Destination

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Duration
2 Days ,1 night
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Tour Type
Adventure Tour
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Group Size
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Tour Guide
Northern Circuit

Ngorongoro crater Safari

This safari features some of the popular Northern Circuit game parks. With the Best of Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara Safari travel in custom designed 4×4 safari vehicles with open roofs for game viewing. This is a small group seat-in-vehicle safari with a maximum of 6 travelers per vehicle, all with window seats. Traveling for 4- days, the safari includes meals, accommodation, park entry fees and visit to Lake Manyara & Ngorongoro Crater. It is 2 days/1 night safari – the perfect short safari add-on to your Kilimanjaro climb.

 

Included:

. Full board (breakfast, lunch & dinner) accommodation.
. All game drives viewing in a custom built 4×4 Safari Land
Cruiser
. All park and entrance fees
. Transportation with 4×4 vehicles with viewing roofs
. Professional English-speaking driver/guide or other
language as specified during the safari.
. Bottled water in safari vehicles
. Ngorongoro Crater car supplement fee if itinerary
includes crater.
. Current Government taxes and levies
. 24-Hour support during the safari from our office in
Moshi.

 

Excluded:

· Internal or International flights
. Transfers to and from the airport
. Balloon excursion (US$600 pp)
. Entry visa to Tanzania.
. Travel and health insurance
. Gratuities to your guide, hotel staff, and porters
. Meals, drinks, and excursions not described in the
itinerary
· Any other items of a personal nature, laundry, telephone
and postage
· Item of personal Nature

Details

This morning drive from moshi  to Lake Manyara National Park. Set against the steep escarpment of the Rift Valley, you’ll find Lake Manyara National Park with its evergreen groundwater forest and variety of ecosystems including acacia woodland, grassy plains, a swampy fan delta, and – of course – the expansive lake. This diversity attracts a wide variety of mammal, bird, and wildlife species. Manyara is also home to rare tree-climbing lions. The park offers excellent game viewing with buffalo, impala, giraffe, bushbuck, waterbuck, hippos, and lots of elephants roam near the lake. Also look out for blue monkeys, vervet monkeys, and the very active Olive baboon troops. Lake Manyara is an absolute delight, with a huge variety of birds on display in the park. Even the novice can expect to be amazed by large flamingo flocks, circling birds of prey, and the brightly coloured lilac breasted roller.
After breakfast you will Enjoy a morning game drive en-route to Ngorongoro Crater for a once in a lifetime safari tour. The jewel in Ngorongoro’s crown, this thick volcanic crater is the most significant unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. Upon descending to the crater floor, you will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner of the crater, which is one of the crater’s leading features.The crater is 20 km in diameter, 600 m high and is the largest intact crater in the world. An estimated 30,000 large mammals live in the crater, which features a salt lake at its center. This is one of the most densely populated wildlife areas in the world! And also is the best place in Tanzania to see black rhino as well as prides of lion that include the magnificent black-manned males. There are lots of colorful flamingoes and a variety of water birds. Other game that you can see includes leopard, cheetah, hyena, other members of the antelope family, and small mammals. The Masai and Hadzabe people live together in harmony with the animals that also call this place home. From the edge you will look out over the impressive crater and all of its wonderful inhabitants.