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    12 Days Safari with Shelukass Adventure

    12 days
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    You will be picked up from the airport by a Shelukass Adventures representative and drive to your accommodation in Arusha for dinner and overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come.

    In the morning you will be picked up from your lodge in Arusha by our safari guide. Start your drive to Tarangire National Park, across gently rolling Maasai plains with scattered acacia trees. As we zip along, we pass many Maasai in their colorful dress walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding cattle, and driving donkey’s carts. Tarangire National Park is well known for its large elephant herds, its also host to a multitude of other creatures. From the open roof of our safari jeep, experience the seasonal swamps, and savanna of the Tarangire River, endeavouring to encounter many other animals, from zebra to wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, and giraffe, to name a few. Sometimes if lucky you may glimpse lions stalking prey or leopards watching, relaxing above the trees.

    You will drive to one of our carefully selected partner accommodations for dinner and overnight.

    Wake up in the morning and have your breakfast. After breakfast, continue with your epic safari to Lake Manyara National Park. This relatively small but diverse park, 120km west of Arusha, is named for its shallow Salt Lake which covers a good seventy percent of the park’s surface area. Flooding and drying with the seasons the manyara lake is home to thousands of flamingos as well as over 500 other bird species. On your exploration of the park, you will come across some blue monkeys, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, and elephants, and if are lucky can spot the lions relaxing in the trees. Manyara Park is known for its diverse landscapes, primate-filled woodlands, and baobab-dotted cliffs. After this second-day memorable game drive adventure of the African wildlife for a lifetime. You will drive on the way to Karatu for dinner and overnight.

    Wake up in the morning and drive to Lake Eyasi you will arrive at Lake Eyasi in the afternoon, check in to the booked partner accommodation then relax for some time as it is very hot during the afternoon in the late afternoon You visit lake and spend your time at the lake waiting for beautiful sunsets from the lake, before walking or driving back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

    Today you will need to wake up very early in the morning the local guide from the community will pick you up from the hotel very early in the morning if you want to get acquainted with the life of the Hadzabe tribe. The presence of these traditional bushmen is of great significance for the region. Walking is the most important activity here. Spend a day with the Hadzabe tribe and go for a hunt. These are the Bushmen who live here by hunting with bows and arrows and collecting wild berries and fruits. These are the last heirs of the parents who took their first steps here, along the Rift Valley, about two hundred thousand years ago.

    Possibly enjoy the hunt with the bushman until the late afternoon, you will drive back to your accommodation for lunch, and after lunch, you get your luggage into the car and drive to the other traditional group who live close to the Hadza people the Datoga group. The Datoga is a tribe that forges copper and aluminum into bracelets, knives, and other tools. They also trade these products with the Hadzabe. Visit their home and learn about their ways of living. They are iron smiths and they will teach you how they melt the irons and make the bows and arrows to sell them for hunting by Hadza. In the late evening drive back to Karatu for dinner and overnight.

    Wake up in the morning and have your breakfast. After breakfast, continue towards the fertile highlands where wheat and corn are grown by the Iraqi people. Along the way, you will pass through the rainforests of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you might be lucky enough to see baboons or even leopards and elephants in the dense undergrowth. Stop into one of the amazing viewpoints of the crater from the crater rim, and enjoy the breathtaking while viewing a Ngorongoro Crater before descending to the crater for a full-day game drive exploring the Ngoro Ngoro.

    Once on the crater floor, you will discover a large variety of grazing herbivores, as well as predators that keep following the prey and make them easy to hunt. With the season sometimes you may see huge flocks of pink flamingos around the shores of the shallow Lake, and the surrounding swamp is inhabited by hippos. This crater has formed its ecosystem due to its enclosed nature and is a place where you can certainly tick all the boxes. Amazing landscape scenery, abundant wildlife, and its very own distinctive. If you are after the ‘THE BIG 5’, it is all waiting for you here. Black rhinos, Elephants, lions, leopards, and hyenas along with healthy herds of wildebeest, buffalo, and zebra. Other wildlife includes serval cats, cheetahs, jackals, Grant’s and Thompson’s gazelles, flamingos, and bat-eared foxes, as well as approximately 400 species of colorful birds.

    With your picnic lunch in the crater, enjoy every moment until the late afternoon you will drive to our carefully selected partner accommodation for dinner and overnight.

    Today you will need to wake up very early in the morning have your breakfast and start traveling onwards to the Serengeti National Park, you will arrive at the Nabi Hill gate by midday. The Serengeti National Park is the third largest National Park in Tanzania after the Nyerere National Park and the Ruaha National Park, with its diverse landscapes and habitats, such as grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannahs, and mountains. After checking in you will have an en-route game drive, while driving to your accommodation where you will check in and later enjoy your dinner and overnight stay. The great Serengeti National Park, the only park where you can witness millions of migrating animals, the Acacia plains, it’s the cradle of human life and probably the closest to an untouched African wilderness you will ever get.
    A morning game drive in the Serengeti ecosystem is more rewarding because it starts around 6:00 or 6:30 a.m. The visitors can be able to see the early morning animals waking up and trying to find a place to graze. It’s a good time also for bird watchers because most birds are active in the morning, Also be able to hear some wild animals and bird sounds. This morning’s game drive will take you to see the sun rising in the Serengeti wilderness, which is one of the most popular experiences for most visitors to see the sunrise in a spectacular and picturesque location. A full day spent on a safari jeep is the best way to see the range of what the magnificent Serengeti National Park has to offer. It’s good to start on a full stomach, so after breakfast at the restaurant, you will start with your fully equipped 4×4 Landcruiser driving around the plains in search of the game. Armed with a hat and sunscreen it gets very hot at midday then you are ready for adventure.
    After breakfast, you will head out for another game drive in the Serengeti before having an en-route game drive to Lake Natron via Klein’s gate. Lake Natron lies in the northeast of Tanzania between the Ngorongoro Highlands and Serengeti plains. Here it is the landscape rather than the animals in terms of attractions the area is inhabited by Maasai. You will arrive at your accommodation in time for dinner check in to your accommodation and enjoy the beautiful Oldonyo Lengai mountain from the accommodation take good pictures during the evening of these beautiful landscapes also visit the lake in the evening for the beautiful sunsets from the lake shore, Lake Natron is one of the most alkaline lakes in the world. The lake is home to millions of tiny crustaceans, attracting thousands of lesser flamingos and it is therefore one of the most important flamingo breeding areas on earth. later walk or drive back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.
    After an early Breakfast, you will start your activities with a local tour guide at Lake Natron activities include following paths to some of the most interesting localities, such as hot springs, Ngare Sero waterfalls, and much more. Situated at the base of Africa’s only active volcano Oldonyo Lengai (Mountain of God) in the afternoon walk back to your accommodation for lunch. After lunch, you will start driving back to Arusha and arrive in the late evening to check in to your accommodation for Dinner and Overnight.

    Wake up in the morning and have your breakfast, After breakfast, you will get into the car and drive to the Usambara mountains in Lushoto. The journey will take you about 5 to 6 hours. Arrive in Lushoto in the afternoon. Check in to the hotel for lunch and relax for some time in your room. In the late afternoon, you will start stretching your fits after a long time sitting in the car with all the African massage during your safari, this will be a time to stretch your feet and walk on the rolling hills of the Usambara mountains heading to Yoghoi Viewpoints for beautiful views and the amazing and colorful sunsets. Take beautiful pictures and in the late evening, the car will pick you up from the viewpoints and drive you to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

     

    Today you will have a full day exploring this evergreen and cool mountain, with your tour guide you will start walking from your hotel, passing through the villages set on the tops of the hills, cheering with locals on the way, passing through the farmland with a panoramic view of the lushoto the township. You will arrive at the Magamba Nature forest, you will have interesting stories about the flora and fauna of the forest and enjoy the very cool weather and oxygen from the natural forest, you will arrive at the German trench dug during World War I (WW1). Proceed with hiking to the viewpoint in the forest, enjoy some drink after hiking, and spend a few minutes at the peak later proceed with hiking to Magamba Eco Village where you will visit the community project, you will be welcomed and served a hot local lunch by the local mamas and later after lunch you will have time to experience a coffee
    process from farm to cup you will learn a lot about coffee go all the process until you make your cup of coffee and celebrate it. You will relax and in the late afternoon the car will pick you up from Magamba and drive to the waterfalls enjoy the stunning waterfalls take pictures and in the late evening drive back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

    After breakfast get into your car and drive to Dar es Salaam, spend time there/ proceed to Zanzibar


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    12 Days Safari with Shelukass Adventure