Legendary Ngorongoro crater

5 Days Tanzania Walking Safari

Tanzania

5 Days

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Overview

overview

On 5 Days Tanzania Walking Safari is permitted in some of the wild areas, each with different rules. With great professional experienced guides of Tanzania Safari Agency let visitors encounter the wild first hand.

Tanzania Walking Safaris are superb breaks from game drives, where visitors will learn some captivating facts about nature’s mini creatures like birds, reptiles, insects and medicinal uses of local plants, which you may not fully explore from the seat of your safari vehicle.

While the scents and sounds of the African bush are better sensed on foot, it is without doubt an adventure and an exhilarating experience especially when the walk extends into wildlife habitats where encounters with freely roaming animals are more.

Arrive: Arusha, Tanzania

Depart: Arusha, Tanzania

Highlights

Explore the world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera, teeming with diverse wildlife, including the Big Five.
Engage with the Maasai people, experiencing their traditional dances, crafts, and gaining insights into their nomadic lifestyle.
Stroll along the lake's shores, observing flamingos, hippos, and tree-climbing lions.
Spectacular scenery with wildlife, mountains and craters.
Experience the spectacular scenery of the Ngorongoro Highlands where indigenous Maasai people live in their traditional ways and climb the Maasai Mountain of God, an active volcano.

itinerary

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Our tour starts from Moshi in the morning and drive to Ngorongoro crater more than 2000 feet deep with a diameter of 12 miles home to 30000 animals and is among the wonders of the world identified by UNESCO. A large concentration of wildebeest is found in the Ngorongoro crater. After our game drive camp and overnight will be at the rim of the crater.

Our walking tour will begin after breakfast heading to Olmoti Crater for a half-day walk passing through Masai villages to the waterfalls at the crater floor, we will walk up to our base camp at Empakai Crater where lots of wild animals are in view with birds like flamingos. Dinner and overnight will be at Empakai.

After breakfast, we will break camp and start walking from Empakai to Lake Natron descending the Great Rift Valley walking through the open plains of Embulbul through Nairobi Maasai village meeting the locals, on our way you will be able to view Oldonyo Lengai mountain and also Mount Meru. Dinner and overnight at Accacia campsite.

As usually we break camp after breakfast and start a steep 5-6 hours walk down the Rift Valley escarpment to the foot of the only active volcano in Tanzania Mount Oldonyo Lengai which the Masai regard as HOLY. You have an option whether to climb or not, whereas those climbing will camp at chini ya mti campsite. Those proceeding will camp at Engaresero campsite for dinner and overnight.

A short tour of the Maasai village where the guide will lead you to experience Masai culture and traditions in their Maasai Boma through Lake Natron back to your hotel in Moshi.

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REVIEWS FROM OUR CLIENTS

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Albuquerque, NM