8 Days Heart Of Tanzania Safari

On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be picked up by our drivers and transferred by private vehicles to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Early in the morning you will head to Ngorongoro crater floor. In the crater you are likely to see lions, rhinos, hippos, elephants, hyenas and many members of the antelope family, and small mammals of all sorts. You will have a full day game drive in the park with your picnic lunch. After a long day in the crater you will transit to Serengeti National Park for dinner and overnight stay.

Today you’ll spend a full day exploring this diverse and expansive landscape, with opportunities to spot all of the “Big Five”, as well as many other wildlife species like zebra, antelopes, wilder beast. At the evening is a great time to view gameparticularly the carnivores as this is their favorite time to hunt. Before dark you’ll head to the lodge for dinner and a restful night sleep.

After breakfast we will have game drive at Serengeti National Park with our packed lunch. Before dark you will transit to Karatu for dinner and overnight stay.

Early in the morning visit the Lake Eyasi area, datoga and Hadzabe tribe in Lake Eyasi. The region is a true concentration of ethnic groups. Here it is possible to encounter the small Hazdabe bushmen communities, around 1,500 individuals, who live in small groups, constantly moving around. Near the village of Mangola one comes across the camps of the Datoga farmers, of Nilotic stock, somatically similar to the Maasai

After morning breakfast we’ll set off driving from Arusha town and make our way up to Uru village in Moshi, which is approximately 1,600m above sea level for our coffee and a dip at Materuni waterfall. In the Materuni village, the local Chagga tribe will show us around their coffee plantations, as well as demonstrate their way of farming and processing the coffee beans. We’ll even get the chance to prepare the beans and make our own coffee. After that, we’ll join a friendly family for local lunch and a chat, where we’ll get to hear a little bit about the history of the Chagga tribe. After lunch, we head out to the waterfall by taking a 45-minute hike through a scenic rainforest path with plenty of local fruits, such as avocados, mangos, lemons and bananas, providing a fruity scent in the background. The waterfall provides a great opportunity for a swim and a cool off. At the end of this busy day you will be driven to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

In the morning after breakfast you will be driven to Olpopongi Maasai cultural village. Here you will experience the real Maasai life, learn Maasai hunting techniques, medicines, songs, dances and more. In the evening you will have traditional barbecue and dinner. You will spend the night at Olpopongi Maasai Bomas

You will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for departure according to your flight schedule