NORTHERN ROUTE PARKS & PEOPLE 12 days

01. Arrival Kilimanjaro airport. Meet with your guide. Visit of Arusha, the market, this extremely growing town, coffee plantations, and views over Mt Meru . If you arrive with a morning flight, after check-in, drive to Arusha National park, one of the smallest but very rich National park. Elephants, buffaloes, hippos, different antelopes, baboons & more are visible. ON 3* hotel in Arusha.

02. Drive to lake Natron, home of numerous flamingoes (mainly during the raining season). View the Ol Doinyo Lengai (Mount of Heaven). Evening visit the water falls. ON camp. Meals by our very good cook.

03. Early morning visit flamingoes and other birds; the proceed to Waso village to see different tribes (Maasai tribes, the Sonjo & Swahil people). ON camp.

04. Drive to Serengeti National park, one of the richest in Tanzania. Here a migration of million hartebeest makes the park rich of predator, looking for their passage as a good hunting period. Crocodiles at Grumeti river wait the migration twice a year. Lion, leopard, chitas and more predator follow too the migration. Elephants, giraffes, zebras, Thomson gazelles, impala, hyenas, warthogs and more make this enormous savannah so interesting. ON camping (or lodges).

05. Game drives in the Serengeti. ON camping (or lodges) 06. Morning game drive. Then afternoon drive to Ngorongoro conservational area, visit one Masai village (the Masai are some of the most attractive people living in the Tanzania plains, with very interesting culture). ON in hotel.

07. Game drive at Ngorongoro: is habitat of lot of animals: elephant, lion, black rhino, buffalo, leopard, chitas, giraffes, hippos, servals, and more. ON in hotel.

08. Drive to lake Eyasi, and visit different very interesting tribes as the Datoga, the famous hadzabe {bush men}, the mbulu, and a mixture of swahili tribes because of cultuvation of onions and fishing in the lakes. ON camp.

09. Early morning drive to the BUSH MEN, to admire their way of life , you can participate to their hunt and also dance with them. Is really an amazing experience. ON camp.

10. Drive to lake Mayara National park, , a park with a very nice vegetation at its entrance and then the savannah around lake Manyara. Is the only park where with luck you can spot the famous tree climbing lions. Lot of birds, hippos, and other animals, as elephants, make this park so interesting. ON hotel.

11.In the morning drive to TARANGIRE national park. Game drive. Here thousands of elephants, hundreds of baobab trees and many oher animals make your day so exciting. ON SAFARI LOGDE OR SOPA LODGE.

12. Drive to Arusha, and proceed to Moishi. Visit this very nice town under Mr Kilimanjaro. Have lunch. Some shopping. Transfer Kilimanjaro airport for your flight to Zanzibar for a fantastic extension to the beach, an African paradise (pls see hereunder our proposal for Zanzibar program) or extend for the unique history & cultures in Ethiopia (see our Ethiopian programs) or fly back home (If next day morning flight, ON Moishi or Arusha).