Tarangire to Olduvai gorge
Duration: 4 days | Sites: Tarangire national park and Ngorongoro crater
Tarangire National park to Olduvai gorge
DAY 1: From Hotel with briefing
Pick you up from the hotel(accomodation) at Moshi/Arusha driven to Tarangire National Park about 210km/4hrs from Moshi or 130km/3hrs from Moshi with a brief about your trip to our wildlife national parks from your driving Guide. At the park's gate, your Guide will take care of registration and payments of park fees then drive into the park, have full game drive around the park finding animals of interest.
Tarangire national park is often refered as the home of many African elephants. {pre square kilometer than anywhere in the world.} You will have a great chance to see elephants in large groups gathering around in Tarangire river under the shadows of trees also a posibility to spot lions, varieties of antelopes, girafes and tree climbing pythons.
In the afternoon you will go to the picnic site to have somwthing delicious from your lunch boxes. A while after, you will depart to your camp of choice at Mto wa mbu(mto wa mbu means "Mosquitos' river"), Jambo camp or at the great rift valley escarpment overlooking spectacular Lake Manyara national park, a Panorama camp. Have dinner and overnight in there.
DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
In the morning just after a breakfast, drive about 90 minutes to Lake Manyara national park entrance, take care of registration and payments then drive into the park, have full game driving around the park viewing various wildlife animals.
Animals to see in this park is varieties of monkeys, lots of bird species like flamingos, ostriches etc. Also big animals, tree climbing lions, maasai girafe, zebra, wildebeest as well lake Manyara itself.
In the afternoon you will go to the picnic site to enjoy contents of lunch boxes. Thereafter proceed with game driving before leaving the park to the camp for dinner and overnight.
DAY 3: NGORONGORO NATIONAL PARK - CRATER
Have an early breakfast at 6:00am then drive about 45 minutes to Ngorongoro national park entrance, do registration and payments then drive into park to down the Crater floor. You will find Maasai huts, their cows and goats. These are the only normadic people allowed to live in the park. In the Crater have high expectation to spot all big five animals, lions, rhinoceros(black rhinos), buffalos, leopards and hippopotamus also various species of birds.
Spend lunch time at the picnic site on the Crater floor then proceed with game driving before exiting the Crater to the campsite, Ngorongoro Simba camp for dinner and overnight.
DAY 4: VISITING OLDUVAI GORGE
Early in the morning drive about 70km/2hrs to Olduvai Gorge, the arhaelogical research site for over 8yrs and has yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human environment dynamics collectively extending over a span of almost 4 million years to the early modern era. This area is potential to reveal much more evidence concerning the rise of anatomically modern humans, modern behavior as well as human ecology. There are three separate tracks of small brained early upright walking (Hominid Australopithecus afarensis) found at Laetoli in the west side of Ngorongoro Crater. The Hominid footprints tracks are preserved in volcanic rocks aged 3.6 million years ago which represent evidence over indicating human ability to walk upright since that time. Further more advanced descendants of Laetoli's hominids were found at Olduvai Gorge buried in the layers of soil 100m deep. With excavations, mainly by famous Archeologist Louis and his friend Dr. Mary Leakey yielded four different kinds of Hominids showing gradual increase in brain size and corresponding complexity of using stone tools with continuous inhabitation for over million of years.
Lunch time will be spent back unto the camp then drive about 260km/4-5hrs back to your hotel of choice at Arysha/Moshi city with a word of goodbye.
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Price includes
- Pick up from airport to the hotel.
- All entries fees in the park.
- Camping or Hut.
- Transportation.
- Food 3 meals a day.
- Camping gear tents table, chair,drinking water.
- Chef Guide, Assistance Guide, Cooks and Porters salary.
- 1 night accommodation in hotel at Arusha / Moshi after Climbing or before.
Price excludes
- Extended stay at Hotel
- Tanzania Visa
- Gratuity
- Personal Expenses (e.g. laundry, telephone, beverages, etc.)
- Meals not listed above
- Optional Tours (short safari after your climb etc)
- Tip for Guides, Cook & Porters