A short 3–day program to enjoy wildlife and landscape. The tour will lead you towards Tarangire National Park famous as “Small Serengeti.” The park is well-known for its giant baobab trees, huge herds of elephants, plains game, and predators. In Ngorongoro Crater, you will descend 2000 feet home to large numbers of wildlife and exhilarating landscapes. A picturesque day hike to Mount Meru Village and Waterfalls will make your Arusha stay a wonderful and memorable experience. You can’t miss it!
After breakfast, you’ll depart to Tarangire National Park for a game drive with lunch boxes. Tarangire is famous for its huge herds of elephant population. The park consists of natural vegetation mainly of acacia woodland and giant African baobab trees, also Tarangire has rivers and huge swamp areas that support a large number of animals during the dry season. The park comprises the center of an annual migration cycle. It comprises up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest, and 30,000 zebras. A full-day game drive will make you speculate and enjoy the natural beauty of the Park.
Late afternoon, you’ll continue to Fig Tree Lodge and Camp for dinner and an overnight stay.
After breakfast, you will descend into the crater for a full game drive with lunch boxes. You’ll descend over 600 meters into Ngorongoro Crater, the breathtaking natural wonder. Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority supports a gigantic diversity of animals due to yearly round water and food supply; this comprises herds of Wildebeest, buffalos, zebras, hippos, African elephants, elands, and warthogs. The park is unique too due to its intense population of predators such as; lions, jackals, cheetahs, hyenas, and the mysterious rarely spotted leopard. On the Southwest corner of the crater lies Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake, described as one of the main features of the crater. The lake consists of a large number of flamingos, hippos, and many other water birds.
Late afternoon, you may drive back to Arusha for dinner and an overnight stay at the Venice Hotel.
Our guide will meet you at the hotel after breakfast, provide a short briefing, and depart.
The hike starts at approx. 9.00 am. You will follow the tropical trails under the banana canopy while listening to some thrilling legendary stories about the Meru people from your guide and crossing some beautiful villages where you will receive a very warm and friendly welcome from the villagers living on the foothills of Mount Meru.
This tour awards you the exploration of the beauty of the forest’s flora and fauna —rich birdlife, beautiful butterflies, monkeys, black and white Colobus monkeys, and several medicinal plants —enjoying at the same time spectacular views of the lower areas of Arusha.
After a 3-hour walk, you will stop for lunch in a relaxing environment full of mountainous flowers before you continue for almost another hour to your final destination, the magnificent gigantic Meru Falls.
Later, you’ll start the hike down to the hotel in Arusha or the airport.
