hotel. |
DAY 2 - Lake Eyasi . |
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After breakfast drive to Ngorongoro Crater gate for registration and hire a ranger who will be accompany the group for all days of the trip, then drive to Mang’ola campsite near Lake Eyasi for a short tour and briefing about the next day tour to the bushmens.
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Dinner and overnight at Mango’la campsite. |
DAY 3 – Hadzabe (Bushmen) Tour. |
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After breakfast do a hiking tour into the bushes looking for Hadzabe (hunter-gatherers bushmen) people. These people still live in the primitive age (hunting and gathering). You share the activities like hunting and gathering some fruits they will also teach how to hunt and gather food. Picnic lunch in the bushes and back to the campsite or proceed to Lake Eyasi to see local people fish and dry their daily catch. Try out the local fishing ways using local tools. Dinner and overnight Mang’ola campsite.
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DAY 4 – Endamagay. |
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After breakfast drive to the ranger post and start walking to the Endamagay Campsite with picnic lunch served on the way.
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Dinner and overnight Endamagay River Campsite. |
DAY 5 – Oldeani Mountain . |
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After breakfast walk up the Oldeani Mountain and camp high up on the mountain. This is also going to be one of the challenging days so far.
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Dinner and overnight Oldeani Mountain high camp. |
DAY 6 – Lemagrut. |
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After breakfast walk to Lemagrut Maasai village and in the evening hike up the Lemagrut Mountain . Back to meet Maasai village elders in the late afternoon, story telling legends and learn few things about their way of life.
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Dinner and overnight Lemagrut Village . |
DAY 7 – Simba Campsite. |
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After breakfast walk down the marshy vegetations and hike direct to the famous Simba campsite perched at the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater for lunch and dinner. In the evening go to the lodge for a drink and then back for overnight at the campsite or this day can be spend in the lodge for easy access to hot showers.
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DAY 8 - Olmoti Crater. |
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After breakfast drive through the famous Ngorongoro Crater with game drive inside the crater for half day and then drive out to Nainokanoka Maasai village where the campsite is located. Set up tents and leave for a short hike up to Olmoti crater and hike down before dark to the campsite.
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Dinner and overnight Nainokanoka Village campsite. |
DAY 9 –Nainokanoka- Ng’amati Maasai village. |
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After breakfast walk through Embulbul plains with lunch on the way to Ng’amati. Its long day so far like 7 to 8 hour walk so we will arrive at the camp in the evening. On the way game watching, get to meet Buffaloes, Hyaenas, wildebeest etc. This is the only place to get close with Wildlife and one of the reasons to do a walking Safari. At the campsite witness the home coming of cattle and goats as the nearby Maasai bomas.
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Dinner and overnight Ng’amati Village campsite. |
DAY 10 – Empakaai Crater. |
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After breakfast walk through the up and downs and climb down to the virgin Empakaai crater. Do a lake tour and camp inside the crater or on the rim it’s a once in a lifetime experience as you get to witness Hyenas and other game birds hunt down flamingoes in the lake.
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Dinner and overnight out at the Empakai crater rim or inside the Empakai crater on the shores of the lake. |
DAY 11 – Nayobi. |
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From Empakaai crater walk through Empakaai slopes to the Nayobi village for a break, At this village soft drinks and beers can be purchased also eat picnic lunch on the open green grassy ground then proceed to Acacia campsite on the edges of the rift valley wall for dinner and overnight.
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DAY 12 – Oldoinyo L’engai Base Camp. |
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Walk down to the famous Rift Valley rim down to the foot of Oldoinyo L’engai Mountain then meet with the car to Kamakia campsite. After a day rest get ready to summit Mountain Oldoinyo Lengai the only still active Volcanic mountain in Tanzania this will be around midnight and the attempt to climb take six hours. Summit at sunrise on the top of the mountain you will be able to see the sunrise from Mount Kilimanjaro and mount Meru and then hike down two hours and meet with car and drive back to the Kamakia campsite for late lunch and dinner.
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DAY 13 – Oldoinyo Lengai – Kamakia Campsites. |
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After a late breakfast to a lake Natron tour famous for its flamingoes and other water birds and in the afternoon drive back to the campsite for lunch and then walk to the waterfalls for a swim and it’s a believe that if you take a shower with the water you will get lucky and all your sickness will go away.
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DAY 14 – Back to Arusha. |
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After a late breakfast drive direct to Arusha or to the Northern circuit national parks like the Serengeti and lake Manyara etc.
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Dinner and overnight Arusha Hotel or Lake Manyara Serena hotel. |
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End of the Trip. |
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