Day Tour to Tarangire National Park

Day Tour to Tarangire National Park

Program Highlights

These Tarangire Day tour safaris take you to Tarangire National Park a world-famous safari park for its unusual herds of elephants.

Itinerary:  Day Tour to Tarangire National Park
Destinations:  Tarangire

Tour Guides Language:

  • English
  • For other languages please send a special request prior to your safari -an additional fee may apply.

Itinerary Description – Day Tour to Tarangire National Park.

 

Day 1: Tarangire National Park

Depart early after breakfast from Arusha you will drive across a beautiful and scenic Masai Steppe to Makuyuni junction and take left along the Arusha – towards Tarangire National Park. Arrive at the park’s gate at Tarangire and after your driver has sorted out the paperwork you start game drives almost straight away from the gate in a bid to see as many animals and birds as possible. Your professional safari guide will take you to the best wildlife-spotting areas of the park including the Tarangire River which is a permanent river that works as a bloodline for the park ensuring animals flock the river banks in search of water throughout the year. You expect to see elephants, elands, wildebeests, buffaloes, zebras, gerenuks, giraffes, and a lot of birds. Lunch will be taken at one of the picnic sites. Later in the afternoon, you will drive out of the park and your guide will take you back to Arusha for dinner and overnight.

Estimated driving distance: 3hrs drive to Tarangire

Activities: Game drives

Day Tour to Tarangire National Park Price Includes:
All park/entry fees, Game drives in a 4×4 safari vehicle with pop-up roof, Lunch box, Services of professional safari driver guide, 1.5 Bottles of mineral water per person.

Price Excludes:
Flight tickets, Arusha accommodation, Tours to Zanzibar Beach, Items of a personal nature such as passport, Tanzania visa, Traveler’s insurance, Alcohol, Medical evacuation insurance, Tips, Any airport pick up or departure transfers.

 

Day Tour to Lake Manyara National Park

Day Tour to Lake Manyara National Park

Day Tour to Lake Manyara National Park.

After breakfast, we will leave Arusha or Moshi with packed lunch and drive to Lake Manyara National Park. Nestled at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara National Park provides a picturesque, varying scenery. We will have a picnic lunch in the beautiful park, Encompassing this area is Lake Manyara Park which is often overlooked, but game-rich and best known for its tree-climbing lions and greater flamingo in this beautiful Lake have time for a full-day game drive then an evening drive back to Arusha for accommodation end of day tour to Lake Manyara National Park.

Estimated driving distance: 3hrs drive to Lake Manyara

Activities: Game drives

Materuni Village Waterfalls and Coffee Lesson

Materuni Village Waterfalls and Coffee Lesson

Materuni Village Waterfalls and Coffee Lesson

A day tour to Materuni village Waterfalls and the Coffee lesson will give you an opportunity to familiarize yourself with one of the ethnic groups of the Chagga tribe [Wauru] which is still an authentic tribal village. This charming place is located just 15 kilometer North-East of Moshi Town and is the last village before the Kilimanjaro National Park.

You will be picked up from the hotel/lodge and driven to Materuni Village. Upon arrival, you will register at the village office and your trip can begin with the visit to the waterfalls, which are around a 40-minute walk away. On the way, your guide will inform you about the culture of the Chagga tribe, village life and explain the surrounding fauna and flora. The views are truly breathtaking, and with some luck, you will see the view of Mount Kilimanjaro. When you reach the waterfalls, you will see that they are more than 80 meters high. On the bottom of the waterfall, there is an amazing pool which is a good place for a refreshing swim so you might as well bring your swimwear.

After having enjoyed the scenery, you slowly return with your guide to Materuni village, where you will experience a traditional Chagga lunch. You also will have the opportunity to taste our local banana beer – definitely not to be missed. Next, the coffee experience awaits you, here you will learn how coffee is cultivated, dried, roasted, and further processed. You will also be invited to help with the grinding of the coffee, which is traditionally accompanied by Chagga songs and dances – a fun way to immerse yourself in the local culture. Before you say goodbye and return in the afternoon to Moshi, you can savor the coffee you made and appreciate the views of the surrounding rain forest.

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Marangu Village Walking and Cultural Tour

Marangu Village Walking and Cultural Tour

Marangu Village Walking and Cultural Tour

Down of the foothill of Mt. Kilimanjaro outside the entrance to Kilimanjaro National Park lays the beautiful village of Marangu. Here, locals have planned various walking tours through valleys and numerous waterfalls depicting mountain village life.

Visitors can conveniently commence a half-day or full-day walking tour. Come enjoy the beautiful scenery of Kilimanjaro in the background without bearing freezing cold temperatures or exerting five days of physical strain.

Walking through fantastic impressions of numerous waterfalls the visitor will enjoy and learn more things like Chagga history, foods, and language. Mountain climbing enthusiasts will be delighted to visit the home and memorial of the late Yohano Lauwo, a local who guided Dr. Hans Meyer on the first recorded climb of Kilimanjaro in 1889. Read the original logbooks of Mr. Lauwo, who lived for an incredible 115 years!

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Day tour to Kikuletwa (Chemka) Hotsprings

Day tour to Kikuletwa (Chemka) Hotsprings

Day tour to Kikuletwa (Chemka) Hotsprings

Kilipeak Adventure staff member will pick you up from your lodge/hotel at Arusha/Moshi and drive to Kikuletwa hot spring in Swahili known as “Maji Moto”. This scenic drive takes you off the tourist trail and goes through the African scrubland, dried river beds, baobab, and acacia trees along the way with a glimpse into local life, lively markets, local farms, and other sociology-economic activities.

The hot springs of Kikuletwa, also known as Chemka Hot Springs “Swahili Maji Moto”, are close to the village of Rundugai and are one of the most beautiful places to relax in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. The small pool is surrounded by palm and fig trees with winding roots. In the morning, Blue Monkeys can often be observed in the trees, whilst the crystal clear, turquoise water invites you to a refreshing bath. Although they are so-called hot springs, the water in Kikuletwa is not truly ‘hot’ but refreshing, as the water source flows underground from Kilimanjaro.

You will have a few hours soaking in the pleasantly warm waters, swinging on the rope swing, relaxing in the sun-dappled shade of the trees, with the option of feasting on local favorites such as chips mayai (a Tanzanian French fry omelet) and Nyamachoma (Barbecue). Later in the late afternoon, we will leave and return relaxed to the lodge/hotel end of Day tour to Kikuletwa (Chemka) Hotsprings tour.

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