NORTHERN CIRCUIT CAMPING SAFARI – CAMPING 6nights/7days Safari

«Pick up and drop off Taveta/Namanga border»

Day 1:   JRO/Arusha.

Day 2:  Arusha/L. Manyara.

Day 3: Serengeti National park.

Day 4:  Serengeti National park (Full day)

Day 5:  Serengeti/Ngorongoro conservancy

Day 6: Ngorongoro crater (Full day).

Day 7: Arusha/Taveta border.

Day 1:  Taveta border/Arusha.

Upon arrival at the Taveta border you will be met by Green Hills Ecotours representative and transferred to Arusha lunch at a restaurant, then transfer to the hotel.

Afternoon at leisure/relax at the hotel (own arrangement).

Dinner and overnight at Ndoro Lodge HB www.ndorolodge.com.

Day 2:  Arusha/L. Manyara National park.

Breakfast at the lodge then depart for full day L. Manyara National park with packed lunches, morning game drive in the park.

12h30: Lunches at a picnic site in the park

13h30: Afternoon game drive then exit the park and head to the campsite (Twiga campsite).

Dinner and overnight at Twiga campsite FB

Lake Manyara National Park

Area: 330 square kilometers / 125 square Miles

Lake Manyara is a beautiful little park and is well known for its tree-climbing lions, elephants and large troops of baboons. The park is home to an amazing variety of birds and animals considering its small size. A short visit to this serene park will greatly diversify your safari experience as the lush green jungle habitat is of stark contrast to the other parks you will visit during your safari.

Lake Manyara, the shallow alkaline water mass named after the park, covers two thirds of the park’s total are

Day 3: Serengeti National park.

06h30: Early morning breakfast then depart for Serengeti National park with packed lunches, game drive en-route.

12h30: Lunch at a picnic site in the park.

14h00: Afternoon game drive in the park, then en-route to the camp site.

Dinner and overnight at a campsite in Serengeti. FB

Day 4-2014: Serengeti National park (Full day).

This day will be spent touring the vast endless plains of the Serengeti abundant with wildlife. Game drive and meals times are best set by the clients and their safari guide depending on what the clients have seen and would like to see/do.

12h30: Lunch at the at a picnic site/camp.

Afternoon game drives in the national park/leisure time at the camp.

Dinner and overnight at a camp site in Serengeti. FB

NB:  You can do an Air balloon safari on this morning in the Serengeti. For details on this, visit www.balloonsafaris.com and let us know if we should make a reservation for you.

Serengeti National Park is an immense park and with its unsurpassed concentrations of wildlife and its vast endless grasslands offers the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth and the annual wildlife migration, largest mass movement of land mammals on planet earth, is perhaps what makes it famous. Over a million wildebeest and zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then go west and north after the long rains in April, May and June.

Serengeti, characterized by the endless plains, acacia trees and punctuated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife. Animals present include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs, Serengeti’s essential features of climate, flora and fauna have barely changed in the past million years.

Day 5: Serengeti/Olduvai/Maasai boma/Ngorongoro conservancy.

07h00: After breakfast we transfer to Ngorongoro with packed lunches have optional visit of Maasai village/ Olduvai Gorge an important archeological site for the discovery of the early man by the Leakey family.

13h00: Lunch at a picnic site in the park.

14h00: Afternoon game drive en-route to the camp.

Dinner and overnight at Simba camp site. FB 

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater (Full day).

06h30: After breakfast, descend into the crater floor for an extensive tour of this natural zoo.

12h30: Lunch at a picnic site in the crater.

13h30: Afternoon game drive in the crater before ascending the crater and drive to Arusha, shop for souvenir on the way.

Dinner and overnight at Ndoro lodge HB 

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Area: 8,300 square kilometers / 5,175 square Miles

This area covers the world’s largest unbroken caldera namely Ngorongoro crater and the Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Louis Leaky discovered the origin of early man by unearthing jaws of the Zinjanthropus man. This protected area also includes huge expanses of highlands plains and volcanoes, scrub bush, and forests where the indigenous pastoralists – Maasai people are allowed to live within its boundaries.

The Ngorongoro Crater is a world heritage site and the world’s largest unbroken volcanic caldera which is often referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. The crater is 610 meters deep and 260km2. Breathtaking views of scenery and game can be witnessed from both the crater rim and within the crater floor.

It is estimated that over 25,000 larger mammals, mainly Zebra and Wildebeest, exist within the crater itself. Others include Elephant, Warthog, Impala and Buffalo. A Rhino sighting is a rare possibility but Ngorongoro is your best chance in Tanzania to see the endangered black rhino. Flamingoes and over 100 species of water birds are found at the soda lake on the crater floor.

Day 7: Arusha/Taveta border.

07h00: Breakfast at the lodge then check out then transfer to Taveta border for onwards /further holiday destination.