Day 1: Arrival in Arusha

Your Safari driver will meet you in the Kilimanjaro International Airport to welcome you and transfer you to the lodge in Arusha. Rest time.
Accommodation options: Public Campsites and Lodge/Tented Camps

Day 2: Arusha to Lake Eyasi

After early breakfast we proceed to Eyasi area where we will meet with our local guide to visit the tribes. Our guide is very experienced and will interpret what we will get to see. We first visit the Datoga tribe. The Datoga are mostly pastoralists and are used to biological food.

They move from place to place to find good pastures for their animals. We visit the Datoga Blacksmith. He makes jewelry as well as weapons using a local method to melt iron. We’ll watch him making weapons – the Datoga use arrows, spears and knives. We will have a break for picnic lunch and rest. In the afternoon along with our local guide we search for the bushmen, these are the Hadjabe tribe.

They will show us around where they live – they use caves as a home. We’ll see how they make fire, where they collect honey and teach us how they cure diseases preparing medicines of nature’s gifts. You will then witness how the Hadjabe get ready for hunting for their dinner and watch them preparing arrows using poison. Then we’ll take off all together for a hunt.
After a great day, we drive to our lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation options: Public Campsites and Lodge/Tented Camps

Day 3: Lake Eyasi to Serengeti National Park

Today we are on our way to the great Serengeti. In the Maasai language, “serenget” means “endless plain”. The park stretches for over 15,000 square kilometers. Depending on the season we will head to the best places for game viewing – there are so many destinations within Serengeti.

We have lunch in a picnic site. We then continue with sunset game drive en route to our camp. In the late afternoon we’ll arrive in our accommodation for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation options: Public Campsites and Lodge/Tented Camps

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

Full day game drive exploring Serengeti in search of the “big five” enroute from the center of the park to the northern zone. The Serengeti eco-system is home to the “big five” (lion, African elephant, cape buffalo, leopard, rhinoceros).

The other main species include zebra, wildebeest, various species of gazelles and antelopes, giraffes, cheetahs, hyenas, elephants, hippopotamus, crocodiles and some primate species such as vervet monkeys and olive baboons. It is also an endemic bird area, with a total of 505 species being documented so far. In the evening, we will arrive to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation options: Public Campsites and Lodge/Tented Camps.

Day 5: Serengeti National Park

Today we make our way into the Mara area of Serengeti in search of one of the greatest wildlife shows on the planet, the annual Great Migration. Every year around 1.5 million wildebeest and 300,000 zebra (along with other antelope) gather up their young and start their long trek from Tanzania’s Serengeti Plains, further north to Masai Mara National Reserve, following the rains in search of food and water.

Their journey runs in a clockwise circle and the animals cover a distance of around 3000km, a tough journey that takes the lives of an estimated 250 000 wildebeest as they fjord rivers and suffer constant attacks from crocodiles, lion and other predators. There can be no guarantee of encountering the migration (there exact route is never really known and it is amazing how a million animals can disappear in the vast savannah), our journey is intended to try and follow the migration as it tracks northwards, moving with the herds to experience their trials and tribulations. After a full day on safari, you will return at your tented camp for the night.
Accommodation options: Public Campsites and Lodge/Tented Camps

Day 6: Serengeti National Park

Full day game drive exploring Serengeti in search of the “big five” enroute from the center of the park to the northern zone. The Serengeti eco-system is home to the “big five” (lion, African elephant, cape buffalo, leopard, rhinoceros).

The other main species include zebra, wildebeest, various species of gazelles and antelopes, giraffes, cheetahs, hyenas, elephants, hippopotamus, crocodiles and some primate species such as vervet monkeys and olive baboons. It is also an endemic bird area, with a total of 505 species being documented so far. In the evening, we will arrive to the camp for dinner and overnight
Accommodation options: Public Campsites and Lodge/Tented Camps

Day 7: Serengeti National Park to Kogatende airstrip

Sunrise game drive, searching for big Cats while hunting, they actively hunt during early morning. Then we proceed with enroute game drive to Kogatende airstrip for your flight to your next destination.

Possibility for optional activity (quoted separately): Balloon Safari over the Serengeti plains
The Balloon Safari adventure starts early morning at about 5h00 am when you depart your lodge. It is still dark and you may be fortunate to see nocturnal animals on the way to the Launching site.

When you arrive, you will meet your pilot and witness your balloon being inflated and prepared for launch. After a thorough safety briefing and demonstration of boarding and landing position you board your balloon and lift off! Rising as the sun rises your balloon floats in whatever direction the winds of the day are heading over this wonderful area.

Your pilot will use varying altitudes and layers of air to navigate the balloon over this amazing area spotting the wild animals and enjoying the view around. We aim to fly for about an hour, depending on conditions. After landing, you celebrate in the traditional way with a champagne toast before heading off to a special breakfast in the bush under an acacia tree.