This 9-day private tour gives you a taste of wildlife, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and a cultural experience. On this tour, you will visit the 4 major parks in the Northern circuit. You will travel in a pop-up roof 4×4 safari vehicle. Our vehicles are equipped with charging sockets for your camera batteries and phones, a refrigerator, and Wi-Fi upon request. During your safari, you will be accompanied by your driver who is also your tour guide and your safari cook.
Arrival
Day 1: Pick up from Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport
You will be picked up from either Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport and dropped off at Karibu Heritage House. If time allows (depending on your arrival), you will have the option to do an Arusha city tour, visiting the famous art gallery, the Cultural Heritage Centre, the local market, and the Maasai market.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
Karibu Heritage House
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2: Arusha to Arusha National Park
Your guide will pick you up from your hotel at 7:45 am and drive for an hour to the park’s entry gate. Arusha National Park has an awe-inspiring blend of vegetation which includes swamps, grasslands, and montane forest. The mountain slopes of Meru are swathed in tropical rainforests. It is home to the black-and-white colobus monkeys and flamingos at Momella Lake. It’s a unique ecosystem that attracts thousands of animals and birds including flamingos. A walking safari will get you up close to the animals. You will later drive back to Arusha for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha National Park
- Accommodation:
Karibu Heritage House
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3: Arusha to Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, we pick you up from your hotel at 8 am and drive for 2 hours and 20 minutes to Tarangire National Park. The park is well known for its large elephant herds and abundance of ancient baobab trees (the largest trees on the continent). From the open roof of the vehicle, we will experience the seasonal swamps, savannah, and Tarangire River which is full of wildlife ranging from a large variety of birds to giraffes, impalas, zebras, lions, leopards, elands, warthogs and elephants. The picnic site has a spectacular view. We will have our picnic lunch there and proceed with game viewing before continuing to the camp for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4: Tarangire to Mto Wa Mbu (Cultural Tourism)
Wake up early in the morning for a sunrise game drive. After breakfast, we will continue our game drive in Tarangire in the morning and will then depart for Mto Wa Mbu to have lunch and participate in a cultural tour. The afternoon will focus on visiting the local tribes, banana farms, rice plantations, artworks, forests, and waterfalls of the area. You can choose to have a walking or a bike tour. Dinner and overnight will be at Fig Tree Lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Mto Wa Mbu (Town)
- Accommodation:
Fig Tree Lodge & Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5: Mto wa Mbu to Central Serengeti
After breakfast, we will proceed to Serengeti. A long and bumpy road will take you on a 4- to 5-hour fascinating game drive, driving up the crater highlands toward the vast plains of Serengeti. We will stop for a picnic lunch at Naabi Hill Gate in Serengeti before we check in at the park for an afternoon drive. After catching the sunset, we will proceed to Seronera Campsite (Tumbili) for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
Today, we will spend the whole day in the park. We head out and start to explore at sunrise and return to the campsite for breakfast. We then pack our lunch and go for a full-day game drive exploring the beautiful scenery of Serengeti, searching for the Big 5. There is more to Serengeti than only large mammals. More than 500 bird species were recorded here, ranging from the oversized ostriches and bizarre secretary birds of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the savannah. We will continue to search for the Serengeti’s wildlife and return to camp at sunset for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Highlands
Today we will leave the campsite early (at around 6 am) for a sunrise game drive and to spot the animals when they are most active. We will then stop at a picnic site to enjoy breakfast in the bush and continue with the game drive before returning to the camp for a hot lunch. We will load the vehicle, depart from the camp and continue to Ngorongoro where we will have dinner and overnight at Simba Campsite.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Highlands
- Accommodation:
Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater
Today, we will board the safari vehicle at 6 am and descend to the crater with our packed breakfast. This stunning place will offer you almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino, and if we are lucky, we might spot one. Measuring an area of 260 square kilometers and extending about 20 kilometers in diameter, we will need about 5 to 6 hours to explore it. Ascend back to the campsite for lunch and drive to Karibu Heritage House in Arusha for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
Karibu Heritage House
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9: Arusha to Kilimanjaro National Park
Depart from your hotel in Arusha and drive to the Kilimanjaro National Park gate. You’ll be captivated by the countryside, coffee and banana plantations, and driving through Marangu village with Kilimanjaro rising majestically ahead of you. We’ll register you at the Marangu Gate and begin the hike. The hike to Mandara Hut is around 3 hours. You will have time to rest your legs and have a picnic lunch at the hut. After your short break, take the short but challenging walk to the Maundi Crater. You will then descend to Marangu gate and drive to Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha to end your tour with us.
Marangu Gate (1,800m/5,905ft) to Mandara Hut (2,743m/9,000ft).
Elevation gain: 915m/3,000ft.
- Main Destination:
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
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