Day Trips

You will be picked up from your hotel around 6.00 am and driven to the national park. At Marangu Gate meet with your professional guide and you will be given a short trip introduction while waiting for entry registration, payment of fees and other formalities before you enter the park.

You will spend the rest of the morning trekking through the rainforest, after 3 / 4 hrs of trekking you will reach Mandara Hut around 2. 00pm for a well-earned rest and lunch. Feel free to learn more about the park and the wildlife from your guide as you enjoy picnic hamper lunch which contains sandwiches, groundnuts, fruits and juice.

Following lunch, you will be taken by your guide to the Maundi Crater from where you can enjoy views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Northern Tanzania and Kenya. Thereafter you will take a leisurely 2 hours descending to Marangu Gate where transport will be waiting for you ready to return to your hotel in Arusha City.

Want to see the Big 5 in one day? Head to the Ngorongoro Crater along the Eastern Great Rift Valley. Formed millions of years ago, the extinct volcanic caldera is one of Tanzania’s best safari destinations. The crater walls are 400 to 600 meters high and have created a unique environment for flora and fauna to thrive with little human intervention.

Here you’ll find the endangered black rhino, predators, and almost every other animal you would want to see on a game drive. Around 06.00 am in the morning, be ready with your packed lunch to see stunning Ngorongoro ahead of us after three-hours journey on tarmac road and you will spend few minutes at the entrance gate for signing before you enter the park.

Shortly thereafter, drive on and descend into the crater floor for a day game drives where our knowledgeable guide will greatly ensure that you experiencing nature, wildlife, habitat and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas beyond your expectations.

Lunch will be served on the picnic site then after lunch proceed with an afternoon game viewing while ascending the crater and drive back to Arusha Town to be dropped off at your hotel.

After an early morning tea / coffee and tour briefing in your hotel, depart to Tarangire National Park around 08. 00 am. En route, you will take in the changing landscape as Arusha’s Urban jungle is replaced by wide open plains and quaint Maasai villages.

Upon arrival at the entry gate you will stop to sign, meantime poses under a gigantic Baobab where you will spot mischievous monkeys darting about in the shade then enter the park for full day animal sightings and you will see the eponymous Tarangire River lined with Acacia, Baobab trees and exotic wildlife species gather for drinking, all these will spice up your day.

Breath-taking at one of the park’s picnic areas while enjoying your picnic lunch keep an eye on your food though, as the local monkey population will be only too happy to make off with tasty treat if given the opportunity.

Late in the afternoon around 16. 00 hrs you will be driven back to Arusha City and dropped off for Overnight stay and Dinner at your hotel.

The day begins with your hotel pick up and trip briefing in the morning at Arusha City, followed by a pleasant drive westward to Lake Manyara National Park. Before your doorstep to the park, you’ ll have a convenient stopover at Mto wa Mbu “a melting pot of local cultures and a souvenir hunter’s paradise”, to bustle with authentic cultural interactions.

As you drive into the interior of ever green park, keep your eyes peeled for tree climbing lions. These proudly predators lounge in Acacia trees while not hunting for prey but practically begging to be photographed, also try to spot other mammals including elephants, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelles, Maasai giraffe, impalas, zebras. The novice can expect to be amazed by thousands of pink flamingo flocks on their perpetual migration as well as other birds like brightly coloured lilac breasted rollers, circling birds of prey  e. t. c

Thereafter, you will have a delicious picnic lunch. After your safari tour with a professional guide, you will be dropped back to Arusha town for Dinner and Overnight stay at your hotel around 18.00 hours.

Arusha City – Arusha National Park: 51.2KM/ 1 h 30 min

After an early morning breakfast and safari briefing enjoy the drive to the famous national park in a well-equipped 4×4 Toyota Land Cruiser, sit back and relax as if Tanzania’s stunning landscape unrolls beneath you.

It’s a small park of its own kind with a lot to see including: The Ngurdoto Crater, Momela Lakes, the highland Montane Forest and the rugged Mount Meru which are the four major distinctive features. 

The most diverse wildlife found in this park are the Abyssian black and white colobus Monkey, the velvet monkey, the red forest duiker, hippo, elephant, giraffe, buffalo, bushbuck, and though leopard also occur here. More than 400 species of bird have been recorded in the park including Eurasian migrants to give you the taste of lifetime trips.

Enjoy a late lunch then after all thrills and excitements of the day, around 17. 00 we will start our journey back to Arusha City, where we should arrive around 18. 30 to drop you off at your hotel for Dinner and a good night’s sleep.