Cultural Tours

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Day 1 - Arrive Tanzania- Lake Manyara National Park

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport you will be met by a Nordic Travel Professional Driver Guide holding a sign board with your booking name clearly written. After checking that you have all your luggage and belongings he will take you to one of our safari 4 WD Land Cruisers and transfer you to Kirurumu Tented Camp for lunch. You will have an early lunch and then spend the afternoon in Lake Manyara National Park. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobob strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds.

The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands, colourful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world

Dinner and overnight at Kirurumu Tented Lodge (BLD)

Website: www.kirurumu.com 

Day 2 – Lake Eyasi

After breakfast you will depart to Lake Eyasi. A scenic drive through the highlands eventually dropping down to Lake Eyasi which is a salt lake situated between the Rift Valley’s Eyasi escarpment and the Kidero Mountains. After lunch at Tingida Tented Lodge you will visit the Datoga people, these peoples can be traced to the Kalenjin tribes in Kenya. They are a smallish tribe and retain most of their customs, including beaded animal skin skirts.

Dinner and overnight and Tingida Tented lodge ( BLD)

Website: www.tingidatentedlodge.com

Day 3 - Lake Eyasi

After breakfast you will set out with a picnic lunch to spend a full day exploring Lake Eyasi, you will visit and spend time with the Hadzabe Bushmen.

The area around Lake Eyasi is home to the Hadzabe Bushmen, some of the last remaining hunter-gatherers on the continent. The Hadzabe have inhabited the acacia forests and scrubland around Eyasi for over 10,000 years. Their language resembles the click languages of other bushmen further south in the Kalahari. They live entirely off the bush and from hunting, generally small antelopes and baboons, although in rainy seasons gazelles and antelopes come down from the Ngorongoro or Serengeti to their then lush bush lands offering them richer pickings. The string on their lethal bows is made from giraffe tendons and the arrows are coated with a strong poison made from another tree. A few hours spent with the bushmen makes the apparently inhospitable bush country come to life

Dinner and overnight and Tingida Tented lodge ( BLD)

Website: www.tingidatentedlodge.com

Day 4 - Serengeti National Park

Depart to the Serengeti with packed lunches via the Ngorongoro Highlands. The Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers. Large prides of lions laze easily in the long grasses, plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trump to each other across the plains, and giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, and the whole range of African wildlife is in awe-inspiring numbers. Hopefully you will see the annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti. More than a million animals make the seasonal journey to fresh pasture to the north, then the south, after the biannual rains.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge (BLD)

Website: www.sopalodges.com

Day 5 – Serengeti National Park

After breakfast we have a full day to explore the Serengeti, the most famous National Park in Africa. Our driver-guide will choose our route based on his extensive knowledge of the park and local conditions but the Serengeti rarely disappoints. We carry our packed lunches with us so as to make the most of the day, but our trip might include a trail along the banks of the Grumeti River in search of basking lions, tracking cheetah through the Gol Kopjes or hunting leopard along the Seronera River.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge (BLD)

Website: www.sopalodges.com

Day 6 – Ngorongoro Crater

Today we depart the Serengeti for the Ngorongoro Crater, with a final  game drive en-route. Again we take packed lunches with us to have en route. We will visit the World Famous Olduvai Gorge. This truly magical place is where the Leakeys discovered the hominoid remains of a 1.8 million year old skeleton of Australopithecus boisei, one of the distinct links of the human evolutionary chain. In a small canyon just north of the crater, the Leakeys and their team of international archaeologists unearthed the ruins of at least three distinct hominoid species, and also came upon a complete series of hominoid footprints estimated to be over 3.7 million years old. Evacuated fossils show that the area is one of the oldest sites of hominoid habitation in the world. Continue through the spectacular Ngorongoro highlands to your lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge ( BLD)

Website: www.sopalodges.com

Day 7 – Ngorongoro Crater

Today we spend a full day exploring the Ngorongoro Crater; we take a picnic lunch with us. The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Masaai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.We descend down the 2000-ft walls of the Crater, a World Heritage Site and home to nearly 25,000 animals, for a game drive. Here you have a very real chance of spotting the big five: lion, elephant, endangered black rhino, buffalo and leopard plus countless other African mammal species. We drive to the lodge just before dusk. 

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge ( BLD)

Website: www.sopalodges.com

Day 8 - Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha

After breakfast you will return to Arusha. Lunch will be at the River House on a beautiful coffee estate. There you can see Arusha's first clay kiln to make beads.  The main aim is to provide more jobs for physically challenged Tanzanian people who cannot otherwise find employment. There are now over 14 employed in the Shanga Shanga workshop. After lunch you will have an opportunity to see the workshop and the beautiful hand crafts and jewelry.

You will have a day room at Mount Meru Game Lodge and can relax in the afternoon prior to your flight departure

Website: www.shanga.org

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Day 1 - Arrive Tanzania

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport you will be met by a Nordic Travel Professional Driver Guide holding a sign board with your booking name clearly written. After checking that you have all your luggage and  belongings he will take you to one of our safari 4 WD  Land Cruisers and transfer you to your lodge . This Driver Guide will now be with you for your Safari.

Overnight at Mount Meru Game Lodge (BB)

Website: www.intimate-places.com

Day 2 – Longido Village / Arusha

After breakfast and a detailed Safari briefing you will depart to Longido Village with a packed lunch. You will spend the day with the local people and bird watching; all of our Driver Guides are very knowledgeable about the local flora and fauna, including the wonderful variety of birds in Tanzania. As a highlight you will visit and interact with the local people, who are from the Maasai Tribe. The Masaai are perhaps the most well known of Tanzania’s tribes and inhabit the northern regions of the country. Pastoralists who fiercely guard their culture and traditions, Masaai tribal life revolves around protecting and caring for their herds of cattle and finding ample grazing land in their region. The tribes live in circular enclosures called manyatas, where small mud huts surround a secure open circle where their cattle and other herd animals sleep protected during the night. Woven thorn bushes form a thick fence around the enclosure to protect the herds from attacks by lions and other predators. Because good grazing land fluctuates according to the seasons and yearly rains, Masaai settlements are temporary and easily relocated to where grazing and water access is best. Tribal tradition separates men and women into different age groups: the youngest herd sheep and goats while the young male warriors, or moran’s, job is to protect and care for their family’s cattle. Male elders hold a position of respect in Masaai society and once a warrior becomes an elder, he may marry to begin a family of his own.
You will return to your lodge before dusk.

Dinner and overnight at Mount Meru Game Lodge (BLD)

Day 3 & 4: Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast we depart for Lake Manyara. En route we will stop in the market town of Mto Wa Mbu and visit a local school for Maasai children, You will have an early lunch at Kirurumu Tented Lodge and spend the afternoon in Lake Manyara National Park. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobob strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds.

The alkaline soda of Lake Manyara is home to an incredible array of bird life that thrives on its brackish waters. Pink flamingo stoop and graze by the thousands, colourful specks against the grey minerals of the lake shore. Yellow-billed storks swoop and corkscrew on thermal winds rising up from the escarpment, and herons flap their wings against the sun-drenched sky. Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world.

Dinner and overnight at Kirurumu Tented Lodge (BLD)

Website: www.kirurumu.com 

Day 5 & 6 – Lake Eyasi

After breakfast you will depart to Lake Eyasi and arrive in time for lunch; here you will have an opportunity to experience lifestyle of the local people; Hadzabe and Datoga. Small groups of Hadzabe Bushmen live around Lake Eyasi. Their language resembles the click languages of other bushmen further south in the Kalahari. They live entirely off the bush and from hunting, generally small antelopes and baboons, although in rainy seasons gazelles and antelopes come down from the Ngorongoro or Serengeti to their then lush bush lands offering them richer pickings. The string on their lethal bows is made from giraffe tendons and the arrows are coated with a strong poison made from another tree. A few hours spent with the bushmen makes the apparently inhospitable bush country come to life.

Dinner and overnight at Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp (BLD)

Website: www.kisimangeda.com 

Day 7 – Karatu

Breakfast at your camp then drive to Karatu and you will arrive in time for lunch. During the afternoon you can relax by the pool or take walks and Coffee Tours which can be arranged from the lodge.
The extinct volcano of Ol Deani has gentle slopes and is a prominent feature of the Karatu landscape. In the past, the area around Karatu and Ol Deani was of great importance to the German colonial administration. The area’s cool climate, verdant hills, and pleasing views made it popular with settlers and farmers. Vast and extensive fields cover the slopes of the volcano and the lands around Karatu town. Coffee was a main crop grown for export, and a few large farms that remained in private hands still cultivate the cash crop on the hills and small valleys outside of town

Dinner and overnight at Plantation Lodge (BLD) located just outside Ngorongoro area in Karatu.

Website: www.plantation-lodge.com

Day 8 - Serengeti National Park

Departing to Serengeti with a picnic lunch via the Ngorongoro Highlands and you will stop at Olduvai Gorge; this truly magical place is where the Leakey’s discovered the hominoid remains of a 1.8 million year old skeleton of Australopithecus boisei, one of the distinct links of the human evolutionary chain. In a small canyon just north of the crater, the Leakey’s and their team of international archaeologists unearthed the ruins of at least three distinct hominoid species, and also came upon a complete series of hominoid footprints estimated to be over 3.7 million years old. Evacuated fossils show that the area is one of the oldest sites of hominoid habitation in the world.

Dinner and overnight at Ikoma Bush Camp (BLD)

Website: www.moivaro.com

Note: Serengeti Tented Camp is the same thing as Ikoma Bush Camp

Day 9 – Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers. Large prides of lions laze easily in the long grasses, plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trump to each other across the plains, and giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, and the whole range of African wildlife is in awe-inspiring numbers. The annual wildebeest migration passes through the Serengeti, more than a million animals make the seasonal journey to fresh pasture to the north, then the south, after the biannual rains. After breakfast we have a full day to explore. Your driver-guide will choose your route based on his extensive knowledge of the park and local conditions but the Serengeti rarely disappoints. We carry our packed lunches with us so as to make the most of the day, but our trip might include a trail along the banks of the Grumeti River in search of basking lions, tracking cheetah through the Gol Kopjes or hunting leopard along the Seronera River.

Dinner and overnight at Ikoma Bush Camp (BLD)

Day 10 – Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast we depart for the Ngorongoro Crater, with a final Serengeti game drive en route, we take a picnic lunch with us. The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Masaai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.We descend down the 2000-ft walls of the Crater, a World Heritage Site and home to nearly 25,000 animals, for a game drive. Here you have a very real chance of spotting the big five: lion, elephant, endangered black rhino, buffalo and leopard plus countless other African mammal species. We drive to the lodge just before dusk. 
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (BLD)

Website: www.sopalodges.com

Day 11 – Ngorongoro Crater

Another day in Ngorongoro Crater, with a picnic lunch, gives us time to explore in detail this fascinating wildlife amphitheatre. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. This unique caldera, formed by a sinking volcano, hosts a unique cross-section of eco-systems, from Soda Lake to savannah and is home to almost every major species of African mammal. Our presence does not threaten the wildlife making for an exhilarating proximity to the game that we rarely encounter elsewhere.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (BLD)

Day 12 – Tarangire National Park  

After breakfast we will depart to Tarangire National Park. In the dry-season from July to October, Tarangire National Park can surpass the Serengeti in terms of animal concentration as big herds begin to congregate around the permanent water of the Tarangire River. It is not uncommon to see herds of 50+ elephant as well as every other mammal species including the rare Kudu and Oryx. The park is also noted for its prolific bird life and the occasional sighting of cheetah and the rare African Hunting Dog.

Dinner and overnight at Burunge Camp (BLD) located outside Tarangire National Park.

Webiste: www.tanganyikawildernesscamps.com

Day 13 – Tarangire National Park

Today you will have morning and afternoon game viewing in Tarangire National Park; You will take a picnic lunch to  make most of the day. Tarangire National Park has some of the highest population density of elephants anywhere in Tanzania, and its sparse vegetation, strewn with baobab and acacia trees, makes it a beautiful and special location. Before the rains, droves of gazelle, wildebeest, zebra, and giraffes migrate to Tarangire National Park’s scrub plains where the last grazing land still remains. Tarangire offers unparalleled game viewing, and during the dry season elephants abound. Families of the pachyderms play around the ancient trunks of baobab trees and strip acacia bark from the thorn trees for their afternoon meal. Breathtaking views of the Masaai Steppe and the mountains to the south make a stop at Tarangire a memorable experience

 Dinner and overnight at Burunge Camp (BLD)

Day 14 – Arusha / Mombasa   

After breakfast you will drive back to Arusha and arrive in time for lunch at Mount Meru Game Lodge. After lunch you will transfer to the Taveta border where you will be met by Kenyan Driver guide and transfer to Mombasa.

Dinner and overnight at Mombasa Serena Beach Hotel (HB)

Day 15 – 17: Mombasa

You will spend another three days relaxing on the beaches of Mombasa.

Dinner and overnight at Mombasa Serena Beach Hotel (HB)

Day 18 – Departure

Transfer to Mombasa Airport for the flight to Nairobi to connect to International Departure flight.

Conditions apply. See Terms and Conditions