6-Day Tarangire, Manyara, Ngorongoro & Lake Eyasi

We will pick you up from the airport & transfer you to Tulia spa & boutique. A city sightseeing tour comes as part of the excursion for day 1. The city excursion will involve visiting the local markets, Masai market, cultural heritage & Arusha city museum.

You'll be picked up from your hotel at 8:00 am and start a beautiful journey across the Great Rift Valley for a full-day game drive. Although small in dimension (205 sq miles), the park has breathtaking scenery and is well famous for its lush acacia forest, giant figs and mahogany trees. It is also home to a growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Permanent residents of this park also include giraffes, elephants, impalas and a huge number of buffaloes. The lake is also home to a large number of hippos. The landscapes of Lake Manyara are something that can not be described in words. The game drives along the lake provide stunning photo opportunities of giraffes and buffaloes in the foreground and the lake in the background. In the evening, you'll be driven to the accommodation for dinner & sleep.

After an early breakfast (6:20 am), we will head to the Ngorongoro viewpoint and look at the amazing, surreal view will take your breath for a while. We will then proceed to descend the crater, Rhinos are the hardest to spot in the beautiful crater as most animals will be easier to spot due to it being a crater floor. The Ngorongoro Crater is the highlighted park in Tanzania with the most beautiful scenery and the crater itself is self-sufficient for the animals inside so they don’t migrate out of the crater in search of food and water.

After lunch, we will do a game drive and ascend the crater in the late afternoon to Lake Eyasi national park for the accommodation (lake Eyasi safari lodge) where you can relax and while waiting for the next day. Option to do an evening canoeing at the lake easily enjoying a beautiful sunset.

On this day you will start very early, Lake Eyasi is the home of Hadzabe and Datoga tribes who continue their ancient lifestyle of hunting, Gathering and pastoralism. Visits the village gives you a personal intimate look into the daily life of the peaple. You may also invited to their homes learn about their family structure, Participate in traditional dances, Participate in bead making with the women, Join the traditional small game hunting with the Hadzabes tribesmen, Making arrows and much more. Then after all that you will depart to Tarangire national park where you will enjoy an evening game drive before heading to (Angata Tarangire camp) for dinner and sleep.

After an early breakfast, you will start a sunrise game drive in Tarangire National Park. It is Tanzania's third-largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lions, leopards, cheetahs and large number of elephants. You'll enjoy game drives with a picnic lunch. After lunch and an extensive game drive inside the park, you will be driven back to Arusha for your accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.

Soon after breakfast you will be picked up from your hotel and driven to the Materuni village, where you will embark on a short but challenging hike to the Materuni falls. Here you can relax and enjoy the beautiful view of the waterfall. Later you will make your way to a nearby coffee farm, where you can learn how coffee is grown, harvested and processed. You will have the opportunity to try roasting and preparing your own fresh cup of raw, local coffee! Enjoy your delicious drink before making your way to a nearby hot spring. The warm water and beautiful scenery makes this spring one of the best places to swim at the Materuni Falls. After your swim you will be driven back to the airport. And this will be the end of your safari.