9 Days / 8 Nights: Usambara Mountains and Safari
Day 1: Arusha – Usambara Mountains
After breakfast, drive to the Usambara Mountains. It takes 5-6 hours to reach
Muller’s Lodge. After check in, enjoy short walks around the hotel to the
nearby waterfalls, then back to the hotel for dinner and overnight at MULLER’S
LODGE.
www.mullersmountainlodge.co.tz/facilities.php
Day 2: Usambara Mountains
After breakfast, walk and tour the Usambara Mountain
forests. This is a great opportunity to see
several forest bird species, reptiles, butterflies,
black and white colobus monkeys, and many more
features. A picnic lunch is provided on the
way. You can arrange a village tour where you
can learn about the traditional way of life
of the indigenous communities. Dinner and overnight
at MULLER’S LODGE.
www.mullersmountainlodge.co.tz/facilities.php
Day 3: Usambara – Arusha
After breakfast, take a walking tour through
the Irente Farm via Irente viewpoint with its
breathtaking views of the Maasai plains where
domestic stock graze, and the alkaline Lake
Jipe. Lunch will either be a lunch box, or
if you prefer, we can arrange for local food.
After your tour, drive back Arusha dinner and
overnight at Mc Elly's Hotel or similar hotel for dinner
and overnight.
http://mc-ellyshotel.com/rooms.html
Day 4: Arusha – Manyara
After breakfast, drive from Arusha to Lake Manyara
National Park for game viewing for approximately
3 and half Hours. Overnight at the NGORONGORO
FARM HOU
www.tanganyikawildernesscamps.com/camps/ngorongorofarmhouse/photos/SE or similar hotel.
Day 5: Manyara – Serengeti
Drive to Serengeti National Park. This 5-6 hour
drive through the Ngorongoro Highlands passes
through Olduvai Gorge (the cradle of mankind),
where we stop for a museum tour and orientation.
After arriving in Serengeti National Park, you
can view game for the rest of afternoon. In the
evening, we proceed to the SERENGETI WILD CAMP
for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Serengeti
After breakfast, we take a full game drive around
Serengeti National Park, with a picnic lunch
enroute. Overnight at the SERENGETI WILD CAMP.
www.wildcamps.com/en/gallery/photo-galleries-serengeti.html
Day 7: Serengeti – Ngorongoro
After breakfast, drive to and tour the Ngorongoro
Crater floor for a half day, with a picnic
inside the crater. This is the best place in
Tanzania to see black rhino as well as the
lion prides including the magnificent black-maned
males. There are lots of colorful flamingoes
and a variety of water birds. Other game that
you are sure to see include leopard, cheetah,
elephants, hyena, members of the antelope family,
and small mammals. In the afternoon, take a
short walk on the crater rim (optional), and
drive back to the BOUGAINVILLEA HOTEL or similar
hotel for dinner and overnight.
www.bougainvillealodge.net/page5/page5.html
Day 8: Ngorongoro – Karatu
This is a day of activity at the Karatu area.
After Breakfast you will start a 3-4 hours
hike with an armed ranger on a buffalo trail
through the Southern forests of the Ngorongoro
Conservation area. You will first reach an
impressive waterfall and then a cave that has
been carved out of the soil by elephants and
buffaloes. On the way back for lunch at Ngorongoro
Farm House Hotel, you will visit a coffee plantation.
After Lunch you will visit the Iraqw cultural
centre. The Iraqw are a tribe that several
hundred years ago worked its way South from
Ethiopia, through Kenya, to settle in the neighborhood
of the Ngorongoro. In order to protect themselves
and their cattle from Maasai raids, they build
a system of underground settlements which are
partially reconstructed and accessible to tourists.
A local will show visitors around explaining
the traditions and culture of the Iraqw people.
Dinner and overnight at NGORONGORO FARM HOUSE.
www.tanganyikawildernesscamps.com/camps/ngorongorofarmhouse/accommodation/
Day 9: Karatu – Tarangire
Drive to Tarangire National Park for game viewing,
and in the afternoon, drive back to Arusha
for dinner and overnight at the Mc Elly'sHOTEL
or return international flight back home..
http://mc-ellyshotel.com/rooms.html
Prices (2011):
• 2 people: US $2,290 per person
• 3 people: US $1,996 per person
• 4 people: US $1,925 per person
Price includes:
1 night accommodation at Impala Hotel B&B,
2 night’s accommodation at Muller’s
Lodge, 2 night’s accommodation Bed & Breakfast
in Impala Hotel or similar hotel, Meals and accommodation
during safari, Transport during Safari, National
park gate fees
Price excludes:
Tips for your driver-guide during safari, accommodation
at Impala hotel (before and after your safari),
transfer to/from airport, drinks during safari
GLOBEINTER SAFARIS
BRANCH: P.O. Box 23025, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
HEAD OFFICE: P.O. Box 6028, Arusha, Tanzania.
Haile Selassie Road, Plot No. 67 Goliondoi Road, Bank of Baroda Bldg. 1st Floor,
Cell: +255 786 827 327 / 714 130 144 / 773 288 514 Cell: +255 786 827 327 / 773 288 514
Tel/Fax: +255 22 2601739
Tel/Fax: +255 27 250 2766E-mail: info@globeintersafaris.com,
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