7 Days Cultural Tourism & Safari

7 Days Engaruka-Lake Natron, Serengeti,Ngorongoro, Serengeti

Day 01: Arusha – Engaruka

Your Safari guide from Top Story will collect you from your hotel in Arusha at 8:30 am after breakfast to start your 7 Days Cultural Tourism & Safari.Drive to the Engaruka ruins, North of Manyara on the Great Rift Valley escarpement. On arrival you will have lunch before embarking on some walking and enjoy the wonderful scenery of the Rift Valley corridor. Later, you will visit the local Maasai Boma Maasai herbalist. Dinner & Overnight stay at the Campsite

Day 2 Engaruka – Lake Natron

You will take your breakfast at the camp before you go out to continue with walking in Engaruka. You have a chance to visit an old irrigation system, which was used in the 14th century. Engaruka is the only place in East Africa where the Maasai have adopted agriculture.You will return to your camp in the afternoon to have lunch. After lunch, you will  travel along the base of the Great Rift Valley to Lake Natron arriving there in the evening. On arrival, you will walk to the wonderful waterfall, where many visitors have been known to bathe. Dinner and overnight stay are at the Lake Natron campsite.

Day 3: Full day in Natron Tanzania Safari

Today your guide will accompany you while you  take a walk around the  beautiful lake  Natron where you will see  hundreds of flamingoes. These birds have interesting breeding habits. You guide will explain these in due course. In the evening you will decide on whether to  take another walk to the waterfall for a shower. You will have dinner and stay overnight  at the Lake  Natron campsite.

Day 4: Lake Natron- Lobo (North Serengeti) National Park

Enjoy your last breakfast at Lake Natron before you depart  for Lobo, north of the Serengeti  National Park, en-route crossing the cliff of the Great Rift Valley. You will have plenty of opportunities for spotting game animals en route. Along the way, you will stop to have your lunch. Lobo is where the Serengeti wildebeest & Zebras pass as they migrate back from the Maasai Mara in Kenya. You will dine and stay overnight  at the Lobo Campsite.

Day 5: Full day in Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will depart your campsite and venture into the vast Southern plains of Serengeti National Park to look for lions, leopards, elephants, cheetahs, buffalo, zebra, herds of wildebeest, eland, gazelles and many other antelopes. Many birds including migrants from Europe and Asia can be seen. We have dinner and stay overnight at the Serengeti pimbi Campsite

Day 6: Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater Rim

Today you will have an early breakfast before you go on an early game drive in Serengeti National Park , until about 8:45am when you return to the camp for breakfast. Thereafter you depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area , with game viewing and a picnic lunch en route. Dinner &  overnight stay at the Ngorongoro Simba Campsite

Day 7: Crater tour – Arusha

Enjoy an early  breakfast in your camp at 06.00 am before you  descend into the crater floor for an exciting game drive. All the BIG FIVE are there. Rhinoceros, lions, leopards, buffalo and elephants all live in this wonderful caldera. Zebra, hippos, wildebeest, hyenas and many birds also dwell here. Flamingos live on the soda lake and geese, storks and vultures ca also be spotted. At lunch time, you will be served with a  picnic lunch at picnic site known as  Ngoitoktok swamp, which is a hippo pool. After lunch, we return to Arusha.

The safari quotation does include:

Arrival & departure transfers, ground transportation in a custom made  4×4 safari vehicles with Knowledgeable & English speaking driver/guide, Park entrance fees, sleeping tent, mattress, pillows, camping chairs, table, private cook, sleeping bags,drinking water during Safari

The Safaris quotation does not include:

Cost of obtaining entrance Visa, travel insurance,  Personal expenses, tips to you safari guide and camp crew