Tanzania Photographic Safari package is ideal for those professional photographers who are keen to discover the hidden gems and best shots of wilderness by exploring all the must visit attractions on the northern circuit of Tanzania.
TARANGIRE – LAKE EYASI – NGORONGORO CRATER
We will pick you up at Kilimanjaro International Airport – Time to be advised, meet and assist from Norbert Safaris & Adventures guide who will be with you on your safari.
You will be welcomed with a cup of coffee, tea, and hot chocolate served with some delicious snacks, with a glass of champagne at your disposal.
Our guide will help you with luggage in your comfortable safari vehicle and safely start to drive for 1 hour to your hotel in Arusha town.
You will be assisted to check in at the hotel for your dinner and overnight stay.
After your leisure breakfast at – Kahawa House, you will be provided with your short safari briefing, covering all the essential information and answering any questions you might have regarding your upcoming safari.
We will pack your hot lunch before heading to our first destination – Tarangire National Park.
This charming quiet park is a hidden jewel, especially when you like to experience an authentic safari in northern Tanzania. Its unique landscape, dotted with thousands of baobabs is spectacular.
In the afternoon you will have your hot lunch served with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate.
Later in the late afternoon drive to the lodge for your dinner and overnight.
Wake up early in the morning, with your packed breakfast boxes, we drive towards Lake Eyasi and have a full day of cultural excursion with the Hadzabe Tribe, Africa’s last true hunter-gatherers.
The Hadzabe way of life closely resembles that of their ancestors thousands of years ago.
We gain insight into the nomadic lifestyle of these fascinating people, surviving in harsh conditions.
This tribe lives in ways of bygone times, hunting with bows and arrows and gathering plants.
These nomads interact closely with the Datoga people, another traditional tribe that still practices age-old traditions today.
The Datoga have been trading as blacksmiths for centuries and make the arrowheads used by the Hadzabe.
Hot lunch in midday to be served with coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and soft drinks.
In the afternoon you will gently start to drive back to the lodge for your dinner and overnight
After early breakfast at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, we will straight descend to the crater for the full day crater tour.
Here you will first start to appreciate the majesty of one of the largest intact calderas in the world and one of the most spectacular sights in the whole of Africa.
If it will be your lucky day, you will have a chance to spot all of the big 5 including rhinos, lions, Leopards, Buffalo, and Elephants, which live in this wonderful caldera alongside zebras and hippos, wildebeest, hyenas, and many more.
View spectacular birds including flamingos on the Soda Lake, geese, storks, and vultures.
In the afternoon, enjoy your lunch served with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate at the picnic site called Ngoitoktok Swamp while facing the hippo pool, before you continue the safari while ascending the crater.
After an exciting day in the crater, you will ascend from the crater and drive back to the lodge for your dinner and overnight stay.
After leisure breakfast at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, we head towards the Serengeti National Park.
On the way, you will visit Maasai Tribe Experience – you will have 1 hour or so, to visit Maasai village and learn more about Maasai Traditions.
Proceed to visit Oldupai Gorge – A site that holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors.
Continue to drive and leave the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see.
Enjoy your game drive as you drive towards Serengeti, and arrive in the afternoon for your lunch served with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate
Enjoy your afternoon game drive in the park until sunset.
Enjoy a full day of game drive in Serengeti National Park, with morning and afternoon game drives exploring the vast plains of Serengeti National Park
The Seronera area of Central Serengeti is the national park’s most popular area. And it is very popular with the wildlife too.
With endless plains, spectacular sunsets, infinite views, and millions of wildebeest thundering across the savannah, with one of the largest concentrations of game on the continent and a fascinating variety of landscapes, it’s no wonder the Serengeti National Park is Africa’s most famous park
Expect to be impressed by the natural beauty of this African jewel and its Immersed number of Animals (The Big Five can be found here). Hot lunch to be served at midday with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate.
Later continue with an afternoon game drive in the vast plains of Serengeti national park until sunset.
Wake up in the early morning and join a group of people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti plains for a sunrise game drive while floating silently above the awakening bush, spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and vast plains of Serengeti.
Leisure breakfast and a glass of champagne to celebrate after a successful Balloon ride.
Continue with a half day game drive in Serengeti while gently exiting from the park.
Proceed with game drive enroute through Ngorongoro Conservation area.
Arrive at the hotel in the late afternoon for your evening at leisure, dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast at the hotel, start your Mto Wa Mbu village cultural tour, the only places in Tanzania where there all 120 tribes living happily side by side.
You’ll visit Village banana plantation, using a bicycle where they grow more than 30 different varieties of bananas. As well as finding out how this staple fruit is grown, you’ll hear about the different uses of the plant as a whole, from food to materials for building and art.
Wood workshop, where you can watch skilled members of the Makonde tribe carefully carving intricate figurines, masks, and household objects. They’ll show you the different types of wood and finishing, and explain some of the historical and cultural meanings behind the carvings.
In the midday, you will get a chance to eat and enjoy a local delicious home-cooked meal in local Moma’s Home – With the local buffer full of a wide variety of food to choose from for both Vegetarians and Non – Vegetarians. You can expect to leave with a full stomach, many great stories, and African new friends
In the afternoon you will drive back to Arusha, and arrive at the hotel for your dinner and overnight
Marangu Gate (1,980 m) – Mandara Hut (2700 m)
Walking approx. 16km in 8hours over the montane forest and low alpine zone (moorland).
Depart early from the hotel around 0600hrs in Arusha, and start to drive to Marangu Gate via Moshi town. Arrive around 0900hrs at the gate. Meet your guide who will accompany you and guide you on the climb.
After packing all the needful stuff, you will continue with gate formalities you will sign in at the park office and your guide will work on other Park formalities, and straight away start your hiking through the beautiful landscape of the mountain forest, little streams, and waterfalls.
Short breaks on the way while getting needful information about flora and fauna you may come across. After 3 – 4 reach Mandara hut (2,700 m) for your leisure lunch at the one Stopover Camp of the Mighty Mount Kilimanjaro.
After your leisure lunch, you will gently start to descend to Marangu gate, around 16300hrs you will be out and signed out at the park office.
Start to drive back to Arusha town, arrive in the evening at the hotel for your dinner and overnight
Leisure breakfast at the hotel, around 1000hrs you will be picked from the hotel and gently proceed with short town tour visiting some interesting places such as
The Maasai market is where you will find many souvenirs such as Makonde carvings, Tinga Tinga Paintings, and Maasai handicrafts.
The Clock Tower – This is exactly the center of Africa, halfway between Cairo Egypt, and Cape Town South Africa
Tanzanite Experience Store – The best place to discover the Unique Blue Gemstone from Tanzania, where you will learn its History, Mystery, and Rarity.
Shanga Centre is a successful social enterprise that employs people with disabilities to create a high – quality, handmade products.
In the afternoon around 14:00hrs, you will break for your hot lunch at one of the local restaurants and have a chance to taste our delicious local food served with tasty barbeque (Nyama Choma)
Later you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your flight going to back home or to the next destination – Time to be advised.
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