13 Days / 12 Nights MARA Northern Circuit Safari

After arriving at the airport and complete the passport control you will meet you guide at the arrival gate for a short briefing and transfer to the lodge in Arusha.

 Overnight at Arusha coffee lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 57km

Time: 1.5 hour

Today after breakfast you will drive to Arusha National Park with packed lunch, which will be 10 km drive from you Lodge. The park covers an area 520 km2 This Park offers an impressive landscape from the slopes of Ngurdoto Crater to Mount Meru father down to Momela lakes. The black-white-colobus-monkeys are considered as mascots of the park and the endemic Hurtlabs

Turaco bird can be watched while swinging from branch to branch. It also offers a magnificent wild life viewing such as blue monkeys, baboons, elephants, hippos, leopards, hyenas, zebras and many other antelope species and reptiles can be observed here. In addition, the park offer over 400 species of bird watching.

Overnight again at Arusha coffee lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 150km Day distance

Time: 10 hours

This day in the morning you will continue to Tarangire National Park, which is about 140 km from your lodge. This Park offers a fantastic slow moving giants (Elephants) in northern Tanzania than any other area with its endless Baobab tress, scattered acacia woodland and open grassland with thousands of Ungulates as Zebras, Wilderbeest, Impala, Giraffes, Warthog etc. with all the three big cat’s Lion, Leopard and Cheetah including more than 500 bird species can be observed here. Lunch at the picnic site.

Dinner and overnight at Maramboi Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 165km Day distance

Time: 8-9 hours

This morning you will drive back to the Park for more wild life viewing as in the Nature every minute offer a high light of a life time for sure you won’t see the same actions as the first day here. According to wild life movement and season your guide will advise weather to take packed lunch with you or to have an early morning drive then back to the Lodge for lunch and enjoy the rest of your day in the lodge with swimming and also at some time of the year one has chance to observe wildlife while at the lodge are and some coming for a drink around the lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Maramboi Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

After breakfast the drive continues to Lake Manyara National Park, on your way passing to the local village with unique life stay compare to your home. However you might have a chance to meet with local people and have an experience different from wildlife (learning and discoveries)

The lake Manyara from its west side stretches the eastern arm of Rif valley escarpment with its amazing view the baobab hanging around the arm, the lush green watering forest and the dried acacia woodland that offers a fascinating wild life viewing such as High no of Baboon, Elephants, Giraffe without forgetting it’s tree climbing Lions and more that 400 to 500 Palearctic migratory birds. Lunch at the Picnic site. Later at afternoon you will ride to Karatu Village.

Dinner and overnight at Kitela Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 180km Day distance

Time: 9 hours

This day early in the Morning after / with Packed Breakfast drive to Lake Eyasi south east of Ngorongoro high land for another unremarkable experience of your life time. Visit the Hadzabe

(Bush Men) and Datoga (Black Smith). The local and primitive tribe that leave in an ancient life of which the Bushmen are hunter and gather living in the Carve cliff of rocks in the woodland also they are nomadic moving place to place for seasonal Hunting of which they use bawl and arrow made from the Datoga, If your fit there is a chance to accompany them for a hunt whereby they might find small mammals and birds though is not every day chance. The black smith have the local workshop for melting Iron and produce Arrows, rings, spoon and other like neck less. You will also learn and discover a lot from these two tribes.

Lunch Dinner and Overnight at Acacia farm lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 130 km Day distance

Time: 6 hours

Today we enjoy a half day in the crater floor with fascinating wildlife viewing. Also called the eighth wonder of the world, you will enjoy the view over the crater landscape with its own vegetation which will take your breath away. The Ngorongoro Crater, with its 304 square kilometers and it’s up to 610 meters high crater walls, counts to the most intact, not flooded volcanic craters in the world. Before Ngorongoro Volcano exploded and collapsed 2 million years ago, it was one of the world`s tallest mountains. Now it`s home of more than 300.000 large mammals such as the rhinoceros, lions, elephants,  leopards, hyenas, gazelles, buffalo and more with one of the highest predator density in the world.

Overnight at: Lake Maseki Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 185km

Time: 8-9 hours

With game drive in root we drive today to Central Serengeti. From your lodge one can start exploring the endless wild life on the way as the Ndutu area never miss wildlife experiences though its known for just rain season, here we still have the natives high number of Giraffes, Gazelles some lion, leopard and even Cheetah can be observed. The Serengeti Plain will surprise you with its endless grass land area, granite rocks of which are the shelter for Big Cats slowly heading to the central part with more animal viewing.

Dinner and overnight at Kubukubu Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 87km

Time: 4 hours

It’s the time to explore more of the Central Serengeti with its amazing number of Big cats observed for the first ancient time in 1910 in the Serengeti plains of which the area being  a favourite for foreign hunting. Today its estimated to be the high populate lion are in the world with more that 3 to 4 thousand lions and high populated Cheetah areas on the open grass land including other mammals such as Buffalo, Elephant, Hippo, leopard and antelope species. It’s also with fast historical information about conservation done by different people in and out the country just for survival of which now we call the best travel destination of Africa

Overnight at Kubukubu Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

We are now driving from the center of the Serengeti National Park to the north where you continue the safari. You will observe pride of lions and large herds of wildebeest while hungry predators such as lions, leopards and cheetahs are waiting for the youngest and weakest members of the large herds crossing over their territory. With game viewing slowly we get to the north.

Overnight stay at Maramara Tented Lodge. (fb / full board):

Distance: 150km

Time: 3 hours

At this time of the year we explore the northern part of the Serengeti. We will stay near by Mara River which the great herds need to cross toward the tip north of the Park before crossing the international board between Kenya and Tanzania where hungry crocodiles and hippos dowel. At the crossing points here will be waiting areas for you as your guide will brief you, before to see the crowded herds of wildebeests getting in the water with fascinating running and jumping. After seeing the crossing there is also chance for you to see big cats and other mammals around the area as possibilities of game viewing for the big cats around the kopjes areas are guarantee.

Overnight at Maramara Tented Lodge (fb / full board):

This day in the morning your Safari is coming to the end. You have a flight back from Serengeti to your next holiday destination or back to the international airport for your flight back home.