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ngorongoro lodge safari, Lake Manyara Lodge
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3 DAYS NGORONGORO - 3 DAYS - AHT 380
Day 1 Nairobi / Ngorongoro
Pick from your Nairobi hotel in the early morning and depart
for Arusha town via Namanga border town for immigration formalities.
Arrive in time for lunch then proceed to the crater rim for
dinner and overnight at one of the lodges.
Day 2 Ngorongoro
After breakfast, taking picnic lunches with you descend down
to the crater floor for a full day of tracking game with your
guide. The crater is 670m deep and 260km² wide, making
it the largest in the world. The crater contains all the big
five; hippos, cheetah, antelopes and spotted hyena. Black
rhino and leopard can only be seen with luck as the two are
extremely shy and elusive. The birds seen here include eagle,
vulture, and flamingos in the crater lake, stork, bats, giant
vulture, sacred ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long
necked heron and the cattle eagle. Other game such as vervet
monkey, jackal, foxes, rock and tree hyraxes, warthog, gnu,
zebra and hare can be seen with relative ease. You will have
a break for lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. In
the evening you will descend up and out of the narrow and
steep crater walls, which is a thrilling exercise. Dinner
and overnight at the lodge.
Day 3 Ngorongoro / Nairobi
After breakfast drive back to Arusha for lunch, bypassing
maize and coffee plantations in the crater's immediate environs.
After lunch, drive back to Nairobi arriving in the evening.
LAKE MANYARA/NGORONGORO - 3 DAYS - AHT 383
Day 1 Nairobi/Lake Manyara
Pick from your Nairobi hotel and depart for Lake Manyara National
Park for a late afternoon/early evening game drive via Namanga
border town for immigration formalities and Arusha for lunch.
The main attractions here are the tree-climbing lions. The
park is small in size but the terrain is diverse. The vegetation
comprises of groundwater forest, open grassland, swamp and
acacia woodland with giant mahogany and fig trees. The park
is home to a wide variety of mammals and birds. Dinner and
overnight at a lodge.
Day 2 Ngorongoro
After breakfast, taking picnic lunches with you, drive to
the Ngorongoro crater and descend down its walls for a full
day crater tour with a picnic lunch. It is a thrilling experience
to descend down and out of the narrow and steep crater walls
of 670 metres depth, which has earned this crater, also the
largest in the world the title ''the eight wonder in the world''.
Flamingos can be seen seasonally in the Crater Lake, depending
on the water level as these birds only breed in shallow water.
Many animals, which have made this crater their permanent
home, can be seen on the crater floor. Dinner and overnight
at a lodge.
Day 3 Ngorongoro / Nairobi
After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for
Arusha for lunch followed by departure for Nairobi via Namanga
border town, arriving in the evening.
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