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Camping in Northern Tanzania National Parks
CAMPING SAFARIS
Camping Safaris in Tanzania are the best of backpacking tours
in the ultimate safari country. With reasonably developed campsites
scattered all over the country close to tourist attractions such
as wildlife sanctuaries, cultural centers and Indian Ocean beaches
and islands. Although by Western World standards these facilities
are rudimentary they offer tented accommodation, ablution facilities
in the form of drop latrines and basic rustic mess and kitchen
structures. Please travel with your own sleeping bags but in case
you do not have one we rent these out at a daily charge. Also
consider the budget camping check
list of what you need to bring and what is included in the
price to enable you effectively plan your holiday.
Short Tanzania Budget Camping
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3 DAYS LAKE MANYARA
/ NGORONGORO HATZ 105
Day 1: Nairobi –
Lake Manyara
After breakfast, pick up from your hotel. Depart for Lake Manyara
National park for a late afternoon or early evening game drive
via the Namanga border town for immigration formalities and Arusha
town 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 the Campsite.
Day 2: Ngorongoro
After breakfast, taking a picnic lunch with you, drive to the
Ngorongoro crater and descend down its walls for a full day of
crater tour with a picnic lunch. It is 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 the campsite.
Day 3: Ngorongoro –
Nairobi
After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro conservation area for Arusha
for lunch, followed by departure for Nairobi via the Namanga border
town. Arrive in the evening.
3 DAYS NGORONGORO - HATZ
107
Day 1: Nairobi/ Ngorongoro
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel.
Depart for Arusha town via the Namanga border town for immigration
formalities. Arrive in time for lunch then proceed to the crater
rim for dinner and overnight.
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Day 2: Ngorongoro
After breakfast, taking a 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 260km square 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 be seen by 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,
black smith plover, long necked heron and the cattle eagle. Other
game such as velvet 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 ascend up and out of the narrow and steep
crater walls, which is a thrilling exercise. Dinner and overnight
at the campsite.
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 to Nairobi arriving in the evening.
Price: US$ 490 per person (Minimum
4 people)
What
is Included?
4 DAYS LAKE MANYARA- NGORONGORO
– TARANGIRE- HATZ 109
Day 1: Nairobi –
Lake Manyara
Depart Nairobi for Arusha town for lunch, via the Namanga border
town for immigration formalities. Proceed to Lake Manyara National
park for afternoon game drive. A good network of tracks and roads
in the park allows excellent viewing opportunities. Animals seen
include buffalo and elephant, other animals present that can be
seen with luck are the tree climbing lions, leopard and black
rhino. Lesser flamingos and Egyptian geese are some of the birds
seen here. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.
Day 2: Ngorongoro
After breakfast, depart for the Ngorongoro crater for a full day
of tracking game with your guide on the crater floor. You will
break for a picnic lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site.
All the big five may be seen. Other species encountered are cheetah,
grants gazelle, Thompson gazelle, common zebra wildebeests and
spotted hyena. Flamingos may also be seen at the Crater Lake.
This day will truly be an unforgettable encounter. Dinner and
overnight at the campsite.
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Day 3: Ngorongoro –
Tarangire
After breakfast, leave Ngorongoro for Tarangire National park
which serves as a dry season refuge for animals from as far as
north or Serengeti and Ngorongoro as it has a permanent river
flowing across it. The park has an atmosphere or remoteness and
has fewer visitors than the other parks in Tanzania’s northern
circuit. Arrive in time for a game drive, lunch will be taken
enroute. The park contains all the big five except leopard, other
migratory game seen here includes cape buffalo, hoopoes, lovebirds,starling,rock
pythons, albino giraffe, puff adders, the fringe eared Oryx and
the gerenuk. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.
Day 4: Tarangire –
Nairobi
After breakfast, proceed on your final game drive then leave for
your onward journey to Nairobi via Arusha for lunch and Namanga
border town for immigration formalities. Arrive in the mid evening.
Price: US$ 625 per person (Minimum
4 people)
What
is Included?
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